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2024

Date	Event
Tuesday 10th December 18:00 - 19:00	Joint meeting with the Lean Agile Glasgow All in together! Scottish Agile & Tech communities present: Sathpal Singh Getting into a flow state with Adlerian psychology Speaker: Sathpal Singh Online
6th November 18:30 - 19:45	Joint meeting with the Scottish Neuromorphic Network Innovations across AI and Semiconductors Speaker: Professor Themis Prodromakis, Regius Chair of Engineering Centre for Electronics Frontiers, Institute for Micro Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
2nd October 18:30 - 19:45	The Post Office Horizon Scandal - An Update and Analysis Speaker: James Christie Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ James Christie's presentation (pdf)
2nd October 18:15 - 18:30	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ Calling Notice Minutes of the 2023 AGM
25th September 18:30 - 19:45	Growing the profession and why Chartered matters Speaker: EUR ING Alastair Revell CITP CEng FBCS, BCS President Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
4th September 18:30 - 20:00	From Wildlife to Robotics: The Natural Inspirations for Innovation Speaker: Dr Ingo Keller, The National Robotarium Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
3rd July 18:30 - 20:00	Safety and responsibility in generative AI Where are we today and what needs to be done to safely develop generative AI technologies Speaker: Peter Beevers Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
5th June 18:30 - 20:00	Delivering the Impossible Speaker: Mark Stringer Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
1st May 18:30 - 20:00	Towards Operational Excellence Speaker: Paul Moran, Principal Technical Account Manager and Sustainability Ambassador at AWS Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
Thursday 11th April 18:00 - 19:00	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Science Festival The Future of Transport Speaker: Prof Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport Venue: Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF Booking required via the Edinburgh Science Festival. Tickers are £12 / £10.
6th March 18:30 - 20:00	How to Test AI-Based Systems Speaker: Bryan Jones Venue: Computershare Limited, Edinburgh House, 4 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ Bryan Jones' presentation (pdf)
7th February 2024 18:30 - 20:00	How do you "grow" in your career? Speaker: Dan Ashby Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

2023

Date	Event
6th December 18:30 - 20:00	OKRs and the Power of Leading and Lagging Indicators Speaker: Sally Tait, Agile Transformation Coach at Agile Velocity Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
1st November 18:30 - 20:00	Data Doesn't Sleep: Why Ignoring Numbers Could Cost You Speakers: Kevin Austin and Jak Mohammed, XLR8 Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Thursday 5th October 18:30 - 20:00	Digitalisation and AI in context: and Introduction to Intelligent Automation Systems Speaker: Dr Luciana Blaha, Edinburgh Business School Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Thursday 5th October 18:15 - 18:30	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Calling Notice Minutes of the 2022 AGM
27th September 18:00 - 20:00	Joint meeting with BCS Women and BCS Health and Care Scotland. Fire Side Chat with BCS President followed by BCS Discover Launch Speakers: Gillian Arnold (BCS President), Holly Porter (BCS Institute Managing Director), Ben Turner (BCS Director of Membership and Standards) Venue: University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
6th September 18:30 - 20:00	Global Professional: Making Impact Globally Speaker: Oluwaseyi Obiyemi Venue: Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
26th July 18:30 - 20:00	Joint meeting with the BCS Agile Methods specialist group and Lean Agile Edinburgh What if we were made for this time? Agilists and our shared future on the planet. Speaker: Lyssa Adkins Venue: Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
26th July 09:00 - 17:00	A BCS Edinburgh Branch Professional Awareness Course Agile leadership and coaching immersion day Presenter: Lyssa Adkins Venue: Edinburgh Training & Conference Centre, 16 St Mary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU Cost: £198 (BCS members), £257 (non members)
5th July 18:30 - 20:00	Simple Tests for Accessibility Everyone Should Know Speaker: Ady Stokes Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
21st June 18:30 - 20:00	A Leadership Guide to Holistic Testing and DevOps Speaker: Janet Gregory Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
7th June 18:30 - 20:00	Closing The Gender Gap in IT Speaker: Mags Moore, Managing Director, Celescan Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
3rd May 18:30 - 20:30	Frontend data validation for a clean architecture A hands-on workshop for developers and architects Speaker: Nicole Rauch Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Nicole Rauch's presentation (pdf)
5th April 18:30 - 20:00	Applying Lean Agile and more to improve public service operations Joint meeting with the BCS Agile Methods specialist group Speaker: Chris McDermott Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
1st March 18:30 - 20:00	More Than Lighthouses Speaker: Mike Bullock OBE, Chief Executive of the Northern Lighthouse Board Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
1st February 18:30 - 20:00	Digging into Problem Management Speaker: Ceri Jones Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Ceri Jones's presentation (pdf)

