DigitalScotland 2023 sponsors

the annual conference for public sector technology

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Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2024, the Group generated revenues of €5.8 billion. 

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CirrusHQ is a UK-based AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, helping public sector organisations design, build, and manage secure, scalable cloud environments. With deep expertise across cloud strategy, migration, DevOps, and cost optimisation, we support our customers at every stage of the cloud journey. 

As a trusted AWS Public Sector Partner, CirrusHQ enables government, healthcare, and education organisations to deliver resilient, compliant digital services. As AI adoption accelerates, we provide the secure, high-performance cloud foundations needed to scale data and AI workloads—ensuring innovation is delivered efficiently, responsibly, and cost-effectively. 

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BT is one of the world’s leading communication services companies, with a significant local presence in Scotland. This includes a £1.5bn GVA impact across Scotland, supporting over 12,000 jobs and providing the digital infrastructure to support organisations and people across Scotland, including key critical services. The solutions BT provide are integral to modern life and digital transformation. BT’s purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: We connect for good.

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Netcompany is a leading pan-European end-to-end IT services company with almost 8,000 skilled, creative employees working from 10 countries. Founded in 2000 in Copenhagen, Netcompany helps public and private sector customers accelerate delivery of ambitious, complex digital transformation journeys.

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Alcidion provides hospitals and integrated care systems with a modern, modular electronic patient record. 

Bringing together data from multiple systems, such as the PAS, EPMA, inpatient digital systems, pathology and reablement services using an open-standards data platform, clinicians have access to the full picture of care for the patient, supporting quicker decisions from admission to discharge and beyond. 

Alcidion unlocks value from existing technology solutions, showing real-time capacity and demand across entire systems, identifying bottlenecks, automating routine activity and providing clinical decision support along each patient pathway, reducing the cognitive burden on staff. 

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Automated Document Services Ltd (‘ADS‘) specialise in digitisation services including heritage sector imaging, bulk scanning, data capture, response handling & data hosting.  Turning your paper securely digital.

ADS offer full range of digitisation services from postage stamps, photographs, all document types including HR, Health & Safety, engineering, registers, bound volumes up to 40cm spine depth & A0 size, to large format maps, drawings and paintings. 

ADS host a vast range of digitisation equipment, from stand alone Camera systems, A2 CopiBook to A0 Quartz, V shape cradles & vacuum plates, production scanners combined with an experienced team, purpose fitted facility, tried & tested processes and capacity to ensure a speedy turnaround with no compromise on quality or security, delivered both on customer sites and at ADS UK facilities.

ADS are exclusive UK partner with i2s. i2s, based in Bordeaux are world renowned manufactures of highest quality imaging equipment compliant with global imaging standards. 

ADS provide sales, support & maintenance of i2s solutions to institutions & archives across the UK. 

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centres globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

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Brightsolid is Scotland’s expert in colocation, cloud and cyber security solutions. We combine brilliantly bright ideas with seriously solid solutions to meet our customer’s business needs and ambitions. From custom-built colocation to hybrid cloud expertise and the latest cyber security technology, Brightsolid solutions are future-proofed with industry leading performance, agility, and reliability – all at great value for money. At Brightsolid, our focus is not just on what we do but how we do it, and it’s this approach that ensures we’re there to help our customers make the right decisions every step of the way.

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Cellnex Telecom is Europe’s largest independent telecoms infrastructure provider and a leading provider of Critical National Infrastructure in the UK. Our connectivity solutions support MNOs’ to Enterprise clients with connectivity solutions that are catered to their needs – A leader in small cells, Private Wireless Networks, In-Building Solutions and Telecom Infrastructure Services. 

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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future.

After over 30 years of connecting the UK, we are in a great place to help your organisation accelerate its digital future. We are investing in projects in Scotland to support innovation, from smart cities to transport, healthcare and manufacturing, to cyber-security and digital skills.

To find out how Cisco can help your organisation accelerate its digital future contact our Cisco Scotland Team

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Founded in 1994, Commsworld is the operator of the largest privately-owned Optical Core Network in the UK. It supports thousands of leading organisations, both in public and private sectors, with their digital connectivity and communications. 

The Edinburgh-headquartered business is a leading force behind the rollout of high-speed full-fibre broadband services throughout the UK, as well as a digital infrastructure provider. Thanks to Commsworld, large urban areas such as Edinburgh and Glasgow are now Gigabit Cities, while it has completed full-fibre internet connectivity to rural towns and villages across, for example, the Scottish Borders and Northumberland. 

Commsworld has grown rapidly in recent years, fuelled by its involvement with five of Scotland’s largest public sector ICT contracts, with local authorities in Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Edinburgh, North Lanarkshire, and the Scottish Borders. 

It offers clients a broad portfolio of Cloud, Security and Voice solutions delivering accessibility to client Applications and Data across the world; providing everything required to connect from the cloud to the device. This is all supported by strong in-house Service & Support capabilities, ISO accreditations and a powerful accessible CRM portal. 

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CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. A single agent solution to stop breaches, ransomware, and cyber attacks—powered by world-class security expertise and deep industry experience. With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform. 

