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| Nov 5, 2026 | Movers and Shakers | September – October 2026 | Welcome to the September & October 2026’s edition of Movers & Shakers.
This month saw a steady mix of high-profile appointments, industry expansions, and awards.
Top Scottish firms made key appointments, while both the private and p... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | AI Scotland Invests £1.8M Into SMEs | A national programme helping Scottish companies capitalise on the benefits of AI has received funding for its second year.
Backed by £1.8 million of continued funding, AI Scotland will help small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to develop... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | The Data Lab Boosts Board With Seven New Members | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, has appointed seven new members to its Governance Board. The new board members assumed their terms in June with an initial appointment of two years.
The Governance Board’s responsi... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Scotland’s New AI Strategy | Everything You Need to Know | The Scottish Government has released its five-year AI Strategy, an ambitious plan to leverage Scotland’s international research acumen, its renewable energy resources, and entrepreneurial ecosystem to make the nation a global leader in all ... |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Scotland Respawns Gaming Strategy With £1bn Supercluster Plan | After two years, a thousand data points, and some very sore thumbs, a community-led national action plan for Scotland’s games sector has been unveiled, hitting the start button on a £1 billion plan for the industry.
An industry roadmap deve... |
| Jan 7, 2026 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers | December 2025 | Welcome to the December 2025 edition of Movers & Shakers.
Rounding off a bumper year in the Scottish tech sector, December saw a final flurry of activity with Tomoro continuing its rapid expansion, a litany of high-profile recruitment m... |
| Oct 8, 2025 | Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards Opens Applications | The 11th Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards (SKEA), Scotland’s flagship celebration of business–academic collaboration, launches today (8th October) inviting applications from businesses and academics throughout Scotland.
The annual awards,... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Why Are 50,000 Women Walking Away From UK Tech Every Year? | Every year, 40,000-50,000 women leave technology roles.
It is a data point primed to stop you dead in your tracks. But, this insight from WeAreTechWomen’s Lovelace Report has also found that such a talent departure is costing the UK economy... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | New Training Offer Helps Scots Boost Digital Skills | A new offer to help people across Scotland gain skills in a range of digital technologies has been launched.
The Digital Learning Initiative brings together training offered by AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce to help people improv... |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Scot Gov Invests Nearly £1M in AI SME Support Scheme | A new programme helping Scottish companies seize the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) has been launched.
Supported by nearly £1 million of Scottish Government funding, it will offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) a range o... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | DataKirk SEMFEST 2025 Awards Finalists Revealed | The DataKirk has announced the finalists for the Scottish Ethnic Minority Talent Festival & Awards (SEMTSF Awards 2025), a landmark celebration honouring organisations and teams driving progress in diversity, digital skills, innovation,... |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Scottish Firms Cut Energy Bills & Emissions in £54m Smart Data Drive | Manufacturers across Scotland have cut energy costs and emissions by nearly a third through a major programme that helped firms make better use of their data.
The Data Lab, Scotland’s centre for data and artificial intelligence, played a ke... |
| May 13, 2025 | The Data Lab Launches Data and AI Skills Framework | The Data Lab’s Data and AI Skills Framework has been launched in a bid to help reduce barriers to data and AI upskilling, offering pathways to individuals, teams, and organisations to build their data and AI capabilities.
Based on recent re... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Full Programme for DataFest 2025 Announced | The full events programme for this year’s iteration of DataFest, the Scottish data and AI conference, has been announced.
Hosted by Scotland’s Innovation Centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, DataFest 2025 is set to bring together Scotland’... |
| Mar 5, 2025 | Converge Expands Prize Fund and Partnerships for 2025 Programme | Academic enterprise programme Converge has today announced its largest-ever annual awards package totalling more than £400,000, marking a strategic shift to support a broader spectrum of university innovation for academic entrepreneurs acro... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Movers and Shakers | February 2025 | Welcome to the February 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
While understandably not the busiest month of the year, Jan... |
| Jan 27, 2025 | The Data Lab Announces New CEO | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, has named its new CEO.
