What is it?
Tech Trends is an opportunity to get ahead of the game and discover the key technologies making an appearance in the coming year.
This year’s event will be looking at both pushing the limits of the new, some things that help bridge the gap and, as always, it will take a peek at what is just hype and how trends from previous years have fared.
Giving his rundown of the Top Ten Tech Trends of 2025 will be former Gartner analyst Richard Marshall, whose expertise covers numerous areas of software development including, mobile, low code, web tools, AI and Blockchain.
What can I expect?
Join Codebase in Aberdeen in January for an eye-opening evening where you will be privy to the latest developments in the industry and the expert predictions for 2025.
The distance between technology leaders and laggards is growing ever greater, with increasing numbers of companies finding themselves in transition.
Tech Trends 2025 will take place on 23rd January 2025, from 5:30-7:30pm at Pinsent Masons, on 13 Queens Road, Aberdeen AB15 4YL.
This event is open to anyone in the tech and business community in the North East of Scotland.
Don’t get left behind – book your ticket for Tech Trends 2025 today.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are turning 50!
The KTP Associate Seminar will showcase the impact KTP has had through past and current partnerships. It will highlight how organisations have benefitted from working with academics and how KTP Associates have advanced their career through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme. As KTP is celebrating its 50th year, the Seminar will showcase current projects as well as speakers from completed partnerships.
The seminar provides an excellent opportunity to network with the KTP community and share best practice with knowledge exchange professionals. If you would like to find out more about how KTP can help your business, or demonstrate the real-world impact your academic expertise can have, consider coming along.
This seminar is part of the KTP Centres in Scotland Seminar Series and KTP@50 celebrations.
Heather Rattray and Louise Arnold of Interface will be attending this event.
Scotland’s largest digital transformation summit for public sector policy and technology leaders takes place on 26th November at the EICC, Edinburgh.
Featuring over 50 speakers, 100 exhibitors and 1,200 delegates, Digital Scotland is the premier event for digital leaders and innovators dedicated to enhancing government services through technology.
In 2024, the conference will tap into the public tech zeitgeist – covering the latest from the global GovTech movement, digital ID, cloud services, payments, AI, IoT and Cybersecurity.
Digital Scotland is the meeting place where government ministers interact with technology upstarts and disruptors engaged and motivated by the goal of creating world-class digital experiences for citizens of the future. Be part of the conversation.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the strategic direction for government digital policy and programmes.
- Hear how GovTech leaders from across the UK ‘home nations’ are pursuing technology-led transformation of government services.
- Experience best-in-class technology projects from across an array of public services, from healthcare to social services, local government, environment and justice
- Learn playbook approaches to tech implementation from experienced public-sector technology leaders.
- Attend industry masterclasses spanning user-centred design, data, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and IoT.
Join Aberdeen Renewables Energy Group (AREG) to network and explore career opportunities with industry leaders. Connect, learn, and advance your career!
Are you a recent graduate or early-career professional looking to jumpstart your career? Join AREG for an exciting networking event designed to connect you with industry leaders and explore valuable career opportunities! This event offers a unique chance to:
- Network with top professionals and expand your industry connections.
- Explore Career Opportunities in various sectors and learn about the latest job openings.
- Gain Insights from experienced mentors who can offer guidance and advice for your career journey.
- Enhance Your Skills with interactive sessions and workshops tailored to young professionals.
Speakers to be announced.
Don’t miss this opportunity to build meaningful connections and set the stage for your future career success.
The UK Intellectual Property Office and Scottish Enterprise are coming together to hold a joint event at The Studio, Glasgow on 7 November 2024, 9.30am to 1.30pm.
SMEs are the backbone of the UK economy, accounting for more than 99% of the business population; they are vital to achieving economic growth and improving the UK’s productivity. Intellectual Property (IP) is positively associated with various indicators of business success, with recent evidence showing firms that register IP rights (IPRs) achieve 20% higher revenue per employee[1] and a likelihood ten times higher of accessing early-stage growth finance compared to their peers without IPR portfolios[2].
At the event, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will highlight the support they provide to small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), including the new financial support scheme for innovative businesses, IP Advance.
Scottish Enterprise (SE) will set out the opportunities for businesses to scale up their innovation and to access support for their intellectual property and business growth. This key area is identified in SE’s new Missions based approach, which aims to unlock thousands of new jobs and billions of pounds of global growth opportunities for a more successful, greener and fairer economy.
If you support businesses to recognise the potential value in their IP assets, this is your chance to hear more about the IPO’s support for SMEs and SE’s work to support businesses to leverage IP to achieve business growth.
The event, hosted at The Studio, will include keynote speeches from the IPO’s Ben Llewellyn-Jones, Director of Business & International Policy and Scottish Enterprise’s Head of Innovation, Alison Munro.
The event is open to the IP Professional community – including Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, IP Legal Professionals and IP Commercialisation advisers. It will also provide networking opportunities with colleagues from across the host organisations as well as attendees from the IP Professional community.
Timings
Arrival and refreshments from 9.30am, with the event running from 10.00 to 12.30, followed by lunch and networking opportunities until 1.30pm.
[1] Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/intellectual-property-rights-and-firm-performance-in-the-european-union
[2] Patents, trade marks and startup finance – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/2023-startup-finance
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will host AIMday Tourism & TravelTech as an in-person event on 26th March 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute building, 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EF.
What is AIMday?
AIMday® (Academic Industry Meeting day) is based on workshops where challenges submitted by participating organisations around a central theme are discussed with experts from different areas of expertise.
After the event, participating academics and researchers can apply for funding from an exclusive funding call, to work with an AIMday participant on their challenge.
