Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013. Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking Movement and campaigns for common technical standards and a consistent liability models across the Globe.
Gavin was appointed as Convenor of the Fintech Stakeholder Group of the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity in 2016 and is now working with a number of other markets engaged on the same mission.
Gavin is a fintech entrepreneur with experience of developing innovative solutions to mass market problems and is well-renowned as the Founder of Money Dashboard, and acted as its CEO until 2015.
9.00
9.15
Kate Forbes MSP
10.05
Mark Goodwin
Mike Fergusson
Andrew Harmel Law
Bev Harrow, Lee Hutchinson and Chris Hughes
11.00
Chris Yule
Kief Morris
Janet Onyia
Richard Marshall
11.50
Dr Murray Collins
Dr Poonam Malik, Ben Shorrock, David Dunn, Jane Morrison-Ross
Alyssa Miller
Chris Heilmann
13.20
Session 4
Ten Traits that Differentiate the most Trusted Advisors
Getting value from data – productionising data science
Austen Mulinder
Dr James McMinn
Jamie Kerr
Tech challenges coming out of Open Banking and the GOFCoE project
50% of AI is easy, we just don’t know which half
Gavin Littlejohn
Alex Bell and Petur Einarsson
14.10
Session 5
Overcoming and handling bias in data: ethical and practical considerations
Building brand awareness for your tech company
Start up, scale up
(fun)ctionality
Navigating Venture Capital
Olivia Gambelin, Joseph Crispell
Kathryn Strachan
Peter Proud
Brian Baglow
Paul Neeson and Andrew Noble
15.30
Session 6
A Fyne future for graphical development
Launching terrestrial tech into the space marketplace
Tales from the Crypt(o)
Serverless Architecture
Andrew Williams
Dr David Alexander
Matt Summers
Julian Wood
16.15
Closing Keynote
Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President – AI & ISV Engagement at Microsoft Corporation
17.15
Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards
The YSE Awards recognise the best undergraduate software projects, drawn from across all students studying computing science and software engineering in Scotland.