Events

We chat to Shaunak at Omvits, who have recently reduced and replaced as much of the plastic in their business possible.

This will be a really practical talk for those out there who are dreaming of going plastic-free but are unsure where to start. We’ll be hearing from the team who have done it, as they share their top tips on what to do (and not do).

It wasn’t an easy journey and Shaunauk and his team had to overcome many challenges. We’ll hear the practical lessons they learned from this journey as they share their top tips with you.

In this session Shaunak will talk us through how he’s achieved a reduction on plastic packaging and the challenges he faced, tackling tough questions such as:

• Why they’ve still not fully removed plastic from their packaging
• How they communicate their changes with their customers
• How they’re bringing their customers on the journey with them
• The implications to their business in replacing so much of their packaging
• Their concerns and plans for the future

Bring your questions and be inspired with practical guidance on how to reduce your emissions and packaging!

The rough format will be:

• 30 minute webinar / talk from Shaunak
• 15 Minute Q+A
• 15 Minute Networking

You can read more about plastic free packaging alternatives here.

Collaboration is key to effectively running public sector services, but it can be complex and time-consuming.

Service managers communicate with different departments, organisations, and citizens themselves. Virtual meetings (plenty of them), email and digital tools all contain different pieces of information. In some instances, information is written down in a notepad, or stays unread in someone’s email inbox, moving down the list as endless new emails appear.

And all of this assumes that the provided information is correct and can be trusted. Realistically, on purpose or by accident, people will provide information that is incomplete, out-of-date, and in some cases even tampered with.

This leaves local authorities at risk of fraud, and fraud doesn’t come cheap. Costs to resolve issues are expensive (think lengthy legal processes) and laborious.

Join us on 2nd June for an engaging roundtable in which we will discuss:

• The balance and importance of data governance, privacy, and reliable data sharing.

• Existing solutions that address the challenge of data sharing, and their respective advantages and disadvantages.

• The opportunity for new technology to combat (benefit) fraud.

This engaging event is aimed at senior decision makers, service managers and data specialists at local and regional government, and industry organisations that collaborate with the public sector.

The audience will gain with new insights, inspiration, and a better understanding of the future of data sharing for local and regional government organisations.

Panellists:

• Margaret Moore, Director of Citizen & Devolved Government Services, Sopra Steria
• Carol Peters, Cyber Security Architect, Renfrewshire Council
• Peter Ferry, CEO, SICCAR, and Honorary Consul of Estonia
• Faith la Grange, Director, Local & Regional Government, Microsoft
• Robert Clubb, Independent Consultant, previously Chief Security Officer at Improvement Service

Adopting Microsoft 365 has been key for many businesses over the past 12 months and has played a pivotal role in remote work and digitalisation strategies.

However, with constantly evolving apps, users and companies would benefit from giving user adoption a strong focus to make the best of licences purchased and enhance performance and ways of working.

What are the new Microsoft 365 desktop features and other unknown tools that will boost your performance?

Join us in our free webinar delivered by one of our learning consultants, Steve McPherson, to learn how to make the most of updates and recent project management tools.

In 1 hour, you will:

• Discover new and unknown features of standard desktop applications such as Microsoft Teams, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word…
• Learn how to deliver complex projects on time with the use of Planner and To Do.
• Participate in our ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ format where you get to decide which applications you would like to cover by using polls.

Click the ‘Learn More’ link below to register.

A two-day interactive course where you will learn how to use Scrum to optimize value, productivity and the total cost of product ownership in the role of a Scrum Master.

To find out more and register, click the ‘Learn More’ link below.

Join Glasgow Caledonian University and hear how our established GA’s in Software Development and Cyber Security can build and retain talent for your organisation!

With the rise of technology integration though DevOps, Data Science, IoT and BI, coupled with increasingly sophisticated Cyber threats, its never been more important for Scotland to power up its tech talent.

GCU has established GAs in BSc (Hons) Software Development and BSc (Hons) and MSc Cyber Security and we have secured funding for 72 student places from September this year.

