Posts by Stephaine Peebles
Ten years of driving tech investment
This year’s announcement of EIE’s partnership with the Data-Driven Innovation initiative was the latest development for Scotland’s tech investment showcase, which has helped over 430 companies attract around £750m investment over the last decade. Steve Ewing, Director of Entrepreneurship at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, explains how EIE has built its global audience.…
Read MoreIndustry leaders’ challenge to get creative with data
Four of Edinburgh’s leading cultural organisations are taking part in a £7.6 million initiative that could transform the city’s creative industries through innovative use of data. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, The List, Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and New Media Scotland have set Challenge Projects to drive innovation in the cultural sector and are…
Read MoreResearch partnership boost for City Region’s super-computer
The University of Edinburgh’s high-powered computing centre, the EPCC, is collaborating with US tech giant Nvidia to improve collaboration across the higher education sector. The EPCC is one of the first organisations to join Nvidia’s UK technology centre, aimed at supporting research in AI and data science. Mark Parsons, EPCC director and associate dean of…
Read MoreWhy men need to step up on gender equality in data science
PhD Sociology student, Poppy Gerrard-Abbott reports from the Data-Driven Innovation initiative’s Women in Data Science event: The University of Edinburgh Informatics forum hosted an event by the Centre for Data, Culture and Society, with participants from the City Region Deal and University of Edinburgh’s Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative on Women in Data, on Tuesday 11…
Read MoreCivTech 4.0: Solve a challenge, build a business
As part of Digital Leaders Week 2019, the Scottish Government has announced two events taking place on June 19th in Glasgow, Tontine, and June 20th in Edinburgh at the CivTech studio. These engaging sessions offer an ideal setting for start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs to learn about the Scottish Government Digital Directorate’s award-winning CivTech Programme and…
Read MoreCity Region Deal’s Data Skills drive opens with schools visit to ‘Data Town’
An event for city school pupils took place on Monday 3 June to mark the launch of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal’s Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Skills Gateway. ‘Data Town’ was an interactive workshop bringing together young people from across the city region to learn about life in an increasingly data-driven world.…
Read MoreDrive to bring more data research talent to Edinburgh
The Data-Driven Innovation initiative is supporting a recruitment drive to attract academic talent to Edinburgh, to deliver more data-based innovation projects with industry partners. Researchers recruited through the Train@Ed Post-doctoral Fellowship will join academic teams at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with external partners across the private, public and third sectors. The DDI initiative…
Read MoreCentre enables data-driven research to thrive
The University of Edinburgh has launched a research centre to support data-led research innovation in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) will back the vital contributions researchers make to contemporary cultural debates and social issues and the study and understanding of the past. It will also…
Read MoreDriving force
Catherine Stihler, Chief Executive of the Open Knowledge Foundation, explains how open data can help drive innovation The Open Knowledge Foundation wants to see enlightened societies around the world, where everyone has access to key information and the ability to use it to understand and shape their lives. A big part of how we have…
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