Paul Killoran, CEO & Founder of Ex Ordo is an innovator with a plan. A clever plan..... To build some exciting web apps that make the world that little bit better.
Ex ordo is the winner of the Kauffman Fasttrac - Meta Group Europe Award which took place this 15 June during the EU-Russia Innovation Forum & EBN Congress in Lappeenranta (Finland). They win a two full scholarships for a TechVenture course one of the
courses included in the Kauffman FastTrack offer addressed to knowledge
intensive entrepreneurs for a total value of 3.000€.
Ex Ordo has been powering Academic Conferences since 2007. Since then they have helped academic conference organisers build great conferences across Ireland, UK, and Europe.
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Why did we build Ex Ordo?
We have spoken to hundreds of academic conference organisers about the
issues they face in running a successful conference. Again and again, we
heard that conference chairs underestimated the amount of work involved
in running an academic conference. There are hundreds of tasks that
consume an organiser’s time – following up with colleagues, finding
reviewers, getting authors to submit on time, sending out reminders,
chasing delegates for payments, building timetables and proceedings, to
name but a few.
Picture : Paul Killoran, CEO & Founder of Ex Ordo
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We learnt that some conference chairs use a manual system for conference
organisation, while some use some form of online system. But while the
existing online systems save some time and effort, they do not address
many of the fundamental problems that conference chairs have.
So we asked – is there a better way? The result is Ex Ordo. It has all
the elements of a standard conference management system. The real value
comes from the unique workflow, timelines, reminders, statistics,
reporting and 1-click features that we have incorporated.
Ex Ordo changes the game in academic conferencing, by bringing order to the chaos of conferencing.
| Kauffman Fasttrac - Meta Group Europe Award |
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The two others nominees were :
- Alex Oviawe, PSPS Ltd, UK (University of East london
- Elie Gregoire Khoury, CEO, DerManDar, Lebanon (Berytech, Beirut, Lebanon)
Ex Ordo has been coached by WESTBIC, the BIC located in Galway (Ireland).
Experiences from the top 3
entrepreneurs will be presented as case histories for inspiring new
entrepreneurs attending the Kauffman FastTrack training programme that
will be delivered in Europe by META Group and its partners with the
support of EBN. |