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This webinar, hosted by Scottish Development International, will be of interest to anyone involved in or with an interest in cyber security. It will highlight the many cyber security developments taking place in Scotland and will demonstrate why Scotland is the best location in which to locate and grow your cyber business or division. The support that is available in Scotland to help your company set up and grow, will also be covered, alongside the opportunity to ask our panel relevant questions that you may have about cyber security. Webinar speakers: –

• Andy Vaughan, Inward Investment Lead, Scottish Development International – Introduction to webinar and Scottish Development International (5 mins)

• Ciara Mitchell, Scotland IS – Overview of Scotland’s cyber cluster – companies, research strengths, growth and recent highlights (10 mins)

• Ian Stevenson, CEO, Cyan Forensics – Ian will talk about Cyan Forensics journey as an innovative spin out company from Napier University (10 mins)

• David Calder, Managing Director, Adarma – David will talk about his experiences in Adarma, one of the worlds largest independent cyber security service companies, and how they have developed their business in Scotland (10 mins)

• Q&A Panel – Chaired by Andy, including all previous speakers and Natalie Sparks, Cyber Security Lead at Scottish Enterprise (25 mins)

Product Ownership goes beyond writing user stories or managing a product backlog. Product Owners need to have a solid understanding of how to drive the delivery of value.

Over 2 days, from early stakeholder engagement through to release planning and delivery, you will learn techniques to measure, maximise and deliver value to the marketplace. You will also work online with other participants on real-life cases with hands-on exercises.

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

Virtual Price: £890+VAT
Virtual Early-bird: £750+VAT (until 19th June)

ScotlandIS members receive a 10% discount

If you are using Amazon Web Services to store data. Don’t miss the Ionburst and Amazon Web Services (AWS) webinar on the 9th July at 10:00 – 11:00 am (GMT).

Learn how to transform the security and recoverability of your Cloud storage at lower cost by migrating to Ionburst Flex AWS. Gain insight into:

• Supercharging AWS Cloud data protection and recovery like never before.
• Master secure migration from first byte uploaded to fully reconciled sign-off.
• Use Ionburst active security to avoid being one of the 4 in 5 businesses suffering breaches due to misconfigurations.
• Exceed GDPR data privacy regulations from day one.

Sign up now and save your virtual space

Online Safety Technology is a growing area with an increasing number of companies focusing on this area to ensure individuals, especially the young, vulnerable and elderly can safely and with confidence use the internet and avoid digital exclusion.

A group of industry leaders have recently set up the Online Safety Tech Industry Association (OSTIA). DCMS have also recognised this as an area of key importance both to society but also to the economy and have published the UK Online Safety Technology Sector report of which Scotland gets plenty of recognition for leading the way.

Our webinar helps explain what is meant by online safety, showcases a number of innovative Scottish companies leading in this space and helps you to explore whether you can build in online safety design principles to your products or use your products to support this growing sector.

Speakers:
– Ian Stevenson, Cyan Forensics CEO and Chair of OSTIA
– Gordon Scobbie, Commercial Director, Yoti
– Hannah Mercer, Founder of DragonflAI

Digital transformation of business requires lots of new software – much more than IT alone can deliver. Moreover, business experts, not IT pros, are best equipped to deliver crucial software to automate operations. Low-code platforms enable businesspeople to apply their Excel, web, and data talents to fill this software gap – with effective support and a real strategy.

Join this webinar, led by guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst John Rymer and Kintone CEO Dave Landa, to learn how firms across the spectrum are empowering their citizen developers. The need is high, the opportunity real!

Shanghai is mainland China’s commercial capital and is known as its most international city with a population of just over 24 million. With the highest GDP of any mainland Chinese city and half of its economic activity contributed by non-public enterprises, Shanghai is an economically vibrant and popular destination for private and foreign investment. It is also a core port for domestic and international trade, with the value of its imports and exports accounting for around 20 percent of the country’s total. It is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River on China’s east-central coast and is surrounded by Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province with a population of approximately nine million people. Although it is not a Tier 1 city, it is the e-commerce capital of China and home to Alibaba Group’s headquarters. It is also a city at the forefront of digital economy and has strong manufacturing capabilities, with the aim of becoming a global hub for advanced manufacturing by 2035. Its focus is on the innovation and application of digital technologies, making manufacturing more environmentally-friendly, attracting more foreign investment and strengthening administrative streamlining reforms.

Glasgow Chamber will be hosting a delegation of Scottish companies for a virtual trade mission to the cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou between the 13th-16th of July 2020. The mission will be focussed around the following three key sectors:

• Life Sciences
• Digital technology and fintech
• E-commerce

If you are a Scottish company within these sectors and are interested in joining our trade mission to China, please email seren.porteous@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com for an application form and more details. The application deadline will be the 23rd of June 2020 and there will be a restriction on the number of spaces available.

For some time, the prevailing models of healthcare provision have been shifting towards decentralised, community-based services. Many of these services have been developed around communications platforms supporting telecare and telehealth delivering large scale levels of coverage. Two current phenomena will accelerate the further development of this;

The immediate need to reinforce and improve models of remote healthcare provision in a post COVID environment

The arrival of 5G technologies as an enabler of service improvement

While many services can be delivered successfully across existing communications platforms; this webinar will explore and discuss the qualitative step-change that can be brought about in service coverage, quality and reliability only when the platform is 5G.

