The Chamber celebrated its 50th anniversary in the company of esteemed guests of the Ireland-Japan business community at the 2023 Ireland Japan Business Awards in the Conrad Tokyo on Wednesday 22nd November.

Each year the Ireland Japan Chamber of Commerce have the honour of celebrating key companies and individuals for their outstanding contributions to Ireland-Japan business relations. 

Historically, the IJCC has presented award certificates to each awardee in their category. In honour of our 50th anniversary, the IJCC were delighted to present engraved trophies to each awardee for this year's business awards. Many thanks to imageMILL for their generous sponsorship and for the brilliant trophy design.

The Company of the Year award was one of 5 award categories presented this year.

The IJCC recognises the Company of the Year for significant milestones in their company history, new product launches or any other remarkable contribution to Ireland Japan business relations. 

On behalf of the Chamber, we are delighted to announce that the Ireland Japan Business Awards 2023 Company of the Year was awarded to Druid Software Ltd.

This extraordinary company is based in Bray in Co. Wicklow and has been working hard in the Japanese market for a number of years. They provide a key software component of private cellular networks known as Core Network software. In the past they have secured business with Panasonic and MKI, increasingly building strong links between Ireland and Japan through their business. In the last year, they closed significant deals with three new customers in Japan: BB Backbone, ITEC Hankyu Hanshin KK, and CTC Technology Corp. 

Company of the Year Award

Druid Software Ltd. (http://www.druidsoftware.com)

Mr. Mick O'Dwyer, Sales & Marketing Director of Druid Software Ltd., accepted the award on behalf of Druid and shared a winner's speech at the podium on receiving the Company of the Year Award.

Mr. Mick O'Dwyer, pictured with IJCC President Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, Embassy of Ireland Economic Counsellor Rory Conaty, Deputy Head of Mission Catherine O'Donovan and Agriculture Attaché Eoghan Murphy, with the Company of the Year award.

Comment by Mr. Liam Lenny, CEO of Druid Software Ltd:

"It is a great honour for Druid to receive this prestigious award from the Ireland Japan Chamber of Commerce. We would like to take this opportunity recognise the support and hard work of both our local team at JI Technology and all our Japanese business partners and customers. “Go raibh mile maith agat” to you all.

Though we are a small Irish company, Druid is a leading global provider of the software that is at the heart of private cellular networks. These are mobile networks which can provide high bandwidth, low latency, and highly secure wireless communications for a myriad enterprises, ranging from small offices through to industrial automation, educational institutions to hospitals and from government/military to smart cities and beyond. Japan is at the cutting edge in the development of such networks, and we see a very bright future in this country for Private 4G, 5G and 6G.

Druid will celebrate 24 years in business next year and while we have been engaged in Japan for several years, it is really in the past year that we have seen the extraordinary growth that it is so humbling to be recognized for with this award. The continued support of the Chamber, Enterprise Ireland/Irish Embassy and the wider Irish business community has been integral to our efforts here and that is warmly appreciated."

About Druid Software

Druid Software, headquartered in Ireland, is the industry-leader in private cellular network technology, and provides enterprise-grade core network platform to advance connectivity and enable simplified private network management. For almost 25 years, customers and partners worldwide have chosen Raemis ™ platform to connect applications, devices and radios benefiting from enhanced security, performance, and cost-effectiency. Druid’s Raemis™ platform is a mature 3GPP compliant 5G & 4G core network supporting 5G SA, NSA and 4G with unique features designed specifically for business and mission-critical communications, IoT and NTN across all industries. For more information, email enquiries [at] druidsoftware.com or please visit druidsoftware.com. To stay up to date with everything private networks follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Go raibh míle maith agat to all the awardees from the 2023 Ireland Japan Business Awards. We were privileged to honour such incredible achievements from the Ireland-Japan community on our stage and we know both Ireland and Japan will only go from strength to strength in 2024 and beyond.