building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
On Thursday, our Head of Data, Katy Guthrie, and Head of Cyber, Ciara Mitchell, hosted a “Financial Services Marketplace” as part of the Scotland Fintech festival. This event brought together individuals from Financial Services companies, Fintechs and data and cyber
Fundamentals of Computing Cohort 1 Our first group of graduates have completed the Fundamentals of Computing, and are currently seeking entry-level employment to continue to build their career path into the tech sector. The 10-week remote learning opportunity has provided
ScotlandIS, the industry body and cluster management organisation championing Scotland’s digital technologies sector, has today unveiled the shortlist for its 10th annual 2020 Digital Technology Awards. The awards reflect the strength of the sector, celebrating the wealth of innovation and talent
This morning, ScotlandIS convened our Policy Steering Group to meet with the UK Home Office Migration team. The Home Office detailed the latest legislation changes which will come into force on January 31st 2021. The team spoke at length about
ScotlandIS welcome the 34 recommendations made today in the Logan Report. The recommendations outlined in this report will help Scotland realise our ambitions of being a digitally leading and inclusive nation. ScotlandIS are strong advocates of partnership and collaboration, we
CEO of Fyne Labs and ScotlandIS board member, Andrew Williams, has been shortlisted in the first edition of the Open UK Awards. OpenUK advocates for Open Technology being open source software, open source hardware and open data, “Open” in and
Yesterday, ScotlandIS Head of Data, Katy Guthrie, hosted a roundtable to focus on the impact of the end of the Brexit transition agreement on international data flows. We heard from Martin Sloan, Data & Tech Partner at Brodies LLP, on
As part of our role supporting the local tech community, we are a founding partner of a UK wide organisation, the Tech Cluster Group. This group has been lobbying government to provide the support we need to build back better
Following the recent publication of the UK Geospatial Commission’s strategy, we asked several of our members their thoughts and reaction to the geospatial strategy. Dr Michael Grove of environmental data specialist, Topolytics, had this to say: “As a Geographer and
A few updates from myself and the cyber sector as July draws to a close. We have had lots of good news stories recently between some major investments being made (Quorum Cyber and Boundary to name a few), successful applications
