Industry Academic CollaborationInsight & UTRC

UTRC are one of 80 funding industrial partners with The Insight Research

Centre which is home to 450 personnel and with key research topics in

artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, human machine

interaction and optimisation.

“We're not only looking to hire some of Ireland's best and brightest technology

graduates, but also to help build a new, highly skilled industry in the region,”

CEO Dave Elkington. InsideSales.com

Track RecordIn Ireland many corporations

have established centres

of excellence in data analytics,

cloud computing,

big data and future internet.

TalentIMD 2017 ranks Ireland

1st in the world for attracting

and retaining talent.

Ireland has the youngest population

in Europe withone third under

25 years of age and almost half the

population under the age of 34.

Tax12.5% corporate tax rate.

25% R&D tax credit.

6.25% preferential tax rate on income

arising from intellectual property

(Knowledge Development Box).

Ease of Doing BusinessForbes ranks

Ireland as the 4th

best country in the world

for business 2017.

Ireland improves ranking in 2017

World Bank global report

examining the country's

ease of doing business.

Education Irish Education System is ranked

6th best in the world.

98% participation rate in education

amongst 18 year olds –

highest in Europe.

52% of 30-34 year olds has

completed tertiary education.

(EU average 39%).

EuropeIreland is the only English speaking

country in the Eurozone and provides

an ideal hub for organisations

seeking a European base.

Why Ireland? AI Island

25 years of AI Research

Adapt & Intel

In collaboration with Intel, The ADAPT Centre’s machine learning experts

developed a tool that suggests multi-lingual keywords to improve

global discoverability.

ADAPT, researchers recognised

for developing a state of the art

Neural Machines Translation

model using an encoder-decoder

attention mechanism.

Irish Centre for High End

Computing (ICHEC)

is the 6th global NVIDIA

CUDA research centre.

CeADAR, acknowledged centre

of excellence in machine and

deep learning applied to

business problems.

Networking Services

& Security

Integrated ICT

Hardware & Systems

Data AnalyticsSoftware for

Analytics & Security

A.I. & Data Analytics Performance through

Speed, Accuracy, Scalability

Digital Content, Pioneering

Intelligent Behaviour

Orreco & IBM built the world’s first

cognitive solution for sports that

helps athletes predict injury risk and

readiness to perform.

Companies can test and trial in

Ireland. Many companies use

Ireland’s numerous testbeds to trial

and prove technology and business

solutions.

Ireland has leading positions and

per capita the highest number of

EurAI fellows.

Ireland is the first country in the

world to develop an industry driven

nationwide PostGraduate MSc

in Artificial Intelligence.

According to ‘Open Data Maturity

in Europe 2017’ Ireland is a trend

setter for open data.

Ireland is home to a vibrant open

AI ecosystem for collaboration

and community.

George Boole devised the theory

of logic which underpins all modern

technology while lecturing in

University College Cork in the

1850’s.

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services Agriculture FintechFinanceEntertainment

/ GamingTechnology &

communication

S E N S E - D E C I D E - A C T U AT E

Established AI Presence in Ireland

combines groundbreaking

artificial intelligence and

genomics to discover and

unlock natural bioactive

peptides with extraordinary

health benefits.

in Ireland has a strategic

focus on the AI platform

Watson, Cognitive IoT,

Interactive Reasoning,

integrated health and

social care.

is building a 3D voxel based

platform aggregating all

Ireland’s geospatial data to

drive growth.

has it's largest AI R&D hub

in Dublin with a focus on

machine learning, natural

language understanding

(NLP), knowledge

representation and

computer vision.

empowers businesses to

discover the truth in

information. Eighty-six

percent of the Fortune

500 rely on Veritas for

multi-cloud data

management.

is driving significant

advances in the

development, training

and deployment of highly

responsive, reconfigurable

and efficient machine

learning algorithms such

as neural networks.

Leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ireland..

IrelandAI Island

Q4 2017