Following a nationwide recruitment campaign, it’s been confirmed that Heather Thomson has been appointed as the latest leader of The Data Lab after taking on... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | UK’s AI Revolution: A 50-Point Blueprint for the Future | The UK government is on the brink of an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled a sweeping 50-point plan aimed at unleashing AI across the nation. This initiative promises to reshape the landscape o... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Starmer Unveils New 50-point Plan to “Turbocharge” UK AI | The UK Government has said that artificial intelligence will be “unleashed” across the country to deliver a decade of national renewal under a new plan announced today (January 13).
Unveiling details of the AI Opportunities Action Plan, Pri... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Forth Valley's Startup Surge: A New Era for Scottish Innovation | The Forth Valley is buzzing. A new partnership between Techscaler and Ceteris is set to transform the startup landscape in this vibrant region of Scotland. The goal? To cultivate a thriving ecosystem for tech entrepreneurs. This collaborati... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Scottish Tech Leaders React To Budget Announcement | The freshly released Scottish Budget has already turned heads as local businesses anxiously awaited the devolved nation’s response to the new UK government’s financial plans.
The Scottish tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem have fluctuated i... |
| Sep 24, 2024 | The Data Lab Launches 10th Anniversary Programme of Events | To celebrate its 10th anniversary, The Data Lab is today launching a programme of activities and events to mark the significant milestone—while looking ahead to the next 10 years of driving innovation, building community, and skills in data... |
| Jul 16, 2024 | The Data Lab Announces Launch of Geospatial Fringe Programme | Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has today announced the launch of its first-ever Geospatial Fringe programme next month in response to the growing interest in the sector across the UK.
With partners such as Natur... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Over Half of Scottish Businesses Still Reporting Skills Shortages | New data from this year’s Business Barometer report published by The Open University in partnership with the British Chambers of Commerce, has found that over half (56%) of Scottish organisations are still reporting worrying skills shortage... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | NMIS Bolster Board With Two Industry Veterans | The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has strengthened its non-executive board with the appointment of Neil Logan and Allan Cook CBE.
The duo bring ‘extensive leadership in engineering, manufacturing and digital entrepreneurs... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | The DataLab Hits New Skills Milestone | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI announced it has equipped over 1000 learners with essential data literacy skills through its Data Skills for Work programme. The majority of the learners, about 800, came from Edinb... |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Navigating Uncertainties: Strategies for Scotland’s Economic Resilience | The economic landscape in Scotland remains under the shadow of uncertainty as global factors continue to exert pressure on various fronts. Despite efforts to navigate through challenges, the Scottish economy finds itself grappling with a ra... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | The Data Lab Academy Celebrates 1,000th Graduate | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, has announced that the 1,000th student has graduated from its academy.
The Data Lab Academy, which launched in 2015 and is free to join, offers a programme of workshops for student... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Did The Data Lab’s ‘AI for Good’ Event Present a Compelling Case? | Looking to curate a small-scale event to spark discourse that filters through the ecosystem, a cherry-picked vertical slice of Scottish tech and business took in The Data Lab’s AI for Good Event.
Two speakers observed the use-cases for AI f... |
| Dec 5, 2023 | Ликбез по вхождению в Data Science: что для этого нужно и стоит ли пытаться? | «План, что и говорить, был превосходный; простой и ясный, лучше не придумать. Недостаток у него был только один: было совершенно неизвестно, как привести его в исполнение».
Льюис Кэрролл, «Алиса в Стране Чудес»
Всем привет! Меня зовут Надя,... |
| Sep 12, 2023 | “Scotland Gets AI”, Innovation Minister Says | Scotland is open for business as a world-leading destination for developing ethical artificial intelligence (AI), innovation minister Richard Lochhead has told investors and senior industry figures.
Hosting the CogX fringe event at Scotland... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Tay Cities Region Deal Announces Free Digital Skills Courses | The Tay Cities Region Deal has announced free digital skills coursed for people living and working in the Tay Cities region.
The Digital Skills Project is part of the £20 million Regional Skills and Employability Development Programme funde... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | SDS Appoints New Chair to Its Digital Economy Skills Group | The Digital Economy Skills Group is the industry and public sector partnership aiming to enhance the country’s digital capabilities.
As the new chair, Lepper, who’s Head of Cloud Commercial and Optimisation at education software company Tri... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | Comment | AI in Marketing: Is It Time to Run for the Creative Hills? | AI is having a moment, and that’s an understatement.