Here’ s what we’ll cover:

• Welcome – Ronnie Beattie, Business Development, GCU: 5 mins
• GA Cyber Security and Software Development walk throughs – GCU Programme Leaders, GCU:15 mins
• Focusing on DevOps: Dr Mark Jenkins, GCU: 5 mins
• The Cyber Security Student Experience : 5 mins
• Interactive Discussion – All: 25 mins
• Next steps and close – Claire Young Business Development, GCU: 5 mins

Please register now and we’ll be in touch shortly with the link to the webinar.

See you soon!

A roundtable for women working in cyber security in Scotland which promotes networking and collaboration and seeks to support females working in cyber security.

A two-day advanced course designed to support Scrum Masters further in their professional development.

To find out more and register, click the ‘Learn More’ link below.

In this session businesses in the agritech sector can learn more about the specific challenges faced raising within that niche.

A great chance to get the “lay of the land” of the UK agritech investment scene, this session from the Barclays Eagle Lab Funding Readiness Programme features successfully exited founders in the space and experienced investors sharing their stories and advice on how to build, raise money for, and exit a successful agritech business.

This should be a brilliant opportunity to connect with others in the space and hear a great discussion on the UK agritech scene as a whole – looking forward to seeing you there!

With Clive Blacker, Terry Canning, Rob Wylie and Forbes Elworthy as the guest speakers.

Softworx alongside our partner Cynet are hosting a 1 hour ‘Security within the Private Sector’ webinar, that will focus on ‘The Rise of the Threat Actor’ and end to end breach protection, regardless of your security teams size and skill.

The session will cover the following points:

• Protection against malware, ransomware, exploits and fileless attacks

• Protection against scanning attacks and data exfiltration

• Preset behaviour rules to detect malicious anomalies

• Decoy files to lure and detect advanced attackers

Upon registration the Softworx team will be in touch with call joining details.

Join us on 8th June for the next Cyber Cluster event which provides an opportunity for the cyber cluster to get together as a community to network and to collaborate. There will also be a number of speakers providing insights and info to support your business growth and development.

We will be joined by:

• Paul Coffey, CEO, The Scotland 5G Centre, who will provide an overview on the establishment of a 5G innovation hub in Dundee and how it will link in with the Cyber Quarter at Abertay.

• Keith McDevitt, Scottish Government, Cyber Resilient team who will give an update on the Cyber Resilience Framework and the Cyber Scotland Partnership, laying out Scottish Government Cyber Resilience team plans and aspirations for both these areas.

EC2 is the first eSport competition entirely dedicated to ethical hacking.

The purpose of EC2 is to bring together the world of gaming and that of hacking in order to highlight cybersecurity professions and their challenges while developing the fun and competitive side.

At the end of the various tests, a general classification will be established to elect the 3 best teams as well as the best student team. Many prizes will be up for grabs as well as a cash prize for the best team!

At the end of the first day, an evening 100% dedicated to gaming is organized in partnership with ZQSD Productions. Players and the general public will compete in three games that can earn bonus points for their team. We will host a TV set with gaming and security influencers who will come and share their experience during the evening broadcast live on Twitch.

Book via the Learn More link below.

Are you interested in expanding your cybersecurity business internationally?

During this webinar on 9 June, two cybersecurity ecosystems, the Centre for Secure information Technologies (CSIT) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) will present what their ecosystems have to offer to foreign cybersecurity companies.

This is part of the Global EPIC Soft-Landing Program, which offers companies and entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to ‘soft land’ for a trail period in the market of one of these ecosystems at no cost.

Register today to learn what the UK and Taiwan markets have to offer.

A three-day hands-on course where you will experience how to deliver quality software using Scrum with Agile and DevOps practices, creating real code on a realistic software system.

To find out more and register, click the ‘Learn More’ link below.

As there is an ever-increasing focus on employers pivoting their organisational talent to meet new business challenges, upskilling and reskilling the country’s workforce to bridge critical skills gaps will be a key component of Scotland’s economic rebuild and recovery. Organisations are recognising the need to adapt for both the short and long term for them to survive in today’s ever-changing climate, to boost productivity and growth or adapt to evolving jobs needs – now more so than ever before, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Open University’s Business Barometer 2020 report found that 60% of employers in Scotland had skills gaps, with some of them taking more than 26 months to fill vacancies. In order to plug those gaps, organisations spent £460 million, a 60% increase on the previous year. That’s a very costly and short-term approach to addressing skills shortages, and one that is unsustainable, particularly for SMEs.

