Take a look below at our activity highlights across October.
| Date | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 4th October | Attended Scotland’s Traffic Summit | Discussed the role of business (and highlighted the potential for MaaS) in meeting the Government’s target of 20% car km reduction by 2030. |
| 4th & 5th October | Space Suppliers Summit | Attended the supply-chain led 2 day event which brought together organisations in a conference day as well as workshops and B2B meetings. |
| 6th October | Photonics21 Work Group 5 meeting | Follow-up Workshop for WG5 “Safety, Security, Space and Defense” to further discuss and to identify the strategic approach in the field for the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. |
| 6th October | First Product Design Scotland Networking Event | Our first PDS networking event brought together over 50 attendees from across the design, innovation and manufacturing sectors in Scotland. |
| 6th October | Scottish Cluster Ecosystem Alliance | Attended regular meeting of SCEA to connect with other technology clusters across Scotland and discuss shared challenges. |
| 10th October | MaaS Scotland Steering Board Meeting | Regular quarterly meeting to discuss future activity of MaaS Scotland network. |
| 11th October | Photonics update meeting with officials from Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise | Regular monthly meeting to discuss photonics sector in Scotland and Photonics Scotland activities. |
| 12th October | Attended Equal Engineers Glasgow Careers Fair | Provided opportunity to highlight careers in photonics to hundreds of school children and university students. |
| 12th October | Photonics Leadership Group AGM | Attended meeting to discuss status, issues and developments in the UK photonics sector and provide our vote on AGM business. |
| 12th October | IET Engineering Policy Group Scotland Meeting | Attended meeting to discuss EPGS business. |
| 18th October | IET ECOC’23 conference discussions | Met with representatives from IET who are organising ECOC’23 conference to discuss how Technology Scotland can provide input. |
| 18th October | 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. |
| 21st October | Photonics21 Work Group 3 meeting | Follow-up Workshop for WG3 “Health” to further discuss and to identify the strategic approach in the field for the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. |
| 25th October | Advanced Manufacturing National Occupational Standards Technical Expert Group | Attended meeting for the development of 6 new NOS for the Higher-Level Functions in Advanced Manufacture |
| 26th October | 8th Photonics for Space Special Interest Group Meeting | Hosted by Heriot-Watt University, attendees heard about the university’s new optical ground station. |
| 31st October | 3rd Zero Carbon Commuting Conference | Presented on Scottish MaaS developments at ZC3 conference hosted by Mobilityways. |
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