Even though the tech has existed since the 1950s, never in my career have I been so conscious of all the news swirling around when it comes to AI – both the good and the bad.
I am surroun... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | The Data Lab Appoints 20 New Advisory Board Members | Established in 2014, the centre — which is a part of the University of Edinburgh — helps companies, organisations, and individuals to grow operations, develop new projects, and ensure they have the data skills needed to move forward in a wo... |
| May 18, 2023 | New English Partnership Extends Reach of The Data Lab | The Data Lab has signed its first partnership agreement south of the Border.
It will work with The Data Shed – a Leeds-based data engineering consultancy focused on delivering data transformation projects that reduce business risk and on un... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Tay Cities Region Gets £50k to Help Bridge Data Skills Gap | This new partnership between The Data Lab and the Tay Cities Digital Skills Project — funded by the Scottish Government — aims to address the Scottish digital skills gap, help the country’s tech industry to be more diverse, and prepare part... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Spring Budget 2023: Tech Reacts | 2023’s Spring Budget did not leave many surprises for the tech industry, which was already anticipating continued interest announcement of investment zones across the country.
Only a few weeks prior, the UK Government announced major funds ... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | New Data Lab Course Seeks to Address Gap in Digital Skills | More reliant on data than ever, Scottish businesses can now access a course aimed at upskilling leaders to use data more effectively.
The Data Leaders Programme, piloted by The Data Lab, hopes to address the glaring gap in digital skills se... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2022 | Recruitment Brillband
Scottish broadband firm Brillband has made two key appointments as it prepares to launch a trial of its app technology in Scotland.
Entrepreneur and fundraising specialist behind investing company Raising Partners, Hel... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Data Lab and Partners to Create New £50m Innovation Hub | The Data Lab, Scotland’s AI and data science innovation centre, has joined a consortium of 11 other organisations from across the UK to contribute to the creation of a £53.8m innovation hub designed to benefit the UK manufacturing sector.
T... |
| May 11, 2022 | Thermal Imaging Firm IRT Gets Funding for AI Cropping Tool | Thermal imaging firm IRT is getting funding from The Data Lab for AI to reduce heat loss in homes and support Scotland’s net zero strategy.
Dundee-based IRT will work alongside academics at Robert Gordon University to develop AI-based softw... |
| May 9, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2022 | Recruitment The Data Lab
Brian Hills was announced as the new CEO of The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI in April.
He was most recently interim CEO following the departure of Gillian Docherty OBE in January this year,... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | The Data Lab Announces Brian Hills as New CEO | Brian Hills has today been announced as the new CEO of The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI.
He was most recently interim CEO following the departure of Gillian Docherty OBE in January this year, who left the organisat... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2022 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm.
Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data scie... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | The Data Lab Appoints Interim CEO | Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm.
Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data science skills across the academic and busines... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Data Literacy Programme to Boost Scottish Biosciences Research | A new programme has been created to help health and biosciences researchers develop new data literacy skills.
Ed-DaSH, a partnership between The Data Lab and the University of Edinburgh, will help upskill people working in academia, industr... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | November 2021 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
The Data Lab announced last month that Gillian Docherty OBE will step down as CEO, a position she has held for the last six years.
Gillian will remain in position at The Data Lab until late-January ... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | CodeClan Welcomes New Partners After Reaching Two Thousand Graduate Milestone | CodeClan has revealed it has now produced more than two thousand graduates, playing a key role in producing talent for Scotland’s burgeoning technology sector.
Since launching in 2015, CodeClan, which recently celebrated its sixth anniversa... |
| Nov 25, 2021 | Data Summit 2021 | How Will Data Inform Scottish Decision-making? | Data Fest 2021 came to a crescendo on Wednesday November 24 with Data Summit, presenting five keynote speakers to a small physical audience, as well as a formidable online presence.
Presented deftly by writer Gemma Milne, the keynotes were ... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | The Data Lab Calls on Scots Firms to Sign Up to its Data Programme | Scottish innovation centre The Data Lab has called on organisations in Scotland looking to “realise the benefits of data” to become a partner in its Industrial Placement Programme.