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The CyberScotland Partnership is a collaborative leadership approach to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland. The Scottish Government’s key strategic stakeholders have come together in a formal partnership arrangement to drive the delivery of activities that will achieve the outcomes of The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

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An innovation network helping organisations tackle challenges for industry and society by doing data right to support Edinburgh in its ambition to become the data capital of Europe.  

The Data-Driven Innovation initiative has helped establish six hubs at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University – creating a regional power-house for collaboration with industry partners. The hubs house expertise and facilities to help 10 industrial sectors become more innovative through data. 

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ELEKS is a trusted partner for guaranteed software engineering excellence, quality, and transparency every step of the way. The company has been providing expert software engineering and consultancy services for over 30 years. Its talent pool of over 2,000+ specialists, located across Europe, the U.S., and the U.K., covers niches from custom software development to product design and technology advisory, making it the partner of choice for many of the world’s leading enterprises, SMEs, and technology challengers. 

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We are a global digital business services firm with a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. We help some of the world’s most respected organisations develop their most promising ideas into valuable digital products and user experiences, faster. Emergn’s experts work with clients to transform their organisation in three ways: helping to better define their thinking; developing their people; and delivering their outcomes by building user-centric products and experiences. Our game-changing approach to change – Value, Flow, Quality, or VFQ for short – combines the best of Agile, Lean, design, and systems thinking. For more information, visit www.emergn.com.  

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Fujitsu is one of the world’s largest global providers of IT solutions, with over 130,000 employees serving customers in more than 100 countries with a unique Japanese heritage. As a long-term strategic partner to government, particularly in tax, trade, defence and public protection, Fujitsu is committed to delivering radical change and partnering with our customers to help them achieve digital transformation successfully.

Building on our existing base working across the public and private sector in Scotland, we have ambitions to strengthen our relationship with the Scottish Government as a digital transformation partner and bring our global expertise in digital transformation and technology adoption to drastically improve public service outcomes to help Scotland realise its full potential in a digital world.

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We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams. From senior appointments through to recruitment and project solutions, we are experts in the tech sector.

We’re deeply connected with our clients and the diverse community we serve, and made up of passionate people who care about changing lives and helping our clients be successful. Harvey Nash is powered by Nash Squared, the leading global provider of talent and technology solutions, equipped with a unique network that realises the potential of where technology and talent meet.

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Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division improves the resilience and sustainability of the world’s critical services and infrastructure. We are the global leader in public safety solutions, helping to protect 1 billion people. Building on our long-standing leadership in computer-aided dispatch, we provide a public safety platform for data collection, management, analysis, collaboration and response.  

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Inhealthcare is a trusted provider of remote patient monitoring, virtual wards and hospital @ home technology. 

We help people to live healthier lives — all from the comfort of home. Our digital health services empower patients to recover in familiar surroundings, with easy-to-use technology at their fingertips. 

Our services aim to drive efficiencies for clinical teams, free up hospital beds and reduce costs. 

Our services are loved by patients. In a recent survey, 99% of patients rated our virtual ward as either good or very good. 

We integrate seamlessly with SCI Store, Docman, EMIS Web, SystmOne, and NHS Spine for unmatched interoperability. 

Inhealthcare is part of the Resmed family, a global leader in sleep and respiratory health. 

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ITHealth provides proven and trusted cyber security solutions to NHS organisations. Established for 30+ years, ITHealth has a genuine understanding of NHS IT issues and infrastructures. Lansweeper is a leading IT Asset Management platform provider helping businesses across all sectors better understand, manage and protect their IT devices and network. 

Together, ITHealth and Lansweeper are a powerful combination; ITHealth’s unrivalled knowledge of the NHS, coupled with Lansweeper’s leading technology, has led to an ITHealth Dashboard which is tailor-made for NHS IT. 140+ NHS organisations now look to a single pane-of-glass to better control, remediate and report on asset risk and stay assured and compliant.

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LapSafe® is the UK’s industry leading expert in providing innovative and proficient charging solutions such as self-service smart lockers, that transform how workplaces deploys assets. We are experts in our field and the name LapSafe® has become synonymous with safety and quality as well as being a trusted brand leader worldwide. We manufacture technologically advanced solutions that ensure assets are taken care of in volume with minimal staff interaction, creating flexible workplaces. Specialising in providing simple yet comprehensive software workflows for our self-service smart lockers that can be used in any environment. If you have any queries please contact our Locker Solutions Specialist Robert Tanner Robert.tanner@lapsafe.com – 07725596539 

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Leidos is a trusted partner to the Scottish Government, dedicated to solving their most complex challenges. We drive infrastructure and application modernisation by harnessing the speed and agility of cloud technologies. Our solutions unlock the full potential of data, leveraging advanced tools to automate and analyse this critical asset. Our team is committed to delivering transformative technology programmes that achieve impactful, meaningful outcomes.

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Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). To find out more visit https://lenovo.com and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

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NEC Software Solutions is trusted to deliver secure, service-focused solutions, using innovative technology, that enable users to achieve their desired outcomes​. We are using innovative technology alongside our deep knowledge and insight of the Policing and Justice sectors to bring new solutions to our clients to help them improve service delivery. Our user-centred approach builds a deep understanding and connection with users that enables us to co-design solutions that transform services​. We are continuously investing in the development of market-leading technology and innovation to provide data and solutions, at scale, enabling collaboration and the delivery of effective policing and justice services. 

