Photos by Lesley Martin Photography The Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Women in Data campaign showcases the rich landscape of women working with data science, technology, innovation and related roles in Scotland’s booming data science and technology sectors, from digital education to astrophysics, students through to CEOs and MSPs. CEO Gillian Docherty OBE, Delivery Director for […]
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World famous British astronaut Tim Peake to headline at DataFest20
We’re so excited to announce that world famous British astronaut and former International Space Station crew member, Tim Peake, will headline the Data Summit in Edinburgh as part of the UK’s biggest data and artificial intelligence festival, DataFest. This year’s key theme ‘#BeyondData’ will focus on the impact data and AI has on the world […]
Calling all those interested in the potential of AI in healthcare!
On 24 September 2019, the Cancer Innovation Challenge, an initiative led by The Data Lab in collaboration with the Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI) and Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS), will be celebrating the outcomes of an exciting project funded through its funding competition to find innovative data science solutions to improve cancer […]
Launch of our new innovation centre and an exciting new digital skills initiative in Aberdeen
L to R above: Gillian Docherty, CEO, The Data Lab, Sir Ian Wood, Kate Forbes, MSP, Ian Watt, CEO of Code the City and Maggie McGinlay, Deputy Chief Executive of Opportunity North East. Joined by friends, colleagues and even an MSP, The Data Lab held their Aberdeen launch event at the ONE Tech Hub on […]
CogX, The Data Lab, and Innovation in Scotland
Guest blog by Euan Gardner, Senior Information Development Manager, NHS NSS It’s 9am in London, I’m half-dressed in a suit, smell like an accident in an aftershave factory while nursing a coffee and getting ready to speak on a panel. The conference is Cognition X’s excellent CogX conference where most people have more letters in […]
CogX 2019 – Highlights and talking points from the UK’s largest AI conference
20,000 attendees. 687 speakers. 12 stages. 1608 ice creams consumed at the Global Goals ice cream van. These statistics tell a small part of the CogX 2019 story. Now in its third year, CogX has gone from strength to strength, year on year. The core purpose of the event is to bring people together from the AI and data […]
Why can’t every day be a DataFest day?
Photo above shows panel with Zoe Webster, Dr Sue Black, Sally Eaves and moderator Tabitha Goldstaub discussing How Data and AI is enabling humankind One of our MSc students, Daniel Sloan (Strathclyde MSc in Fin Tech), writes about his DataSummit experience after winning a free ticket to the event Still buzzing from Data Talent on […]
Our third DataFest was a phenomenal success!
Our two week festival of Data Innovation in Scotland ran from 11th to 22nd March, showcasing Scotland’s role in data science and artificial intelligence, and this year focused on collaboration and doing #DataTogether as a community. DataFest has grown again from last year, now extending over a two week period with even more Fringe Events in even […]
Introducing Jared Lander, Keynote Speaker at DataTech19
Join us for DataTech19, Scotland’s first technical data science conference as part of DataFest The Data Lab is delighted to introduce a new event to the DataFest family: DataTech (14 March 2019, Edinburgh). This technical, one-day data science conference will cater to a diverse audience including analysts, developers, engineers and scientists from the public sector, […]
Learning Journey: meeting Thought Leaders in New York and attending Strata 2018
Two weeks ago we took a fantastic group of people from Scotland to New York to attend various meetings with Thought Leaders in the Data Science community in New York and also attend the Strata Meeting. The visit, like previous visits, was a roaring success, with plenty of learning, networking and lots and lots of […]