2022

Date	Event
7th December 2022 18:30 - 20:00	Wearable Intelligent Neuroimaging for Health Speaker: Dr Hubin Zhao Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Dr Hubin Zhao's presentation (pdf)
2nd November 2022 18:30 - 20:00	Solo programming considered harmful Speaker: Tim Ottinger Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Thursday 27th October 2022 18:30	Early careers - How to get into a digital tech or ICT career Speakers: Graeme McNaull and Stella Lee Venue: Room 1/07, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart, Edinburgh
5th October 2022 18:30 - 20:00	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting followed by Their mind in your hands: User centric digital mental health Speaker: Mel McKendrick, Heriot-Watt University Venue: Skyscanner Limited, Quartermile One, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Mel McKendrick's presentation (pptx)
6th July 2022 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: Researching the Future of Animal Technology Speaker: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, The University of Glasgow Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas's presentation (ppts)
6th April 2022 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: An introduction to Network Subnetting - Subnets, IP addresses and Subnet Masks Speaker: Galatia Evangelidou, Historic Environment Scotland Webinar recording

2021

Date	Event
1st December 2021 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: Quality archaeology: learning from the past to understand the present (and future) Speaker: Alex Schladebeck, Head of Quality and CEO @BREDEX GmbH Webinar recording Alex Schladebeck's presentation (pdf)
3rd November 2021 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: The Future Looks Different. Are You Ready? Speaker: Jennifer Krieger, Senior Director, Technical Program Management @GitHub Webinar recording
6th October 19:00 - 20:15	Reawakening Agile with OKRs Speaker: Allan Kelly Webinar recording Allan Kelly's presentation (pdf)
6th October 18:45	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting AGM recording AGM presentation (pdf)
1st September 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: Robots as the 3rd generation of personal device Speaker: Daniel Camilleri, founder of Cyberselves Webinar recording Daniel Camilleri's presentation (pdf)
Thursday 8th July 2021 17:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Science Festival Webinar: Computer Says Oh No! Speaker: Kevlin Henney, Director / Thought Provoker, Curbralan YouTube recording
7th July 2021 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: Data Driven Mobile Endpoint Security Speaker: Dr. Zhiyuan Tan, Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University Webinar recording Dr. Tan's presentation (pdf)
2nd June 2021 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: Blockchains are not worth the performance trade-off - except when they are Speaker: Rhian Lewis, Unboxed Webinar recording Rhian Lewis's presentation (pdf)
12th May 2021 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: Broken promises - how to keep your word and your sanity too Speaker: Clare Sudbery Webinar recording
5th May 2021 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: Top Ten Tips for Making Remote Work Actually Work Right Now Speaker: Lauren Schaefer Webinar recording Lauren Schaefer's presentation (pdf)
14th April 2021 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: Redesigning Everything Speaker: Alberto Brandolini Webinar recording
7th April 2021 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: Techlash – all in the past or is a second wave coming? Speaker: John Higgins CBE FBCS, BCS President 2021-2022 Webinar recording (audio only - John did not use any slides)
3rd March 2021 19:00 - 20:15	Webinar: DevOps: The Future of Change Management Speaker: Mike Long, Founder and CEO of Merkely Webinar recording Mike Long's presentation
3rd February 19:00 - 20:30	Webinar: Design, build and testing of the world’s fastest car: Bloodhound LSR Speaker: Dr Ben Evans, Associate Professor, Engineering, Swansea University Webinar recording Dr Evans' presentation (ppsx, includes videos, 600MB)

2020

Date	Event
16th December 18:30	Webinar: Technology challenges in and around the Scottish Classroom Speaker: Tommy Lawson, Schools Technology Adviser, University of Edinburgh Webinar recording Richard Bartle's presentation (pdf)
2nd December 18:30	Webinar: AI, Games and Ethics: How to Be a God Speaker: Dr Richard A. Bartle FBCS, Honorary Professor of Computer Game Design, University of Essex Webinar recording Richard Bartle's presentation (pdf)
Tuesday 6th October 18:15	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 6th October 18:30 - 19:30	Webinar: The Known Unknowns of Rocket Launch: Safety and Reliability Assessment Speakers: Alan Thompson (Head of Government Affairs, Skyrora) and Dr Christie Maddock (Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Stratthclyde University) Webinar recording Alan Thompson's presentation (pdf) Christie Maddock's presentation (pdf)
3rd June 18:30	Joint meeting with BCS Project Management SG Webinar: Connecting Projects to Business Intents and Benefits Speaker: Simon Harris, Logical Model Ltd
Tuesday 7th April 17:30 - 18:30	CANCELLED Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Science Festival Computer says OH NO! Speaker: Kevlin Henney, Director / Thought Provoker, Curbralan Chaired by: Prof Bill Buchanan OBE, Edinburgh Napier University
1st April 18:30 - 19:45	CANCELLED Rebecca George, BCS President Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th March 18:30 - 19:45	TDD is my shame Speaker: Gary Fleming Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Thursday 27th February 18:00	Visit to Traffic Scotland National Control Centre Venue: Traffic Scotland National Control Centre, 21 Ferrymuir Gait, South Queensferry, EH30 9QU Limited places, booking mandatory.
5th February 18:30 - 19:45	A journey to truly understanding observability Speaker: Abby Bangser Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Abby Bangser's presentation Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.

