Heather, Author at ScotlandIS

St Andrews student wins Young Software Engineer of the Year Award 2020

By HeatherPosted on 2nd October 20208th October 2020Posted in Skills, ScotlandIS News

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

SCOTLAND’S BURGEONING TECH SECTOR HIGHLIGHTED AS WINNERS OF 10TH ANNUAL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 2020 ANNOUNCED

By HeatherPosted on 2nd October 20208th October 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News

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

Digital Nation: An update Colin Cook, Digital Director, Scottish Government and Jane Morrison-Ross CEO, ScotlandIS

By HeatherPosted on 16th September 202016th September 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News

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

Global tech leaders headline Cmd R ScotSoft2020

By HeatherPosted on 16th September 202016th September 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News

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.

KTPs – An underutilised route to innovation and collaboration

By HeatherPosted on 16th July 202020th July 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News, Opportunity

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

Meeting with Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture

By HeatherPosted on 16th July 202016th July 2020Posted in Member Only, ScotlandIS News

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

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Meeting with Willie Watt, Chair, Scottish National Investment Bank

By HeatherPosted on 14th July 202016th July 2020Posted in Member Only, ScotlandIS News

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

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Investing in Scotland’s entrepreneurs and innovators

By HeatherPosted on 10th July 202013th July 2020Posted in Member News, Policy, COVID19

£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

July Member Update from Jane Morrison-Ross (Video)

By HeatherPosted on 10th July 202016th July 2020Posted in Member Only, ScotlandIS News

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.

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Transforming education in Scotland: The Digital Shift

By HeatherPosted on 9th July 202011th August 2020Posted in Skills, Member Only, ScotlandIS News

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 Advisory Group

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