Take a look below at our activity highlights across March.

Date Activity Description
03/03/2026-04/03/2026 Interchange/ITS UK Conference Manchester Attended these jointly located events to discuss and explore the role of technology in delivering future integrated transport.
04/03/2026 AI Cluster Management Organisations Round Table Discussion on the development of an AI cluster in Scotland and how it can support other existing clusters.
06/03/2026 UK Electronic Skills Foundation – STEP Workshop Presented at UKESF Careers workshop to over 100 school children. Presentation focussed on career opportunities within Scotland’s Critical Technologies Sector.
06/03/2026 PBIAA Grant Holders Workshop Attended workshop as civic partner of PQA Project.
06/03/2026 Meeting with DBT Discussion on how DBT can support Scottish organisations’ engagement with European markets and promote the SCTS internationally.
09/03/2026 Graduate Apprenticeship Information Day Partnered with Heriot-Watt University to highlight opportunities available in GAs within critical technologies.
10/03/2026 Scottish Government Cluster Showcase Presented Scotland’s Critical Technologies Supercluster as one of 8 key industry clusters identified by Scottish Government.
11/03/2026 SCTS Advisory Board Updates on current activities and discussion of ongoing matters.
12/03/2026 Roundtable meeting with Sam Lister, UK Government Director General for Industrial Strategy Meeting was an opportunity to highlight Scotland’s capabilities in critical technologies and stress the importance of UKG policy intervention to support SME scale up.
12/03/2026 Workshop: Landscape and Opportunities in Integrated Photonics Partnered in meeting hosted by CSA Catapult.
17/03/2026 Meeting with Venture Capital Discussion on investment opportunities in Scotland.
19/03/2026 Scottish Aerospace Showcase Presented at new event for the aerospace and defence technology supply chain to discuss opportunities for regional approaches to key challenges.
19/03/2026 Meeting with SE Deep Tech Growth programme representative Discussion on manufacturing gaps in Scotland.
23-31/03/2026 NZIAT Quantum Discovery Helping MBIE/NZIAT as a neutral experienced  voice as part of a series of workshops.
24/03/2026 SU2P Innovation Forum – Industry Day Facilitated two sessions including industry led lightning talks and an investor panel.
26/03/2026 Data & Ai Exchange Event on AI & Data landscape in Scotland.
26/03/2026 UKRI Strategy Roundtable Invited roundtable to discuss the development and implementation of UKRI’s 5-year strategy.
26/03/2026 Launch of Capability Map and supporting digital assets for SCTS Presentation to the community of new digital assets for the Supercluster, along with a capability map of Scotland’s critical technologies ecosystem.
31/03/2026 Quantum Special Interest Group SIG focused on entrepreneurship journey in Quantum technologies.