Evert Bopp

Graaf Huyn College

Taking the disaster out of disasters

Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands

Wolverine Global Response Services is a company offering training, consultancy & general services to the humanitarian aid and disaster response sector.

Wolverine Global Response Services

Founder/CEO

Foodsteps offers easy to follow, self-guided city tours seeing the sights and experiencing 5 happening, special and varied food establishments.
Based in Ireland we are building out a range of tours all over the globe.

Foodsteps Tours

Co-Founder

Disaster Tech Labs is one of the leading organisations globally in the provision of communication services and internet access in areas affected by natural and humanitarian disasters. Disaster Tech Lab operates on a charitable basis and works solely with volunteers. Our teams can respond to disaster anywhere within 24 hours.
We provide connectivity, network infra-structure, public internet facilities, secure networks, Incident Management and Control systems and OSI for humanitarian aid applications.
In addition to this Disaster Tech Lab stimulates and supports the development of new, innovative technologies for use in disaster response and preparedness.
Since it's inception DTL has successfully completed deployments in countries such as Haiti, USA, Ecuador, Italy, Greece, Nepal, the Philippines, Fiji, Vanuatu and more.
Disaster Tech Lab has supported or partnered with organisations such as FEMA, The Red Cross, UN-OCHA, Team Rubicon, UNHCR and many more.
<a href="http://www.disastertechlab.org">www.disastertechlab.org</a>

Disaster Tech Lab

Founder & CEO

Samen sterk!
Deze vaak gehoorde kreet wordt minder vaak toegepast.
Hetzelfde geldt in Geleen; het probleem van leegloop en leegstand in het centrum van de stad is niet iets dat kan of moet worden opgelost  door de gemeente of externe adviesbureaus alleen.

Geleen Heeft Het! is een centraal punt voor idee ontwikkeling, discussie en voltooiing.
Iedereen kan een idee op het platform plaatsen en nodigt daarmee discussie en participatie uit.
Ideeën met potentieel en gezonde belangstelling worden actief geholpen bij verdere ontwikkeling.
Dit onder andere door het verstrekken van kennis, advies en het betrekken van externe partijen.

Voor wie? Dit platform is voor iedereen die wilt bijdragen aan de leef- en winkel- kwaliteit van Geleen; inwoners, bezoekers, ondernemers, ambtenaren, academici, jong en oud, iedereen is welkom om een idee in te dienen en om mee te werken aan het ontwikkelen van ideeën.

Ons doel? Dat is kort samen te vatten; door op een transparante en productieve manier samen te werken willen we de leefbaarheid en het success van Geleen verbeteren en garanderen

<a href="http://geleenheefthet.nl/">http://geleenheefthet.nl/</a>

Geleen Heeft Het!

Founder

APWireless is the leading mobile phone mast site lease investment firm in the world. We are focused on the strategic acquisition and management of ground, tower, rooftop and in-building mobile phone mast leases.
In my position as acquisition agent I focus on identifying new telecom site investment opportunities, analyzing and valuing leases and offering site owners the opportunity to release long the long term value of their properties.

APWireless Infrastructure Partners, LLC

Investment Director

ELRHA

Grant application reviewer

StartGalway is a initiative to stimulate and support new enterprises in rural Galway.
StartGalway is running startup clinics & an incubation program.

StartGalway

Coordinator

The purpose of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHNetwork) is to leverage digital networks in support of 21st century humanitarian response. More specifically, the aim of this network-of-networks is to form a consortium of Volunteer & Technical Communities (V&TCs) and to provide an interface between formal, professional humanitarian organizations and informal yet skilled-and-agile volunteer & technical networks. Services offered by members of the DHNetwork are listed here. We are taking an iterative approach in developing this interface and will expand membership to this network over time. Membership is by organization only. We also plan to organize a crisis simulation to assess our worfklows in the near future.

