Capitalising On The Cloud
17th October 2011
Applying New Practices To Deliver Business
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), Scottish Enterprise (SE) and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network are pleased to announce a major event for ICT companies in the North of Scotland.
The event is aimed at bringing insight into new business models and opportunities for business that will be enabled by the roll out of high speed broadband access and advances in computing. This event also aims to bring together key players looking to put the region on the map of innovative and high-growth businesses operating in the ICT arena.
The event will be held at Horizon Scotland, Forres, Moray (see www.horizon-scotland.com/) on Tuesday, November 8th beginning at 11:30 with registration and coffee, followed by two invited presentations:
Cloud Computing: Delivering the vision
Using ICT to reduce your total carbon footprint.
To register, please email theresa.swayne[AT]hient.co.uk or call 01463 244 583 at Highlands and Islands Enterprise by Wednesday 26th October 2011.
The presentations will be followed by discussion over a networking lunch. The afternoon session will highlight local companies developing their own approach to ICT business and the final session will highlight details of funding competitions and other resources available to support the successful growth of ICT led business.
Agenda
11:30am Registration and coffee.
12:00pm Welcome, agenda and logistics
Keynote speeches:
ICT and the Cloud -Philipp Huber. Phil founded and acted as CTO of symetriQ, a Scottish based Cloud Service Provider with a growing national reputation in Public and Private sectors.
Sustainability and ICT: The Re:Locate Project at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. (Fraser Muir). Fraser is Director of Information Services and the Learning Resource Centre, QMU.
Questions and Answers
1:00pm Networking Lunch
Highlands and Islands region presentations:
2.00 pm Alchemy Plus, Dingwall - David Massey
2.30 pm Glasgow School of Art Centre for Design Innovation, Forres - Joe Lockwood
3:00pm Business Innovation Support: An overview of national and regional initiatives
3.30 Questions for the panel of presenters joined by Dr Maurizio Pilu from the UK Technology Strategy Board and Ian Osborne, Director for Cloud and Government IT at the ICT KTN
3:45pm Networking
4:30pm Close
Further details can be found on the ICT KTN website
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/ictktn
To register, please email theresa.swayne[AT]hient.co.uk or call 01463 244 583 at Highlands and Islands Enterprise by Wednesday 26th October 2011.
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