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15 PIONEERING START-UPS SELECTED FOR AI ACCELERATOR BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH’S BAYES CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCALE SPACE Entrepreneurs creating AI powered robotic gloves, personalised medicine, through to ‘x-ray vision’ software are some of the 15 trail blazing
Read David Ferguson’s first monthly blog as our new Head of the Data cluster. Having taken on the role of managing the Data Cluster from Katy Guthrie I would like to start by thanking Katy for the great work she
DataFest, brought to you by The Data Lab, is returning for 2021 and kicks off on the 25th of March with a free virtual launch, including a keynote talk from a very special guest speaker. DataFest 2021 will feature events
Edinburgh-based data analytics business Topolytics has won an award for innovation at the National Recycling Awards. Its waste map software used machine learning to make waste more visible and verifiable for councils and bodies to track. The company was praised
DataVita has agreed to meet ambitious sustainability targets in the coming decade. Data centre provider DataVita has become the first Scottish IT company to sign the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact and commit itself to a carbon-neutral future. Launched this
A new £1m skills and training fund has been opened up to support businesses as they retrain people for future job roles as Scotland transitions to a data-driven economy. The Scottish Government-backed fund will help small firms to upskill and re-skill
The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, is calling on organisations contributing towards Scotland’s reputation of being at the cutting edge of innovative technology to share their successes to mark Datafest21. Now in its fifth year, the
Scotland’s innovation and data sectors will have access to world-leading geospatial information thanks to a novel partnership announced today between ScotlandIS and The Association for Geographic Information (AGI), which represent the interests of the UK’s geospatial industry. The strategic alliance
Brightsolid, the hybrid cloud managed service provider, has launched a new cloud compliance framework to help businesses strengthen their data security measures as the growth of cloud computing and digital transformation continues to accelerate. The Cloud Control Framework, part of
The CMA has issued advice to government on the design and implementation of the UK’s new pro-competition regime for digital markets. New regime will proactively shape the behaviour of the most powerful tech firms It will ensure consumers and businesses