The purpose of the DHNetwork Coordinators is to review activation-requests and rapidly liaise with the different volunteer & technical teams who are members of Digital Humanitarians to build a Solution Team best able to act on a request. The Coordinators aim to provide a response to every request within 24 hours.

Digital Humanitarian Network

Last Mile First Ltd is an industry leader in FTTX innovation, experience and knowledge.  Our management team combines 15 years experience working on large, medium and small fiber projects across the US and Caribbean for clients such as Verizon, Google, Fiberlight and others.

Combining a high level of technical expertise with a throughout commercial insight enables us to offer innovative FTTX Distribution Solutions. Our FTTH & FTTP “build and lease” service allows operators to concentrate on providing services rather than designing, building and managing that essential last mile.

With a global presence we can quickly and efficiently provide design, construction and testing services anywhere and at any time.

Last Mile First

Director & Business Development Manager

Disaster Medics is a voluntary organisation providing medical services & training in disaster zones across the globe.
For more see: <a href="http://disastermedics.org/">http://disastermedics.org/</a>

Board member

COO for a geo-located emergency messaging start-up.

iGeoComms

Chief Operating Officer

Soon after Sandy made landfall, FEMA deployed an Innovation Team-- a multi-sector, cross functional group made up of people in government, non-profit and international organizations, volunteer groups, businesses, and concerned citizens: the whole community.  At the most basic level, this team is all about creatively solving problems by receiving individual input from a diverse spectrum of stakeholders. They are about obtaining a perspective that is broader than just one sector, yet are agile and nimble enough to be a catalyst for real, impactful change to real world challenges.   The team collides networks of people together and leverages the amazing resourcefulness of the many organizations that have an interest in serving individuals and communities impacted by disasters.

FEMA Innovation Team

Member

I assist the Geeks Without Bounds accelerator by providing mentoring services to their start-ups.
For more details see: <a href="http://gwob.org/about/">http://gwob.org/about/</a>

Geeks Without Bounds

Start-up mentor

Crisiscamp Ireland

Organisor

To be clear, Smart Start acts as a co-founder in that we take equity and also expect reward.

We are a true partner, with you every step of the way, helping every way we can, working hard to get the business off the ground. We don’t sit back when the cheques are signed, we roll up our sleeves!

While we do invest in businesses, that is not all we offer as a partner, we bring the support and advice to bring your business to a global stage – Investment, Mentors, Advisors, Workshops, Direct Sales Activity…. Practical, Hands-on, Results!

With a network of  experienced business development mentors in the US and Europe we know we can generate Overseas Sales Leads & Business Development Opportunities. Our team of “Ground Breakers” will do just that!

Our Technology Advice comes with the know how of having rolled out Social Media, Platform Development and Smart Phone deployment internationally, the team is further complemented by the sweetest creatives you have ever seen! and they are; RazorCoast, Tapadoo and Sharp Design!

So water-tight, So competent, So in tune! That’s Byrne Wallace, the team offering support to our Start-ups are Second to None!

We are really very excited to have the support and guidance from the Team in Deloitte, who offer sound Financial and Business advice globally, together they bring; Commercial, Taxation, Investment and Business planning advice which supports and strengthens our offer. It’s Great to have them here for us all.

SmartStart

Mentor

Startupbootcamp is a mentorship based programme (affiliated with Techstars). Most of the value comes from the close interaction with our mentors who are all serial entrepreneurs and subject experts.

Startupbootcamp

Worked as a tech start-up mentor (consultant) for the Dublin Chamber of commerce.
Evaluated, mentored and assisted a number of early-stage start-ups in te tech sector focussing on such areas as market analysis, product development, marketing, funding and "the business of doing business.

Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Technology Start-up Mentor

I set up “Haiti Connect” at the end of January 2010 with the plan to provide emergency communications for NGO and relief workers using wifi technologies. Since then we have provided Internet access through wifi links to 20-plus locations across Haiti (schools, hospitals, clinics, orphanages and similar) We have also provided computer & networking equipment to locations such as hospitals, schools etc.
This has now grown to a much larger scope where we are working together with a number of Haitian charitable organisations as well as government organisations to bring internet access to a camps, schools, hospitals, orphanages, community buildings etc.
Our goal is to utilise this Internet access as a means of information exchange and provision. It will for instance allow hospitals and clinics to communicate on supply issues and patient records, it will also allow Haitian clinics to use telemedicine applications to allow patient diagnosis by hospitals in Miami or elsewhere.
Total value of equipment shipped to Haiti so far has exceeded $250,000. Not bad for a completely volunteer organisation run by 2 people!

Airappz

Inventorium is a action designed to bring together people who would not normally meet – People who each have a part but not the whole of an innovation.

It is a partnership between TechniumCAST in Bangor and NDRC in Dublin. It is supported by the  European Union’s Ireland Wales Interreg IV Programme.

The idea is to establish a sustainable distributed mechanism for the generation of new ideas that will lead to the formation of new businesses or contribute to sustaining existing businesses, with particular focus on digital technologies for health, public services, education, leisure, entertainment, environment and transport.

It will do this by a series of interlinked processes including;

-   To develop and test systematic methodologies for early stage knowledge interchange as part of the knowledge transfer process.

-   To support the early stage conceptualisation of products and services based on innovative technologies which in turn further builds capacity for research in those domains

-          Provide channels of communication between potential and existing actors: SMEs, MNCs Corporate bodies, Public bodies, academic and research institutions and interested individuals in the generation of solutions.

-          To provide mechanisms and supports for subsequent translational resear

ch and early stage business incubation.

Both Centre for Advanced Software Technology (Wales) and the National Digital Research Centre (Ireland) bring considerable expertise in the areas of technology research, knowledge and technology transfer and sustainable commercial development of research outputs.

By bringing together stakeholders from relevant sectors, this project will create novel mechanisms and channels for technology transfer, complementing ongoing activity and enhancing and contributing to sustainable business and entrepreneurial activities across both regions.

Inventorium

Innovation commercialisation Manager

The Greenhouse Business Camp is an free “unconference” for people who are self-employed, starting their own business or thinking about starting their own business. The current economic circumstances have clearly indicated that there is no such thing as a “job for life”. Even the biggest of companies are failing, the financial institutions are in tatters and the public sector is facing mass redundancies. The result of this is that for a lot of people there is only one logical course of action: to start their own business. Once again the SME sector proves to be the backbone of the economy.

Business Camp 09

The Greenhouse is a national virtual start-up incubator. We aim at early stage ventures and provide selected start-ups with all expertise, services, advice and support needed to develop their product/service and management team.
In exchange the Greenhouse takes a small equity stake in the start-up
I organise and provide training for starting and growing businesses in the areas of business development, online & offline marketing (including social media), effective communications, resource management, funding and other building blocks of success.
I am also engaged as a business mentor for a number of start-up ventures. Lastly I assist new & existing companies in commercialising new ideas, existing IP and R&D.

Greenhouse Ireland

Founder, start-up mentor, trainer, commercialisation expert.

Bizcamp is a free conference/ gathering which is happening in Limerick on Saturday 21st March. The venue is the Kemmy Business School on the University of Limerick campus.

Seriously - what is it?

It’s a chance for us all to lift ourselves out of the gloom of the endless bad news stories. It’s based on the fact that each of us as entrepreneurs have loads to learn from our peers. And we have a lot to share with them as well. There are a lot of great things happening in the Irish Economy - especially in small and medium businesses and this day will be a celebration of those. And a great place to come for people who have lost their jobs and are actively looking at starting up.

It’s free, whats the catch?

You take the main cost of a “proper” conference away (the flown in experts) and get sponsors to cover the venue and misc other expenses. And then people starting and running their own businesses gather on the day and a number of them/you/us will give short talks on things which we know or have learned which will be valuable to share with the others.

Great idea, it will never actually work

This is based on the Barcamp concept which started in the US and has now being used in every continent in the world. In Ireland there have been 11 held since September 2006 - each of them successful. Click here for a full listing of those.

