Events

This two-day course is designed to help developers create accessible web products that comply with WCAG 2.1. The course considers accessibility at the code level, therefore attendees will require a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

We will provide you with details of common accessibility issues and how to overcome them, and we will take you through usage of the most common assistive technologies and other tools to aid you in accessibility development.

Innovate UK has announced a new wave of the Women in Innovation Awards to find and support the UK’s most promising female innovators to develop their ideas and scale up their businesses.

The Women in Innovation programme was first launched in 2016 and since then the number of women leading applications for grants to Innovate UK has increased by 70%.

Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network are hosting a briefing event to tell you more about the scope for this competition and the application process, as well as offering the opportunity to network with other Women in Innovation, and have the opportunity to book 1:1 meetings with Innovate UK and KTN.

The winners will each receive a £50k grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support. The awards will last for one year.

If you are a female founder, co-founder or senior decision maker working in a UK-based company join us to find out more.

We’ve arrived in August – how did that happen? We continue with our ‘Softworx Events’ programme and our next virtual event introduces our partners ‘Arcserve’, Arcserve push beyond backup with solutions that build a fortress around client’s infrastructure, always protecting what’s priceless. There has never been a better time to review your data back-up strategy and deal with some of the following concerns:

Increased budget pressures, it’s time to do more with less. Arcserve’s award-winning data protection solutions provide rock-solid, feature-rich back-up, disaster recovery, and business continuity at a price to suit all budgets.

Security risk from ransomware is at an all-time high. Arcserve is the ONLY solution that offers both cyber and data protection by integrating Sophos’s market leading Intercept-X anti-ransomware technology to ensure backups are always available and clean.

These uncertain times serve as a reminder that you must be confident in the quality of your backup data. Arcserve UDP software uses Assured Recovery Technology which helps test and validate data recovery policy, providing documented insight for executive reporting.

The virtual event will share more on the features and benefits and provide the opportunity to learn more including reducing complexity, continuous availability, compelling ROI and more.

“Arcserve is the world’s leading single unified solution for all data availability needs which includes anti-Ransomware protection as standard, wherever the data is kept and wherever it needs to be.”

REGISTER NOW!

Your Digital Diversity Group hosts, CodeClan, supported by Lloyds Banking Group, will be discussing and celebrating all ages in tech; the barriers people face due to their age and what opportunities are supported in the tech industry over others.

From older career changers to the young leaders, and everything in between, there’s a lot to explore, unpick and support.

Join us for an engaging and interactive start to the day, sign up and share with your friends, family and colleagues.

Speakers

Sally Goble – Engineering manager, Attest

Sally is an engineering manager at Attest, a medium sized start up based in London. She has been working in tech for over ten year and has been lucky enough to work in a broad range of companies; from a 100 year old national newspaper to a hypergrowth start up. She’s really enjoying working in a company which is human scale now!

Sally could be billed as a ‘serial career changer’ as she’s on her third career right now. She started out as a sound engineer in the theatre, then worked as a freelance IT consultant to publishing companies in the early ages of desktop computers, and then moved to tech in her early forties.

Mike Ritchie – Software Engineer, Evolved

Mike Ritchie is a software engineer working on software development for embedded systems, hardware design, and model-based systems engineering.

Experienced, older techies often come under pressure – sometimes subtle, sometimes not – to move into managerial and non-tech leadership roles. Mike’s going to talk about the flawed assumptions that drive this, and the unintended consequences for team diversity.

We’ll follow up the event with any slides and resources discussed, as well as a recording of the session!

Janet Onyia – Technology & Business Integration Architect, Accenture

Janet delivers large-scale Platform Transformations in the Financial Sector. She has advised business leaders and policy-makers on Ethics within Data and Applied Intelligence in relation to Inclusion and Diversity. Passionate about Intrapreneurship, she’s established two key internal communities covering gender inclusion within Technology and another for Black colleagues.

As a Founder of TivityPod (a platform for booking children’s extra-curricular activities for schools and parents) and Fellow on the Founders Forum ‘Founders of the Future Fellowship’ programme, she’s considered to be among the UK’s most promising Tech Founders under 30.

Janet is a mentor for young entrepreneurs as part of the Young Entrepreneurship Scotland programme and sponsors young people from underrepresented backgrounds into Tech.

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How to join

The event can be accessed through the Eventbrite Online Event Page. You will receive a reminder before the event begins, linking you to this.

You don’t need an account to join, simply click on the link at the start time of the event and follow the instructions through to connect.

