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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

The IA2020 Summit will be going ahead as a virtual event, delivered fully online.

The Virtual Summit will retain all of the main features of our standard conference programme – with keynote talks, breakouts and an exhibition hall – all hosted live on a virtual platform. We will also be running Q&A sessions to enable audience participation, and facilitating networking and business engagement opportunities over the course of the day. Not only will you be able to enjoy our full line-up of speakers – but you’ll be able to log-in remotely and join us from anywhere in the world.

The modern enterprise is becoming an increasingly automated environment: technological advancements in AI, Machine Learning and RPA are allowing organisations to improve business intelligence, streamline process and enhance productivity. Across the industry landscape operations are changing, from the automation of low-level administrative tasks to customer service Chatbots and complex self-regulating IoT systems.

The Virtual Summit will explore the real world practical value of Intelligent Automation. The programme will provide tangible examples and case studies demonstrating where IA technologies are being successfully deployed, while considering some of the most common challenges and organisational barriers and illustrating how they can be overcome.

Core Themes

• Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Intelligence
• Robotic Process Automation
• Internet of Things, IIoT / Industry 4.0
• Advanced analytics, Business Insight, Data-Driven Decision Making
• Strategy, Deployment, Business Transformation, Scalability
• Risk, Compliance, Security

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 

SAVE THE DATE

Taking place on the 1st October 2020 in Edinburgh, ScotSoft is the leading tech conference in Scotland. It’s an annual festival of ideas and innovation that showcases the best of the Scottish technology sector and brings you sought after speakers from far flung locations.

Running for more than 20 years the event includes a full day Developer Conference, a half day Forum and a chance to meet the next generation of talent at the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards Dinner in the evening.

Over 1400 delegates enjoy a packed day with speakers drawn from all corners of the world. So why not join your peers across the community to explore, share and be inspired by great speakers and contributors?

The quarterly S.E.L.F grouping provides a forum for software engineering leaders, CIO’s and CTO’s across the Scottish tech sector to share ideas and explore common challenges. The meetups also provide opportunities for informal mentoring and potential opportunities for joint working.

The topic for this meetup is building a talent pipeline.

If you would like to attend please email nicole.johnston@scotlandis.com