Events

Customer Care Champions is an easy to use online, cost effective, on-the-job training programme

NEoN 2010 is a seven-day international digital arts festival featuring moving image, performance, music and technology driven arts. Interactive Scotland will be running a technical workshop at this event to help gaming companies understand the area of self publishing.

Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland gear up for their first national conference. A keynote speaker is Mark Beaumont - The man who cycled the world.

See how a free SMAS manufacturing review of Lightbody Celebration Cakes helped focus their business on a continuous improvement journey. You will leave with practical tools that can be introduced to your workplace no matter what manufacturing sector you are working in.

Going4Growth Borders is targeted at entrepreneurs and will provide delegates with the chance to hear and learn from a panel of successful, local entrepreneurs as well as having opportunities to network.

Industry Connect aim to bring together the local chemical science business community to highlight best practice within the sector and provide an opportunity for networking with other chemistry-using businesses.

With a line-up of leading speakers and presentations from programme and film-makers, game developers and web designers and people behind emerging creative digital media technologies, this event explores the future of moving image, multi-platform content and the increasing convergence of technology.

Conference focusing on finance and investment opportunities within Scotland's renewable and low carbon industries. Edinburgh September 28-29 2010

This workshop will bring all of the developers and Scottish Port owners involved in the Scottish Territorial Waters and Scottish coast Round three sites together at a single event.

This is a national event hosted by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Companies use internet applications, social media tools and websites to promote their message to a wide audience, but have you considered how powerful mobile could be to grow your business?

Merck Millipore and the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service are pleased to invite you to an exciting manufacturing best practice seminar at Millipore’s manufacturing facility, Dundee on Tuesday 21 September at 9.30 am.

See and hear how Millipore (Dundee) has focused and acted on true customer requirements through the use of Lean and Six Sigma.

The Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service is pleased to invite you to an exciting manufacturing best practice visit to CGL Systems and Boxshop manufacturing facilities in East Kilbride on Thursday 16 September at 9.30 am.

Both CGL Systems and Boxshop have taken key elements of Lean manufacturing and used them to drive a continuous improvement culture within very different working environments.

Managing People for Growth is a programme of workshops designed to help organisations maximise the potential of their people managers, to allow them to become fully effective and to give them the tools and attitudes to continue that development throughout their career.

Managing People for Growth is a programme of workshops designed to help organisations maximise the potential of their people managers, to allow them to become fully effective and to give them the tools and attitudes to continue that development throughout their career.

The Managing People for Growth programme will run from September 2010 to January 2011. There are four mandatory workshops plus four optional workshops and an optional review session.

Scottish Enterprise invites you to attend a free half-day event to learn how technology can transform and grow your business.

Innovation is about ‘the successful exploitation of new ideas’, about taking new ideas and technologies and applying them in new markets. As part of our Winning Through Innovation series, this event is not just for technology companies. It’s about using technology in a creative and innovative way as a tool to drive business growth and retain your competitive edge.

This year we will be publishing a video Annual Review and hosting an online Q&A forum instead of our traditional Annual Public Meeting. Our chairman, Crawford Gillies, will be joined by chief executive Lena Wilson to answer your questions via an online forum, live from 2.30 pm on Tuesday 14 September.

This is a free service to businesses looking to identify and implement efficiencies through improved resource management. This new programme is designed to help businesses from all sectors make the most of the wide range of advice and support that is available to save money, time and resources.

BarcampGlasgow is back again and will be hosted by BBC Glasgow on Thursday 9 September, 5pm for 5.30pm start. While the sessions and talks will be decided at the event the broad theme will be: social media - public & private.

High speed broadband in your community

This event is vital for anyone involved in trying to secure better Broadband for Scotland. The Roadshow is jointly hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and ScotlandIS and takes place at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University.

Hydrasun and the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service are pleased to invite you to an exciting manufacturing best practice seminar at Hydrasun’s Links Place facility, Aberdeen, on Wednesday 8 September.

See and hear how SMAS worked with a multi-disciplined team from customer service, purchasing and warehousing to improve the purchasing operation within Hydrasun.