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New Cohort of “Empowering…” Initiative Meet in Edinburgh for Start of Autumn Programme

By updatesPosted on 16th September 202116th September 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” initiative officially launches its Autumn cohort next week, with the newest members of the programme, designed to tackle gender diversity in digital leadership, meeting in person for the first time in Edinburgh. The

Cyber meets sustainability – and all things cyber cluster

By updatesPosted on 16th September 202116th September 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

It’s our Cyber Cluster Manager Ciara’s latest blog, providing a summary of recent activity within the cluster and some of the new events and opportunities that are coming your way. This month we are really seeing the ramp-up of in-person

New Cyber Upskilling Fund

By updatesPosted on 15th September 202115th September 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News, Opportunity

Are you interested in upskilling your employees in Cyber Security at no cost to your business? Now is the time with support from the Cyber Upskilling Fund, financed through the Scottish Government’s National Transition Training Fund. This contributes towards the

Product Forge and Bright Purple join forces for climate change hackathon for COP26

By updatesPosted on 14th September 202114th September 2021Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

Hackathon and tech event specialist Product Forge and technology recruiters Bright Purple have teamed up to host a hackathon that aims to empower and inspire public action for Climate Change. Products for the Planet will take place over three days

OVER A THIRD OF EMPLOYERS IN SCOTLAND HIRING REMOTE STAFF – YET PAY SET TO STAY EQUAL

By updatesPosted on 14th September 202114th September 2021Posted in Member News

News research from Hays highlights remote hiring plans in a range of industries across the UK. Over a third (34%) of employers in Scotland planning to hire staff who are fully remote Scotland second only to London in percentage planning

Creating computer games: Be clear to ensure you’re not left with a legal puzzle

By updatesPosted on 14th September 202114th September 2021Posted in Member News

Lawyer Alastair Smith is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team at Lindsays, who works extensively with computer game creators, and has written an article highlighting some of the issues that game creators need to be aware of

Celebrate the next generation of Software Engineers

By updatesPosted on 13th September 202113th September 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

We are delighted that we’ll be able to bring the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards back in person this year. As always, the YSE Awards showcase some of the brightest minds our universities have to offer. Nominees are

Glasgow’s New Open Data Hub Offers Insight into how the City Operates

By updatesPosted on 13th September 202115th October 2021Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

The recently launched open data hub offers a view on how the city operates. The hub is a place to access data, provide tools to enable people to visualise this, and to tell some simple stories about what the data means for

Pulsant Case Study: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

By updatesPosted on 10th September 202110th September 2021Posted in Member News, Case Study

Read this case study below on Pulsant’s work with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which helped them seamlessly pivot to online performances during the pandemic. 25-year partnership with Pulsant continues to take the SCO to new heights The Covid-19 pandemic left arts

Digital technology must be at the heart of our battle against climate change

By updatesPosted on 9th September 20219th September 2021Posted in Industry News, ScotlandIS News, Climate Tech

Read this article from BT’s Scotland Director, Jane Wood, as she outlines the importance of digital technology in combating climate change, and highlights the Climate Tech report produced by SCDI, BT, RSE and ScotlandIS. Scotland’s environmental aims are at the