Learn how successful teams all over the world collaborate on specifications and tests in agile/lean environments to produce software genuinely fit for purpose and be inspired to improve your software development processes. This half-day seminar is for team leaders, managers and senior technical people. It presents the collective knowledge of about fifty projects, ranging from high-traffic web sites to internal back-office systems, implemented by teams as diverse as small startups to groups spread across different continents, working in a range of processes including Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and similar processes often bundled together under the names Agile and Lean.

The main focus for the Symposium is to engage a wide range of domains to collaborate effectively, and to understand current and future threats to our citizens and society. The event is free, and is intended to increase the collaboration of organizations around Scotland.

The Symposium is organised and delivered with the support of Scottish Enterprise, Finmeccanica Cyber Solutions, and Edinburgh Napier University.

An opportunity for Scottish companies and reseach groups to meet senior representatives from high profile and international security & resilience businesses.

The financial, operational and reputational risk posed to businesses through cybercrime is becoming more acute, with the Home Office estimating the cost to UK industry at £27 billion last year alone.

The need to protect both the private and public sector against cyber attack is driving a rapidly growing market, with products and services increasingly required to combat a fast paced threat.