The programme, now in its seventh year, matches one of 155 ... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Scotland Economy Boost With Data Lab Digital Project | The Data Lab has launched a new ‘digital community’ which aims to contribute to the country’s economic and social recovery post-pandemic.
Following a successful pilot programme, the community will provide a “much-needed online space” where ... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | July 2021 | Recruitment News UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3)
Ciara Mitchell, Cluster Manager for Scotland’s Cyber Cluster at ScotlandIS, has been appointed as a board member with the role of Ecosystem Development Lead in the new UK Cyber Cluster ... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Former Accenture Lead Les Bayne Takes up New Role at The Data Lab | Former Accenture Scotland MD, Les Bayne, has been named as chair of the innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab.
Bayne, the founder of business growth platform Alba Arete, replaces Mark Hunter whose three-year tenure in the role rec... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Abertay Uni Scholarship to Foster AI Learning for Women and Ethnic Minorities | A new Abertay Uni course announced last week will include a scholarship programme for female and ethnic minority applicants.
In a major milestone, Abertay’s MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence and User Experience course will be the first ma... |
| Jul 5, 2021 | Gigged.AI Launches UK Digital Talent Recruitment Platform | A new platform designed to help companies hire UK digital talent has been launched by tech startup Gigged.AI.
The launch of the platform comes as the remote working trend, which started in reaction to the pandemic, is likely to continue.
It... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | Comment | Could Data Become Scotland’s New Currency? | Data could be the new oil for Scotland as the country continues to build on its global reputation as a hotbed for talent across the tech and data science industries.
Pre-pandemic, unicorn companies such as Skyscanner and FanDuel started to ... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Cloud, Optimisation and Kindness: Responding to the Pandemic | If you had any doubt about the adverse impact on mental health following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, let me quantify one aspect of it for you – £139 million.
That’s the additional cost of antidepressant (AD) medicines prescribed ... |
| May 17, 2021 | DataFest21 Reveals New Speakers for Annual Event Series | DataFest21 has revealed the names of its keynote speakers for this year’s events series, which runs from May to November.
The first themed week, ‘Our Future’, takes place from 18th May with a free Data Talks event led by Robin Winsor, who w... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence Tool to Locate Presence of ‘Asbestos Cancer’ in Patients | The Data Lab has today released details of a new project using AI to assess and treat mesothelioma, or ‘asbestos cancer’.
Scottish medical imaging software firm Canon Medical Research Europe and the University of Glasgow are set to publish ... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | New AI Tool Can Track Asbestos Cancer | The Data Lab has today released details of a new project using AI to assess and treat mesothelioma, or ‘asbestos cancer’.
Scottish medical imaging software firm Canon Medical Research Europe and the University of Glasgow are set to publish ... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Despite Pandemic, TORCH Brings Flexibility Through Smarter Data Use | When TORCH was launched, the UK was in the first weeks of the original lockdown. The environment and ecosystem that it was conceived in and designed to service was at the start of massive upheaval.
Conceived as a business advisory service b... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | January 2021 | Deals and Partnerships TechForce
Northeast cybersecurity specialist TechForce has secured contracts worth up to £370,000 over recent months, building upon recent momentum and growth.
The announcement follows the Aberdeen-based company’s lis... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | The Data Lab Innovation Week to Reimagine Glasgow as a ‘Circular City’ | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, has transferred its ‘Innovation Week’ event entirely online for the very first time, tasking over 150 data science students to imagining how Glasgow businesses might create ‘circul... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | The Data Lab Online Course to Help Managers Use Data Effectively | The Data Lab is set to launch a second run of its online data training courses, aiding businesses across all industries to use data and AI to improve day-to-day operations.
The course, named ‘Driving Value from Data’ is free to all applican... |
| Mar 10, 2020 | Scottish Tech Sector Urged to Focus on Sales and Scale | Dan Halliday, a prominent investor with Foresight Group, has told Scottish technology firms that they must place more emphasis on achieving sales and scale.
Addressing the session, held in the firm’s Dundee office, Halliday said that Scotla... |
| Aug 6, 2019 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: July 2019 | Recruitment Tech Nation
Hazel Gibbens has joined Tech Nation as entrepreneur engagement manager (EEM) for Scotland – a role that will see her interact with and support technology companies and founders across the country.
