Take a look below at our activity highlights across March.

Date Activity Description
1st March Engineering Skills Leadership Group Attended quarterly meeting of ESLG.
2nd March MaaS Scotland Evaluation Special Interest Group Delivered 3rd meeting of Evaluation SIG. Participants heard updates on evaluation approaches from Tactran and SEStran led MIF projects.
3rd March Meeting of Opening up Photonics management team. Met with representatives from IOP Scotland, University of Glasgow and Innovate UK KTN to discuss the Opening up Photonics initiative and plan next steps.
4th March Meeting with Photonics Scotland members and Head of Technology Sector for North America for Department for International Trade Discussed areas where DIT could provide support for companies and also had tours of member’s facilities.
8th March CSConnected Semiconductors 4 Photonics webinar Attended online event, organised by CSConnected.
8th March Prism Awards review meeting Attended online meeting to discuss and review the evaluation process for the Prism Awards.
10th March 5th Meeting of the Photonics for Space special interest group. Delivered 5th meeting of the SIG, our 1st face-to-face meeting, to discuss the priorities for the group for the next 12 months.
10th March CoMoUK Shared Transport Networking Event Attended important networking opportunity bringing together stakeholders from across the shared mobility community.
16th March UK Optical Design Meeting 2022 Attended the UK Optical Design Meeting in Glasgow. Photonics Scotland also sponsored the event.
17th March Photonics update meeting with officials from Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise Regular monthly meeting to discuss photonics sector in Scotland and Photonics Scotland activities.
22nd March Space Suppliers Summit 2022 Steering Committee Attended meeting to discuss the organisation and programme for the 2022 Space Suppliers Summit which is taking place in Glasgow in October 2022.
22nd March Cluster Ecosystem Conference Partnered with ScotlandIS to deliver key event in Scotland’s technology cluster landscape. Presented on the role of design to support the innovation to commercialisation pathway.
23rd March MaaS Scotland Data and Governance Special Interest Group Delivered 2nd joint meeting of Data and Governance SIGs. Participants heard from SPT on their ambitions to deliver a more integrated transport network in the West of Scotland.
29th March Photonics21 EU Chips Act webinar Attended webinar to better understand the recently published EU Chips Act.

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