I noticed that Jared Spool was speaking at a Refresh Seattle event last May. The Portland and Boston events looked really good also. Refresh Belfast started earlier this year and that’s doing great – growing to over 200 attendees at the most recent event. Before long, the word was out and there was no turning back – Refresh Dublin was born. After a few tweets, e-mails and an initial meeting, a few people from the web and interactive media community in Dublin came on board.

Suggestions & Voucher Competition Details:

We are welcoming ideas and suggestions for future Refresh Dublin events – For example, how many speakers should we have present at future events? Who would you like to see speak at future events? What themes or areas wold you like covered? Would you prefer in-depth topics and analysis or an overview of a specific area? Technical? Creative? A mix of both? Any other comments?

Thanks to our sponsor, Irish International, we will be running a competition to win 2 x £50 vouchers for Amazon – the first way to win is to comment below with your ideas about Refresh Dublin. The second way to win is to write a blog post about the first Refresh Dublin and then tweet about it – link to your blog post in your tweet and include the tag “#RefreshDublin”. Winners will be selected at random and you have until midnight on Monday the 9th of November to enter. If you would prefer to e-mail us your feedback, you can reach us at refreshdublin@gmail.com.
 

Ticket to Build Conference – Competition Details:

This competition is now closed. Congratulations to John Keyes who won the ticket. 

Thanks to Andy McMillan, we have 1 free ticket to Build Conference to give away. In order to win, you have to:

- Be attending Refresh Dublin or on the waiting list.

- Answer the following three questions and post your answers to @RefreshDublin on Twitter with the tag ‘#RefreshDublin’ or our Facebook group .

- First person that posts the correct answers wins.

Thank you:

A big thanks goes out to the people and organisations that helped make this first event possible -

Our sponsors: Irish International, the Science Gallery and Bombay Sapphire.

Our speakers: Sabrina Dent, the Playhouse Dublin team, Eamon Leonard and Mercury Girl Inc.

The organisers: Niamh Redmond (@nredmond), Mark Conguista (@interactivemark) from Irish International, Elizabeth McGuane (@emcguane), Clodagh Kelly (@clodaghkelly), Stewart Curry (@irishstu) and the staff in the Science Gallery,

And the other people/ organisations that helped or supported us: Andy McMillan – the Refresh Belfast & Build Conference organiser, the organisers of Design Week 2009, Blacknight Internet Hosting, Eventbrite ticketing software, Campaign Monitor e-mail newsletter software, Meabh Redmond, Ciaran Harris, Ángel Luis González, Martha Rotter, Shane Diffily, Peter McKenna and Studio Rua.

Is there any more information about Refresh or how can I set-up an event in my own area?

I am planing on writing a future blog post about my experience of setting up/ organising this event. This is intended as a guide to and tips for anyone considering setting up a Refresh event in their own city or area. If you would like to know more about the Refreshing Cities movement, the new Refreshing Cities website will address that (launch date to be announced). The short version is that Refresh Dallas announced it. Aaron Post found it, asked if he could do a Refresh Phoenix and then they had the first real Refresh Meeting. From there they spoke to others in various cities to get the Refresh movement up and running.

- Niamh.