Your camera will be hidden and your microphone automatically muted to avoid feedback. We’ll explain during the event how to interact with us using your audio, written questions and other interactive features.

This event will be recorded.

If you have any questions about connecting to or the format of the event, or if we can make it more accessible to you please email our Event Manager, Kate at events@codeclan.com or call 078 0400 6656.

Thinking about upskilling or changing career?

Demand for data related jobs is on the rise. Employers are seeking new talent and looking to upskill their current teams to turbo charge their business growth. Whether you work in marketing, product development, operations or customer services, data is inescapable!

Join us to hear about our Data Analysis course, career opportunities and partnerships in the Scottish tech industry.

You’ll get to meet our instructors and find out more about our curriculum. You’ll also learn how we support our students and graduates into their new data careers.

This webinar will cover:

– The CodeClan story, culture and course curriculum.
– Outcomes of our 14-week course, careers support and networking opportunities for graduates & employers.
– Informal Q&A with our instructors and admissions team.

Experience Data Analysis with CodeClan!

Learn the basics of data analysis and try your hand at writing code, by coding along with one of our instructors. Experience our immersive style of teaching and get an idea of what’s involved in a data role, during this remote taster session.

If you’re thinking about a career in data and want to test out our learning style first, this is the perfect session for you!

We’ve designed this specifically for people thinking about learning data analysis, through our 14-week intensive Data Analysis course. It’s also an ideal way for employers to understand more about the skills required of any staff looking to upskill.

What you’ll experience

– Import your data into R
– ‘Wrangle’ your data: that is, clean it and get it ready for analysis
– Calculate some simple statistics
– Effortlessly produce high quality graphs and figures
– The best way to learn is by doing: get a feel for how we teach data analysis at CodeClan by taking part and coding along. If you would like to code-along, please follow these instructions on how to set up your laptop – https://codeclan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Data-Analysis-Taster-Instructions.pdf

Perfect for

– Novice analysts & people interested in a career in data analysis.
– Anyone interested in our 14-week Data Analysis course.
– Anyone who has attended one of our Webinars or Open Evenings and wants to experience data analysis and our learning environment before applying.

We recommend that you attend a webinar about the courses you are interested in before attending a taster session, this will fill you in on lots of details that you’ll be curious about during your taster session!

Come along to our webinar sharing industry insights on the Financial Services Marketplace, bringing together financial services firms with cyber and data companies, to discuss common issues and explore opportunities for collaboration. 

The session is part of the Scotland Fintech Festival, a series of conferences and networking events taking place in September and October to promote fintech collaboration in Scotland.

Join us on 10th September when we will cover the challenges faced by financial services companies, and the solutions required to overcome these. We have some excellent speakers lined up to discuss these topics, including:

• Nicola Cooper, Information Security Manager in Consultancy Services at Virgin Money, will provide some insight into what the Bank looks for when signing up to work with new suppliers & partners.

• Stuart Robertson, Co-founder and Director of iDelta Ltd, will look back over the last 20 years sharing his insights and experiences of working in the financial services technology market.

There will also be an opportunity to hear from data and cyber companies developing innovative products and services, which have the potential to help solve problems for FS firms, or which could be applied to gain competitive advantage.

To discuss some of these solutions, we’re pleased to be joined by:

• Wallscope – David Eccles, Founder, and Rui Cardoso  

• Wallet.Services – Peter Ferry, Founder

• Deepminer – Duncan Hart, Co-founder

• Condatis – Dr Elias Ekonomou, Architect

This gathering offers a great chance to network with industry experts across the financial services, cyber and data space – if you belong to any of these sectors, you won’t want to miss this.

Click ‘Learn More’ below to register for this event.

Thinking about upskilling yourself or your team?

Shift your skills into a tech role by learning to code on our Professional Software Development course.

With an estimated 12,800 tech opportunities available in Scotland each year* there’s never been a better time to join our thriving tech industry!

Join us to hear about our course, career opportunities and partnerships in the Scottish tech industry.

You’ll get to meet our instructors and find out more about our curriculum. You’ll also learn how we support our students and graduates into their new tech careers.

*Source: Skills Development Scotland.

This webinar will cover:

– The CodeClan story, culture and course curriculum.
– Outcomes of our 16-week course, careers support and networking opportunities for graduates & employers.
– Some of the careers our graduates have gone on to work as
– Informal Q&A with our instructors and course team.

With the choice of talent more accessible remotely than ever, why hire your digital talent in Scotland?

