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Our breakfast events in Bristol are back with a new name: Tech on Toast! Join us bright and early at our Bristol office on Thursday 2 December for coffee, croissants and a stimulating talk to start the day. We're pleased to announce that guest speaker Glenn Smith—CEO of rising star local fintech Roqqett—will be joining us to talk about Open Banking APIs and their applications within eCommerce applications. 🗓️ Thursday 2 December 🕗 8:15am
PRESS RELEASE—We're pleased to announce the appointment of three senior hires ahead of our next growth phase: Chris Ferguson as Managing Director; Myra Cooke as Chief Talent Officer; and Ed Gill as Chief Commercial Officer. The new leadership team members form part of a wider strategic restructuring to allow greater focus on achieving business goals.
The UK Government has an ambitious data strategy that aims to encourage and facilitate data sharing. You can now watch the recording of our recent event with Digital Leaders on 'Sharing data in Government'—with contributions from: Nigel Matthews, Chief Data Officer (CDO) for the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) at the Cabinet Office; Dan Bailey, CTO for the CDDO at the Cabinet Office; and Ben Lambert, Senior Developer at Scott Logic. Ben gave a short presentation (from about 13 mins in) on the work we're doing to support data sharing at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP): 📺 https://youtu.be/5kr5I96-dWA For more on this topic, read Solutions Architect Andrew Carr's blog post which explores what might be involved in fully realising the potential of the National Data Strategy and how citizens can be aligned with this bold new approach.
Join us on Weds 8 Dec for the online Open Source meetup, with talks from a fantastic line-up of speakers: • Hilary Carter, VP Research, The Linux Foundation and Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic – 'The State of Open Source in Financial Services' • Abby Mitchell, Quantum Developer Advocate, IBM – 'An Introduction to Open Source Quantum Computing' • Maxwell Hsu, Developer Relations, Digital Asset – 'Create a Tokenised Asset in 20 Minutes' Book your place now! We organise the Open Source meetups in partnership with FINOS. 🗓️ Weds 8 Dec 🕔 17:00–18:15 GMT
We're very proud to be sponsoring Computing's Women in Tech Festival and Women in Tech Excellence Awards this week. In this new blog post, our Chief of Staff Graham Odds shares his insights on Scott Logic's journey towards being as inclusive an employer as possible, and describes how we're collaborating with partners to accelerate and increase the impact we can have in driving change.
Apply by Mon 22 Nov to be a Graduate Software Developer or a Graduate Test Engineer at our Newcastle HQ and get your career off to the very best start! You can find out more on our website about all the great opportunities we offer to graduates. Our Assessment and Interview Days will be Wednesday 24 November–Friday 26 November, so be sure to keep them free! #GraduateJobs #GraduateProgramme #NewcastleJobs #SoftwareDeveloperJobs #SoftwareTestingJobs #TestEngineerJobs
Presenting: the winners/survivors of the Battle of the Bots! Last week, Patrick Armstrong, Emma Clennett and Matthew Fennell had a great time running a team hackathon with Newcastle University undergraduates, in which the students were tasked with creating AI bots to play against other teams in a battle to the (artificial!) death. There were prizes in the form of Amazon vouchers for the top three teams, which were: • 1st Place – Code Executioners (Dale, Jack and Mark) • 2nd Place – Team Tetra (Nathan and Jesse) • 3rd Place – Bulbasaur (Jack, Michalina and Warren) We had great feedback from the teams and we can truly say that the bots were some of the best we’ve seen!
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Returner category at the Women in Tech Excellence Awards and will be a panellist on a discussion about ‘Helping returners’ at the Women in Tech Festival on 22 November. In this Q&A with Computing, she explains why the topic of the panel is so important to her and what companies can do to help more women return to work.
You can now watch 'Fast Forward: Lightning talks on innovation' on YouTube. Hosted by Lead Developer Paul Graham, 'Fast Forward' brings together six speakers whose talks cover bleeding-edge technologies, new ways of working, and innovative uses of existing tech: • Colin Eberhardt, CTO – 'Copilot – Life with an AI-powered pair programmer' • Stewart Pavitt, Technical Architect – 'Removing the opportunity for confrontations in Code Reviews' • Jevon Beckles, Senior Developer – 'Prepping the bar: Insights from cleaning and labelling a cocktail dataset' • Catriona Koris, Delivery Principal – 'Tips for a Connected Workforce in a Remote World' • Jan Volmut, Senior Developer – 'Visualising API responses with Postman' • Chris Price, Solutions Architect – 'GPT3 – Creativity from Determinism'
It was great to check in on Monday with the Autumn 2021 cohort of the 'Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation in Scotland' initiative, which we’re proud to sponsor. During the day’s workshops, Catriona Koris—Scott Logic Delivery Principal and member of the EWLDT programme panel—gave a talk on her leadership journey. And then at the social event in the evening, we were pleased to be able to give each member of the cohort a copy of Brené Brown’s 'Dare to Lead', with a message from our CEO. It was an inspirational day and we’re really looking forward to checking in with these future leaders again for Graduation Day in December! Follow the link to find out more about this programme.
