building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Cyber Scotland Week, a joint initiative between ScotlandIS and the Scottish Government, will take place between 22nd April – 28th April 2019. A first of its kind for cyber in Scotland, Cyber Scotland Week draws together events across Scotland to showcase the
Last week, Cabinet Secretary Derek Mackay presented the Scottish Government’s budget for 2019-20 with news about taxes and public spending. We would like to give you a quick overview of the key announcements that are relevant for Scotland’s digital technologies
On the 26th of April 2018 key players from across Scotland’s digital technology industry will gather at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow’s Argyle Street. Why? Well that’s where the ScotlandIS Digital Tech Awards are taking place, of course. Now in
In the last academic year the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) ran a number of Industry Update events across Scotland. These sessions highlighted current industry practice specifically about Agile, DevOps, TDD, Data Science, Machine Learning, UX and building secure software. Of
Rachel Menzies is the Undergraduate Programme Director for Computing at the University of Dundee. She talks to us about her experience of being involved with the DSP. In addition to her ‘day job’ Rachel is the SICSA Director of Education,
CGI is one of over forty companies that have supported the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) in the past twelve months. They are active members of the DSP’s Industry Advisory Group, have participated in Scotland wide discussions on graduate skills and
We encourage all ScotlandIS members having difficulties recruiting for certain skill sets and roles to respond to a call for evidence from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). The MAC is advising the UK Government on migration issues and is currently
Shane Corstorphine is SVP Growth at Skyscanner, the world’s travel search engine. Shane originally joined Skyscanner as Chief Financial Officer, where he was instrumental in multiple investment rounds, including from Sequoia Capital and a $192m investment round in January 2016,
I’m a transaction-oriented serial entrepreneur with a track record of delivering shareholder value, mostly recently in the turnaround, transformation, growth and exit of global enterprise SaaS vendor Workplace. In the past 25 years I have completed 28 transactions as a
SwarmOnline builds world-class apps for companies all over the world who are looking to use cutting edge technology to drive business improvement. We work in partnership with Sencha & AWS and are not only able to utilize this technology at
