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Equity Firm Key to Use Scots Platform Aveni.ai to Help Vulnerable Customers

By updatesPosted on 19th January 202219th January 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

Equity release firm Key has revealed it is working with Edinburgh-based speech analytics platform Aveni.ai as it seeks to build on its customer service with artificial intelligence. Aveni.ai’s tech will be at the heart of Key’s customer interactions – monitoring conversations with AI to

Scots Uni-developed AI Claims to Diagnose Covid-19 “In Minutes”

By updatesPosted on 19th January 202219th January 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has developed a new, state-of-the-art method of accurately diagnosing Covid-19 using AI. The UWS AI tech utilises x-ray technology, comparing scans to a database of around 3,000 images belonging to patients with Covid-19,

Innovate UK Smart Grants: January 2022

By updatesPosted on 19th January 202219th January 2022Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation. Smart is

Edge computing stands to transform Scotland’s digital growth

By updatesPosted on 19th January 202219th January 2022Posted in Member News

This blog article from Simon Michie, CTO of Pulsant, discusses how the emergence of edge computing could be advantageous to Scotland in addressing the digital ‘North-South’ divide. Edge computing is fast emerging as a technology with huge potential to remove

Female leadership in tech is not “just an industry problem”

By updatesPosted on 19th January 202219th January 2022Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion

Read this article from Victoria Cahill, Group Financial Reporting Manager at iomart and ‘Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation in Scotland’ programme champion. Being a woman in any job shouldn’t mark you out. In an ideal world – hopefully the

Cyan Forensics appoints new VP Sales to lead growth

By updatesPosted on 17th January 202217th January 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Cyan Forensics has appointed Stuart Hutchinson as VP of Sales for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific), to help accelerate its sales growth in the UK and deliver on international expansion plans. Stuart is a former

Search for Scotland’s very best digital technology innovation and talent is underway

By updatesPosted on 13th January 202213th January 2022Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, ScotlandIS News, Opportunity

Nominations now open for the twelfth annual ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards in Glasgow New categories announced including Climate Champion, Open-Source Contribution and Best Workplace Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 Digital Technology Awards, led once again by ScotlandIS

Scottish EDGE 19 open for applications

By updatesPosted on 13th January 202213th January 2022Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

Scottish EDGE is back for Round 19 – bigger and better than ever! Launched on 11th January, it will be continuing with the Royal Bank of Scotland supported Net Zero EDGE award which had its debut at COP26 last year,

Fully-funded upskilling with The Open University

By updatesPosted on 11th January 202211th January 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

The Open University in Scotland currently offering a limited number of fully-funded places on 17 of our accredited Microcredentials. These courses range from 10 – 12 weeks and are designed for people looking to gain new skills to help advance

eCom Scotland helps future-proof organisations’ learning strategies

By updatesPosted on 11th January 202211th January 2022Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

The internationally-known provider of online training and assessment, eCom Scotland, is helping organisations future-proof their learning and assessment strategies. It has been encouraged to take this step by the growing focus on combatting climate change and the workplace becoming carbon