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IOT//EDINBURGH (Internet of Things Meetup)

"Can Smartwatches Deliver on The Hype?"

It is estimated that 210 million smartwatches will be sold, and that sales revenue will reach $13 billion dollars by 2020. A recent poll indicated that around 30% of UK consumers are currently considering buying a smartwatch.

Some of the smartwatches that will be available to check out on the night: Moto 360, LG G Watch R, Sony Smart Watch 2, Sony Smart Watch 3, ASUS ZenWatch, LG Urbane Smartwatch, Pebble, (hoping to get an Apple Watch and the new Pebble Time).

6-7pm Open Forum (smartwatches)

Are you an entrepreneur looking to exploit opportunities within this potentially lucrative sector? Are you planning to purchase a smartwatch but you don't know which one to choose? Do you work for a company that uses wearables in the workplace? Would you like to know more about the different smartwatch operating systems like watchOS, Tizen, Android Wear, Pebble etc? Do you own a smartwatch? If so, come along and share your experiences with the group.

Simon will lead a debate, and would like to hear your opinions. Some of the questions he will be putting to the group will include the following:

What will the smartwatch of the future look like?

What will the "killer app" be?

Although Apple is the undisputed market leader, can other OEMs rival Apple's dominance?

How will we communicate with smartwatches and other wearable devices in future (voice command, text input via touch screen, gesture, mind control)?



7-8pm Speaker: "Superfast text entry on Wearables"


The single greatest hurdle when using wearable devices, especially smartwatches, is slow text entry. While completing his Informatics PhD, specialising in Computational Linguistics at Edinburgh University, Dr Tim Willis focused on building an algorithm for expanding abbreviated input into full text. Today Tim is a world authority in word prediction, text entry, and autocorrection, and has developed an app that is capable of hugely boosting text entry speed on small screen devices.



8pm Networking Drinks and smartwatch demos

Tim will bring several smartwatches along, so you can try them out for yourself. We also welcome those of you who own a smartwatch to join us and share your views, experiences , tips and recommendations.

Here is a list of smartwatches that will be available to check out: Moto 360, LG G Watch R, Sony Smart Watch 2, Sony Smart Watch 3, ASUS ZenWatch, LG Urbane Smartwatch, Pebble, (hoping to get an Apple Watch and the new Pebble Time).



Who Should Attend?

People of all backgrounds, ages and interests are welcome, however, this Meetup will mostly appeal to people who are "Makers" or "Hackers", entrepreneurs, academics, or those that work for telcos, or OEMs that manufacture, or sell connected devices.

Topics covered by this Meetup group include:

‪#‎IoT‬ ‪#‎Wearables‬ ‪#‎Drones‬ ‪#‎UAVs‬ ‪#‎SmartHome‬ ‪
#‎ConnectedDevices ‬‪#‎SmartCities‬‪#‎BigData‬
‪#‎DataAnalytics‬‪#‎Kickstarter‬‪#‎Indiegogo
#‎Croudfunding‬‪#‎Hardware‬‪#‎Startup‬
‪#‎HardwareHackathon‬‪#‎Tech‬‪#‎Makers‬‪ #‎Hackers‪#‎M2M‬

Social Media

Facebook: www.facebook.com/iotedi | Twitter: @iotedinburgh ‪#‎iotedi

http://www.iotedinburgh.com

http://www.meetup.com/iotEdinburgh/events/223962447/

Mon 27th Jul 2015 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Mon 27th Jul 2015 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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4th AWS User Group

Please join us for the fourth AWS User Group Scotland in association with CirrusHQ and Edinburgh Napier University.

The focus this time will be on managing infrastructure deployments on AWS.

Talks will include:

Stuart Davidson, Senior Release Engineer at Skyscanner with a walkthrough of their systems configuration process, which uses auto scaling, SQS and Ansible with a group discussion to follow.

Howard Glynn, Cloud Leader at Cloudreach, demonstrating using CloudFormation for infrastructure management

James Lucas, Founder of CirrusHQ, explaining the blue-green deployment process and options available when using AWS.