Read more about the AIMday Concept.
AIMday Tourism & TravelTech
Some of the most interdisciplinary, intriguing challenges are found at organisations working in the Tourism, Travel, & Festivals sector.
Examples include:
- How might AI and enhanced automation be integrated in your business, while maintaining a good customer experience?
- How might we overcome productivity and staff shortages in the tourism and travel industry?
- How might tourism become more sustainable, circular, or even regenerative for communities and the environment?
- How might residents have a voice in managing the visitor economy?
- How might we use forecasting and data analytics to improve decision-making for creating more impactful experiences in tourism?
- How might visitors be encouraged to go beyond just the well-worn paths and hotspots?
- How can the tourism industry leverage gaming technologies?
Addressing challenges connected to this sector is key to the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s contribution to the £1.3 billion Data Driven Innovation programme. Collaboration between organisations and academia, utilising EFI’s diverse interdisciplinary expertise, is key to understand, break down, and tackle these challenges. We will convene expertise in Design, Informatics, Engineering, Forecasting, Circular Economy and others from across the University of Edinburgh, providing alternative and novel approaches to these challenges.
How to participate
To participate in AIMday as a challenge-holder, you need to submit at least one challenge phrased as a question, which you wish to discuss in a small workshop setting. We welcome challenges in all aspects of Tourism, Travel, and Festivals. We would be happy to discuss your challenge idea further. Feel free to e-mail joshua.ryan-saha@ei.ed.ac.uk
Join AIMday Tourism & TravelTech to access expertise at the University of Edinburgh. Participating organisations meet teams of researchers to explore and address the specific challenges each organisation faces. Each question submitted is tackled by a multi-disciplinary group of academics and researchers with the aim of finding pathways to solutions. Get in touch with joshua.ryan-saha@ei.ed.ac.uk to help you come up with or phrase appropriate question(s).
One question, one hour, a group of academic experts: that is the AIMday format!
After the event, our academics can apply for funding from an exclusive funding call, to work with an AIMday participant on their challenge.
Register your attendance at AIMday Tourism & TravelTech by submitting your question(s) on the registration page for organisations by Monday 4th November 2024.
Edinburgh Innovations are hosting a webinar showcasing research expertise in AI Frontiers on 24 October at 2.00pm- 3.00pm (GMT+1/UK time).
Prof Themis Prodromakis, Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers will deliver a talk on “Innovations across AI and Semiconductors”, while Emily Lekkas, Program Director in AI at Edinburgh Innovations will introduce the latest research and expertise at the University. There will also be an opportunity to hear from an industry partner who participated in AIMday Digital Frontiers 2023.
Explore Digital Frontiers is a series of webinars showcasing research expertise in AI, data science, quantum computing, robotics and more from our leading researchers.
Our next webinar in December will focus on Data Science Frontiers. Details and registration will be available soon!
Perhaps these webinars inspire you with questions?
Are you looking to collaborate with our leading experts on Digital Frontiers? You can explore answers with experts from the University of Edinburgh by registering your challenges for our AIMday Digital Frontiers event! Participate in this hybrid event on the 26 February 2025 by submitting your questions by the 13 December 2024!
Building on the last two years of success, this year’s Meet the Funders will help you connect with national and local funders and discover the latest funding opportunities.
This year, participants are invited to hear presentations on:
- Celebrity influencing in the Fundraising Mix, with Steve Sloan and charity, Mikeysline.
- Expanding your Types of fundraising with Beyond Profit UK and local organisations who have had success in diversifying funding streams.
- Make sure not to miss ‘What Funders are Looking for in an Application’, with SCVO’s Laura Cameron and Evaluation Support Scotland’s, Gary Walsh.
- Take a closer look at corporate fundraising/donations/trusts with Jo O’Sullivan from Institute of Fundraising as well as Outfit Moray and Walkers Shortbread.
The day is designed to help you better understand funding eligibility, connect with funders and groups, and create opportunities for partnership and collaboration.
There will be over 15 stallholders including: Interface, Foundation Scotland, Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation, National Lottery, Independent Living Fund Scotland, Inspiring Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, AHF Transforming Heritage, REAP Scotland, Scotmid, DTAS/Community Shares Scotland, National Churches Trust, Sport Scotland and the Moray Community Foundation.
Carol-Ann Adams of Interface will be exhibiting at this event come along and say hello and find out how Interface can help you.
Without innovation, the world would be a very different place – quite simply, it would never change. It’s at the forefront of everything we do as a society and is integral to businesses.
Such innovation often comes from research carried out by academics and research professionals in universities and businesses across the world. That research allows organisations to create positive impact on our communities and environment, saves lives and empowers people to have a greater quality of life.
Join the 4 Innovation Centres as well as other Innovation Support Institutions at Walter Bower House at the University of St Andrews to allow the academic research community and businesses to connect and learn more about the support they offer. This event is hosted by the University of St Andrews but open to colleagues at Abertay University and the University of Dundee.
Who is the event for:
- Academics
- PhD students
- Postdocs
- Research fellows
- Regional businesses
- All those interested in innovation support!
Schedule:
1.00pm – Networking Lunch and Arrivals (Entrepreneurship Centre)
2.00pm – Welcome and Introductions by: Innovation Centres, Interface, EoS KTP Centre, IUK Business Connect (Cathedral Room)
3:15pm – Exhibitions and networking (Cathedral Room)
4.00pm – Exhibition Close
4.00pm – Eden Campus tours
Shelley Breckenridge of Interface will be presenting at this event so come along and hear how Interface can support you.