Airts adds FreeAgent co-founder Roan Lavery to Board and appoints first Marketing Director
A start-up whose AI-powered people planning and project management platform is helping global accounting firms has made two key appointments. Edinburgh-based Airts has appointed Skyscanner’s Melissa McMahon as the company’s...
Video streaming to ‘fuel £10bn UK growth boom’
Demand for video streaming and internet access is set to fuel a £10bn growth boom in the UK entertainment and media sector by 2023, one of the leading business consultancies...
Tech Nation launches second mentorship programme for seed or Series A funded fintechs
Tech Nation – the government-established agency supporting the development of the technology economy – has launched its second annual mentorship programme aimed at fintech companies. Following the success of 2018’s...
Scottish Enterprise among funders of app that connects retail buyers to new products
A Glasgow-based technology firm which has designed an app to connect retail buyers to new product lines has secured £300,000 in a funding round. Product Guru, which has signed up...
Design students unveil products addressing key issues in health, home, and work
Students graduating from The Glasgow School of Art’s acclaimed Product Design Engineering (PDE) department will unveil a wide array of innovative designs at the school’s degree show this weekend before...
400-plus conference attendees chart Scotland’s digital future
More than 400 delegates, exhibitors and speakers from across Scotland, the UK and Europe convened in Glasgow today for the second annual Digital Scotland conference. Kate Forbes, the Minister for...
SBRC appoints head of cyber security and innovation
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has appointed former Police Scotland detective inspector Eamonn Keane to the newly created role of head of cyber security and innovation. It follows a...
Scotland’s fintech sector ‘exceeds 100 innovative enterprises’
The fintech sector in Scotland has grown to more than one hundred “innovative firms focused on reinventing financial services through new technology and data”. It continues the momentum from the...
Converge semi-finalists point to closing gender gap
A system that mimics human skin, to replace animal testing, an interactive map to help blind and visually impaired people to navigate safely around train stations, and a flat-pack, solar...
The Future Workforce
Automation is coming. We all know that. But what does it look like? It’s easy to conceive physical robots in factories and warehouses but much harder to imagine office based...
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