Jamie will be speaking about how we need a more strategic approach to speaking about visas and will speak about how the existing UK visa system can work to make Scotland a more vibrant and attractive tech hub.
Jamie Kerr is specialist immigration law partner and has worked in the field of immigration and nationality law for over a decade.
He has a very broad client base and acts for individuals and businesses from around the world. He deals with all aspects of UK visa law and policy and regularly appears in the courts dealing with complex immigration and visa issues.
Jamie has been Co-Convenor of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association’s Scotland Committee and sat on the Scottish board of the Confederation of British Industry. He currently sits on the Scottish Government’s Strategic Labour Market review group and the Immigration & Asylum Committee of the Law Society of Scotland.
He is a regular speaker and commentator on issues around migration and as well as tutoring human rights law at the University of Glasgow, he has lectured on immigration law in the UK, Europe and in the Far East.
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
Innovating with Immigration.
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.