Aflac Northern Ireland

We’re thrilled to announce that we've won the Community (CSR) Award at last night’s prestigious Business Eye Awards! This award recognizes organizations that make meaningful contributions to their communities—and for us, giving back is a core part of who we are. Our partnership with The Children's Cancer Unit Charity is at the heart of this commitment. Every year, up to 70 children in Northern Ireland are diagnosed with cancer or blood disorders, and this incredible charity is the only one in the region offering specialized treatment for them. Since 2020, we’ve proudly supported this cause, raising essential funds and providing My Special Aflac Duck™—a comforting, robotic companion—to help young patients on their journey. This award also reflects our parent company’s legacy, as Aflac has donated over $184 million toward supporting children with cancer and blood disorders since 1995. Thank you to our dedicated team for making this impact possible through fundraising, volunteering and support. Here’s to continuing our important work together! #AIBBE24 #AflacNI #aflac #CCUC #partnership #community

We’re excited to share that Aflac Northern Ireland has won Best Business Premises at the Belfast Chamber Awards on Friday night! 🏆 This award is a testament to our amazing team and the space we’ve built together. Here’s to more success in a workplace that inspires #ourbrood to be Adaptable, Resilient and Reinventive! For those that haven’t visited here’s a sneak peak (or beak....) #BelfastChamber #AwardWinner #AflacNI

We are delighted to confirm that the very first 'Tech Crowd Quiz Night' is now SOLD OUT! A massive thank you to our event partners Amazon Web Services (AWS), CME Group, Instil and Neueda for their support. It's sure to be a #quacking night with an incredibly talented and competitive line up of tech companies ready to do battle for bragging rights, but most importantly raising money and awareness for our charity partner The Children's Cancer Unit Charity. #readysetquiz #techcommunity #aflacni

With just over a month to go until the very first "Tech Crowd Quiz Night" on the 26th September at the Black Box Belfast, we're please to say we have sold over 80% of the tables already! A huge shout out to our event partners Amazon Web Services (AWS), CME Group, Instil & Neueda for their support. 🙌 We're looking forward to a #quacking night of speed quizzing to raise much needed funds for The Children's Cancer Unit Charity.   If you're a tech company and haven't bought your table yet - you'll need to move fast 💨. Email quiznight@aflac.com, you don't want to miss this! #AWS #CMEGroup #Instil #Neueda #quacking #quiz #charity

In the latest edition of Ambition magazine Aflac Northern Ireland marks five years since its Northern Ireland operations were established. Aflac Incorporated Chairman and CEO Dan Amos and Aflac NI Managing Director Mark McCormack spoke to Ambition Magazine about the firm’s commitment to Northern Ireland. 🗞 Read the full article in Ambition Magazine – Out Now.

It was a pleasure to welcome President of AFLAC Japan, Masatoshi Koide to Belfast City Hall yesterday, on his first visit to the city. President Koide was accompanied by Mark Mc Cormack, Aflac Northern Ireland CEO, and senior colleagues. Lord Mayor, Councillor Micky Murray and John Walsh, Chief Executive, Damien Martin, Strategic Director, Place and Economy and Laura Leonard, EU & International Relations Manager met with the delegation to acknowledge Aflac’s financial investment in Belfast since 2019, the company’s contribution to our sectoral strength, and our willingness to support economic growth. It was also a welcome opportunity to share news on our plans to catalyse inclusive growth through the Belfast Region City Deal programme of investment, to highlight our talent pipeline, and initiatives including our employment academies and Belfast Business Promise. The Aflac Belfast Office Branch is responsible for developing the Digital Services and Cyber Security for the entire company across the world. Aflac currently employs around 200 employees in Northern Ireland, opened its new offices in City Quays 3 last year and is a firm part of our city’s corporate and philanthropic fabric thanks to Mark McCormack and his team. We hope that President Koide enjoyed seeing the impact of Aflac’s investment in Belfast and saw at first hand the potential to grow in Belfast: the world’s top city for Fintech inward investment, and Europe’s leading FDI destination for new software development. #International #Partnership #Investment

