Events at this location

This session with the Department of International Trade (DIT) Export Academy will cover how to protect your assets when entering domestic and international commercial partnerships or when meeting investors. This includes how to make more from your assets by licensing and selling them domestically and abroad.

You will also be shown where to find further guidance and resources available to help you value and exploit your IP.

Simul8 are hosting a webinar with their valued partner, Shout It Now.

Shout It Now is a NPO providing HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services to communities in South Africa through a range of mobile healthcare vehicles.

To prevent infections and support those currently living with HIV, Shout It Now brings a range of free health services, including HIV testing, PrEP, STI screening, contraception, gender-based violence prevention and counselling, as well as educational life skills programs to hard-to-reach communities.

By gifting free simulation software, Simul8 is helping Shout It Now in their ground-breaking efforts to bring mobile HIV screening to youth and adults in the communities where they live. Using simulation, the charity was able to successfully create a robust process that sees 150 – 200 patients per day being educated, tested and directed to treatment centers. Through their work, a staggering 390,000 people have gone for an HIV test, placing them in the path of effective treatment.

In this webinar, we will be joined by speakers William Taylor, Buhle Sithole, Laura Reid and Andrew Wylie who will be discussing the amazing work that Shout It Now do and how simulation has transformed their business processes, and the lives of many.

Ahead of the webinar, why not check out the amazing work Shout It Now have done with the help of Simul8 here.

If you are bringing a connected device or product to market, making sure that it’s secure is vital.

In this webinar, Witekio and Pentest have teamed up to outline exactly how to assess, test and solve IoT Ecosystem security issues.

We’ll cover how you can run risk analysis and outline common vulnerabilities, as well as hack a virtual device – then show you how to ensure this doesn’t happen to your product.

Who should attend?

▪ Product Managers who want to better understand the risks and tools needed for IoT ecosystem security

▪ Technical Leads who want to know the best way to assess and secure their device

▪ Platform Engineers who want to learn how to solve security challenges

What you will learn:

▪ IoT Ecosystem Security 101

▪ An overview of Risk Analysis

▪ Common Vulnerabilities

▪ What is a threat model?

▪ Virtual hacking demonstration to showcase common issues

▪ How to solve security challenges

▪ How Witekio and Pentest can support your team

Click the ‘Learn More’ link below to register.

In December Productivity Club will focus on skills and recruitment channels.

Most of the SME organisations we have spoken to lately, highlighted skills shortages and recruitment challenges as current issues for their businesses.

What if there were ways to diversify recruitment channels and to develop people skills?

Over December, Productivity Club will investigate how organisations across the country have come up with new ideas and strategies to meet the needs of their business.

Dughall Laing, Board Member of Release Scotland will be our expert speaker and will share his knowledge about helping people with criminal records entering or returning to the labour market. The case study speaker from All Cleaned Up is Helen Chamier-Tripp.

Holyrood’s Connect Week is returning for its second year running. This year, the week will begin with our in-person Public Sector Cloud conference at Dynamic Earth Edinburgh, and will then move online for four engaging webinars set across two mornings. These webinars will focus on various topics at the heart of the Scottish digital landscape and delve into the topics rooted in this calendar year’s Connect portfolio of events, including Public Sector Cyber Security Scotland, Public Sector Data Summit, Digital Transformation and more.

Focus areas across the two days will include:
• digital connectivity and infrastructure
• cloud security
• digital inclusion and skills
• the roles and ramifications of artificial intelligence and machine learning

Through engaging sessions of various formats, Connect Week 2022 will allow public and third sector professionals to keep abreast of the latest developments within the space and gain a better understanding of future trends. Delegates will hear from thought leaders and industry experts and have the opportunity to engage with them through audience Q&As. Speakers and panellists will bring a breadth of experience and insight and offer technical and user-centric perspectives.

Join us online on the 7th, and 8th of December to ring in Holyrood’s 2nd annual Connect Week.

Be sure to show your excitement about the upcoming event or get a jumpstart on the discussion by using the official event hashtag, #ConnectWeek22, on Twitter!

This event is free-to-attend for those working in the public or third sectors. Register now to secure your place. If you work in the private sector, please email us to be added to our waiting list.