building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
St Andrews University student, Ryan Wilson, has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2020, having developed a tool that helps check a parallel program for flaws when running on a system with so-called weak memory consistency. The tool
The strength of Scotland’s digital tech sector was underlined today (1 October) by the caliber of winners at the 10th annual 2020 Digital Technology Awards hosted by ScotlandIS. The winners were announced at the CmdR ScotSoft 2020 conference, and include
When in May we launched the Digital Nation challenge, calling on companies of all sizes to submit their ideas on how Scotland could become an innovative and inclusive Digital Nation to be proud of, we were confident we would receive
Annual tech conference ScotSoft is set to reboot as CmdR on the 1st October, bringing Scottish technology people and organisations together with global industry innovators, to share insight and discuss the opportunity for the sector to support economic and social recovery from COVID-19.
For some reason KTPs are a well-kept secret or perhaps just mis-understood? Either way they are certainly an underutilised source of innovation funding in Scotland. Innovation can be somewhat risky for companies as it is a financial or resource investment
This morning, Jane Morrison-Ross, ScotlandIS CEO, met with Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, for a valuable and insightful discussion in response to the recently published Economic Advisory Group’s report. It was a very positive
Today ScotlandIS CEO and Research and Policy Manager met with Willie Watt, Chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank. ScotlandIS highlighted the important role digital and tech SMEs will have to play in Scotland’s economic recovery and how SNIB could
£38 million for high growth companies A comprehensive package of support for innovative early stage businesses whose routes to investment and growth have been impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19) has been announced by Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The £38m package, managed
Please take a couple of minutes to catch up with what’s been happening in ScotlandIS, find out more about Digital Nation, our annual conference, our new Cross Sector Policy Board and more.
We sent the following letter to Deputy First Minister, John Swinney and Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Kate Forbes on Wednesday 24th June 2020. Dear Mr Swinney & Ms Forbes, We write to you in response to the Report from the
