Heather, Author at ScotlandIS

Cyber Christmas Lectures named Scotland’s cyber security Champion of Champions

By HeatherPosted on 29th December 20184th December 2019Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

The Cyber Christmas Lectures, headed up by Martin Beaton, cyber security cluster coordinator for ScotlandIS, has been named Scotland’s cyber security Champion of Champions at this year’s Scottish Cyber Awards. The ceremony, which was held tonight at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in

ScotlandIS and Scottish Government launch Cyber Scotland Week

By HeatherPosted on 18th December 20184th December 2019Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

Cyber Scotland Week, a joint initiative between ScotlandIS and the Scottish Government, will take place between 22nd April – 28th April 2019. A first of its kind for cyber in Scotland, Cyber Scotland Week draws together events across Scotland to showcase the

New fund for digital skills training and other Scottish budget news

By HeatherPosted on 18th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Policy, ScotlandIS News

Last week, Cabinet Secretary Derek Mackay presented the Scottish Government’s budget for 2019-20 with news about taxes and public spending. We would like to give you a quick overview of the key announcements that are relevant for Scotland’s digital technologies

Five reasons you should enter the Digital Tech 2018 awards

By HeatherPosted on 12th December 20184th December 2019Posted in ScotlandIS News

On the 26th of April 2018 key players from across Scotland’s digital technology industry will gather at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow’s Argyle Street. Why? Well that’s where the ScotlandIS Digital Tech Awards are taking place, of course. Now in

College insights

By HeatherPosted on 10th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Skills, ScotlandIS News

In the last academic year the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) ran a number of Industry Update events across Scotland. These sessions highlighted current industry practice specifically about Agile, DevOps, TDD, Data Science, Machine Learning, UX and building secure software. Of

The first step

By HeatherPosted on 10th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Skills, ScotlandIS News

Rachel Menzies is the Undergraduate Programme Director for Computing at the University of Dundee. She talks to us about her experience of being involved with the DSP. In addition to her ‘day job’ Rachel is the SICSA Director of Education,

Recruiting talent

By HeatherPosted on 10th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Skills, ScotlandIS News

CGI is one of over forty companies that have supported the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) in the past twelve months. They are active members of the DSP’s Industry Advisory Group, have participated in Scotland wide discussions on graduate skills and

Opportunity to input into future UK migration policy

By HeatherPosted on 6th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Brexit, ScotlandIS News

We encourage all ScotlandIS members having difficulties recruiting for certain skill sets and roles to respond to a call for evidence from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). The MAC is advising the UK Government on migration issues and is currently

Getting to know you: Shane Corstorphine, SVP Growth at Skyscanner

By HeatherPosted on 4th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Case Study

Shane Corstorphine is SVP Growth at Skyscanner, the world’s travel search engine. Shane originally joined Skyscanner as Chief Financial Officer, where he was instrumental in multiple investment rounds, including from Sequoia Capital and a $192m investment round in January 2016,

Getting to know you: David Farquhar

By HeatherPosted on 4th December 20184th December 2019Posted in Case Study

I’m a transaction-oriented serial entrepreneur with a track record of delivering shareholder value, mostly recently in the turnaround, transformation, growth and exit of global enterprise SaaS vendor Workplace. In the past 25 years I have completed 28 transactions as a