ScotlandIS Cyber

A full-day event for technical professionals and leaders in the sector. As one of Scotland’s biggest software conferences for over 25 years, ScotSoft allows you to connect, learn, and innovate while meeting new talent at the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards.

This year, the event offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain invaluable insights from industry leaders, collaborate with peers, and explore the latest industry trends.

Stay tuned as more speakers and our evening’s entertainment act are revealed!

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Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

For October, we’ll be joined by ScotlandIS member Systal.

Artificial Intelligence has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Whilst organisations are keen to reap the benefits it can provide, they are often blind to the risks. This Tech TidBit will explore:

• AI in organisations: in theory and in practice
• AI strengths and weaknesses – how they are often overlooked
• How AI is both hindering and helping organisational security, operational activities, and compliance
• How AI is both helping and hindering digital investigations, eDiscovery and evidential integrity

The biggest cyber security festival in the North is back!

Now in its 9th year, CyberFest is a month-long celebration showcasing the North East’s cyber and AI excellence. Taking place across the North East, its mission is to connect, educate, and empower the region’s digital ecosystem through high-impact events and community collaboration. Throughout October, the festival will bring together the leading experts across Space, Defence, Energy, AI, and Manufacturing to showcase the power of cross-sector collaboration.

Key statistics

● Meet new people: 1,000+ CyberFest attendees last year

● Gain business opportunities: 600+ businesses in CyberNorth’s networks

● Put your business in front of a large social media network: 5,200+ followers on CyberNorth’s LinkedIn

What is the Community Conference

This year the Community Conference is focused on putting the spotlight on cyber security in frontier technology. We’ll be hearing from local, national, international, and government speakers from a number of different perspectives across the sector’s most pressing topics.

We’re also bringing cyber, space and defence clusters, businesses, and professionals from around the nation together to connect, network and engage with the North East cyber security and AI industry, and to showcase what we have to offer in the region.

In the afternoon, attendees will also be invited to participate in collaborative workshops across a variety of disciplines. Conference attendees gain free access to afternoon sessions.

The tracks include Space, Defence, AI, Advanced Manufacturing and Energy.

Ready to unlock new opportunities across key sectors in the North East? Put Monday 19th October in the diary.

For business leaders and those with responsibility for data privacy and cyber security within an organisation, it can feel like the goalposts are always moving.

Policies and protections that used to be “once and done” are constantly needing renewed and updated and the toolkit organisations need to protect themselves for ever-evolving threats is becoming more complicated.

Join us at the Everyman Cinema in Edinburgh for our next Data & Cyber Conference where we’ll set out the current legal and regulatory landscape and then provide you with some practical solutions and advice to be prepared – all based on lived experience rather than just theory.

Our conference will include a general legal update, plus sessions on managed services providers, group data protection claims, DSARs and complaints, AI governance and more, with some special guest speakers – to be announced soon!

The conference will be valuable for business leaders and those with responsibility for data protection, cyber security, risk, compliance or legal governance, and will be relevant to all sectors.

R&D tax credits are designed to support innovation, but many Scottish technology companies are facing growing uncertainty around eligibility, evidence, compliance and HMRC enquiries.

This roundtable will bring together ScotlandIS members to share practical experiences, identify common challenges and explore how the system could work more effectively for innovative companies.

The discussion will help ScotlandIS develop an evidence base to support future engagement with government and HMRC, ensuring the voice of Scotland’s tech sector is clearly represented.

This is an interactive session so that you can provide your feedback. We would encourage you to join with your camera and mic on.