Open Tech Calendar

NTT DATA UK Open Innovation 10.0: Edinburgh

The global community is facing a variety of challenges, including Healthcare and Life Sciences; Finance, Insurance & Payments; Automotive & Manufacturing as a Service; Telecom & IoT ; In-Store Front & Marketing Digitalization; Smart Automation; Data Distribution and Disruptive Social Innovation. In order to solve these challenges, open innovation will play greater roles than ever so that people throughout the world can work together across national borders in advanced technology and new business models to create solutions.

Each year, NTT DATA hosts a global Open Innovation Contest for high potential startups across industries and a wide range of technologies from AI to IoT to FinTech. This year the competition is being held in 16 cities globally and the Edinburgh pitch day will be on 13th December 2019. This year we are hosting the event at the prestigious Bayes Centre.

You are invited to join us at the NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest hosted with Innovate Finance, for an interesting afternoon of pitches, a panel discussion on effective innovation and networking, on Monday 2nd December 2019, at The Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh's innovation hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

The Edinburgh “Pitch Day” winner will have the opportunity to travel to Japan for the Grande Finale on January 24th 2020.

Last year’s global contest champion, India-based FlytBase ‘Pune’, are working with NTT DATA experts to field the world’s first Internet of Drones platform for easily deploying intelligent drones connected with cloud-based business applications.

In the UK, regional winner for the 9th contest hosted in London in 2019 was GeoSpock, a spatial big data startup that demonstrated a unique power to discover new insights in data, with huge potential to drive a hyper-connected future.

https://www.thedatalab.com/news/ntt-data-invites-scottish-technology-startups-to-enter-its-10th-open-innovation-contest/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ntt-data-uk-open-innovation-100-edinburgh-tickets-76940369717

Fri 1st Nov 2019 1:00pm (Europe/London)

Fri 1st Nov 2019 7:00pm (Europe/London)

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Digital Tech Networking Event

EIT Digital is a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation driving Europe’s digital transformation. We invite you to a Digital Tech focused event in Edinburgh on Thursday, 21st November, 13.00 until 18.00.

The half-day event is focussed on 5G and Future Wireless Communications and provides an opportunity to learn about co-funding opportunities for applied research with EIT Digital's Doctoral Schools and collaborative innovation projects through EIT Digital's €80M annual call.

EIT Digital in Scotland is funded by our partners Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Funding Council. We are also supported by Highlands & Islands Enterprise, FinTech Scotland, Edinburgh Innovations and University of Edinburgh.

Core digital technologies are the basis of our economy’s and society’s deep digital transformation. EIT Digital invents our digital future with novel communication, computing and cybersecurity technologies, especially software. These technologies are not only a necessity to serve vertical segments: they are also driving a massive number of students, addressing the shortage of specialists in digital, and offering major innovations and opportunities for GDP growth. Europe needs to stay in the lead in the areas where it is currently strong (networking, 5G, IoT), play a leadership role in digital’s next platform revolution (artificial intelligence) and establish broad trust in digital (cybersecurity, privacy).

PROGRAMME

12.45 – 13.30 Lunch and Networking

13.30 – 13.45 EIT Digital Overview

Martin Beaton, Edinburgh Satellite Manager, EIT Digital

13.45 – 14.15 Keynote

Derek Graham, Programme Director, Scottish Futures Trust

14.15 – 14.55 Panel “Scotland as a Leading 5G Digital Nation: Opportunities and Challenges”

14.55 – 15.25 Keynote "5G Serving Vertical Use Cases"

Ahmed Zoha, Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow

Dr Qammer Abbasi, Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow

15.25 – 15.50 Break

15.50 – 16.25 Panel “Future Wireless Technologies & Security: What are the Threats and Capabilities”

16.25 – 16.50 Keynote: "The Convergence of 5G and AI"

16.50 – 17.30 Panel “Current Research & Near Future Applications of 5G in Scotland”

17.30 – 18.00 Networking

Panel members are:

Graeme Gordon, CEO, IFB

Sarah Eynon, Associate Director, Scottish Futures Trust

Derek Graham, Programme Director, Scottish Futures Trust

Ahmed Zoha, Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow

Mark Dames, Head of Policy, BT Regions & Head of Public Affairs, BT Scotland

Prof John Thompson, Institute for Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh

Cade Wells, Business Development Manager, CENSIS

Kevin Power, Software Systems Architect, CENSIS

Greig Paul, Lead Mobile Networks & Security Engineer, University of Strathclyde

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eit-digital-digital-tech-networking-event-5g-tickets-77279586323

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eit-digital-digital-tech-networking-event-5g-tickets-77279586323

Thu 21st Nov 2019 12:45pm (Europe/London)

Thu 21st Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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