Events

As Covid-19 is the most disruptive force in a generation, it’s more critical than ever to utilise your technology by minimising cost and maximising output.

Through learning the software application lifecycle, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the workings of your current systems and can offer input into designing better applications for your business. We walk you through the stages of a software project and explain the jargon to grow your knowledge of web development and applications for growth.

It’s more important than ever to prioritise your organisation’s technology.

Poor communication costs UK businesses on average £8,000 per employee*, and slow moving projects cost organisations time and money. Whether you’re a project manager moving from Waterfall to Agile, or you work in HR hiring teams delivering large or small scale projects, understanding your software development team and its processes will minimise cost and maximise output. Learning how to engage with software developers will also lead to better executed and more effective projects, as well as reduced stress.

Tech Space_ is a series of free events aimed at providing great content and upskilling resources around web and software engineering.

Tech Space_ is a safe environment to enjoy content and learn from reputable and established speakers. August’s talk is the journey to digital leadership and how to help progress your career to the next level with key insights from industry experts who have made the jump from development to leadership. They will be sharing their experiences in what worked well and what didn’t work so well, if you were doing it again, what would you do now.

There will be three short talks followed by an interactive Q&A session aimed at sharing experience and knowledge.

The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with Fin Goulding and Haydn Shaughnessy.

We are in the middle of a pandemic and businesses are clamouring for agile specialists to dig them out of a hole. But not much has changed over the last few years. Leaders don’t know their purpose, transformations keep failing (be that agile, digital or business transformation) and millions are being wasted by some of the biggest companies in the world. So, we need a new approach. A simpler approach. What we need is Lighthouse Thinking.

Learning Objectives:

What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?

● Understand the difference between IT agile and Business Agility
● Discover why Business, Agile or Digital transformations fail
● Learn how businesses can remodel their company for success
● And gain an insight into how focusing on your operating model can lead to a successful transformation

Here’s some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:

Fin Goulding has consistently been named as one of the top global CTO/CIO’s year-on-year, who in the past five years, has transformed into a business agility expert having worked for organisations like Visa, RBS, NatWest, HSBC, Aviva and digital startups such as lastminute.com, travelocity.com and paddypower.com.

As well as being a popular keynote speaker and panellist, Fin co-founded the Flow Academy and Enterprise Flow with Haydn in order to help leaders and executives remodel their businesses and deliver successful transformations.

Haydn has a thirty-year background in innovation and transformation, especially in new commercial applications of technology and mobile infrastructure.

Through this extensive engagement with application innovation, he has been able to lead Enterprise Flow’s development of new value discovery tools, refining innovation techniques, ecosystem design and new customer journeys.

A thought leader for several US think tanks, such as nGenera and Gigaom, his work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Strategy and Leadership, the Wall St Journal and Forbes.

Haydn and Fin co-authored Flow: A Handbook for Changemakers and 12 Steps to Flow. Their new book Lighthouse Thinking will be published later this Summer.

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a two-day scrum master course that covers the principles and (empirical) process theory underpinning the Scrum framework, and the role of the Scrum Master in it. This course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises and teaches what is at the heart of the Scrum and Agile movement. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognsed Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I), which if you successfully pass will accredit you with the title of Professional Scrum Master.

NOTE: Due to COVID-19, this is a live virtual (online) class.

Virtual Price: £890+VAT
Virtual Early-bird: £750+VAT (until 13th July)

ScotlandIS members receive a 10% discount

One of the goals of DevSecOps is to build security testing into your development process. There are many tools and best practices to achieve this across the development life cycle. What are the limitations of automation and what is the effect of the human factor?

Is further automation our fate as tools become smarter? Or do we need to focus on human processes to keep the hype in check?

Our discussion leader will pick the brains of our thought leaders on the following topics:

– Abstraction of architecture (the move towards cloud, microservices and serverless computing)

– Heavy use of tools and automation in the SDLC

– Best practices in automation of the CI-CD pipeline

Learn new strategies for implementing and supporting Agile ways of working across your team through this hands-on practical course. Agile methods anticipate change and allow for much more flexibility than traditional methods. You can make small objective changes without huge amendments to your budget or schedule. This method saves money and time because you can test and approve the product at each step of development. By learning Agile concepts you will learn how to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery, giving you the competitive advantage. You will also give your team the environment they need to get the job done efficiently, in return promoting sustainable growth within your organisation.

Graduate Apprenticeships can really help businesses prepare for the future – particularly in the field of IT.

As we begin to look ahead to the recovery from COVID-19, the role of IT in businesses will become even more important. This webinar will provide you with an overview of our MA (Hons) IT Management for Business, a four-year degree programme co-created and taught by Edinburgh Business School faculty and Data Science faculty.

This programme is designed to help IT specialists take the next big step in their career. It helps companies develop highly skilled employees looking for careers in:

• IT Consultancy
• IT System Operation and System Management
• IT Network Planning and Control
• IT Project Management

Specifically, you will learn about:

• The EBS and DS faculty
• The characteristics of a successful Heriot-Watt ITMB candidate
• The critical partnership between the graduate apprentice student, employer mentor, and university tutor
• The Heriot-Watt support structures available to ITMB students
• The four-year programme structure designed to provide a holistic learning experience that takes place in the workplace and in the classroom

The webinar is on Tuesday 11 August at 11am and consists of a 30 minute presentation followed by a Q&A.

The demand for data talent is going to grow and grow as businesses become much more data driven.

Our BSc (Hons) Data Science Graduate Apprenticeships programme, not only builds data skills, it also develops talented people with hands-on, work-based experience.

In this live webinar you’ll hear from programme lead, Dr Heba Shoukry. Our Data Science programme is designed to develop data skills that are highly valued in the current marketplace.

It will consist of a 30 minute presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A.

Agenda

• Introduction to graduate apprenticeships and work-based learning
• Programme entry requirements
• Aims and outputs of the course
• Structure and course contents

As the global pandemic has continued to unfold, many discussions have taken place around the idea of what awaits us on the other side.

Within the identity and security space, we’ve been looking ahead for some time, and our gaze has turned to Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), a practice which sees individuals owning their identity, and which many organisations will turn to as the way we work fundamentally changes forever.

In this webinar, Identity Experts and Condatis (a Sitekit company) have partnered to offer a peek into the future, and what SSI means for organisations. Throughout, we’ll be covering topics such as:

• What is SSI?
• Use cases – issuing and consuming
• Authentication options
• Benefits
• And why it’s the next advancement organisations will be turning to

Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask any burning questions around Self-Sovereign Identity, and will part ways with a greater understanding of where their organisation can go next.

Please note: this webinar is recorded and will be made available following its broadcast.