Konnichiwa! Aflac Northern Ireland had a fantastic day of collaboration and cultural exchange, as we welcomed our very special guests from Aflac Japan, who popped in to Belfast on their way to Aflac HQ in Columbus, Georgia.  Masatoshi Koide, President of Aflac Japan, Shinsuke Morimoto, Head of Corporate Strategy, and Tohru Futami, Chief Digital Information Officer, spent the day with the team, as well as experiencing some of the best of what Belfast has to offer.  We celebrated a couple of significant anniversaries (50 years for Aflac Japan, 5 years for Aflac Northern Ireland!), met with the Lord Mayor at Belfast City Hall, and finished the day experiencing the resurgence of a traditional whiskey brand at the impressive Belfast Distillery Company - McConnell's Irish Whisky.  Kanpai!

At Aflac Northern Ireland giving back to the community around us isn’t just nice to have, it’s a core part of who we are. We’re continuing to focus our fundraising efforts in support of our amazing charity partner, The Children's Cancer Unit Charity. Between 60 – 70 children are diagnosed with cancer every year and every child will visit the Children’s Cancer Unit during their treatment journey, as it is the only facility in Northern Ireland providing specialist cancer care for children.   This year we’re hoping that our wider tech community, companies big and small, will support our fundraising efforts by participating in ‘The Tech Crowd Quiz Night’. An exciting general knowledge speed quiz in order to compete for the title of the “Smartest Tech Company in Northern Ireland”. Aflac Northern Ireland is proudly hosting this event and encourages all local Tech companies to join in, raise some money and of course have some #quack along the way! All funds raised will be donated to the Children’s Cancer Unit Charity.

As we start to think about 😎 summer holidays and utilizing our generous annual leave allowance here at Aflac Northern Ireland, we’ve taken a look back at what #ourbrood have been up to since the start of the year. Safe to say we’re a busy bunch of #quackers and we certainly adhere to the notion that variety is the spice of life! So far in 2024: 🦆 We’ve welcomed our CEO and Chairman of the board, Dan Amos who officially opened our office alongside his wife and President of the Aflac Foundation Kathelen. 🌎 We’ve had visitors to and from the US enjoying the #quack on both sides of the Atlantic. 📢 We’ve been busy attending conferences from Kilkenny to London to events right in here Belfast. 📢 We’ve spoken at AWS events, Women in Tech events, guest lectured at universities and we’ve even taken part in a trans-Atlantic AWS Deep Racer event. 🤝 We’ve hosted some events in our world-class offices: from Low Code Meetups, to CyberFirst breakfasts, to Autism awareness workshops, to panel discussions, to private dining events. 🎱 We got a pool table – and yes, it even has the Aflac duck on it! 🎽 We keep #ourbrood active through wellness walks, cycle to work days, Tag ruby, golf days, movement initiatives including Yoga and dancing lessons. 🙌 We’ve used our volunteer day to help various councils and charities across Northern Ireland. 🌟 We’ve won some awards – shout outs to Victoria Logan and Catherine Maguire at the recent Women in Tech awards. Victoria as Tech Advocate of the Year and Catherine for Team of the Year. 🎉 We were the headline sponsor for the first ever Empower Girls alongside CyberFirst promoting careers in tech and cyber to over 250 girls from 12 schools across NI 😎 The rain held off for our annual Summer Social - with garden games and of course, plenty of #quack! And that's just the first half of this year – watch this space, lots more to come! #ourbrood #somequack #werehalfwaythere

Good luck from the Aflac Duck and the rest of #ourbrood to our 3 nominees at this week’s Women in Tech Awards 🏆 : 📣 Tech Advocate of the Year Victoria Logan 📣 Male advocate of the Year Graeme Stuart 📣 Tech Team of the Year led by Catherine Maguire Wishing all of the other nominees the best of luck. It’s an amazing achievement to be shortlisted in such a competitive sector and speaks to the fantastic talent we have. It’s sure to be a #quacking night!