Meet CodeClan, Auticon, Code Your Future and The Data Lab. Each organisation offers innovative pathways to hiring talent or upskilling your existing employees right here in Scotland.

You’ll hear briefly about their incredible pool of diverse Scottish talent, ready to help your teams become more effective before we dive into an engaging roundtable discussion about hiring your digital talent.

Join us on 15th September when we will be partnering with Shepherd and Wedderburn for a discussion on Migration Policy post-Brexit. 

Moving forward, people who want to live and work in the UK will be able to apply for a visa under one of three routes: the Skilled Worker route, the Global Talent route, or the Start-up and Innovator route. In addition, post-Brexit Home Office plans would require migrant workers to earn at least £25,600 a year to be able to work in the UK. A recent survey has suggested that 63% of Scots wanted migration to be a devolved area, so that Scotland could be best placed to meet the needs of business.

At this event, we will focus on the new proposals by the UK Government and how they will affect Scotland and the workforce.

We will be joined by a panel of experts:

• Jane Morrison-Ross, CEO of ScotlandIS
• Jacqueline Moore, Head of Immigration at Shepherd and Wedderburn
• Dr Sarah Kyambi, Migration Policy Scotland
• Etzali Hernandez, Code Your Future

Our panellists will discuss some of the new proposals and what it means for your business, as well as answering any questions that you may have relating to Migration.

Scotland’s Biggest Parents’ Events are a series of four broadcasts running throughout the summer, which will allow parents, carers, guardians and young people to hear about the things that matter to them right now.

These events – brought to you by the DYW Scotland Network – provide information about options and pathways for young people, including where you can go to make informed judgements to support your young person’s next steps.

With input from a range of experts covering topics such as exams, mental health, apprenticeships, skills development and pathways into industry, the events aim to provide a message of reassurance and optimism to parents, carers and young people at this challenging time.

Event 4 – Pathways to Priority Industries

This event, delivered in partnership with Skills Development Scotland, will be particularly beneficial to parents and carers whose young people have just left school. However, the events aren’t just for parents – we absolutely encourage young people to sign up and join the event as well!

The final event, in the series of four, will take place on Tuesday 15th September, 7:00pm – 7:30pm and provides an opportunity to learn about Scotland’s predicted employment by key sector. You will hear from a range of industry experts about the types of jobs and skills that are in demand. This information is to help support young people to make informed choices for their own career pathways.

The event will be premiering on Young Scot’s YouTube and Facebook Channels – you will receive a reminder email prior to the event, which will take you to the online event page.

You can also catch up on previous events by visiting: https://www.dyw.scot/sbpe.html

Overview of UK and Australian cyber security market and the opportunities, followed by Q&A.

ODSC Europe Virtual Conference 2020 is one of the largest applied data science conferences. Our speakers include core contributors to many open source libraries and languages. Attend ODSC Europe Virtual Conference 2020 and learn the latest AI & data science topics, tools, and languages from some of the best and brightest minds in the field.

The Professional Product Owner – Advanced (PSPO-A) course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The PSPO-A course is intended for Product Owners who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities.

This course is an interactive, experiential workshop where attendees explore topics through a series of exercises and discussions. Students should have at least one year of Product Owner experience and a practical knowledge of Scrum in order to participate in and benefit from these exercises.  Having previously taken the PSPO class is recommended, but not essential.

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

Live Virtual Class: £1,150+VAT
Virtual Early-Bird: £950+VAT (until 11th August, limited tickets)

In this webinar, an expert panel including the OU’s Viren Patel and Anthony Impey MBE, will discuss the findings and how employers can respond to current challenges.

Exercise in a Box is an online tool from the NCSC which helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber-attack.
It is completely free, and you don’t have to be an expert to use it. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats, which your organisation can do in your own time, in a safe environment, as many times as you want. It includes everything you need for setting up, planning, delivery, and post-exercise activity, all in one place.
Exercise in a Box has been piloted with small and medium enterprises, local government and the emergency services, but other private and public sector communities could benefit from using it depending on their needs.
We are welcoming organisations from all over Scotland to our taster sessions and subsequently to apply to participate in our main sessions over the coming months.

This webinar will talk through the exercise in a box process.

Experience Software Development with CodeClan!

Learn the basics of software development and get an idea of what a typical day at CodeClan looks like, with one of our instructors. There’s the option to code-a-long with the session to truly experience our immersive style of teaching and the skills required of a coder!

If you’re thinking about a career in software and want to test out some of the skills required first, this is the perfect session for you!

