The Premier Scottish Digital Technology Event; bringing insight, inspiration and thought leadership.
The leading tech conference in Scotland, ScotSoft, is back for another virtual event in 2021.
ScotSoft has been running for more than 20 years and is an annual festival of ideas and innovation that showcases the best of the Scottish technology sector and brings you the sought after speakers from far flung locations.
We seek to help technology businesses and professionals focus on future trends, opportunities for growth, look at personal development in leadership skills and strategies to help the digital community in Scotland prosper.
This year will be no different. We’ll bring together a community of like-minded professionals to learn from the very best within out industry – only instead of connecting in person during he day, we’ll do it in a virtual environment.
We’ll be running panel session throughout the day focusing on thing your business can do to recover and grow, taking a deep dive into subjects including cloud, AI, languages and security, and also looking at how technology can help transform non-tech businesses, highlighting some of the best solutions Scotland has to offer.
We’ve got some fantastic speakers for you including our keynote:
Professor Bonnie Dunbar, professor of aerospace engineering and inductee of the Astronaut Hall of Fame. Her career at NASA included five spaceflights on the Space Shuttle, and seven years in various management roles as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Dunbar is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineers and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the AIAA, ACerS, and the Royal Aeronautical Society. She has 7 honorary academic degrees and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in April, 2013.
9.15
Professor Bonnie Dunbar
10.05
David Goodbrand
Alex Bell, BJSS
Ali Law
Lars Klint
Alan Mackenzie
11.05
Richard Hoptroff
Holly Grace Williams
Kristine Howard
Richard Wilson & Geraldine Higgins
Skills Devlopment Scotland
12.05
Dr. Philippe De Ryck
Chair -Ross Tuffee with Rich Wilson, Claire Gillispie, Pamela Crawford, Dr Jo Watts and Susan McRoberts
Andrew Williams
ScotalndIS
13.00
Lunch
14.05
Session 4
BT supporting a Green Recovery
ApSec 2021 Global attack trends
Knocking on the door of the Exascale
Emerging Technologies and why you should care: A vision for the future
Meet the expert: Space Technology
Ian Caveney
Dave Stubley
Mark Parsons
Keith O’Donnell
Skills Development Scotland
15.05
David Alexander
Phil Harvey
Markos Symeonides
Michael Bell
Charlie Johnstone and Neil Gillies
16.00
Closing Remarks
Alison McLaughlin
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