Posts by Stephaine Peebles
Guest blog: Data-smart boardroom leaders needed for business boom
Professor John Amis explains why the University of Edinburgh Business School’s Non-Executive Director Programme with FWB Park Brown is more vital than ever. “Scotland has a longstanding international reputation for financial services and is the most important UK financial centre outside London and the South-east. With a FinTech community of more than 100 companies now…
Read MoreConference to focus on doing data right in Edinburgh
Best-selling author Caroline Criado Perez will visit the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday 10 September to speak at the conference Doing Data Right: Through People and Partnerships. Caroline Criado Perez is the author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, which shines a light on the data gender gap behind…
Read MoreUniversity launches first MicroMasters Programme in Predictive Analytics
The University of Edinburgh Business School has launched its first ever MicroMasters in Predictive Analytics for Business Applications, delivered in partnership with edX, one of the world’s leading online education platforms. As the first MicroMasters to be offered by a UK university, the flexible online programme has been designed to equip learners with the skills…
Read MoreWorking together to count the uncounted
UNICEF’s Mark Hereward explains how the right partnerships and innovation are key to ‘filling gaps’ in childrens data, delivering fresh insights, so that the invisible can be made visible Sugarmaa was born on a cold February day in Mongolia’s Alag-Erdene area in a health centre near the family home. She was a healthy infant,…
Read MoreTen 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…
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