We’ve designed this specifically for people thinking about learning software development, through our intensive 16-week Professional Software Development and 12-week Web Development (Highlands) courses. It’s also an ideal way for employers to understand more about the skills required of any staff looking to upskill.

What you’ll experience:

– Watch some live coding, and if you like, code-along yourself. We’ll give you the link during the session!
– Learn some of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages.
– Understand what it means to write clean code and why it matters.
– See that you don’t need to be a maths genius to become a great software developer!
– Gain insight into the friendly, enthusiastic and immersive learning experience at CodeClan.

Perfect for:

– Novice coders & people interested in a career in software development.
– Anyone interested in our 16-week Professional Software Development or 12-week Web Development courses.
– Anyone who has attended one of our Webinars or Open Evenings and wants to experience software development and our learning environment before applying.

We recommend that you attend a webinar about the courses you are interested in before attending a taster session, this will fill you in on lots of details that you’ll be curious about during your taster session!

In this meeting, Leyton will be sharing insights to the innovation funding available to Fintechs for Development and AI / Data Analytics work through the R&D Tax Relief scheme.

They will also be giving advice on some common misconceptions such as the inability to claim having received a grant and will have a consultant on hand to answer any technical questions on how the work you are doing may apply.

Exercise in a Box is an online tool from the NCSC which helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber-attack.
It is completely free, and you don’t have to be an expert to use it. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats, which your organisation can do in your own time, in a safe environment, as many times as you want. It includes everything you need for setting up, planning, delivery, and post-exercise activity, all in one place.
Exercise in a Box has been piloted with small and medium enterprises, local government and the emergency services, but other private and public sector communities could benefit from using it depending on their needs.
We are welcoming organisations from all over Scotland to our taster sessions and subsequently to apply to participate in our main sessions over the coming months.

We would like to invite you to an exclusive roundtable discussion with BritishAmerican Business in partnership with the Scottish North American Business Council and the Department of International Trade.

BAB is hosting an exclusive series of roundtables across the UK with the Department for International Trade to give the opportunity for local businesses to share their experiences and discuss with UK officials ways in which a UK-US agreement can benefit their operations and longer term plans for expansions across the Atlantic. Learn more about BritishAmerican Business here.

With the US-UK trade negotiations progressing, we have identified SME’s and growing companies across the country who we would like to offer the opportunity to feed back into the process and share their stories and ambitions by giving direct feedback to senior DIT officials which will shape UK trade policy and the US-UK trade agreement.

The input from these roundtables will be included in a final report to exemplify how a UK-US FTA will benefit growing companies across the county. This report will be presented to government officials, MPs, and other stakeholders

With that, we would very much like to invite you to the roundtable for Scotland.

RSVP: Email esherborne@babinc.org

There is no cost involved. We simply want to hear from you what transatlantic trade means to you, your colleagues and regions, and where you think improvements can be made to growth trade. Where of interest and appropriate, following the event, we are happy to connect individual to help with existing growth ambition through free trade advice, free marketing support and introductions to relevant partners and platforms.

We hope you can join us.

Businesses are increasingly embracing new technologies to enhance existing processes and enable new business models and revenue streams through Digital Transformation. Service-based business IT, however, is not without challenges, particularly around access governance and control. Digital Transformation is all about enabling everyone and everything to connect seamlessly to new digital services, to facilitate value exchange while still ensuring regulatory compliance, faster product innovation, secure remote working capabilities, and multi-channel consumer access despite ever-tightening budgets.

These challenges can be addressed, however, by using Dynamic Authorization Management technologies and policy-based authorization engines. By separating access controls from applications and using centralized policies instead, organizations can reduce development costs, time to market, and time to value, while still ensuring secure, flexible connections for regulatory compliance.

This KuppingerCole webinar will cover:

• Market trends in Dynamic Authorization Management (DAM)
• How Digital Transformation is driving the business need for DAM
• Developing a roadmap for digital access acceleration and achieving granular access control
• How seamless connectivity can help with compliance, security, and business growth
• Mapping connectivity in your IT landscape and improving access controls

Martin Kuppinger, Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, will examine Dynamic Authorization Management and policy-based authorization technologies, look at why these technologies have not yet reached mass adoption, and why that may be about to change.

Tim Johnson, Strategy Director Raidiam will provide a deep dive into how Raidiam products and services have helped Enterprises to design and map their digital connections, alongside Derick James, CEO Symphonic Software who’s Dynamic Authorization platform helps to achieve granular access management, governance, control, and visibility to enable rapid product innovation and regulatory compliance.