Gibbens joins Tech... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | The Data Lab Chief Executive Awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List | The Data Lab chief executive, Gillian Docherty, has been awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for her service to information technology and business.
Docherty, who is at the forefront of data science and artificial intel... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Call for Organisations to Host MSc Data Science Students on Placements | Organisations across Scotland have the chance to tap into a pool of emerging data talent from a host of leading universities thanks to a summer placement programme.
The Data Lab funds MSc courses across 11 Scottish universities and works al... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Wind and Solar Power Forecasting Innovation | Natural Power sponsor PhD in Power Forecasting
Leading renewable energy and infrastructure consultancy, Natural Power, is to collaborate with the University of Strathclyde and The Data Lab to jointly sponsor Rosemary Tawn for a PhD in Short... |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Scottish Demand for Data Science Talent Continues to Surge | Scotland’s insatiable demand for data science talent has prompted The Data Lab to increase its MSc places in the 2018/19 academic year.
This year’s cohort will increase by 25 to 155 and equates to a 310% increase since the programme launche... |
| Oct 3, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup – September 2018 | Funding The DataLab
The DataLab has secured £13.5 million in funding from the Scottish Government following a successful first phase of activity. It has created and led a number of education programmes and events, as well as providing suppo... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | DataLab Receives £13.5 million in Funding To Build on Success | The Data Lab has secured £13.5 million in Scottish Government funding following a successful first phase of activity.
Since its launch in 2014, the Data Lab has capitalised on existing funding from the Scottish Funding Council to attract an... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | Oil and Gas Innovation Centre Supporting the Digitalisation of Oil Fields | The three projects will be a collaborative effort with Robert Gordon University of Computing Science and Digital Media (RGU) to carry out research into the digital transformation of oil fields.
The technical advisor to the global oil and ga... |
| Aug 9, 2018 | AI Cancer Treatment Project Receives Funding | Edinburgh-based Canon Medical Research Europe has been awarded £140,000 to develop a prototype AI-powered cancer assessment project. Working with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the Phase II funding project was awarded by the Cancer Innovati... |
| Jul 31, 2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers July 2018 | Recruitment Quorum Cyber
Gareth Lush will join Quorum Cyber in a full-time capacity as Commerical Director. Lush had been engaged in consultancy work with the cybersecurity specialists, however, the firm’s rapid growth has led to his full-t... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers JUNE 2018 | Recruitment Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria Scotland has announced that its Scottish regional director Alison McLaughlin is being seconded to the Scottish government to help realise its digital transformation ambitions.
Stepping up to take the re... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | New Chair For Data Lab | The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data, has appointed a new chairperson to help deliver on its mission to help Scotland generate significant economic and social value from cutting-edge analytics and data science.
Mark Hunter, C... |
| Jun 11, 2018 | Scottish Government Sets up £500,000 College Innovation Fund | Managed by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the College Innovation Fund highlights the Scottish Government’s commitment to innovation.
It is hoped that it will forge new and dynamic links between colleges and Scotland’s innovation centre... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | TEDxGlasgow 2018: RETHINKING Tech for Good | With 20 inspirational speakers, three demonstration halls and three break panels it was a busy day full of talks on a diverse range of subjects. To date, this has been the largest TEDxGlasgow event and was the first time it was streamed liv... |
| May 17, 2018 | Tech Nation on Tour Arrives in Edinburgh | The high level national statistics show the vital importance of the digital technology sector to the UK’s output. While the wider economy has reported sluggish growth, the digital tech sector has bucked this trend, expanding nearly three ti... |
| Apr 11, 2018 | EIE 18: The Investors View | Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has been part of the Scottish investment landscape for nearly 20 years. Investing in companies across the UK and Europe, SEP nevertheless retains a keen interest in and focus on the rapidly evolving technology... |
| Mar 19, 2018 | DataFest18 Gets Underway | DataFest18 will showcase Scotland’s world-class data science capabilities with experts from around the globe descending on Edinburgh for the international conference at the heart of the festival, Data Summit.
