The CCD News AUTUMN 2008 IN THIS ISSUE: The CCD - Building update New international wins Meet our partners – AIPCO Dining in Dublin Win a €150 Gift Voucher for Newbridge Silverware! See inside for details... The CCD - Two years to Opening Date! Welcome to our Autumn 2008 newsletter. On 1 September we began the two-year countdown to our opening date of 1 September 2010! As you will read in various articles throughout ‘The CCD News’, we are well advanced in terms of building progress, conference bookings and the development of a highly-skilled team of professional sales, marketing, administration and management personnel. We have recently reached a number of signifi cant milestones in our journey towards 2010. We have moved to our new temporary offi ces at The Warehouse, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, where we have an extensive Marketing Suite, showcasing The Convention Centre, Dublin, its fantastic facilities and the wonderful destination that awaits our visitors. Thanks to the excellent progress in the construction of The CCD, we are now taking visitors on Site Tours to let them experience for themselves the hugely impressive structure that is taking shape (very rapidly!) on Dublin’s Docklands. September Familiarisation Trip at St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. We have also commenced Familiarisation hear from you, so if you want to be part Trips to Dublin for overseas clients of this exciting journey with us, call us on interested in hosting future events at The +353 1 8560000. CCD. We hope you enjoy our newsletter. The Warehouse, Barrow Street. Our growing sales team are waiting to Nick Waight, CEO Following the appointment of our International marketing requirements, including advertising, Account Managers early this year, we have been design and print collateral, website development NEW FACES! actively recruiting for a number of additional and communications. personnel for our Sales and Marketing Team. Our Sales Administrator, Charlotte Laughlin, has We are delighted to announce the following a background in Tourism and Customer Service. appointments (pictured left to right). Charlotte will provide a range of support functions to the growing Sales Team. Our International Market Elaine Phillips, Marketing Executive Researcher, Yvonne Carr, has recently graduated Charlotte Laughlin, Sales Administrator from Dublin Institute of Technology with a degree in Yvonne Carr, International Market Researcher Tourism Marketing. Yvonne will be responsible for Elaine Phillips, Marketing Executive, comes to us identifying key international associations that could with over 10 years marketing experience including a benefi t from bringing their conferences to Dublin. recent position as Marketing Consultant to Cocoon Childcare and a number of marketing management For details of our current vacancies, please visit the roles within Aviva Group Company, Hibernian ‘careers’ page of our website www.theccd.ie. Insurance. Elaine is responsible for managing all CCD BUILDING UPDATE Construction work on The Convention Centre, Dublin, is progressing rapidly. The building is very quickly becoming the iconic structure it was designed to be, on the northern banks of the River Liffey. Transport links The new Luas (tram) Red C1 Line which will service Spencer Dock, is well underway, with the completion in September of the delta junction which will allow the extension to Spencer Dock, with a ‘tram stop’ located right behind The CCD. Good progress has also been made on Spencer Dock Bridge, which will carry the Luas over the Royal Canal into Mayor Street, behind The CCD. The construction of both abutments is complete and the main bridge deckwork is in place. Aerial view of construction of The CCD, October 2008. The construction of the cylindrical steel atrium is complete and the massive task of glazing the atrium has begun. 475 panels of glass are being fi tted, for completion by the end of November. The building is very quickly becoming the iconic structure it was designed to be. Work on the stone cladding on the building exterior is progressing well with phase 2 now complete on the east and west elevation. Work on the southern elevation, either side of the Atrium is well underway. Mechanical and electrical installations are at second fi x stage in the basement levels, and the fi rst fi x is well Installation of the 475 glass panels in the Atrium is almost complete. underway on Levels 1, 1M, 2 and 2M. The Convention Centre, Dublin. Opening 1 September 2010. The CCD secures Dining in Dublin... major International Unlimited choice to delight your palette! Conferences Thanks to the Celtic Tiger and our new multi- Roly’s Bistro in Ballsbridge is one of Dublin’s We are delighted to announce cultural society, dining out in Dublin now offers most popular restaurants amongst diners and the securing of two more major unlimited choice and diversity to suit all tastes critics alike, conveniently located within walking and budgets. There