This event is delivered in partnership with the National Trust for Scotland and it is aimed at businesses and organisations within the Highland and Islands tourism sector only.

Join this interactive day-event focussed on the critical issues and opportunities shaping the landscape of the Highland & Islands Tourism sector.

Hear real stories from peers, on staff retention, attraction and innovation. With a mix of case studies, panel discussion and workshops we will touch on topics that will help your business to stay competitive.

Don’t miss the chance to be part of a solution-focused conversation, and join a day of learning, inspiration and networking.

Agenda of the event and speakers will be announced soon.

Get ready to revolutionize your social enterprise by harnessing the power of AI in a webinar organised by Impact Hub Inverness. For more information and to register click below.

The Inverness Business Show is the Highlands of Scotland’s Premier Business Networking Event where you can meet 100’s of local decision makers who have already registered to attend this event.

Designed for decision makers, team leaders, owners, managers and directors from all sizes of business.

There are around 50 companies exhibiting and with a packed programme of 8 fantastic seminars and workshops, networking events and a huge exhibition to browse there are opportunities galore for attendees and exhibitors.

Get full event details and information about speakers, sessions and exhibiting at Inverness Business Show.

The creative and heritage sectors are widely viewed as incredibly fertile spaces for innovation, consistently stepping outside the boundaries of traditional thinking to find new ways of working. As these sectors continues to navigate uncertainly, now more than ever, businesses, organisations and networks are looking to reach their customers in different ways and develop new processes, services and products. However, from identifying possible areas of innovation- to articulation, funding and undertaking R&D – embarking on the journey can seem like a daunting and complicated process.

In this practical workshop, John Mackenzie, Senior Development Manager for Innovation at Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), will break down their range of innovation services, how to access them and talk through the dynamic opportunities it could offer the creative and heritage sectors.

John Mackenzie provides innovation support to both HIE staff and clients providing advice on innovation funding, IP, access to external expertise and support on how to structure an innovation project. He is also HIE’S lead on their partnerships with the Censis and Best innovation centres, the advanced manufacturing cluster builder programme, and Interface.

Lochaber Chamber of Commerce brings you Lochaber Ideas Week 2023, a celebration of thought leadership and innovation! World-class thinkers, diversity experts, politicians, and public servants unite to shape Lochaber’s future. Engage in a week of inspiring debates and discussions ranging from The Digital Revolution: AI, Apps & the Future of Business, to Tourism Day to Around Lochaber in 80 Tables and culminating in Lochaber Ideas Week Gala Dinner.

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!