Tech Industry Alliance, UCC’s School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Cork Smart Gateway and Tech Industry Alliance Skillnet are pleased to bring you the first Tech Talk of 2025: Innovating Together – Cutting Edge Technologies for Industry: AI & Ethics, Cybersecurity, Networks, Software and Human-Computer Interaction taking place on Tues 28 Jan from 8am to 10am at Western Gateway, UCC.

Featuring an interactive panel discussion and insights from some of the UCC School of Computer Science & IT’s top researchers, attendees will discover the latest tech trends, understand the school’s extensive offerings, and learn how to leverage various funding opportunities to begin their journey of innovation.

Registration, refreshments & networking will begin from 08.00am, panel discussion and case studies from 08.30am – 10.00am.

Experts speakers include:

Dr Ena Tobin, Head of Data Analytics at ETOS

Prof. Dirk Pesch, Head of UCC’s School of Computer Science & IT

Professor Utz Roedig, Professor at UCC (School of Computer Science & IT)

Dr. Laura Maye, Lecturer at UCC (School of Computer Science & IT)

Prof. Ken Brown, Professor at UCC (School of Computer Science & IT) and Deputy Director of Insight

Who Should Attend?

Industry Leaders looking to stay at the forefront of technological advancements
Business Professionals interested in R&D and innovation partnerships
Tech Innovators and Researchers focused on collaborative opportunities
Decision-Makers seeking insights into funding options for tech projects

For more information and to register now click HERE.

ENTIRE is delighted to offer this powerful new course ‘AI Literacy and the AI Act: From AI, to Ethics to Regulation’ delivered by Professor Barry O’Sullivan from University College Cork. This comprehensive one-day course will take place in a hybrid format (online and in person at UCC, Western Gateway Building) on the 28th of November 2024 from 10am to 4pm

The European AI Act came into effect on August 1st 2024. Article 4 of the Act places obligations in relation to AI literacy within organisation that provide or deploy AI systems. Specifically, Article 4 says “Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education and training and the context the AI systems are to be used in, and considering the persons or groups of persons on whom the AI systems are to be used.” This skills development course provides a grounding in artificial intelligence, how ethical principles have been developed and applied to AI systems, and how these have informed the development of the AI Act. This course will offer companies a grounding to help them ensure compliance with the AI literacy obligations under the Act.

What to expect
This course will provide participants with:
– An overview of artificial intelligence
– Principles of machine learning
– Evaluation of AI systems: robustness, performance, fairness, bias, etc.
– Ethics for AI and the Seven Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI
– An overview of the AI Act
– An overview of the Assessment List for Trustworthy AI
– What you take away / Deliverables
– On completion of this skills development course attendees will have an appreciation for the principles of AI systems, understand how ethics principles have applied to AI and informed the AI Act. Attendees will have attained a basic level of AI literacy sufficient to assess an AI system against the Seven Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI which underpin the AI Act.

What you take away / Deliverables
On completion of this skills development course attendees will have an appreciation for the principles of AI systems, understand how ethics principles have applied to AI and informed the AI Act. Attendees will have attained a basic level of AI literacy sufficient to assess an AI system against the Seven Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI which underpin the AI Act.

This service is designed for?
SMEs and Public sector organisations.

Price
€4,000
*(100% discounted through de minimus funding for SMEs and public sector organisations)

For more information and to register today see https://entire-edih.ie/ai-literacy-and-the-ai-act-from-ai-to-ethics-to-regulation/

ENTIRE is excited to introduce the AI Fundamentals: Constraint-Based Production Scheduling course, led by renowned expert Helmut Simonis from University College Cork (UCC). This comprehensive two-day course taking place 21-22 November 2024 on-site in UCC , will explore cutting-edge Constraint Programming (CP) and its potential to revolutionize production scheduling.

Project and production scheduling is an important element in optimizing performance, reducing cost, and satisfying customer demand in industry. Scheduling solutions can address many problem types in manufacturing, from short-term, reactive operational scheduling to mid
to long term strategic capacity planning. AI based methods, in particular Constraint Programming, provide state-of-the-art solutions to the scheduling problem.

What to expect:

The skills development course will use a mix of industrial case studies, overview presentations and some hands-on experience with different open-source tools available for constraint-based scheduling. The course will show where scheduling fits in current AI trends, how different constraint types (temporal, resource based, and human related) can be used to describe a scheduling problem, and how a solution can help humans make better decisions.

What you take away / Deliverables
At the end of the skills development course, participants will be able to;
– Position Constraint-Based Scheduling in the general AI field
– Understand the need for and potential of automated scheduling
– Understand the basic ideas behind Constraint-Based Scheduling
– Identify the different constraint types occurring in scheduling
– Understand the strength and weaknesses of available tools

Who is this service designed for?
– Small to Medium Enterprises
– Small mid caps (companies which are larger than an SME and have up to 3000
employees)
– Public Sector Organisations
– Individuals with specific roles such as:
Budget holders
Production managers
Logistics/Supply Chain Analysts
IT Specialists in private and public settings
Business Consultants

Price
€7,000*
(*100% discounted through de minimus funding for SMEs and public sector organisations)

For more information and to register today see https://entire-edih.ie/ai-fundamentals-constraint-based-production-scheduling/