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We transform your digital services, products and organisations, by combining exceptional software engineering with deep data insights and great UX, driving impactful business outcomes. 

With over three decades of expertise and a proven approach, we successfully deliver digital projects for public and private sector clients. We’re big enough to tackle complex, large-scale projects, yet small enough to offer the personal touch. Our clients benefit from high-level service and attention to detail, with dedicated team members who are committed to your success at every stage. 

From the first breakthrough of discovery to the deployment of live code, we have the commitment and breadth of expertise to deliver and support world-class enterprise solutions that overcome business challenges of today – and tomorrow. 

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We’re Registers of Scotland and we’ve been looking after Scotland’s land and property records since 1617.

The world has changed a lot in the last 400 years, and so have we. Our vision is to be a digital registration and information business trusted for our integrity.

We are on a mission to make some of the oldest land registers in the world into the most modern.

We’re the definitive source of data for all land and property transactions in Scotland. Our registers are a critical asset for the Scottish economy. They support people’s rights and inform decision making across the country.

Find out more at ros.gov.uk

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The Scottish Digital Academy is the Centre of Excellence for capability, skills and talent. We support the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology profession and we develop digital skills and leadership capability across the public and third sectors. We are part of the Digital Directorate, and we work in partnership with the Digital Recruitment Service, Digital Strategy and Policy Team, and the Digital Finance and Workforce Planning Team. Our aim is to support the transformation of services by being focused on user centred design, maximising the use of digital technologies and using new ways of working.

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SentinelOne (NYSE:S) is pioneering autonomous cybersecurity to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks at faster speed, greater scale, and higher accuracy than human-powered technology alone. The Singularity Platform empowers enterprises to achieve greater visibility of their dynamic attack surfaces, including endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identity, and mobile & network-connected devices, and take action in real time with AI-powered automation and cross-platform correlation. Over 10,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 10, hundreds of the Global 2000, prominent governments, healthcare providers, and educational institutions, trust SentinelOne to bring their defenses into the future, gaining more capability with less complexity.

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ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloudbased platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com

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Streetwave is the market leader in providing independent mobile coverage surveys and analysis. 

Streetwave has an in-depth experience of mapping mobile coverage quality for both government and private sector organisations across the UK, and internationally. 

Mobile coverage readings are taken at every house across a council on a weekly basis. The analysis of the data provides critical insights to help: 

  1. Government bodies improve telephony procurement for their employees 
  1. Residents & businesses choose the best networks  
  1. Government & telcos to improve network coverage in areas of poor signal 

Streetwave excels in communicating complex mobile performance data in formats that are easy for nontechnical professionals to understand. This enables a diverse customer base to make data driven connectivity decisions. 

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At Sword we understand the challenges and opportunities that exist across the UK’s Public Sector. By combining our technical expertise with practical delivery experience we deliver outcomes with a meaningful impact on the organisations we work with. Our team is passionate about making a difference, utilising technology to improve the well-being of citizens and public sector staff by enabling a more data driven culture. 

We help our customers to ensure their data sits in a reliable and secure environment, and that data is protected with sustainable security plans to maintain a high level of cyber resilience.

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Formed in 2014, The Clarus Networks Group offers an extensive portfolio of specialist connectivity solutions, tailored to keep your workforce in touch and online 24/7. 

We harness the power of major satcoms and telecoms networks, combined with our state-of-the-art technologies, to provide robust, reliable, and scalable communications coverage for each project, including in remote areas where terrestrial signals are poor or non-existent. 

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UiPath (NYSE: PATH) is on a mission to uplevel knowledge work so more people can work more creatively, collaboratively, and strategically. The AI-powered UiPath Business Automation Platform combines the leading robotic process automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities to understand, automate, and operate end-to-end processes, offering unprecedented time-to-value. For organizations that need to evolve to survive and thrive through increasingly changing times, UiPath is The Foundation of Innovation™.

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Veritas Technologies is the leader in secure multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers—including 95% of the Fortune 100—rely on Veritas to help ensure the protection, recoverability and compliance of their data. Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience its customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match Veritas’ ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems and 1,400+ storage targets through a single, unified approach. Powered by Cloud Scale Technology, Veritas is delivering today on its strategy for Autonomous Data Management that reduces operational overhead while delivering greater value.  

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We are helping local authorities across the country to digitally transform citizen service delivery through automation, and in some cases, AI.  

Talk to us about the automations we’ve delivered for Aberdeenshire Council, West Dunbartonshire Council, The City of Edinburgh Council, West Lothian Council, and more. Come to our stand for your copy of VKY’s Automation Blueprint for Local Authorities.  

See you soon! 

VKY are an ISO 27001 G Cloud 13 certified and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) approved supplier. 

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Zühlke is a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We’re trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities.

Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. Our venture capital arm, Zühlke Ventures, provides start-up financing in HealthTech.