Stay Informed on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Archie Villaflores

Looking back to the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Novartis Ireland was shortlisted for the AI Innovation of the Year Award for implementing AI within its quality event management process, delivering improvements in data insights, reporting, compliance, and documentation quality while generating significant time savings across a tightly governed operational function. As life sciences organisations across Ireland look for credible models of responsible AI adoption in regulated settings, Novartis Ireland's initiative offers a concrete example of what thoughtful, compliance-conscious implementation can achieve.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Canadian technology company TELUS Digital has significantly expanded its global delivery footprint across Asia-Pacific and Latin America over the past nine months, adding new sites across Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India and Argentina. The expansion strengthens its AI-powered customer experience and data services capabilities.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Australian connected experience agency Orchard has been appointed by private investment company Precision Group to lead the digital transformation of its retail and commercial property portfolio. Six new websites are set to launch in July 2026 as the first phase of a broader programme.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Fintech Currenxie has launched multi-country, multi-currency business accounts across the European Economic Area, operating from a newly established Dublin base authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland. The expansion targets internationally active SMEs managing payments across Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Author: Archie Villaflores

AI video conferencing company Owl Labs has entered a UK and Ireland distribution partnership with IT distributor Westcoast Limited to broaden access to its hybrid meeting technology. The agreement covers the full Meeting Owl and Owl Bar product ranges.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish telecommunications provider Three Ireland appoints Jon Davies as chief technology and innovation officer and Sinéad O'Donnell as head of corporate affairs. Davies will drive network excellence, 5G advancement and AI innovation across operations.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish organisations are generating technology value ahead of global peers, yet most cannot communicate AI returns clearly to stakeholders. Governing AI with board-level discipline and communicating its value with precision are the priorities that will sustain Ireland’s technology advantage.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Ireland’s Central Statistics Office has published a Data Strategy positioning national data infrastructure as a shared resource for enterprise and public benefit alike. It gives Irish business leaders a practical framework for embedding data governance as a commercial asset rather than a compliance overhead.

Author: Archie Villaflores

In a rewind to the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Chartered Accountants Ireland was shortlisted for the Best Digital Transformation — Financial & Professional Services award for a Virtual Reality learning experience that tackled one of the profession's most persistently difficult training challenges: equipping junior and trainee auditors with the professional scepticism skills that textbooks and traditional instruction struggle to develop. As public-facing professional bodies across Ireland explore how emerging technologies can deepen the quality of learning and practice, Chartered Accountants Ireland's VR initiative offers a concrete example of what digitally led transformation can look like in a knowledge-intensive, regulated profession.

Author: Archie Villaflores

US industrial automation company Rockwell Automation and US life sciences firm Cytiva have jointly launched a SCADA system designed to remove digital bottlenecks in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The product targets connectivity and data integration challenges across multi-vendor biopharma environments