2019

Date	Event
4th December 18:30 - 19:45	Developing Developers Speaker: Nicholas H. Tollervey Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
6th November 18:30 - 19:45	Transform your meetings from pointless to productive Speaker: Philippa Lander, Lumin Limited. Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Philippa Lander's presentation (pdf) and meeting facilitation notes (pdf)
2nd October 18:30 - 19:45	Blockchain: why (not) the hype? Speaker: Thomas Kerber, The University of Edinburgh Blockchain Technology Laboratory Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
4th September 18:30 - 19:45	The role of software in aerospace systems Speaker: Geoff Ramsay, Leonardo Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
5th June 18:30 - 19:45	How portable is portable? Exercising the GDPR’s right to data portability Speaker: Janis Wong, University of St Andrews Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB In conjunction with the Open Rights Group Edinburgh Janis Wong's presentation (pdf)
1st May 18:30 - 19:45	So just what is your Professional Institute up to these day? Prepare for a few surprises! Speaker: Michael Grant FBCS, BCS President 2019-2020 Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
17th April 20:00 - 21:00	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival The Future of Cyber Security, Data and AI Speaker: Prof Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University Venue: Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland.
3rd April 18:45 - 20:00	Whole organisation testing without the pain Speaker: Andrew Scott, Context IS Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
6th March 18:30 - 19:45	Going global: the return of the address wars Speaker: Dr Ant Beck Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
6th February 18:30 - 19:45	Robotic Haptic Sensing and Interaction in Medicine Speaker: Dr Hongbin Liu, King’s College London Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

2018

Date	Event
12th December 18:30 - 19:45	AI for Healthcare Speaker: Alison O'Neil Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 27th November 18:30 - 20:00	Mob Programming and the Power of Flow Speaker: Woody Zuill Venue: SolarWinds, 7 Exchange Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 8RD Jointly hosted with Lean Agile Edinburgh.
7th November 18:30 - 19:45	Joint meeting with BCSWomen Scotland AI and Gender Bias Speaker: Marian Nicholson, Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
3rd October 18:30 - 19:45	Service Design Speaker: Anne Dhir, Project Director, Snook Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
3rd October 18:15	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Notification of AGM Presentation from the AGM Chair's Report Treasurer's Report
5th September 18:30 - 19:45	Bots, burnout and blame: How to use IT to build better organisations Speaker: Matthew Bellringer Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge.
1st August 18:30 - 19:45	Systems performance engineering Speaker: Colin Butcher, FBCS, CITP, CEng, of XDelta Limited Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Colin Butcher's presentation (pdf) Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to 04:30 for the start of the event.
6th June 18:30 - 19:45	Joint meeting with BCSWomen Scotland Growing Your Luck Speaker: Dr Sara Shinton, Head of Researcher Development at The University of Edinburgh Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to 06:28 for the start of the event.
2nd May 18:30 - 19:45	The Ethics of IT and AI: When we can do it, should we do it? Speaker: Chris Rees FBCS CITP, BCS President Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Chris Rees's presentation (pdf) Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to about 3 minutes for the start of the event.
4th April 18:30 - 19:45	Satellites, Big Data and Intelligence - Bird.i: a case study Speaker: Brendan Austin Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to 01:08 for the start of the event.
Saturday 31st March 15:00 - 16:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Are Friends Electric? Our Future Lives with Robots Speaker: Prof Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics Venue: Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland.
7th March 2018 18:30 - 19:45	The Internet of Things and Cyber Security Speaker: Roger Whiteley, Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Roger Whiteley's presentation (pdf) Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to 13:15 for the start of the event.
7th February 18:30 - 19:45	The Wild West: Current attack trends and how to mitigate them Speaker: David Stubley, CEO 7 Elements Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

