Posts Tagged ‘Events’
Visionary restoration breathes life into much-loved city landmark
Edinburgh Futures Institute has officially opened its doors to the public in the transformed and revitalised Old Royal Infirmary building. The much-loved city landmark will officially open to the public on Monday 3rd June following an extensive seven-year, multi-million-pound restoration. Built in 1879, the Old Royal Infirmary housed the city’s main hospital until 2003 and…
Read MoreEvent review: FutureScot Cloud, Data & AI Conference
EPCC’s Donald Scobbie writes about this recent event in Glasgow, which included a keynote talk by EPCC Director Mark Parsons. Digital transformation This conference addressed some big topics: service delivery transformation, public sector data management, migration to cloud platform services, and use of AI and automation to support service delivery. The keynote speakers laid out…
Read MoreNASA Hackathon
Join the Scottish team for the NASA International Space Apps Challenge On October 2-3, NASA is inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to participate in a virtual hackathon – The NASA International Space Apps Challenge. During a period of 48 hours, participants from around the world will form virtual teams…
Read MoreFind out how data and technology are shaping the future of the creative industries at the 2021 Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase!
Online event, 8th and 9th June 2021 Register for your FREE ticket: https://bit.ly/CI-IS21 The 2021 Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase is taking place online on the 8th and 9th of June, exploring ground-breaking new work from the creative industries in Edinburgh, South East Scotland and beyond! Highlights include an ‘In Conversation With’ Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Co-Founder…
Read More#DDIdiscussion Event Summary | Data-driven Innovation in AI
Data-driven innovation can power artificial intelligence (AI) to provide solutions to a range of societal challenges, a DDI webinar heard. Roy Donaldson, a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems, told delegates at the event, The role of data-driven innovation in AI, that asking which business sectors were embracing AI was the wrong question. He…
Read More#DDIdiscussions | Open Finance, Ethics and Social Inclusion
Consumers must be involved in designing financial services if open banking and open finance are going to have a positive impact on social inclusion, a DDI seminar was told. Open Finance, Ethics and Social Inclusion heard that opening up consumers’ data could deliver significant benefits, especially in terms of addressing the challenges of the unbanked…
Read MoreDDI Discussions: Covid-19 & Data – One year on
Twelve months after the first national lockdown, an expert panel gave us their insights on a year like no other Watch the panel discussion here. The use of data during the Covid-19 pandemic has raised big questions about how much personal information people are willing to share – and what they get in return.…
Read MoreDDI conference 2020: Doing Data Together – Ethical collaboration through Covid-19 and beyond
Virtual conference, Friday 6 November 2020, 10am-4pm GMT Register for free: scotsmandataconference.co.uk The University of Edinburgh will hold its third Data-Driven Innovation conference (held jointly with the Scotsman newspaper) on Friday 6 November 2020. Join experts from inside the University, and beyond, to hear about the enormous challenges – and real opportunities – in…
Read MoreScotland’s Fintech Festival – 50+ Events Throughout September
FinTech Scotland confirmed today the programme for the third Scotland Fintech Festival. The September festival will see a diverse range of fifty plus events throughout the month sharing fintech developments in Scotland and from around the world. The festival will build on the successful events from the last two years which has seen it…
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