We are delighted that SMEs across Scotland can now access training up to the value of £5,000 delivered by The Open University (OU) to support staff development via the Flexible Workforce Development Scotland – a new fund supported by the Scottish Government via the Scottish Funding Council, and are inviting you to join us in an exclusive webinar to find out more.

How can digital tech be utilised to cut emissions in the built environment?

Where we live, and our housing has a huge impact on the environment but by embracing digital technology we could cut the construction emissions generated in the UK by 40% by 2025 through better design, more intensive building use and by reusing building resources.

Embracing tech will lead us on a journey that will make our built environment smarter, safer and reusable.

Join us on 9th June when our expert panel will discuss how your business can future proof itself to meet our targets in Scotland by 2045.

Speakers include:
– Claire Rampen, Reath.
– Chris Trigg, OnGen
– Don McLean, Integrated Environmental Solutions

The new graduate visa route is a new post study work visa that will enable UK employers to access an additional talent pool of graduates who have studied in the UK.

Employers will not require to sponsor them which means that this is a flexible visa that can be used for any job with any salary level – potentially offering a solution for employers struggling to recruit for certain roles without the visa fees involved in sponsorship.

Join our webinar to hear more about:

• Which international graduates will be eligible for this visa
• The fees to be paid by the visa applicant
• What happens at the end of the 2 or 3 year visa if you decide to retain the individual and sponsor them
• Employing international students during their studies
• A brief update on right to work checks for international students.

The ScotlandIS Digital Nation Challenge, launched in partnership with The Scottish Government in May 2020. We called on you to submit ideas that would help to increase the pace of Scotland’s digital progress and develop the critical national digital and data infrastructure the country needs.

Join us on 10th June as we take a look at where we are now and give you an update on the outcomes and next steps of the Challenge.

Karen Meechan, Interim CEO of ScotlandIS and speakers from The Scottish Government will reflect on the challenge and give an update on the findings and recommendations that have been made as a result.

Duncan Hart, CEO and co-founder of DeepMiner, will share how as a result of the ScotlandIS Digital Nation Challenge DeepMiner has used cutting edge technology and AI to join multiple internal and external datasets to help drive a platform facilitating the adoption of data-driven decision making.

We will also be joined by speakers from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise and The Scottish Government who will give us an overview of the business support landscape in Scotland and the opportunities presented by partnership working and how this fits with the new digital strategy for Scotland (March 2021) and Scotland’s AI Strategy (March 2021).

Click ‘Learn more’ to register for this webinar.

With the changes to UK immigration system, which now apply equally to EU and non-EU citizens, we invite you to join us as we discuss how these changes may affect your access to talent and recruitment plans going forward.

As a Scottish based SME, TalentScotland can support your business in a number of ways and this session will particularly focus on:

• Overview of the new UK immigration system
• Who is exempt from sponsorship
• Why and when companies will need a sponsor licence
• What actions you can take • Potential costs and time associated with the process
• Brief overview of Skilled Worker sponsorship duties
• Additional business immigration support and guidance available from TalentScotland

This webinar is presented by Brodies LLP, TalentScotland’s immigration specialists, and you will have the opportunity to have your questions answered.

EIE is the premier technology investor showcase. Our annual EIE conference features the most promising innovative, data-driven high growth companies, seeking funding from seed to series A.

In 2021, we have a fully online event on our virtual platform, which provides the complete conference experience. We are not only offering the chance to network with fellow investors and entrepreneurs but, of course, hear from the 32 innovative technology companies that make up the EIE21 cohort.

The cohort consists of some incredibly exciting young companies, across a nine sectors, including AI & Data Science; Fintech and Cybersecurity; Energy, Climate and Cleantech and more.

We’re also delighted to be able to offer a line-up of internationally renowned speakers, along with exhibitions from a huge range of companies that are aligned with our sectors.

Registrations are now open, sign up below!