Event
Responsible Innovation Conference
Date:
29 November 2024
Time:
8:15 am
Where:
Belfast Harbour Commissioners, Harbour Office, Corporation Square, Belfast BT1 3AL

Kainos
Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider of sophisticated IT services to major public sector, commercial and healthcare customers. Our expertise spans three divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products.
- Digital Services: We develop and support custom digital service platforms that transform service delivery in public, commercial, and healthcare sectors. Our solutions ensure security, accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and improved user outcomes.
- Workday Services: Specialising in deploying Workday, Inc.’s Finance, HR, and Planning products, we are a respected partner in Europe and North America. Experienced in complex deployments, we are trusted to launch, test, expand, and support Workday systems.
- Workday Products: Our established product suite, incorporating Smart Test, Smart Audit, and Smart Shield, complements Workday by enhancing system security and compliance. Our Employee Document Management product, launched in October 2023, improves document generation and storage within Workday while supporting an organisation’s global compliance requirements. Over 500 global customers use one or more of our products.
Our people are central to our success. We employ more than 3,000 people in 20 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS) and you can discover more about us atwww.kainos.com.

Ulster University
Ulster University is extraordinary. As one of the most complex large institutions within the UK, successfully maintaining a dual focus on research and teaching while actively driving exemplary social mobility and civic engagement. We are a university that spans a region of great potential and great passion. Our focus on People, Place and Partnership tasks that passion with a purpose: to deliver Sustainable Futures for All.
As a multi-campus university, with campuses in Derry~Londonderry, Coleraine and Belfast, we are a physical and transformational presence across this place, deeply connected to these communities and intrinsic to all our futures. Across all campuses Ulster University is working to build the leaders of tomorrow – those who will shape the future of our communities, industries and wider society for the next generation.
In the North West teaching strengths on our Derry~Londonderry campus are shaping future leaders in the areas of life & health sciences, business, cinematic arts, Irish, music, drama, computing, engineering, nursing and law. It is also home to the School of Medicine and Northern Ireland’s only Paramedic Degree Course. Whilst on the Coleraine campus, the focus is on areas such as biomedical sciences, geography and environmental science, psychology, pharmacy, English, history, media and journalism, travel and tourism, and teacher training.
Ulster University is playing a vital role in shaping the next generations of entrepreneurs, innovators, and change-makers to be the leaders of the future.

Belfast City Council
We’re passionate about empowering aspiring entrepreneurs across Belfast, supporting existing businesses to become more profitable and attracting investment to the city to help grow a more inclusive economy. And we’re committed to creating job and placement opportunities and upskilling Belfast’s people through our Employment Academies.
To find out how we can help you achieve your business goals through free advice, mentoring, support programmes and incentives, register your interest at https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/
We look forward to working with you!

Matrix
Matrix is the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, an expert group comprised of distinguished business and academic leaders. The panel advises the Department for the Economy on the commercial exploitation of science, technology, and research and development. The current Chair of the panel is Robert Hill, the NI Space Cluster Manager. A highly respected figure within Northern Ireland’s science and technology community, Hill also chairs the Northern Ireland Space Leadership Council and the Northern Ireland Space Special Interest Group (NISSIG) hosted by ADS. Established in 2007, Matrix was formed with a clear mission: to champion science and technology as key drivers of economic growth in Northern Ireland.

Digital Catapult is a deep tech innovation organisation. We help businesses grow by applying deep tech, and we partner with government, industry and academia to find solutions that benefit the UK.
We show what is possible, positive and productive with deep tech. We are 300 innovators strong with reach across London, the West of England, the North East, and Northern Ireland.
Our capabilities and expertise are focused around significant challenges and opportunities facing the UK’s economy, where technology can play a major role in providing solutions.