The IIA National Congress happens this Thursday in the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney with ‘buy, sell and do business online‘ being the theme of this year’s congress.

The Congress will analyse the upward trend in eCommerce and other online business activity. International and local speakers from leading eCommerce ventures such as Google, Bebo, eBay, Microsoft, Hostelworld and Realex Payments have been lined up. The congress will feature case studies and delve behind the online trends tracked by the IIA.

The keynote address at the end of the day should be interesting with Mark Charkin (Bebo’s head of sales in Europe) speaking about monetising Bebo. Other speakers include Dermot Nolan (BOI Business Banking), John McElligott (MD, eBay Ireland), Ray Nolan (CEO of WRI and Hostelworld aka the crowd who have gotten Boo.com back off the ground).