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Brightsolid boss Elaine Maddison says culture is key to the firm’s future success

By updatesPosted on 5th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Member News

The boss of Scottish cloud computing and data centre specialist brightsolid has hailed a major culture shift as key to its financial stability amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Elaine Maddison, the firm’s chief executive, said her focus on moving the business beyond its

BT partners with Glasgow start-up on net zero tech

By updatesPosted on 5th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Member News

BT has chosen Glasgow tech start-up iOpt to develop new joint products and services aimed at helping its public sector customers reach their net zero emissions targets. The telecommunications giant will offer the products to local councils across the UK which

Abertay Uni’s £18m cyber security hub

By updatesPosted on 5th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Abertay University’s head of cyber security has revealed more about plans for a cyberQuarter that could bring hundreds of Dundee jobs. The project won £11.7m of UK and Scottish Government funding through the Tay Cities Region Deal, combined with a further

Scotland’s tech scene is flourishing with almost 4,500 tech jobs being advertised

By updatesPosted on 5th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Industry News

Scotland is one of the UK’s strongest tech hubs, with the highest number of verified startups (2,442) outside of London and the South East Tech companies in Scotland raised a collective £345 million in venture capital funding in 2020 There

February’s Policy Steering Group

By updatesPosted on 5th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Policy, Member Only, ScotlandIS News

This week, we welcomed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland, Iain Stewart MP to speak to our Policy Steering group on 3rd February. The Minister discussed with our steering group a number of different policy areas, ranging from data

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Call for Digital Transformation for Green Energy Transition (EnerDigit)

By updatesPosted on 4th February 20214th February 2021Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

Scottish Enterprise is a partner in a new project that will provide funding for transnational, collaborative R&D projects on the digitalisation of energy systems. The overall aim of the Joint Call 2020 – Digital Transformation for Green Energy Transition – is

Students turn to technology with university choices, new UCAS data shows

By updatesPosted on 4th February 20214th February 2021Posted in Skills, Industry News

New subject data from UCAS shows a big shift towards technology-based degrees, including a 400% jump in acceptances to artificial intelligence (AI) courses. The final release of university and college level application and acceptance figures for the 2020 cycle reveals

£11 million boost for energy entrepreneurs to turn green dreams into reality

By updatesPosted on 4th February 20215th February 2021Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The latest round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) seeks to drive forward new clean technologies across all sectors of UK industry. £11 million government funding for UK’s energy entrepreneurs to turn ideas into clean, green technologies that eliminate carbon

Sopra Steria Join ScotlandIS and ScotGov in Support for Women in Leadership Initiative

By updatesPosted on 4th February 20213rd March 2021Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Sopra Steria have become the latest partner to pledge their support to the “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” leadership coaching programme. Scheduled to run between April-June, the programme aims to build a collaborative and powerful community of emerging women leaders

Storm ID and Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre sign deal for Lenus Health Platform

By updatesPosted on 4th February 20214th February 2021Posted in Member News

Storm ID have signed a 2-year deal with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) for the Lenus Health Platform, with an option for a further 2 years, to revolutionise digital innovation in health and care across Scotland. The