Enterprise
At ADAPT, we bridge the gap between University research in AI and Digital Content Technology and industry needs. Our mission is to make ground-breaking advancements in automation, business information and customer interaction accessible and actionable for our industry partners.
Our Mission
Our goal is to advance pioneering, multidisciplinary research in AI-driven digital content technology. By collaborating with industry, we co-create innovative solutions that drive economic growth and societal impact.
How We Do It
As a trusted research partner, we integrate genuine innovation capabilities into organizations. With a 95% success rate, our projects consistently deliver or exceed business impact goals, resulting in significant IP and knowledge transfer to our partners.
Our Expertise
Leveraging the expertise of over 350 world-leading researchers from 8 top Irish universities, we tackle complex problems and deliver transformative efficiencies for businesses and society alike.
Why Partner with ADAPT?
By partnering with ADAPT, your organisation can:
- Enhance the scale of your team with world-class international research expertise.
- Stay ahead of the curve in AI technology.
- Minimise the risk associated with advanced technologies.
Our Impact
Our commercial team ensures professional engagement, while our Design & Innovation Lab (dLab) facilitates impactful collaboration. Over the past nine years, we have collaborated with over 100 industry leaders on projects, generating more than 65 Intellectual Property Licenses.
News + Events
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May 21, 2025CPDP Workshop – Call for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs)A dialogue on AI and Data Governance when the world is watching—a deliberation with early-career researchers Are you an early-stage… -
May 15, 2025ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference 2025The fourth ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference, will take place in the Helix, DCU, on Thursday 15th May 2025. The aim of… -
May 10, 2025Age-Friendly AI showcase at IMMA for Bealtaine Festival 2025Can art and Artificial Intelligence (AI) shape a more age-friendly future? Join the conversation at the ‘Age-Friendly AI’ showcase at… -
April 15, 2025ADAPT Research on Literary Translation Accepted to MT Summit 2025Six papers featuring ADAPT researchers have been accepted to the MT Summit 2025, one of the world’s premier conferences in…
Collaborate with Us
ADAPT is internationally renowned for its research expertise.
The Centre is made up of a vibrant international community of academics, researchers, developers and business professionals
- Access to world-class research expertise across a range of fields
- Unique Design & Innovation Lab bridges research to commercial success
- Tailored funding model allows cost effective, flexible access to R&D
- Business focused team facilitates fast, flexible response to industry needs
- Connect to a team of highly skilled, industry ready PhD graduates
Domain Expertise
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AI for Digital Content
One of ADAPT’s key research focuses is on personalised, immersive, multimodal digital engagement, from multiple perspectives. ADAPT works with Enterprise partners to create customer value through the use of AI-driven Digital Content Technologies that deliver natural, targeted, and persuasive online experiences.
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Digital Media Technologies
From VR and AR through to computer vision and video processing, audio, and speech, we collaborate with leaders in the media and film technology industries to drive the next generation of production and distribution technologies.
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Digital Health
Digital Health technology innovation with advanced research to support data integration, data analytics, and machine learning for applied clinical research and healthcare.
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Data Governance
Examining the underpinning research for data governance regimes to ensure both individual empowerments by transformative data-driven systems and that organisations offer customer transparency and accountability of their user data.
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FinTech
Adapt’s FinTech collaborative research programme accelerates the impact and adoption of high-end InsureTech, RegTech and PayTech solutions across the Financial sector.
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Startups & Innovation
Start-up entrepreneurs and researchers collaborate and innovate in conjunction with industry partners to solve the problems that will lead to commercial opportunities for spinout start-up companies.
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Design & Innovation Lab (dLab)
What is the dLab?
The Design & Innovation Lab, also known as the dLab, is a key part of the ADAPT Centre and frequently the primary contact point for Industry. We enable our industry partners to leverage product and service innovation from novel scientific research in digital content technologies through to proof of concept stage.
How the dLab works
The dLab is made up of research engineers, designers and program managers working closely with researcher colleagues to develop impactful prototype solutions to industry problems. The team is driven by Design Thinking practices. We focus on user-centred innovation where we try to really understand the target user of our technology, observe their behaviour, develop a clear point of view, generate ideas, build prototypes, test and iterate.
Enterprise Partners
ADAPT is supported by the Irish government through a Science Foundation Ireland investment of €42 million. This funding is leveraged with additional funding from Industry partners.
Case Studies
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Case StudyIncrease Lawyers Productivity by Improving the Search of Legal Documents
Improve legal document relevance in Wolters Kluwer’s Search System based on legal concepts
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Case StudyAI Enabled Customer Interaction
Brite: Bill Machine Learning Utility
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Case StudyAImapIT: AI Environment Mapping and Modelling
Discovery and geolocation of assets from optical street level imagery
