With International Womens Day coming on 8 March, we wanted to highlight some of the amazing women who will be giving talks at DataFest20 in March. We believe in the importance of gender balance at our events and always make sure that speakers and panels are as equally balanced as possible. There are no excuses […]
Community & Events
80+ Fringe Events across Scotland coming 9-20 March – something for everyone!
While there is a big focus on the major events happening during DataFest (DataSummit, DataTech and DataTalent), a huge and important part of DataFest is the series of Fringe Events that will take place during 9 to 20 March throughout Scotland organised by the tech, data science and AI community in Scotland. These Fringe Events […]
We’re excited to announce more amazing speakers for DataSummit20!
DataFest, our two week long festival of data innovation is now only a month away! We’ve just announced details on more of the speakers that we will be welcoming to DataSummit, the two-day international conference element of the festival on 19 & 20 March. We’ve selected a really diverse range of people to come and […]
Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup exceeds 4,000 members
On a typically mild Thursday evening in May 2015, data enthusiasts gathered in Glasgow for the first Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup. Forty members decided to take a chance and meet like-minded individuals in 29 Studios on Miller St., the first of many, many venues that would play host to a wide range of talks, […]
Some of our inspiring women take part in DDI Women in Data Campaign
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 […]
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 […]