Silicon Valley remains the epicenter of our technology-dominated world and is home to many of the Western World’s leading technology companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and Intel. But with Scotland garnering praise as a birthplace for technological innovation what can we learn from Silicon Valley. And importantly what opportunities exist for Scottish tech companies in California and across North America. This session will try and answer these questions through a discussion between Pendy Pendyala who leads the SDI office in San Jose and CEO of ScotlandIS Jane Morrison Ross.

Panelists

Pendy Pendyala – Senior Vice President, Scottish Development International

Based from SDI offices in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley Pendy leads a team whose role is to identify Market Opportunities and enable Scottish Life Sciences & Technology companies succeed in the US and Canadian Markets.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pendypendyala/

Jane Morrison Ross

After taking up the reigns as CEO of ScotlandIS in August 2019 Jane has personally led the campaign to raise the visibility of the Scottish tech sector. The ScotlandIS annual event Scotsoft “Cmd R” takes place on October 1st.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottishconsultant/

Russell Dalgleish

Chair Scottish Business Network

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelldalgleish/

In this ever-changing world it has never been more crucial to understand the risks your business can suffer from a cyber-breach. How can you make your people & their behaviours your strongest defence?

Join us to hear more from government, experts and industry peers on subjects such as;

• How cyber-breach and the risk to brand reputation and customer trust.
• Empowering your employees with the skills and behaviors to make them your strongest defence?
• Investing and managing cyber security on a budget
• How to prepare and respond to a cyber attack
• Understanding the changing threat-landscape

The conference will be opened by Kate Forbes MSP, Minister for Public Finance and Digital Economy, Scottish Government and will bring together business leaders face-to-face with some of the UK’s foremost industry experts on cyber security, including representatives from Scottish Government, Cisco, KubeNet and Bank of Scotland.

CBI will also provide the latest intelligence and policy insight from Government, while considering business impact.

Through in-depth plenary presentations, panel discussions our expert contributors will provide inspired thinking and practical solutions to enable you to plan your strategy with confidence.

Skills Development Scotland have been delivering a number of projects focused on bringing Industry into the Classroom to support teachers delivering Cyber Security and Technology lessons, aiming to bring the subject to life as much as possible. The implementation of this has been well received with both teachers and pupils to date.

Due to COVID, we have spent some time looking at how we can continue that engagement virtually so that both learners and teachers still continue to receive the benefits that industry can bring to the classroom. The goal is to make it easy for industry volunteers to run engaging sessions with schools across Scotland, not limited by geographic constraints or issues that would make delivering in-person difficult at this time.

We are running a session on Thursday 24th September to demo our proposed virtual engagement model, and also get feedback on areas that we could improve on.

If you are able to attend, please click the Learn More link below to register.

Exercise in a Box is an online tool from the NCSC which helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber-attack.
It is completely free, and you don’t have to be an expert to use it. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats, which your organisation can do in your own time, in a safe environment, as many times as you want. It includes everything you need for setting up, planning, delivery, and post-exercise activity, all in one place.
Exercise in a Box has been piloted with small and medium enterprises, local government and the emergency services, but other private and public sector communities could benefit from using it depending on their needs.
We are welcoming organisations from all over Scotland to our taster sessions and subsequently to apply to participate in our main sessions over the coming months.

In ESA Business Applications our aim is to show that space is open for business and has the power to improve our everyday lives on Earth. We do this by helping companies to integrate space data and technology into commercial services.

YOUR BUSINESS POWERED BY SPACE

Launch Event for the ESA Business Applications Regional Ambassador for the Scotland and Northern Ireland co-hosted by the University of Strathclyde.

Following the initial launch of the ESA Business Applications Regional Ambassador Platform for Scotland and Northern Ireland in September 2018, this event is the first to be organised by our new Regional Ambassador for this position. Join this online workshop to find out how your company can benefit from ESA’s support to develop your products, services and business using space assets.

From international transport to rural education, ESA Space Solutions has enabled data from satellites to transform businesses on Earth. ESA has already invested €250m in launching innovative services in over 1200 businesses. ESA Business Applications (part of ESA Space Solutions) is open to innovative developments from all types of company and supports applications in any sector that addresses user-driven needs.