The food and drink is again sponsored by CirrusHQ so please leave plenty of room! If you are planning on attending please RSVP via the meetup group so we can get a good idea of numbers.

http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Scotland/events/222813260/

Thu 9th Jul 2015 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th Jul 2015 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - "Introducing the new work based MSc in Data Science"
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - "Opening up our Official Statistics"
* Leah Lockhart of the Digital Engagement Team of the Scottish Government will on "Transparancy in government"
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - "A year with open data"
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - "Introducing the new work based MSc in Data Science"
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - "Opening up our Official Statistics"
* Leah Lockhart of the Digital Engagement Team of the Scottish Government will on "Transparancy n government"
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - "A year with open data"
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - Introducing new work based MSc in Data Science
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - Update on Open Data developments at the council
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - Update on Open Data publishing platform
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - Introducing new work based MSc in Data Science
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - Update on Open Data developments at the council
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - Update on Open Data publishing platform
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon
* Naomi Lillie from OK Central

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - Introducing new work based MSc in Data Science
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - Update on Open Data developments at the council
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - Update on Open Data publishing platform
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government Open Data publishing platform
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Confirmed speakers include
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government Open Data publishing platform
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon

http://scot.okfn.org.

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http://attending.io/events/opendataedb17

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Open Data Edinburgh Meet-up #17

Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.

Thu 26th Mar 2015 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 26th Mar 2015 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Third Meetup of AWS User Group Scotland

After a longer than planned break (scheduling difficulties!) please join us for the third AWS User Group Scotland in association with CirrusHQ and Edinburgh Napier University.

The focus this time will be on the new services announced by AWS at re:Invent including:

Amazon EC2 Container Service
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS for Aurora

We can confirm that the Technical Evangelist @AWS Ian Massingham will be joining us, details of other speakers will be announced in the near future.

The food and drink is again sponsored by CirrusHQ so please leave plenty of room! If you are planning on attending please let us know so we can get a good idea of numbers.

See you soon!

http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Scotland/events/219850795/

http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Scotland/events/219850795/

Thu 5th Mar 2015 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 5th Mar 2015 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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CirrusHQ and Edinburgh Napier University are hosting the first AWS User Group Scotland meetup at the The Glassroom,10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh on the 27th of May.

The venue will be open from 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

Speakers will include:

James Lucas, (https://www.twitter.com/james_lucas) founder of CirrusHQ, AWS Channel Partner, organiser of the event.

Ian Massingham, AWS Evangelist (https://twitter.com/IanMmmm) who will give an Amazon EC2 Masterclass.

Bill Buchanan, Professor of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (https://twitter.com/billatnapier) who will outline some of the research at ENU related to improved health and social care, in creating innovative infrastructures for teaching.

We need to know numbers for food and drink so please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aws-user-group-scotland-tickets-11436146823

There may be some lightning talk space available so if you would like to give a 5 minute talk on an AWS related subject please get in touch!

The venue is easy to find and has parking directly outside, just look for the red Reception signs.

We are really looking forward to meeting you! James (@cirrushq / @AWSUGScotland)

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First AWS User Group Scotland

CirrusHQ and Edinburgh Napier University are hosting the first AWS User Group Scotland meetup at the The Glassroom,10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh on the 27th of May.

The venue will be open from 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

Speakers will include:
James Lucas, (https://www.twitter.com/james_lucas) founder of CirrusHQ, AWS Channel Partner, organiser of the event.

Ian Massingham, AWS Evangelist (https://twitter.com/IanMmmm) who will give an Amazon EC2 Masterclass.

Bill Buchanan, Professor of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (https://twitter.com/billatnapier) who will outline some of the research at ENU related to improved health and social care, in creating innovative infrastructures for teaching.

We need to know numbers for food and drink so please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aws-user-group-scotland-tickets-11436146823

There may be some lightning talk space available so if you would like to give a 5 minute talk on an AWS related subject please get in touch!

The venue is easy to find and has parking directly outside, just look for the red Reception signs.

We are really looking forward to meeting you! James (@cirrushq / @AWSUGScotland)

http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group-Scotland/

Tue 27th May 2014 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 27th May 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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