August 2020

Belfast AI company Liopa receives Innovate UK funding

2020-08-11T14:39:53+01:00August 11th, 2020|AI|

Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK in its “Funding Competition for Business-led Innovation in Response to Global Disruption.” The financial award is part of a £40m package from the UK government to bolster technology and research-focused companies who are working to build resilience during the Covid crisis. Liopa [...]

June 2020

Tech Nation launches three new growth programmes

2020-06-11T14:34:19+01:00June 11th, 2020|AI|

Tech Nation has announced that, not only are applications open for their Fintech 3.0 and Applied AI 2.0 programmes, but that they are launching a brand new programme for companies that help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to Net Zero by 2050. With the aim to help scale UK [...]

November 2019

Matrix AI report to launch at AICON in Belfast

2019-11-21T14:39:11+00:00November 20th, 2019|Agrifood, AI|

The inaugural AICON will take place on Thursday 28th November in The Europa Hotel, Belfast. This event will bring together world-leading technology professionals and business leaders to examine how AI is changing our world. Matrix will be there to launch our new report, Artificial Intelligence Research in Northern Ireland, which [...]

Open Data Fund opens

2019-11-14T12:43:47+00:00November 14th, 2019|AI, Government, ICT & Digital|

The Department of Finance has opened a £30,000 Innovation and Outreach Fund to encourage the use of open data. Awards of between £300 and up to £5,000 are available to fund the development of apps or other interactive visualisations that make innovative use of data on the Open Data NI [...]

June 2019

Northern Ireland is a “powerhouse” in Artificial Intelligence

2019-06-25T12:30:26+01:00June 25th, 2019|AI, Education & Research, Government, ICT & Digital|

Our latest report suggests that the right components are in place to establish an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Northern Ireland. Working with The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Matrix commissioned a report in December 2018.  Entitled “Artificial Intelligence Research in [...]

UK Government launches Innovation Strategy, AI guide & procurement framework

2019-06-12T16:15:43+01:00June 12th, 2019|AI, Government, STEM|

The UK Government has published its Innovation Strategy for using new technologies in public services, with an emphasis on building skills, providing the environment for experimentation and better harnessing data. The Government Technology and Innovation Strategy was launched by Minister for Implementation Oliver Dowden and published alongside new guidance on [...]

May 2019

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