The DHI Rural Centre of Excellence project in Moray is supporting the delivery of additional educational opportunities, courses, and skills provision – both for people interested in a career in digital health and care and for current and future frontline health and care staff in need of understanding digital ways of working. We also want to raise awareness about the types of jobs, career opportunities, and skills requirements associated with digital health and care.

Digital technology is transforming the health and care sector. This will affect the way health and social care is delivered in Moray and will have an impact on the skills and capabilities required by the workforce.

The event is free to attend, and you can expect to:

• Learn more about digital health and care developments in Moray – and broader Scotland-wide challenges and opportunities.
• Hear from local and national employers about the digital skills and competencies that health and care employers need.
• Learn how digital technology can support people with their health and wellbeing needs.
• Discover more about DHI’s current projects, and the skills-related research we have been carrying out over the last few years.
• Hear an update on new online courses supporting the adult social care workforce in Moray.
• Share best practices and understand how digital health & care stakeholders can learn from one another, work together and partner with local and national agencies.

SPEAKERS

Simon Bokor-Ingram, Chief Officer, Health and Social Care Moray
Janette Hughes, Director of Planning and Performance, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI)
Sanna Rimpiläinen, Head of Research and Skills, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI)
Rosemary McCormack, Head of Curriculum, UHI Moray
Dylan White, Principal Lead, NHS Youth Academy
Ruth Cochrane, Lead Academic, Glasgow School of Art Innovation School
Andrew Ord, Account Executive, Microsoft

There will also be representatives from NHS Grampian, Scottish Care, the Cognitive Assistive Robotic Environments (CARE) Group at Heriot-Watt University, Scottish AI Alliance, Skills Development Scotland, Education Scotland, and the Scottish Ambulance Service.

The Food and Drink TechHUB Business Support Service are delivering a second packaging clinic for Highland council area businesses working in the food and drink sector where you will be able to receive bespoke advice from our panel of packaging experts. The virtual clinic offers individual 20-minute, one-to-one sessions with our team of specialist consultants.

You will receive free tailored packaging advice that will benefit your business. We can offer bespoke advice in any of the following areas.

• What is the best packaging for your product?
• What is the best packaging for your product?
• Recycled and biodegradable packaging and how best to recycle your packaging.
• Deposit Returns Scheme (DRS)
• Environmental Packaging Considerations
• Packaging design, labelling and how this influences consumer behaviour.

The panel will be hosted by Alistair Trail, Food and Drink TechHUB Project Manager and will consist of:

• Tim Baldwin, Sustainable Certificates Group has 15 years experience of engineering design, process installation management and project management in the packaging industry and 10 years’ at BPTA supporting developments in the plastics processing industry. He has expertise in plastic packaging and plastic recycling.
• Donald Beaton, Packaging Technologist at Celnor Eco Packaging Ltd. Donald has expertise in food and drink packaging and understanding the best packaging solutions for your business. He has expertise in applications of plastic-free, compostable packaging biomaterial for the food and drink industry.
• Luisa Riascos, SAC Consulting has expertise in Life Cycle assessment and the environmental impact and alternatives to plastic packaging in the food and drink sector.
• Kerry Hammond, SAC Consulting has over 18 years’ experience working in the commercial food and drink industry. Kerry leads on brand design and development, and has expertise in packaging design, labelling and how this influences the consumer.

There are only 6 sessions available so please register early to avoid disappointment. The registration process includes questions about your business and packaging issues so please provide as much information as you can so the panel can carry out research before the meeting.

Highland Business Week 2023 organised by Inverness Chamber of Commerce will feature an exciting series of events including networking opportunities and seminars along with the well established Highland Spotlight business exhibition and Highland Business Awards lunch.

Highland Business Week will run from Monday 25 September through to Friday 29 September, providing Highland companies with excellent opportunities to make new business connections and celebrate their achievements.

The full programme of events will be published in due course – for further information follow the link below.

Sign up for a day of inspiration, insights, learning and networking. Supply chain resilience, industry 4.0 technologies, leadership & culture, operational excellence and sustainability will all be covered. Find out how the manufacturing sector responded to a global pandemic, how it can recover and how we will reimagine the future.

The conference, previously known as the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) National Manufacturing Conference, will arm manufacturing sector and supply chain businesses with the ambition, vision, knowledge, tools and networks to increase productivity and maintain future competitiveness.

