Business Matchmaking at DCU

On May 7th DCU held its first Business Matchmaker which was hosted by Invent at The Helix. Over 100 participants attended this brokerage event where DCU researchers met with industry in 15 minute one-to-one sessions to discuss potential areas of collaboration. Participants also heard from both Intel Ireland and Enbio Technology on how they have collaborated with universities to drive their R&D Strategy.

Speaking at the event Richard Stokes, CEO of Invent said “this matchmaker has been a great opportunity for DCU to showcase our research capability and to highlight how we are walking the walk of being Ireland’s University of Enterprise by engaging with industry in this way. Some great conversations have been started here today, not only at the scheduled meetings but in the general networking throughout the day and I am hopeful that we will be collaborating with most of the companies here today in the future.”

Many connections were made across all disciplines with good potential for collaboration and it is planned to build this into an even bigger event next year and involve many more of our research community and an even wider group of companies.