More than 1,000 delegates are expected to attend the second Asia Business Week, which starts this Wednesday, and will include a series of events aimed at developing trade and investment opportunities between Ireland and Asia.

The week will focus on how Ireland can increase business with Asia, through a series of business and cultural events to promote business learning to drive economic success between Irish, European and Asian businesses.

Speakers include Samsung president of corporate affairs Sang Woo Kim, PwC Ireland managing partner Feargal O'Rourke, Mitsubishi (Europe) managing director Haruki Hayashi, Moody's Investors Services chief credit officer Colin Ellis, Minister for Education and Skills Jan O'Sullivan, Prof Paul Evans, academic director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index at INSEAD and former RTÉ Dragon Peter Casey.

Mr Casey, the founder of Claddagh Resources, will speak at the Asia Ireland Higher Education and Global Talent Forum at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin on Thursday.

Martin Murray, executive director of Asia Matters, said this year’s week-long series of events would expand to include events in Cork. He said the week was aimed “at fostering new opportunities for Irish businesses in Asia as well as building upon the existing trade relations to drive new bilateral partnerships.”

Meanwhile, the public consultation process on two-letter domain registration will come to an end this Thursday, according to the IE Domain Registry. All interested parties are advised to have their say before then.

This is the first time that Irish businesses will be able to register one- and two-letter .ie domain names, allowing for up to 676 possible two-letter domain name combinations, including hp.ie, pc.ie, hr.ie and aa.ie.