U.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow
Unum, a leading provider of group and individual income protection insurance in the US, UK & Poland, is expanding its Technology Centre of Excellence in Carlow. Read more
Construction commences on Smart Working locations in West Waterford villages
Construction has commenced on the first of a number of Smart Working locations in four West Waterford villages. Read more
North Quay’s investment is vote of confidence for a vibrant, connected and innovative region
The Ireland South East Development Office has welcomed the significant government investment announced for the South East region this week. Read more
Funding announced for landmark North Quay’s development
Waterford City and County Council has welcomed the announcement of €80,600,000 funding from the Urban Regeneration Development Fund by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and €30,000,000 from the National Transport Authority for infrastructural works for the development of the North Quays Strategic Development Zone site. Read more
Trilateral Research establishes European Operations Centre in Waterford, creating 40 new jobs in the South East
Trilateral Research Ltd., a leading UK headquartered research, consultancy and technology development company, has announced plans to add 40 new roles in Ireland over the next four years.
Sedicii makes the Financial Newtech Watchlist for 2020 and announces two new senior executives
There is plenty of activity at present at Sedicii. The Waterford-based multi-industry technology provider has been selected by a panel of Capgemini and Efma experts to appear on the Efma-Capgemini Financial NewTech Watchlist 2020. Also in June, Sedicii announced the appointment of two executives to the senior management team.
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VR Education’s Engage platform will help students affected by the pandemic.
Waterford-based VR Education has signed a deal with US company VictoryXR that will allow VR’s Engage platform to be used to help support students affected by the current coronavirus pandemic.
Ireland South East ICT companies using innovation to fight Covid-19
Two Ireland South East tech companies are using their innovation capacity to help manage the Covid-19 crisis. Nearform are working with the HSE to develop a mobile tracing app for the disease. While Taoglas are using their IoT technology expertise to help manage crowd sizes and social distancing protocols. Read more
WIT Research Centres TSSG and PMBRC Win at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards
The project, titled ‘Digital DNA Storage Infrastructure of the Future’, involves an infrastructure that supports encoding of digital transformation in DNA, which will lead to a new form of data storage for the future.