Global digital technology experts will take the stage in Edinburgh this autumn at the 22nd annual ScotSoft conference. The conference organised by technology membership and cluster management organisation, ScotlandIS will kick off at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on the 3rd October 2019 with a full-day developer conference and a half-day leadership forum. A host …
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With over 28 speakers and 1200 delegates throughout the day and night, ScotSoft2017 was by far the biggest and best yet.
One of the greatest elements of ScotSoft is the recognition of talent and innovation that comes from the Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards. The shortlisted projects are all drawn from final year students studying computer science and software engineering at universities across Scotland. Last year we had an all-female line up of winners, …
The premier event in the Scottish tech calendar, ScotSoft, is returning to the EICC this September with one of the best lineups to date – including speakers from Amazon, Google, eBay, Photobox and more. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘from good to great’ and will feature experts who have faced challenges, pivoted and …
Duncan Mann, Global HR Manager, KAL ATM Software Successfully addressing the skills needs of 21st century businesses is a constant work in progress. As an organisation operating in the evolving FinTech sector, digital technology and software skills are essential requirements at KAL ATM Software. We employ 160 people globally, with 60 in …
You may have seen this story, which we shared on Twitter recently, but if not then it’s a very entertaining slice of (robot) life, unless you actually are a robot of course… A firm in the US “employs” security robots, made by a firm called Knightscope (whose share price, I suspect, was not improved by …
by Gareth Biggerstaff, be-IT I have to begin this article with a caveat, namely that I’m starting from a position of relative ignorance. I am an IT recruiter, not a techie, and although I’ve accumulated a fair bit of knowledge about the computing world over the last few decades, I couldn’t begin to come …
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As one of Skyscanner’s co-founders, I’m often asked for my thoughts on entrepreneurship. Here are my three self-styled, tongue-in-cheek ‘Start-up Laws’. They’re a collection of things I’ve learned along the way and my own personal beliefs in terms of how a fast-growth business should operate. Gareth’s Law 1 : Advertising is the way to …
3 October 2019, EICC, Edinburgh
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