The Scotland 5G Centre is the national centre for accelerating the deployment and adoption of 5G and realising its economic and societal potential for Scotland. Delivered in partnership with ScotlandIS, the membership and cluster management organisation for digital technologies in Scotland, this webinar will showcase real situations where 5G is already assisting improvement in healthcare provision, and highlight opportunities for further development.

Based on a series of three short presentations followed by a Q&A panel session, the webinar will seek to identify common areas of interest, collaborative opportunities and themes for further discussion through further webinar events. The format for the session will be

Welcome and Introduction – Paul Coffey, CEO, The Scotland 5G Centre and Katy Guthrie, Head of Data, ScotlandIS 

 Enhanced image resolution in remote health screening – Ashleigh Timmins BT and Paul Campbell  NHS NSS 

Intuitive Interface in home healthcare – John Wilson CEO, Ajenta

Real time diagnostics in remote emergency care – Raymond McDonald, Vodafone

Panel Q&A – speakers 

Do you ever wonder what Harvard, Bain Capital, and McKinsey advise companies to do in order to grow and thrive coming out of a downturn?

Now you can not only know what the experts are saying, you can find out how to apply it to your own organisation to get the clarity and certainty you’re craving in this time of uncertainty.

Join Dr. Nick Quinn from the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow and R. Michael Anderson, former software entrepreneur and leadership adviser to companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, and PwC, as they hold this special session for CEO’s and business owners.

They’ve combined all the research to come up with a playbook for success based on studies of past recessions, data on the current economic model, and the advise of top experts around the world.

Attendees will learn:

  √ The essential “must-do” activities that the magical top 10% of winners post-downturn have done

  √ What’s happening in the market that most business owner’s aren’t are of (and need to be)

  √ The “gotcha” mistake that most businesses make that they end up regretting

  √ The single biggest driver of success in growth through a recession

…and much more…

The fact is out of any crisis comes opportunity.

Sign up right away to learn moves you have to make now to flourish in the future.

Our Software Engineering Leaders Forum (S.E.L.F) provides an opportunity for
leaders in software engineering, CIO’s and CTO’s from across the Scottish tech
sector to share ideas, explore common challenges and provide opportunities for
informal mentoring and joint working.

The topic for this S.E.L.F. meeting is serverless event-based architecture.
Join us on 16th July when we will be joined by Sharon Lindsay Program Manager –
Public Sector Solutions Architecture (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services.
Sharon has an in-depth knowledge of serverless event-based architecture and
will start this event with a presentation about her experience of working in this
field, covering:

● Components of a serverless architecture
● Capabilities of event streams
● Failure modes and delivery models
● Spanning clouds
● Message formats and protocols: JSON, MQTT, schemas
● Analytics on the stream
We will then open up to the group for Q and A and discussion of the topic and
related issues, challenges etc.

Book your place now

This is one of a series of seminars intended to explain GCU’s Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) programmes in Scotland. This session is intended to inform employers and candidates of our established Software Development for Business Graduate Apprenticeship programme, as a pathway for career progression.

Programmes start September 2020.

All GA programmes are funded by Skills Development Scotland.

Hosted by our Programme Leader, Dr Jim Paterson and one of our employer partners to discuss their experience and benefits of the programme, this 1 hour session will include:

• Programme syllabus and timetabling
• The team of academic experts that will lead and support the learning of students and employer mentors
• Assessments and Exams
• Work Based Project
• The Employer Journey
• Q&A

Instructions for joining:

1. Choose a date for attendance
2. Register with your e-mail address
3. Eventbrite will confirm your registration
4. Prior to the event you will receive a Microsoft Teams Calendar notification
5. Please accept the MS Teams notification
6. On the day click on the link to join our live seminar

For technical issues please e-mail: apprenticeships@gcu.ac.uk

Trying to reach new customers abroad?

Looking for international markets expansion?

Wish to scale up your international business?

Join our 2-hour online workshop and get interactive step-by-step guidance on how to reach international markers for a tech startup.

Real talk with practical in-depth insights based on startups case studies!

The programme

6.00 pm – 7.45 pm – How to reach international markets for a tech startup

7.45 pm – 8.00 pm – Q&A Session, Discussions

Speaker

Slava Baranovskiy (SlavaBaranovskiy.com)

Serial entrepreneur, tech startup founder, Entrepreneur in Residence of Brunel Business School and founder of Eligent Club with a strong business and tech background.

He is the founder of Eligent Club and Accelerator, Entrepreneur/Executive in Residence at Brunel Business School, Mentor at Hult Founders Lab and Input Program, guest speaker/mentor at Westminster Business School, Birkbeck University, Cass Business School, University College London, Global Entrepreneurship Week London 2017-2018, Startup Leadership Program London, Russian Business Week 2018, Creative Enterprise Centre, Women Who Inspire, WBC, The Budding Entrepreneur Club, Kiuas Bootcamp Helsinki and others.