Ok, kinda interested now. Why haven’t I heard of this before now?

Because the Irish camps to date have been almost exclusively focused on the technology community and promoted within that sector. This is the first to be held which focuses on all businesses and it will be especially of interest to any and all entrepreneurs who want to build Irish businesses which can compete internationally.

Bizcamp Limerick

Organiser

The event, the first of its kind, is a spin-off from the Open Coffee Club meetings taking place in Limerick’s Absolute Hotel every first Thursday of the month.
Open Coffee Club meetings are informal "gatherings" of entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors and anybody with an interest in business and technology to tell their story, discuss topics, exchange points of view, do deals and generally have a good, relaxing time. They are invaluable networking events for people to meet in.
There will be facilities for people who would like to demo their product or service or who would like to give a short talk about a specific subject. There is also sufficient room for spontaneous break-out sessions to develop. People who would like to learn more about the internet & technology industry in Ireland or meet some of the successful entrepreneurs are particularly welcome.

Full details are available from the website: <a href="http://www.opencoffeeclub-bbq.com">http://www.opencoffeeclub-bbq.com</a>

(Irish) Open Coffee Club BBQ

Event organiser

AirAppz (802.EU) is a “next generation” mobile Internet & application provider. We have developed a captive portal solution for use with wifi hotspots and hotzones. This captive portal can display targeted location based advertising as well as other location based services. We have also developed a number of web/browser based applications that can be "plugged" into the portal on a modular basis. These applications range from "office type application" to online image editing and online backup for mobile devices.
We also offer a VOIP service that allows voip/wifi to automatically connect  and authenticate to a wifi network.
AirAppz is currently rolling out a testbed network of wifi hotspots across Ireland. We will install a wifi hotspot in any suitable location at NO COST to the venue owner.

Wimax EU intends to establish a pan-European WISP network. We've identified the lack of affordable high quality broadband access in the majority of European countries and intend to fill this gap.
The rollout of broadband across most countries is hampered by the lack of necessary infrastructure, the sometimes bad condition of the existing infrastructure or the monopolization of the infrastructure by a Telecoms co. with no real interest in local loop unbundling.
Wimax EU will bypass these infrastructural problems by implementing a wireless network for the so-called “last mile”. We will use wireless point-to-point connections to bring broadband connectivity to areas where it is currently unavailable. In these areas we will establish nodes from where we can provide broadband access to customers in the area.

Wimax EU Ltd.

Responsible for the technical & operational management of the rollout of the first (and largest) wifi hotspot provider in the Netherlands. Locations ranged from smal locations (1-2 hotspots) to planning and executing a rollout for a hotel chain over 53 locations.

HubHop/Decom

Wired & Wireless

Owner

Bite Ltd.

Managing director/owner

Cairngorm consulting was the sole agent and distributor in ireland for brands such as Mammut, Arc'teryx, Hugh Banner and Phil & Teds explorer buggy.

Cairngorm Consulting Ltd.

Managing director

Telemarketing agent

During this period I worked for a variety of companies in a variety of positions but all related to outdoor sports.
I worked as an instructor in an outdoor activities center teaching people a number of activities such as rock-climbing, abseiling, canoeing, potholing, survival skills etc.
I also worked as a guide on multi-day hiking trips across the Scottish Highlands.
Lastly I was involved in the setting up of a large paintball center in the south of Holland.

Self employed

Outdoor activities jack of all trades.

Mulder bergsport is a specialist outdoor activities retailer. We offered a wide selection of clothing & equipment for activities such as camping, hiking, rock-climbing, mountaineering, rafting, bicycle trekking etc.
We supplied products by brands such as Lowe Alpine, Berghaus, Black Diamond, Petzl, Beal, Edelrid, Mammut, Patagonia, Scarpa etc.
I was in charge of most of the day-to-day running overseeing retail as well as buying. Regular visitor of trade shows such as ISPO and Outdoor.