Belfast is set to host a major international conference in 2021, after fending off competition from Venice, New Orleans and Lausanne in Switzerland. Held every two years, the International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM) is the biggest conference in the field of composites globally, and will bring up to 2,000 [...]
MATRIX is looking for UX designers, Film makers, animators, games & apps developers as well as anyone involved in VR or AR to have their say on how their industry can best be supported in Northern Ireland. We are holding two events in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry - please note you must [...]
The UK manufacturers' organisation EEF has published a new factcard outlining how Government must support manufacturers’ growth ambitions by making the UK a more internationally competitive location for industry. Download the EEF Industrial Strategy factcard The factcard outlines what the EEF considers to be the gaps in the recent green [...]
We are looking for your thoughts on how the Creative Technologies - Film, TV, animation, UX, games and immersive technologies such as AR & VR - could best be supported in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has a thriving and fast growing creative technology economy, with GVA rising by 70% [...]
Ulster University has announced it will be leading on a £6 million research project into low cost technologies for safe drinking water in developing regions. The SAFEWATER research programme seeks to tackle a global challenge by looking at clean water solutions and the development of smart devices to quickly tell [...]
Belfast-based Intelesens, which was founded in 2001 by three leading sensor technology professors at Ulster University, has been acquired by US-based UltraLinq. Intelesens developed a portfolio of intelligent, wearable, non-invasive, wireless vital signs monitoring devices for global hospital and home patient monitoring markets. Professor Jim McLaughlin (pictured above) is one of the [...]
As part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, a record £80m-plus is being invested to create a step-change in collaboration between the country’s internationally-renowned creative industries and universities across the UK. The Creative Industries Clusters Programme, which will start in 2018, will help catalyse economic growth and provide the skills needed [...]
GovCampConnect, the "unconference" for anyone interested in digital government, returns for another year to Narrow Water Castle, Warrenpoint, Saturday 2nd September 2017, 9am-5pm. Talk topics will be attendee generated on the day, but to give you an idea, topics at last year's GovCampConnect included: What does a Smart City look like? [...]
Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's research base, industry and business partners were announced last week by Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science. Both investments show the pivotal importance of engineering and the physical sciences to the country's continued development as [...]
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has launched #CultureisDigital, a conversation between government, the cultural sector and tech companies. As part of the department’s commitment to review the digitisation of its public collections and cultural offering, the project will analyse how culture and digital technology can collaborate to [...]
Could you develop technology solutions to better support diabetic pregnant women? The Department of Health and Department for Economy in Northern Ireland have launched a new Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition, under the title "Project 'GEMS' - Gestational, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Empowering Mothers through Mobile Technologies". The competition [...]
Robotics and artificial intelligence have the potential to transform the UK’s industry, economy and workplaces. Professor Guang-Zhong Yang CBE FREng, Director and Co-founder of The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery at Imperial College London and Chair of the UK-RAS Network, sets out how investment in these areas could improve innovation [...]