People thought early 20th century Kodak cameras would invade privacy. Technology evolves, and so must we
Ahead of FutureScot’s Digital Justice and Policing 2019 event in Edinburgh on the 29th October, Davie Gow, Deputy CTO for Leidos Civil UK, caught up with Leidos Vice President and…
Interview: Dr Hatice Ohzisar, founder of HaticeXInterior
“2B or not 2B?” That is the question that Dr Hatice Ohzisar, founder of Edinburgh-based interior design and architectural services firm, HaticeXInterior, asks herself on a regular basis. When AutoCAD,…
From Engage, Invest, Exploit to…exit
This week will see fifty high-growth potential data-driven tech companies pitch for funding at the annual flagship Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) event, organised by Informatics Ventures. In 2016, Seonaidh MacDonald…
Not high-tech, just tech savvy
From Soviet-era rotary phones to public services run on artificial intelligence, Estonia has pioneered digital government. But an architect of its transformation says success depends on “analogue factors, not digital”….
Fixing the female funding gap; a founder shares her experience
Next week will see fifty ‘high-growth potential’ technology companies pitch for funding at the annual Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) event hosted by Informatics Ventures – ten of them founded by…
Paule Akramaite-Dean, software engineer
Paule Akramaite-Dean is a software engineer at iZettle’s office in Edinburgh. While women in tech come from a blinding array of backgrounds, there aren’t many like Paule – who started…
‘Mr Big Picture’; thriving on digital innovation
Imagine being able to see every aspect of a building, construction site or development in detail – in essence, a bird’s-eye visualisation without the need for scaffolding or aircraft –…
How to connect with your best customers through holistic content marketing
If you have a business, you may already know that trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded digital marketplace and being seen by the right people, at the right…
The Exascale: a billion billion reasons why the global supercomputing ‘arms race’ is heating up
Mark Parsons sounds remarkably alert for a man who is just back from an exhausting tour of some of the world’s biggest supercomputing functions and facilities. In the previous fortnight…
Born to be digital
The arrival into the world of Scotland’s Minister for Public Finance and the Digital Economy came at a momentous moment in the era of the information age. In 1989, Tim…