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:
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.
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
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.
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.
Digital Health technology innovation with advanced research to support data integration, data analytics, and machine learning for applied clinical research and healthcare.
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.
Adapt’s FinTech collaborative research programme accelerates the impact and adoption of high-end InsureTech, RegTech and PayTech solutions across the Financial sector.
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.
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.
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.
Improve legal document relevance in Wolters Kluwer’s Search System based on legal concepts
Brite: Bill Machine Learning Utility
Discovery and geolocation of assets from optical street level imagery
