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Financial Service Marketplace Insight

By updatesPosted on 14th September 202014th September 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

On Thursday, our Head of Data, Katy Guthrie, and Head of Cyber, Ciara Mitchell, hosted a “Financial Services Marketplace” as part of the Scotland Fintech festival. This event brought together individuals from Financial Services companies, Fintechs and data and cyber

Glasgow Data Analytics Startup Selected for GCHQ Mentoring Scheme

By updatesPosted on 7th September 20207th September 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Chief Executive Adam Brown said Bellrock’s inclusion on the programme is a “vote of confidence” in the up-and-coming data analytics firm. Glasgow-based data science firm, Bellrock Technology, is one of 10 startups to be mentored by GCHQ as part of its

Data Adequacy and Brexit Roundtable

By updatesPosted on 21st August 202021st August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Brexit, ScotlandIS News

Yesterday, ScotlandIS Head of Data, Katy Guthrie, hosted a roundtable to focus on the impact of the end of the Brexit transition agreement on international data flows. We heard from Martin Sloan, Data & Tech Partner at Brodies LLP, on

Understanding the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labour Market

By updatesPosted on 18th August 202018th August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

The government is carrying out research to understand and measure the UK AI labour market. This will help inform future policy and strategy. The government is undertaking a survey of UK businesses and charities to help understand the UK AI

Member Reaction to Geospatial Strategy

By updatesPosted on 3rd August 20203rd August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandIS News

Following the recent publication of the UK Geospatial Commission’s strategy, we asked several of our members their thoughts and reaction to the geospatial strategy. Dr Michael Grove of environmental data specialist, Topolytics, had this to say: “As a Geographer and

New Career Resources in Data & AI

By updatesPosted on 23rd July 202011th August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Skills, ScotlandIS News

Skills Development Scotland has launched new guides and resources for careers in Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Development, in partnership with ScotlandIS, The Data Lab and Scottish Enterprise. These resources highlight the variety of job roles that exist

West Dunbartonshire Council Choose VKY Intelligent Automation

By updatesPosted on 14th July 202014th July 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Independent Scottish based service provider VKY Intelligent Automation has picked up a leading-edge Council contract following a tender procured through the UK Government G Cloud 11 framework. West Dunbartonshire Council has announced it has selected independent service provider VKY Intelligent

Geospatial and AI Strategy – This month in Data

By updatesPosted on 10th July 202010th July 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandIS News

It’s the holidays! I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks off at the end of July and just hoping the weather will improve, as I’m not getting further than Scotland this year. The Geospatial “space” has been active lately.

ScotlandIS achieves new national first

By HeatherPosted on 9th July 202010th July 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandIS News

ScotlandIS becomes first organisation in Scotland to be awarded Silver Cluster Management Excellence accreditation for its support to digital and tech clusters ScotlandIS has achieved a UK first, having been awarded Silver Excellence from the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis

Californian tech firm Rasa to open R&D base in Edinburgh

By updatesPosted on 25th June 202025th June 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

A burgeoning conversational artificial intelligence (AI) firm that helps drive voice and text assistants for major global firms has chosen Edinburgh for its new research and development (R&D) hub and completed a major funding round. Rasa Technologies has signed up