What is Ayrshire Bytes?
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On Tuesday 21 March, 150 people from the private, public and education sectors took part in our Ayrshire Bytes: Data Changes Everything conference at our Kilmarnock Campus.
We are very proud to have been approved as an official fringe event of DataFest17 - the only one outside the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. DataFest17 is week long festival of data innovation from 20-24 March 2017 which will showcase Scotland’s leading role in data on the international stage.
Leading figures in a range of industry sectors will share their views on how data and digital are changing everything we do. They include:
Gillian Docherty, chief executive of The Data Lab (the Innovation Centre which organises DataFest), who will address the theme of the conference by taking us on a journey to 2035 and sharing examples of how data will have changed our lives
Brendan Faulds, former chief executive of the Digital Health & Care Institute (the Innovation Centre for health and care) who will tell the story of health and social care services in Scotland, the part data has played in its past and present, and the role it will play in shaping its future
Vicky Brock, chief executive of Clear Returns, who will demonstrate how to use data to influence shopper behaviour
Richard Millar, senior manufacturing systems engineer at Spirit Aerosystems, who will talk about the factory of the future
Craig Hume, managing director of Kilmarnock based Utopia Computers, who will explain why honesty and openness are key to a more secure digital world.
Our ambition for Ayrshire is to enable its people, businesses and communities to have the skills to take advantage of the potential of digital technologies.
What is Ayrshire Bytes?
