Two Northern Ireland based start-ups have made the finals of Tech Nation’s Rising Stars 4.0 competition. Biotech and Life Sciences firm Kinva and Agrifood and Foodtech company CropSafe are amongst the 20 finalists who impressed an expert panel of judges led by GP Bullhound Vice President Ed Prior and included [...]
The consultation seeks views on the opportunities, challenges and key areas of activity to bring together connected digital and physical technologies to unleash innovation. HM Government has launched a consultation on a national Cyber-Physical Infrastructure, an ecosystem of increasingly connected digital and physical systems with the potential to help accelerate [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons has met with manufacturers at Ballymena’s ECOS Centre to launch a call to companies for projects developing innovative low carbon technologies. The Challenge Fund, delivered by the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, an industry led sustainable energy research centre, received [...]
The Department for the Economy’s Assured Skills Academy is to deliver 20 high quality training places in conjunction with Alchemy Technology Services. Funded by the Department and delivered by North West Regional College, the five-week pre-employment training programme will give participants who complete the Academy the opportunity to stay with [...]
Women in Business, Northern Ireland’s leading support network for women in the workplace is to celebrate the role of women leaders in the local technology sector next month with the inaugural Women in Tech Awards to be held at Belfast’s Europa Hotel. The Women in Tech Awards will recognise and [...]
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is currently seeking a Chair for the new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). BEIS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng recently confirmed the appointment of DARPA Deputy Director Dr Peter Highnam as the first CEO of the UK’s new advanced inventions agency and [...]
Nominations are open now for EmTech Europe’s Innovators Under 35 Festival which is being held in Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal from 19th - 21st May. Innovators Under 35 Europe Festival 2021 presents an excellent opportunity to meet the next generation of innovators, who will transform our lives through their technological advances. [...]
Belfast City Council is consulting on its new Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework 2022-2027 and is seeking views on its plans and proposals. The framework is available as a PDF download or web page and you can share your views via the public consultation until 15 March 2022. The ‘Smart [...]
The UK Government has published its Levelling Up White Paper, setting out a plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it. At the heart of this new way of making and implementing policy will be 12 national missions - all quantifiable and to [...]
The Northern Ireland Science Festival, which takes place this month from 17-27 February, is to feature the Matrix and Pulsar sponsored event “I ❤️ My STEM Career”, during which comedian and international award-winning science communicator, Emer Maguire will chat to a host of local STEM professionals, finding out why they [...]
Queens University Belfast is one of 24 UK Universities to have been named among the first-ever successful applicants to The Alan Turing Institute’s Network Development Awards. Each of the outstanding universities demonstrated its own particular proven research excellence and a track record of translation in data science, AI, or a [...]
Dr Peter Highnam will head up the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) as its first CEO, from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has today (1 February 2022) appointed Dr Peter Highnam as Chief Executive of the UK’s new Advanced Research and [...]