Scotland's CivTech 7 team hold London drop-in session during Tech Week

As member of the Advisory Board at the Scottish Government’s CivTech® Programme, Russell Dalgleish spoke with guests at a drop-in session at Scotland House London during London Tech Week.

"If you're an innovator, entrepreneur, start-up or established company, CivTech offers an unrivalled opportunity to develop a product for a public sector or charity customer with a real need. With problems framed as Open challenges, application is easy and procurement streamlined; it's a swift and proven way to win public sector customers." - CivTech®

You can view the 2022 Challenges here, which have a strong focus on using technology to empower communities, minority groups, and marginalised individuals, as well as opportunities to help solve environmental issues, and improve transportation.

“We want thinkers, creatives, entrepreneurs, innovators, to all come together and join us in finding answers to major challenges facing not just communities and individuals across the country, also around the world." - Ivan McKee, Scottish Government Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise

"The collaboration that CivTech has been able to nurture with key groups within Scotland has been critical to the overall success of the program but what do we actually mean by collaboration? Is it simply the signing of an agreement to "work together", is it the promotion of each other's activities, is it attendance at meetings to discuss potential projects? We'll in CivTech's case the answer is that it is actually about "doing something" and that's one of the key reasons I commit my time to the project." - Russell Dalgleish, Advisory Board Member

With funding and support provided throughout the programme and £7M of contract opportunities available, the CivTech® Programme is an opportunity not to be missed!