This event is for business of all kinds based in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In partnership with FinTech Scotland and in support of the Scotland FinTech Festival, we would like to extend an invitation to our Cyber Security forum which will take place via Zoom at 5:00pm on Thursday 24^th September. We are delighted to have Ciara Mitchell, Head of Cyber at ScotlandIS and Peter Jaco, Co-Founder of Scottish Tech Army, joining us as guest speakers. 

The emergence and development of technology has resulted in a significant increase in sensitive data being available digitally. Consequently, the protection and security of our data, processes, systems and networks becomes increasingly challenging. Our panel, facilitated by Nicola Anderson, Strategic Development Director at FinTech Scotland, will be discussing the cyber security landscape in Scotland, the innovations as well as the challenges associated with this fast-changing environment. This will lead us into what we are sure will be a vibrant Q&A session which will be held under Chatham House rules.

When: Week of 28th September

Our online conference will have a strong emphasis on the development of mobility services for a greener future. With Glasgow hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), now rescheduled to November 2021 due to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19, Scotland will be placed at the centre of the world’s attention on the global climate emergency. There can surely be no better time, therefore, to highlight the role of future mobility in reducing carbon emissions and supporting a more sustainable future.

The online events will also be an opportunity to hear about initial pilot projects funded through the Scottish Government’s MaaS Investment Fund, discussing their early impact and exploring how they position Scotland for future MaaS scale up. We will also hear an international perspective, exploring how we can learn from the experience of others as we develop our own models and services for Scotland.

NOTICE: Due to the ongoing and uncertain situation regarding COVID-19, MaaS Scotland has taken the difficult decision to cancel this year’s MaaS Scotland Annual Conference and Dinner 2020 which was planned to take place on 30th September 2020.

Our annual conference and dinner is the highlight of our year at MaaS Scotland and with this in mind, the team at MaaS Scotland have decided reconfigure this year’s conference content to suit an online format.

The MaaS Scotland Conference Online will be held during the week of 28th September and will be a free event which will cover many of the topics earmarked for original event. More details on this will be released soon via email communication.

In the meantime, you can register your interest in attending this conference below.

Register Interest 

The UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has just announced the next series of measures to protect businesses and jobs over the next 6 months.

We are running a webinar on Monday morning at 9:30am to bring you more detail and to answer your questions on the announced measures, including:

Key points:

• Furlough Scheme will end as planned at the end of October
• New “Jobs Support Scheme” where Govt will support wages of people in work who have reduced hours
• employee must work and be paid for at least 1/3 of normal hours
• Govt and employer will cover 2/3 of pay
• All SMEs are eligible but only larger businesses when turnover has fallen during the crisis
• Can still use the scheme if didn’t use Job Retention Scheme
• Starts November and will run for 6 months
• Can still claim Jobs Retention £1k bonus which is due to be paid in February for employees who were furloughed and are still on the payroll and earned average £520 per week Nov-Jan)
• Self Employed scheme to continue on similar terms to Jobs Support Scheme for 6 months

In financial measures, he announced:

• Bounceback Loans- “pay as you grow” meaning loans can be extended from 6 to up to 10 years, and interest only payments possible including six month no payment extensions (no impact on credit rating)
• CIBILs- Govt guarantee to be extended up to 10 years
• Deadline for all loans schemes to be extended to end of year
• More to come on loan schemes
• Deferred VAT bill can be spread over 11 payments
• Lower VAT rate for hospitality etc to be extended to 31^st March 2021

As always there is much to understand and further details will follow, which we will study and bring to you on Monday.

In July 2020, the European Court of Justice struck down the EU-US Privacy Shield scheme and emphasised the additional steps that organisations need to take when relying on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for international data transfers. As the dust settles, what trends are we starting to see?

In this seminar we look at the fallout from this decision, including:

• an overview of what the Court said and the implications for international data transfers;
• guidance from the ICO and the European Data Protection Board;
• the steps that organisations should take in relation to their existing international data transfers and before making any new transfers; and
• the potential impact on EU / UK data transfers following the end of the transition period.

Join us on 29th September when we will be joined by Denis McFadden Scottish Government’s Senior Procurement Portfolio Manager to discuss topics including DPS Lot 2, IT Staff, SME Procurement and also procurement post-Brexit and what potential changes will be coming ahead.

The Scottish public sector spends more than £11 billion a year buying goods, services and works. At ScotlandIS, we are passionate about ensuring this significant investment is spent in a way that can deliver the most benefit to society and the digital and tech sector as a whole.

This event is on a first come first served basis with limited spaces, so please sign up now if you wish to join what promises to be an engaging and insightful roundtable

This is a member only event