Dublin AI founder: 'It is time to upskill Dublin for the AI revolution'

The start-up community is being marshalled to tool up for the AI revolution, starting with an AI hackathon this month. An upcoming AI hackathon, which is being held on 18 and 19 February at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Innovation Academy in partnership with Microsoft and Atlantic Bridge, is the brainchild of Neill Gernon of machine learning start-up Atrovate. Gernon is also the founder of the quarterly Dublin AI community, which is holding its second sold-out event for 120 AI enthusiasts this week (9 February) in collaboration with Aylien, Pointy and Artomatix. 'We have some great start-ups playing across a variety of AI-related fields based in Dublin and around Ireland, and having successes like Movidius getting acquired by Intel is fantastic to see' – NEILL GERNON Gernon was formerly programme lead at the LaunchBox technology start-up accelerator in TCD. "We wanted to create a more defined and connected AI community for Dublin, so I set up Dublin AI as Dublin's quarterly applied AI event. "This was the first step to connect and upskill the city's talent." Gernon pointed out that Dublin is awash with the right talent to lead the AI revolution. "With research centres like Adapt and Insight and key universities like Trinity College, which is primarily known for technology and the sciences, based right in the middle of town, there is no shortage of talent, which is the key enabler.