building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
FarrPoint’s Senior Consultant Steve Smith explores the smart places topic and explains why we need to move beyond Smart Cities to help towns and communities achieve the benefits of becoming ‘smart’. The smart city concept is nothing new, and despite
ScotlandIS has appointed five new members to its board, representing a variety of segments of Scotland’s digital technologies industry as well as academia. Each individual brings a diverse and valuable background to the Board, with shared ambitions to develop Scotland’s
A week-long series of workshops focused on addressing the lack of gender diversity in leadership across the digital and cyber security communities concludes today in Edinburgh. “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation/Cyber Security”, is a collaboration between leadership coaching consultants
This blog from Cyber Development Lead, David, explores how the cyber sector can collaborate with the space sector. In addition to our current specialisms project we are also working to identify how best the cyber sector can assist in the
UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3) has been launched to support Cyber Clusters and encourage greater collaboration across regions and nations of the UK. UKC3 promotes collaboration, knowledge exchange and sharing of best practice between cyber clusters in order to develop
We are pleased to announce that ScotlandIS are introducing a new ‘rewilding’ initiative, linked to our current membership and any new members that join our organisation from now on. What is rewilding? Rewilding activities are conservation efforts, aimed at restoring
The twenty four cyber security professionals selected to join the inaugural “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” initiative have reconvened in Edinburgh this week for the second round of group activities which form the core of this new programme. The
Cyber Cluster Manager, Ciara, has shared her latest blog for November that looks at recent and upcoming collaborations with the cluster’s growing partnerships. In Scotland, we pride ourselves as having a very engaged and supportive cyber community and from my
Check out the latest blog from our Head of Research and Policy, Marc, as he summarises our Climate Tech event at COP26 and the key takeaways from the day. On Monday 8th November, ScotlandIS held a Climate Tech showcase in
The latest cohort of the “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” initiative have reconvened in Edinburgh for the final two-day workshop of the Autumn Programme. The cross-industry “Empowering…” initiative, which launched earlier this year and is supported by industry body
