To foster competitiveness and innovation, our 39 trade associations have developed sectoral strategies that support your business businesses nationally and internationally. They help member companies find common ground on a wide range of industry issues. This includes agreement on industry standards and best practices to ensure regulatory compliance and safety or identifying key legislative and regulatory priorities that benefit the entire sector. They also enable networking and industry led training.
Additionally, our Networks model enables members from various industries and business functions to come together in a networking forum where they can gain access to knowledge, the latest industry insight, tailored seminars with leading experts and opportunities to network with other businesses in their industry.
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Explore / Ibec’s impact by sector and trade association
Sectors / Events & industry engagements
The Financial Services Ireland Annual Dinner is the flagship event for the financial services industry which brings together the diverse membership of the financial services community in Ireland.
The Small Firms Association National Small Business Awards celebrate the achievements of small businesses in Ireland and recognise the important and vital contributions to the economy.
The prestigious Annual Technology Ireland Industry Awards celebrate the best and brightest of Ireland’s technology companies.
Dairy Industry Ireland and Meat Industry Ireland secured funding and government backing for a ground breaking bovine genotyping project.
Irish Medtech Business Leaders’ Conference and Medtech Awards bring together industry leaders and international experts in the largest gathering of its kind for senior Medtech professionals in Ireland.
Food Drink Ireland and Retail Ireland held s joint workshop on CSRD sustainability reporting requirements, sharing experience to date complying with this legislation, providing insights and advice on how best to manage it.
The 2024 Impact conference, held in Cork, launched “Global Impact; The Importance of the Irish BioPharmaChem Industry” strategic policy.
Aircraft Leasing Ireland’s Global Aviation Sustainability Day brought together global leaders from across the aircraft leasing, airline, and regulatory communities.
The ‘All-island Business Policy Priorities 2024’ paper focused on protecting and building on all-island trade and business success, investing in infrastructure and building a low carbon economy.
The annual Ibec St. Patrick’s Day Dinner was held to strengthen Trans-Atlantic connections, it was attended by over 100 key stakeholders.
Campaigning / For Ireland's world class industries
Ibec has a number of cross sectoral campaigns designed to ensure our critical industries get the support they need to remain world-class.
Building competitiveness / Industry led training
Ibec understands the critical importance of skills to building stronger industries. Ibec partners with Skillnet Ireland, Higher Education Authority and Solas to deliver funded industry-led learning solutions to enable businesses to develop their talent in innovative and responsive ways.
This year we engaged with over 2,500 companies upskilling over 18,120 employees through our 920 accredited and non-accredited programmes.