The festival has been organised... |
| Mar 15, 2018 | Join the Financial Services for Good Datathon Challenge | Data scientists and fintech entrepreneurs from across Scotland have been invited to compete in Deloitte’s 2018 Datathon.
The event is a 24-hour ‘hack’ or ‘jam’, which will focus on Financial Services for Good, exploring how financial data c... |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Digital Tech Awards Finalists Announced | The finalists for the 2018 Digital Technology Awards have been announced.
The awards celebrate talent, innovation and success in Scotland’s world-class digital technology industries. These industries contribute £6 billion in GVA to the econ... |
| Feb 16, 2018 | FanDuel Founders to Keynote EIE | Nigel and Lesley Eccles and Rob Jones, co-founders of FanDuel will keynote EIE 2018, Scotland’s leading technology investment showcase. The company is one of EIE’s many success stories, having appeared at the event as a start-up in 2010.
La... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Championing Scottish Digital Students at Data Talent 2018 | Heineken, the Scottish Government, Sainsbury’s Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Merkle Aquila and Data Fest sponsors SAS are just some of the companies that will be attending Data Talent’s annual introduction event. Data Talent provides em... |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Last Chance to Enter Digital Tech Awards | There’s still time to get your entries into the 2018 Digital Technology Awards. The competition is still looking for Scotland’s most innovative, disruptive and pioneering new companies, products and services, but entries close on February 1... |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Innovation Nation: Science Centre to Showcase Scotland | The Glasgow Science Centre will play host to a new interactive exhibition focusing on innovation and showcase Scotland as a pioneer in emerging technologies.
Idea #59 will explore advances in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, robotics... |
| Jan 10, 2018 | London Fintech Receives £800K for Scottish Expansion | Previse, the London-based start-up is to open a new development centre in Glasgow, creating 37 new data science jobs.
Previse’s technology uses artificial intelligence to enable large businesses to pay suppliers the day an invoice is receiv... |
| Dec 5, 2017 | Edinburgh is the UK’s Fastest Growing Tech Hub | Edinburgh’s status as one of Europe’s leading technology hubs has been reinforced by new research from Stack Overflow, the world’s largest developer community, which shows huge growth in the number of developers and data scientists working ... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: November 2017 | NEW APPOINTMENTS Ritchie Somerville
Ritchie Somerville has left his position as Innovation and Futures Manager of ICT Solutions for Edinburgh City Council to join the University of Edinburgh. Somerville will take up the role of Director of ... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | DataFest 18: Data Warriors Wanted | The Data Lab is hoping to empower Scotland’s ‘Data Warriors’ with DataFest18. Now in its second year, DataFest will offer recognition to those who have promoted or are innovating in data science and promote them as the next leaders in the f... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Scotland Women In Technology Awards – The Winners | From primary school teachers to employers, rising stars, inspirational women and a lifetimes achievement, the first ever Scotland Women In Technology Awards Winners were announced last night.
The awards recognise an incredible range of dedi... |
| Oct 24, 2017 | OPINION: Data Science and its Relevance, Some Time Down the Line | I’ve been working as a Data Scientist for around 2 and a half years now and just wanted to share some thoughts around what I’ve seen evolving in the field along the journey and how I perceive it.
I work in a startup, there’s about 20 of us ... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Data Specialists Invited to Improve Scottish Cancer Care | Data specialists, technicians and clinicians have been urged to collaborate in a project aimed at placing Scotland at the forefront of cancer care. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) reiterated its call today for entrants to the Cancer Inno... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | RegTech in Scotland – leveraging the FinTech promise | Perusing any industry news over the last year or two, one can not have failed to miss the explosion in coverage relating to firms failing to meet regulations and industry standards, and occasionally, even being complicit in, acts such as mo... |
| Oct 3, 2017 | FinTech 2017: Facing the Future | DIGIT’s fourth annual Fintech Summit was held in Edinburgh last week, providing Scotland’s largest forum for discussions on the country’s financial technology scene and how the ‘parish’ can become a world leader in the future of finance.
Ke... |
| Sep 5, 2017 | The Data Lab Looks to Increase Data Literacy in Scotland | The Data Lab has launched its CPD (continuing professional development) and Training Programme for 2017, offering courses ranging from data visualisation to statistics. The course will aim to support local industry and ensure that staff hav... |