Matrix's Secretariat team attended BelTech 2024, accompanied by Luc Santos Kelly, a Student Placement in the Department For the Economy. Luc has documented his thoughts of the experience below: This year, I had the opportunity to attend BelTech 2024, an event hosted by industry experts and thought leaders, with [...]
Two Northern Ireland SBRI competitions have been launched, with a total of £0.4m on offer to small, innovative businesses. These fully-funded competitions are looking for solutions to two public sector problems with a focus on immersive technology and data analytics. EA SBRI – Capturing our Carbon Capital The Education Authority [...]
A new guide has been launched by the Department for the Economy's Careers Service looking at the Cyber Security sector. Cyber Security Careers: A Young Person’s Guide provides an insight into what the cyber security industry has to offer, highlighting career options and entry routes and including video clips featuring [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons has announced that Queen’s University Belfast and NVIDIA will invest £5.4 million in a joint Research and Development (R&D) project with the aim to accelerate artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber security research in Northern Ireland. Part of the project will be funded through a £1.7 million R&D grant [...]
The Department for the Economy is offering 20 high quality training places in its Accelerate Digital Assured Skills Academy with IT Consulting, Solutions and Managed Services delivery provider Version 1. Funded by the Department, the Assured Skills Academy will see successful applicants receive practical, real world training for roles as [...]
The government has launched a consultation on reforms to create an ambitious, pro-growth and innovation-friendly data protection regime that underpins the trustworthy use of data. Unlocking the power of data is one of the government’s 10 Tech Priorities. As set out in the National Data Strategy, data is a strategic asset and [...]
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has highlighted the important role digitisation has to play in economic recovery. The Minister met with Gareth Quinn and Andrew Trimble from early stage start-up tech company Kairos Sports Tech Ltd to discuss challenges and opportunities that exist for similar businesses within the Northern Ireland start-up ecosystem. [...]
A new Edge Computing Hub, based at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), aims to unlock the scientific and societal opportunities in the next Internet frontier, Edge computing. Edge computing will impact every Internet user in the world as it will become the way the Internet will work behind the scenes. It [...]
INDUSTRY chiefs are continuing a drive to improve the diversity of talent working in cyber security by launching the second survey for people working in the sector. This year’s survey, which is conducted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – and KPMG UK, has been [...]
A Northern Ireland nano technology consortium has been awarded seed corn funding of £50,000 to develop a bid to compete for a share of a £236 million fund with projects from across the UK. The funding, which will take the consortium to the next stage of the competitive process, has been awarded by [...]