Making Scotland’s Future is a partnership between Scottish Government, public agencies, industry and academia that are collectively taking forward a programme of activity designed to secure a strong, sustainable future for Scotland’s manufacturing sector, aligned to the Scottish Government’s ambitions in the National Strategy for Economic Transformation. The power of Making Scotland’s Future lies in harnessing all of its collective networks, channels and support to help drive productivity, innovation and competitiveness, maintain and create high-quality jobs, and attract and develop talent, while embedding low carbon and sustainable manufacturing as its core. The vision is for Scotland to be a country inventing, designing, developing and manufacturing world-leading products and technologies. Through continuing support and investment, we are making Scotland’s future today.

The Making Scotland’s Future Conference is being led by Scottish Enterprise on behalf of the Making Scotland’s Future partnership.

Interface are exhibiting and we’d love to see you there!

This is a collaborative event for everyone interested in engaging in health and life sciences innovation in the Highlands and Islands. Hosted by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, NHS Highland and the University of the Highlands and Islands at the new Life Sciences Innovation Centre on the Inverness Campus.

This event will highlight mechanisms and routes for growing health innovation opportunities throughout the Highlands and Islands. This includes regional expertise, infrastructure, funding and services available within HIE, NHS Highland, and UHI, as well as through relevant regional and national partner organisations.

This event is open to all involved parties in health science (including in MedTech and Digital Health) such as entrepreneurs and third sector organisation interested in health product and service development, evaluation and assessment, as well as implementation for clinical and/or commercial benefit. NHS staff from outside Highland are welcome along with anyone in the health and social care sector.

Join Highland and Islands Enterprise for a networking event with guest speakers Paul Easto of Wilderness Scotland and Clare Campbell of Prickly Thistle. They will discuss how they’ve grown their businesses from inception to expansion, along with the highs and lows of getting to where they are.

Experts from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Business Gateway, Inverness Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Small Business will be on hand to explain the different forms of support they offer.

Come along and explore what the possibilities are for your business.

Refreshments will be served and the event will be live streamed.

With digital increasingly driving transformative new national and international opportunities for the creative and heritage sectors across the Highlands and Islands, Shared Perspectives offers a thought-provoking one day conference exploring what this could mean for your business, project, organisation or network.

Delivered by XpoNorth Digital, this free event will take a practical look at how digital technologies are unlocking ambitious new areas for regional businesses. It will also offer a platform for creative and heritage networks to meet with other sectors, make new connections and discuss collaborative approaches to shared challenges and opportunities.

Hear from a range of inspirational speakers and take part in workshop sessions on how digital storytelling can drive key parts of your business, regional impact and opportunities around the use of AI, crowdsourcing for the heritage sector and how creativity can power rural economies. There will also be an opportunity to meet 1-2-1 with XpoNorth Digital’s specialist advisors, HIE’s Creative Industries team and members of local development networks.

One-to-one sessions are now available to book on the day with our XpoNorth Digital Sector Specialists:

-Jessica Fox, Screen and Broadcast Specialist Advisor

-Nicola Henderson, Heritage Specialist Advisor

-Tim Wright, Digital Specialist Advisor

Email info@xponorth.co.uk to secure your space!

Produced as a hybrid event, attendees can connect with the programme in-person or online.

The Open University in Scotland, in partnership with Moray Chamber of Commerce and Visit Moray Speyside BID, invite you to an informative Skills for Business Roadshow.

This is the perfect opportunity for employers to gain valuable insights and learn about the fantastic training available. We can also share with you the funding opportunities that you could utilise to develop your skills and that of your employees.

Upskilling and reskilling is available at little to no cost for both individuals and businesses.

We cannot wait to welcome you to one of these events and share with you all the incredible opportunities available to help your business thrive.

The Moray Business Showcase – a business to business exhibition gives you the opportunity to make new business connections and gives your business the perfect platform to sell itself.

2023 is the first year in three years that there are no restrictions upon us, and people are ready to get back out to connect with a bang.

Local businesses will have the opportunity to showcase themselves at the great venue that is Moray Sports Centre on Wednesday 7^th June.

Whether you want to work with local businesses for procurement, recruitment, business services such as legal, accountancy or even stationery supplies, (this list really is endless!) then the Moray Business Showcase provides you the opportunity to grow your network.

Interface will be exhibiting at the event so come along and meet Carol-Ann Adams to find out how Interface can connect your business with the most relevant skill or expertise from Scotland’s universities and research institutions to help your organisation create and improve products, streamline services and develop processes to drive business growth.

The event is free to attend.