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Who Are We?

CeADAR is Ireland’s National Centre for Applied AI. CeADAR is a market-focused technology centre that drives the accelerated research, development, and deployment of AI and data analytics technology and innovation into businesses.   The Centre is the bridge between the worlds of applied research in AI and data analytics and their commercial deployment.

The Centre’s work focuses on developing tools, techniques and technologies that enable more people, organisations and industries to use analytics and AI for better decision making, unlocking hidden insights and sustained competitive advantage.

CeADAR has particular strengths in:

  • predictive analytics
  • machine and deep learning
  • artificial intelligence
  • real-time analytics
  • text analytics and natural language processing
  • data visualisation
  • blockchain and smart contracts
  • computer vision and image analytics.

Industry membership of CeADAR has grown significantly in recent years and now totals 90 industry partners ranging from multi-nationals to indigenous SMEs spanning every industry vertical.  The Centre is also the focal point of a thriving national ecosystem delivering frequent seminars, conferences, and members’ networking events throughout the year.

CeADAR was awarded the Dunn & Bradstreet prize for Best Analytics Research Group Ireland at the DatSci Awards and in November 2018 it received the European i-Spaces GOLD award from the Big Data Value Association in Brussels. CeADAR is the designated EU AI Digital Innovation Hub in Ireland and is one of only 30 across the EU.

CeADAR is funded by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, is headquartered in University College Dublin and is a partnership with the Technological University Dublin (formerly DIT).

What Is CeADAR Community?

CeADAR’s MightNetworks community allows company members and data scientists to engage informally and in real time. Courses are available to members to develop hands on learning and real world scenarios in AI domains.   Members of the public who want to acquire knowledge, can join our community to engage with peers who develop and discuss the latest news and developments in AI and analytics.

Testimonials

Cornmarket

Cornmarket
We found our relationship with CeADAR to be highly productive in a number of ways. From direction on how to embed a data culture across the organisation, to meeting a range of other organisaitons and learning from their journeys, as well as assessing our own level of data maturity, this relationship is proving invaluable.

CPL

CPL
We are delighted to be working with CeADAR on the work ready graduate programme. Our graduate has already brought academic expertise, tools and approaches that we were not using before to help us drive our data and AI agenda, and we’re only a couple of months in.

Coalface

Coalface
Coalface has collaborated with CeADAR on several occasions and chose CeADAR again for our latest project due to their technical expertise.

SSE Airtricity

SSE Airtricity
this collaboration with CeADAR helped ‘‘take another big step towards meeting our goal of Net-Zero by 2050 and will also have added benefits for the entire energy chain, including customers.

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