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Author: Archie Villaflores

Revisiting the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Maria Svejdar, Head of Retail at GS1 Ireland, served as Judging Coordinator across a programme that recognised Ireland's leading innovators in technology and digital excellence at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire on 19 June 2025, spanning over 40 categories in digital transformation and artificial intelligence. Bringing more than 25 years of commercial experience across B2B, technology, retail, and consumer goods, Svejdar oversaw an independent expert panel drawn from academia, enterprise technology, and industry leadership to evaluate entries across one of Ireland's most expansive awards programmes in the digital sector.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish businesses are building sustainability reporting technology at pace, with ESG data capability rising 14 percentage points in a single year. Organisations treating CSRD as a data architecture opportunity are building infrastructure that will power AI-driven decision-making for the decade ahead.

Author: Archie Villaflores

US artificial intelligence company Anthropic has opened an office in Seoul and announced a series of partnerships across South Korea's enterprise, startup, research and public sectors, including a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Science and ICT on AI safety. South Korea ranks among the top dozen countries globally for Claude.ai usage.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Philippine telecommunications company PLDT Enterprise has partnered with telecom software provider 6D Technologies to strengthen its IoT connectivity management capabilities across enterprise and SME sectors. The platform targets large-scale connected device deployments across logistics, manufacturing, utilities, retail and public services.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Japanese technology company NTT DATA has opened a new Dublin office as part of a €16.5 million investment in Ireland, creating 100 jobs since January 2025 with plans to recruit a further 50 staff over the coming six months. The commitment focuses on AI and digital services research and development in collaboration with business and academic institutions.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish technology consultancy TEKenable has highlighted growing demand among Irish businesses for ERP transformation as organisations seek the data foundations necessary to support effective AI adoption. Fragmented systems and poor data quality are identified as the primary barriers to AI-driven decision-making.

Author: Archie Villaflores

London-headquartered AI-native digital product studio Studio Graphene has expanded into Ireland through the integration of Dublin-based design agency Tribe Digital, marking its first entry into the Irish market. The move strengthens Studio Graphene's end-to-end digital product offering across Ireland, the UK and Europe.

Author: Archie Villaflores

In a rewind to the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Chartered Accountants Ireland, Kinore, and Quantmatix were shortlisted for the Best Digital Transformation — Financial & Professional Services award, each recognised for demonstrating excellence and commitment to transforming their operations through the adoption of digital methodologies and technologies within Ireland's financial and professional services sector. Quantmatix ultimately claimed the award for its Smarter Investing, Stronger Returns initiative, setting a compelling standard for how digital transformation can redefine the delivery of financial services when built around a clearly evidenced business case.

Author: Archie Villaflores

The global AI infrastructure wave represents the supply-side transformation that will determine which Irish enterprises can deploy AI at scale and at what cost. Goodbody’s April 2026 analysis finds Ireland well positioned to capture a disproportionate share of the $650 billion (€560 billion) global AI infrastructure investment cycle now underway.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Colombian food company Alpina Colombia has signed an agreement with US enterprise technology company Kyndryl to modernise its core IT infrastructure through a RISE with SAP migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private on Amazon Web Services. The project also includes a data factory and AI-powered platform implementation.