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Check Point Software Makes Two New Senior Appointments

By updatesPosted on 17th February 202217th February 2022Posted in Member News

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced two senior appointments with Adam Bradley joining as Regional Director UK & Ireland (UK&I) and former NHS Scotland CISO Deryck Mitchelson taking on the role of

Scots Firm IGS Working on First Retail Park-based Vertical Farm

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) is teaming with Potager Farm to operate and run a new vertical farm in Berlin. The farm will be the first retail park-based farm in Germany, allowing Potager to supply fresh produce to retail centres. IGS will install

CyberASAP 2022/2023

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, Opportunity

The funding competition for the CyberASAP 2022/2023 programme is now open for applications and closes in just over two weeks on 2nd March at 11:00. “Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of £800,000 to join the cyber security academic startup

Neurodiversity training to recognise Global Autism Awareness Week

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion

As part of the Global Autism Awareness Week (28 March – 3 April 2022), Auticon are offering to deliver an awareness-generation webinar, to organisations, free of charge. This fits with their social mission and helps to stimulate awareness and explain how neurodiversity can reap

UWS Helps Develop New Robotic Precision Engineering System

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData, Industry News

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and Livingston-based Helia Photonics have developed a new robotic engineering system to make laser diodes with greater precision than current methods. The ‘HelBot’ system can be used in a range of applications

Geoscientists’ competency assessment comes to Australia with eCom Scotland and OGICA

By updatesPosted on 15th February 202215th February 2022Posted in Member News

Australia is the latest continent to get a taste of a new online self-assessment tool to benchmark the skills within the international operations geoscience community and identify individuals’ skills gaps. The tool enables operations geoscientists, in the oil and gas

Cyber Runway Scotland Recap

By updatesPosted on 11th February 202214th February 2022Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

Read this recap of our Cyber Runway Scotland event from Head of ScotlandIS Cyber, Ciara Mitchell. Cyber Runway Scotland, held on February 8th and 9th, was our first in-person, cyber cluster event in over two years and it was great

Share your views: Neurodiversity in Tech Toolkit

By updatesPosted on 10th February 202210th February 2022Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion, Industry News

Skills Development Scotland is partnering with Strathclyde University (Autism Network Scotland) to investigate the creation of a “Neurodiversity in tech toolkit” to support further/higher education and training providers to take a social model approach to supporting neurodivergent learners and adopt

Quorum Cyber Joins Gender Diversity in Cyber Security Initiative as Application Deadline Approaches

By updatesPosted on 10th February 202210th February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Quorum Cyber, the Edinburgh HQ’d, award-winning cyber security services provider, is the latest in a number of sector leaders to join the “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” initiative as an industry partner. The initiative, supported by ScotlandIS, The Scottish Government’s Digital

Frog Systems Begins Quarter of a Million Pound AI Project

By updatesPosted on 8th February 20228th February 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

A quarter of a million-pound Artificial Intelligence project to develop a next generation software platform for welltech scale-up Frog Systems has begun, with the arrival of the lead scientist from Brazil. Dr Aasim Khurshid joins Frog Systems from Samsung’s R&D