Take a look below at our activity highlights across September.

Date Activity  Description
5th September Ministerial Roundtable on Scotland’s Semiconductor Industry Convened industry roundtable to discuss opportunities and challenges for Scotland’s semiconductor industry.
6th September Met with Convenor of Cross-Party Group on Sustainable Transport Discussed recent progress on MaaS activity in Scotland and the barriers to further progress.
6th September Design for the Future of Sustainability Delivered 4th event in our Design for the Future of… series.
7th September Presented at ITS UK Council Meeting Provided an update on Scottish MaaS activities.
12th September Global Photonics Alliance Early Autumn Meeting Meeting with photonics clusters from around the world, including presentations from Photonics Ghana, OPTICA, SPIE and IEEE.
13th September MaaS Scotland Behaviour Change Special Interest Group With presentation from Influencing Transport Lab, part of TfWM.
14th September IET Engineering Policy Group Scotland Panel Attended meeting to discuss EPGS business.
18th September Photonics update meeting with officials from Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise Regular monthly meeting to discuss photonics sector in Scotland and Photonics Scotland activities.
19th September Opening up Photonics management team meeting Met with representatives from University of Glasgow, Innovate UK KTN and IOP to discuss the Opening up Photonics initiative and plan next steps.
19th September IET Engineering Kids’ Futures Event to discuss IET’s ‘Engineering Kids’ Futures’ report, including MSPs and other stakeholders.
20th September Bessmer Society Strategy Dinner Support first Bessemer Society Dinner in Scotland – topic was Scotland’s Critical technologies Supercluster.
22nd September Photonics21 Work Group 7 workshop Workshop concentrating on the R&I priorities for WG7 (Core Photonics) related Horizon Europe work programme.
26th September Product Design Scotland Inclusive Design Special Interest Group With presentations from Filament PD, Snook and Studio Xception.
26th September BICOP Organising Committee meeting Meeting to discuss invited speakers for upcoming BICOP conference taking place in London in December.
28th September Product Design Scotland Steering Board Meeting Regular quarterly meeting.
28th September Opening up Photonics Steering Board Meeting Regular quarterly meeting.