EmploymentFutures: How do we build a diverse data workforce fit for the future by: engaging young people; providing relevant, fast-moving courses, offering entrants the purpose-led businesses they want to work for & ensuring diversity of opportunity to start a data or AI business?
2 break out sessions that will run side by side on the event day. Only the RDS session will be streamed online.
How are we doing in terms of using public sector data to benefit people in Scotland and beyond, to deliver improvements to public services through academic and commercial research?
Join experts for an engaging discussion and demonstration on how we can assist governments in shaping our data futures. Our collaboration with East Renfrewshire Council and NatWest Group has enabled us to develop a Cost-Of-Living Dashboard that utilises public, private, and open data. This dashboard serves as a vital tool that aids councils in making informed decisions when planning for the future.
How are we using data & AI to shape how we generate/move/use energy? Do we balance different aspects of the energy sector effectively? How are we marrying up diverse demands on our sea bed, for example, to make the most efficient/ environmental use of it? And how is data being deployed to support the Just Transition to a greener energy future?
How are innovative data and AI solutions being deployed to make the world a safer place for children and for our ageing population?
Amid fierce global discussions about whether AI will be the saviour, or the destroyer, of the human race, we reflect on the fact that AI has been with us much longer than we might think, and discuss where we go from here to tame the AI tiger.
