Tayside TechFest 2025

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Tayside TechFest is the region’s flagship celebration of innovation, collaboration, and digital excellence.

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🎉 Tayside TechFest is the region’s flagship celebration of innovation, collaboration, and digital excellence. Bringing together startups, scale-ups, industry leaders, students, and tech enthusiasts, TechFest showcases the vibrant digital ecosystem across Dundee, Angus, Perth &amp; Kinross.Expect a packed programme of: 💡 Inspiring talks from tech pioneers 🤝 Networking opportunities with investors and innovators 🛠️ Hands-on demos 🚀 Showcases of cutting-edge projects and local success storiesWhether you're building the next big thing, exploring career paths in tech, or just curious about the future of digital, Tayside TechFest is your gateway to connect, learn, and grow.Join us as we spotlight the talent, energy, and ambition driving Tayside’s digital future.

Agenda

Arrival & Networking Breakfast

Overview of the Tay Cities Digital Ecosystem  
Goals for the day: Connect, Showcase, Shape the Future 

Welcome Remarks

As Brightsolid marks its 30th anniversary, join us for a look back at three decades of innovation, growth, and customer success. From our roots in Tayside to our recent expansion through the acquisition of Newcastle-based Synergi, we’ll explore how Brightsolid has evolved to meet the changing needs of the digital era. This session will bring to life real customer stories that showcase the impact of our technology and partnerships - both within Tayside and beyond. 

From Tayside to the Cloud: Driving digital innovation and customer success

GoFibre: Delivering Digital Connectivity

Coffee Break + Innovation Showcase

CoSTAR is a national network of R&D Labs established by DSIT and UKRI/AHRC to support innovation in the Creative industries across the UK. CoSTAR Realtime Lab in Dundee has a focus on working with industry partners to support the design and development of real-time creative technologies and accelerate them to markets and audiences. Professor White will share how the Realtime Lab partnership will offer wrap around support through the Lab’s  ‘Ideas to Markets’ pipeline and how innovators and creatives can access the studio infrastructure at Water’s Edge, R&D funding, and technology expertise.    

 

CoSTAR Realtime Lab

Innovation showcase; CoSTAR 
DARE Academy Winners 
Dundee Founders Collective 
Gordon Brown: T-Wrecks and Pedal to the Metal 
The Global Village 
Dewar Cyber Consulting  
Brightsolid 

Lunch, Innovation Showcase & Ecosystem Networking

From an initial commitment at Dundee Digital Fortnight in 2021, Amazon Web Services piloted a regional approach to growing digital skills and cloud capability across Dundee and Angus.  

Working with schools, Dundee and Angus College, Abertay University, the University of Dundee, Dundee City Council, Angus Council, and local AWS partner BrightSolid, AWS has launched and delivered programmes across the region to upskill, reskill, educate and transform. 

Join this session to learn how a fortnight turned into a four-year relationship, creating opportunities for every age and stage, and celebrate the local heroes who helped make it happen. 

Building the Future – Cloud Computing Across Tayside

DigiTay is the Tay Cities Region Deal’s digital skills project, designed to plug the skills gap and support growth in the region’s technology sector. With Phase 2 launching this year, discover how the project will support digital skills development across Dundee, Angus, Perth & Kinross, and North East Fife through to 2030. 

Plugging the Gap: Building Digital Skills for a Thriving Tay Cities Tech

This presentation will introduce Flow, a research-based serious game, and product of the Design HOPES programme, funded by the AHRC Future Observatory. 
Flow takes real NHS Tayside data and represents it within a digital, interactive experience to help users learn about how patients navigate through the Healthcare service and how individual decisions choices affect the wider system.  

By making complex healthcare systems playable, Flow encourages both professionals and the public to reflect on how small changes in behaviour can lead to better outcomes for people, staff, and the planet. 

Flow: Visualising Healthcare Systems for a Sustainable Future

Key insights 
Upcoming funding, events, and opportunities 
How to stay involved 

Closing Reflections & Next Steps

Networking

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