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News 2022
Professor Barry O'Sullivan appointed to Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum
Congratulations to Professor Barry O'Sullivan, School of Computer Science and IT who has been appointed to the Government's Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum by Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Robert Troy TD.
The Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum (EDAF) will support the Government in driving the digitalisation of enterprise across Ireland. The Forum brings together representatives of indigenous enterprise, multi-national enterprises, and experts in digital technologies and their adoption by enterprise.
The EDAF will also support the implementation of the enterprise aspects of an overall National Digital Strategy (NDS). It will provide an important setting for enterprise to be able to provide feedback to Government on various challenges and opportunities they identify in relation to digitalisation.
Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Robert Troy TD said:
“Digital technologies are more and more becoming part of our everyday lives. The digital economy presents huge opportunities for Irish SMEs to improve services, enhance customer experience, and increase competitiveness. I want to support those Irish businesses to make that transition; to build on the positives of the past two years and continue to embrace digitalisation and all it can offer. By doing this, we can future proof our economy in the years ahead.
“I am determined to drive a real step change in the level of digitalisation across all enterprises - by 2030, I want 90% of SMEs to have achieved basic digital intensity. I look forward to chairing the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum which will be crucial to supporting Government to encourage this change. With the insights of the experts on the Forum, we can work to help realise the benefits of those technologies for Irish enterprise of all sizes.”
Professor Barry O’Sullivan is an award-winning academic and holds the Chair of Constraint Programming in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, UCC. He is the founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC, a Principal Investigator at the CONFIRM Centre for Smart Manufacturing, and is the Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence. He is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia.
Professor O’Sullivan is vice chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is an advisor to the AI Alliance in The Netherlands (ALLAI) and to the Computational Sustainability Network, a network of 13 universities in the USA, led by Cornell University.