AI Accelerator Programme

Transform Your Business with Our 6-Week Hybrid Programme

Download the Programme Brochure

Applications are now open

Our next cohorts take place:

  • - 12th August – 16th September, AIM Centre Sligo

  • - 28th October – 2nd December, CREW Enterprise Galway

The programme spans six weeks, offering half-day morning sessions each week in a flexible hybrid format, making it accessible to companies all over Ireland.

Experience AI in action.

Build real solutions.

Accelerate your adoption.

80% funding available.

Register Your Interest

Speak directly with our Director of AI to discuss your options.

What You’ll Leave With

  • A working AI demonstrator built for your own business use case

  • One-to-one data discovery with our technical team

  • Practical experience with AI tools and techniques in real manufacturing settings

  • AI strategy and workforce readiness, focusing on change management

  • Support on integrating AI within existing ERP and data systems

  • Guidance on responsible AI, governance, and EU Act compliance

  • A practical roadmap for scaling AI across your organisation

Support for all stages on your AI journey

This programme is CPD accredited
by Engineers Ireland.

6-week Programme Structure:

    • Understand AI opportunities for your business.

    • Assess AI maturity and readiness.

    • Identify and prioritise high-value use cases,

    • Launch parallel AI Demonstrator discovery.

    • Assess AI data readiness.

    • Review ERP, MES and business systems.

    • Identify integration requirements.

    • Data collection begins for your Demonstrator

    • Responsible AI and EU AI Act

    • Define your AI solution architecture

    • Develop implementation approach

    • Demonstrator design and technical validation

    • Explore real manufacturing AI case studies.

    • Learn implementation best practices.

    • Review deployment considerations.

    • Working Demonstrator developed in parallel.

    • Prepare your organisation for AI.

    • Build your implementation business case.

    • Develop governance and ownership.

    • Review Demonstrator progress and feedback

    • Present your AI roadmap.

    • Define your implementation plan.

    • Explore funding and deployment options.

    • Demonstrator showcase and implementation planning.

Your AI journey doesn't end with the Accelerator.

Graduates can progress into our Smart Factory Interoperability Testbed, a sandbox environment where you can connect legacy equipment to modern systems in a low-risk setting. Your own staff can test, trial and validate AI integrations before anything touches your production line.

As a consortium partner in the Data2Sustain programme, AIM Centre manages a seamless transition from the AI Accelerator into the Smart Factory, making it easy for companies to continue building momentum. Through Data2Sustain funding, access to the Smart Factory Interoperability Testbed is fully funded.

The result is a clear pathway from pilot project to business-wide adoption, giving your team the confidence to deploy AI solutions in your own manufacturing environment.

Key Features:

Open to companies across Ireland

All subsectors

Designed for diversity – inclusive across industries.

AI Transformation Focus

Strategy | Leadership | Change Management

Tackling the core pillars of AI readiness.

Cross-Industry Cohorts

Collaborative learning

Foster meaningful connections and shared insights.

Sector-Specific Depth

Optional modules & case studies

Dive deeper where it matters most.

Hybrid Delivery

In-person + virtual across six weeks

Flexible, inclusive, and modern learning model.

Outcome-Oriented

Rapid value creation

Built for Irish enterprises ready to move.

  • "I'm delighted to have participated in the AIM AI Accelerator programme. It showed me that AI is just as applicable in an SME as in any large organisation, and it gave me the clarity I needed to turn ideas into real, deployable solutions. With expert guidance and a practical, well-structured approach, accelerating my AI journey became not only achievable but genuinely exciting."

    — Thormac

  • "My learnings from the AI Accelerator Programme has helped me to streamline my operations by automating routine tasks, improve decision-making through data insights, and freeing up time for strategic planning , ultimately boosting efficiency and accuracy in my role.”

    — Silgan Dispensing (formerly Weener Plastics)

  • "Participating in the AIM Centre’s AI Accelerator has been invaluable for clarifying how AI can solve real-world problems on our manufacturing floor. We entered with a complex challenge around forecast accuracy, and the programme helped us break it down into a clear, actionable roadmap. We now see a direct path to not just automate tasks, but actively improve our agility and service levels for our customers."

    — Avery Dennison

  • "The team at AIM were excellent throughout the process and really opened our eyes to the potential of what AI can do for our business."

    — Rev1 Precision Engineering

Ready to start your AI journey?

Register Your Interest

Or send us an email at aistudio@aimcentre.ie

The National AI Studio at AIM is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021-27.