are hundreds of restaurants distance of many Dublin hotels. The Chef, Colin international conferences for The to choose from, offering every style of cuisine O’Daly, has often been named one of Ireland’s Convention Centre, Dublin. Both available – from Asian Fusion to American Diner, best. Further afi eld, top international chef conferences will take place in 2012, Italian to Indian, Chinese to Continental, French Gordon Ramsay has opened his fi rst restaurant in Bistro to Haute Cuisine! Ireland at the 5-star Ritz-Carlton Hotel at scenic bringing 5,000 international delegates Powerscourt in County Wicklow. to Dublin, for the fi rst time in either Dublin has several Michelin starred restaurants, association’s history. including the two-starred Patrick Guilbaud, and the one-starred Chapter One, Mint, The International Bar Association (IBA) has Bon Appétit and L’Ecrivain. Three Dublin “Dublin now offers confi rmed that it will bring its prestigious annual restaurants have also been awarded the Michelin conference to The CCD in October, 2012. Over ‘Bib Gourmand’ for ‘good food at moderate prices’ – these are Bang Cafe, La Maison des unlimited choice and 3,000 delegates from all over the world will attend Gourmets and The Winding Stair. the 6-day conference and exhibition. The conference diversity to suit all tastes will take over the whole of The CCD and the centre will be transformed to meet the varied needs of the and budgets” association. This event has been previously staged in Paris, Singapore and Chicago and is scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires this year, Madrid in 2009 and Canada in 2010. The IBA is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies representing over 30,000 lawyers and 195 bar associations. Patrick Guilbaud’s The International Conference of Emergency Medicine was secured at the San Francisco Patrick Guilbaud’s, at The Merrion Hotel, has conference earlier this year and will be staged at held two Michelin stars since 1988. This bright, The CCD in June 2012. Over 2,000 international elegant restaurant, serves modern classic cuisine The MV Cill Airne delegates will attend this biennial 4-day conference using the fi nest Irish produce. The table d’hôte and exhibition. lunch menu at €35.00 is described as one of Dublin’s best kept secrets! For a unique dining experience, The MV Cill Airne Floating Restaurant is highly “We are very excited about Housed in the former Jameson Whiskey family recommended! The renovated historic ship home, Michelin-starred Chapter One Restaurant houses two restaurants - the Blue Bistro Bar hosting our biennial conference at occupies the basement of the Dublin Writers and the fi ne dining Quay 16 - offering unrivalled Museum. The cooking style is classically based views of the Liffey waterfront and Dublin The CCD in 2012. This is a great with a lot of French infl uence while retaining a Docklands. opportunity for us to showcase good sense of Irish authenticity. Ireland to our fellow members and to raise our profi le nationally and internationally.” John Ryan What’s on in Dublin? The International Federation for Emergency 29th Dublin Marathon takes place October 27th 2008 Medicine (IFEM) was founded in 1989 ‘to promote at an international level, interchange, understanding and This was the 29th year of the Dublin Marathon, co-operation among physicians practicing emergency which is run through the historic Georgian medicine’. There are over 30 member organizations, streets of Dublin. More than half the 11,700 including the Irish Association for Emergency entrants were made up of overseas runners, Medicine (IAEM). The fi rst IFEM conference was many of whom were returning to sample Irish held in London and since then it has been staged Hospitality once more. Once again, thousands around the globe with the next conference taking of enthusiastic spectators lined the streets to place in Singapore in 2010. The 14th Conference will cheer on the participants. It’s no wonder it is be the fi rst IFEM event to take place in Ireland. internationally known as the ‘Friendly Marathon’! The conference will be hosted by the Irish affi liates, This year’s winner was Ukranian, Andriy Naumov, led by John Ryan, Consultant in Accident & in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes. Next year Dublin Emergency Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the event. Photo kindly supplied by Sportsfi le. Meet our Hands Across Partners - AIPCO the Water... By Pat Delaney - Chairman Many UK associations have Irish members and until now they have not been able to visit Ireland due to a lack of suitable conference facilities. With the opening date of The CCD approaching, UK associations have another choice and a In recent years, Associations and Corporations have with a member of AIPCO you know your congress, signifi cant number of them have already booked been exploring the potential for out-sourcing their meeting or event is being handled professionally, our venue.