Event Final Details
Date: Saturday, February 21st, 2026, 9:30am to 4pm
Location: Mullingar Park Hotel
Themes: The Future of Work, Opportunities for Young People, and Achieving a Work / Life Balance
Online Jobs feed: https://midlandscareerexpo.ie/job-vacancies/
More details: https://midlandscareerexpo.ie
Timetable
| 08:00 | Event opens for Exhibitor Setup |
| 09:30 |   Event officially opens for attendees. The event will be opened by Katelyn Cummins and the President of the Mullignar Chamber of Commerce James Bourke.
Come see the companies with Jobs on offer as well as our Lifestyle stands that offer a wide array of activites for when you are not at work! |
| 10:00 |   Katelyn Cummins: The 2025 Rose of Tralee, RTE personality and practicing apprentice electrician wiil discuss her experiences following the apprenticeship route. From a farming background to television life has been a rollercoaster journey for the midlands native; come and hear her inspiring story.
Katelyns talk is sponsored by Midland Border East Skillnet which is funded through Skillnet Ireland and the Dept of further and higher Education and the National Training fund to support member companies to address their training and upskilling needs. For more information contact Michael at 087 3594116 |
| 10:40 |  Robert Troy: Minister of State at the Department of Finance |
| 14:00 |  Peter Burke: Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment |
| 14:15 |  Andrew Lynch: Chief Innovation Officer at Irish Manufacturing Research.His talk will focus on the changing nature of jobs, data-driven decision-making, and how organisations can successfully integrate human and machine capabilities to build more agile, innovative, and future-ready teams. Andrew will also be talking about Ireland’s first European Space Agency Phi-Lab which will be headquartered at Irish Manufacturing Research in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Phi-Lab Ireland will fund cutting-edge research from materials discovery and testing, to the scaled production of components optimised for the unique and challenging environment of space.  |
| 16:00 | Event closes |