2017

Date	Event
6th December 18:30 - 19:45	Embedded Systems Development: The Same, Only Different Speaker: Mike Ritchie Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
1st November 18:30 - 19:45	BCS Voices: Building a New World Facilitator: Prof. William (Bill) Buchanan OBE Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th October 18:30 - 19:45	Is a Darknet business really a business? Speaker: Angus Bancroft, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Video recording of the event thanks to Product Forge. Scroll to 28:45 for the start of the event.
4th October 18:15	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting 2017 Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Notification of AGM Minutes of the 2016 AGM Nomination form for Committee Member
6th September 18:30 - 19:45	Closures: The next revolution in programming Speaker: Jules May Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Jules May's presentation (pdf)
2nd August 18:30 - 19:45	Beautiful code: code with better type Speaker: Peter Hilton Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Peter Hilton's presentation (pdf)
5th July 18:30 - 19:45	BCS Voices: Healthcare Facilitator: Dr Grant Forrest, Associate Specialist Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead for eHealth, NHS Fife Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
7th June 18:30 - 19:45	Raspberry PIs to Supercomputers Speaker: Alistair Grant, EPCC Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
3rd May 18:30 - 19:45	Brex-IT: How to do IT Speaker: Dalim Basu, Chairman BCS North London Branch Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Dalim Basu's presentation (pdf)
Tuesday 18th April 18:15 - 20:00	A Celebration of the First Lego League in Scotland Venue: Ground Floor, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Slides from the event: • Rolling Intro Slides • Presentation Slides Videos played: • What is FLL? • My Robot is Better than Your Robot • Animal Allies Robot Game
5th April 18:30 - 19:45	User Behaviour Analytics (UBA) in Cyber Security Speaker: Matt Little - CTO, ZoneFox Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Monday 3rd April 20:00 - 21:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Wearables That Snitch on Us Speaker: Dr Paul Patras, The University of Edinburgh Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall, Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH Video of the event
29th March 18:30 - 19:45	Quantum Key Distribution: a gentle introduction Speaker: Prof Alan Woodward, University of Surrey Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Prof Alan Woodward's presentation (pdf)
1st March 2017 18:30 - 19:45	BCS Past, Present and Future Speaker: Ray Long FBCS CITP CEng, BCS President Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Ray Long's presentation (pptx)
1st February 18:30 - 19:45	Lego and Robots Speakers: Fiona McNeill and Katrin Lohan (Heriot-Watt University) Venue: Z1-10, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD - map.

2016

Date	Event
7th December 18:00 - 20:00	BCS Edinburgh and BCSWomen Scotland - 2017 and Beyond Venue: Room 4.31/33, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 8th November 18:30 - 19:45	Enterprise Architecture – What Is It Actually! Speaker: Samuel B Holcman, Pinnacle Business Group Venue: Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St. Mary’s Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU
2nd November 18:30 - 19:45	CANCELLED
5th October 18:15	BCS Edinburgh Branch Annual General Meeting 2016 Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
5th October 18:30 - 19:45	Swift for the Curious Speaker: Phil Nash, JetBrains Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
21st September 13:00 - 17:00	Joint event with The Cyber Academy Conference on Cryptography and Higher Performance Computing Venue: Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Flier (pdf)
7th September 18:30 - 19:45	Delivering Heterogeneous Computing in C++ Speaker: Duncan McBain, Codeplay Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Duncan McBain's presentation (pdf)
6th July 18:30 - 19:45	POSTPONED No excuse user research Speaker: Lily Dart Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
29th June 19:00 - 20:30	Reforming China’s Healthcare: Challenges & Opportunities Joint meeting with BCS Health Informatics Scotland Speaker: Nick Mackie, Strategic Partnerships Manager, University of Edinburgh, Usher Institute Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB UKCHIP endorses the event as suitable for Continuing Professional Development by health informatics professionals.
1st June 18:30 - 19:45	Finding Your Perfect Weather with Apache Spark and Docker: a recipe for a successful hackathon Speaker: Radek Ostrowski Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th May 18:30 - 19:45	Writing Understandable Computer Programs: the Benefits of Minimising State Speaker: Keith Watson, Standard Life Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
6th April 18:30 - 19:45	Data Science for Fun and Profit Speaker: Gary Short, Microsoft Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th April 12:00 - 13:00	Extra event BCS Code of Conduct: How does it matter to you? With Edinburgh Napier University and BCS Ethics SG. Venue: Room A17 at Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston campus Speaker: Ian Thornton-Bryar, BCS Ethics SG. Places are limited – please contact Brian Davison to book.
2nd March 18:30 - 19:45	Building Successful Communities of Practice Speaker: Emily Webber, Tacit Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
3rd February 2016 18:30 - 19:45	How to deliver Agile Service Management? Speaker: Richard Josey, Chair of BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

2015

Date	Event
2nd December 18:30 - 19:45	From the Internet of things to Smart Dust Speaker: Professor Julie McCann FBCS, Imperial College Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th November 18:15 - 18:30	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM 2015. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Notification of Annual General Meeting Committee nomination form
4th November 18:30 - 19:45	Public Services in Scotland and the Role of Technology Speaker: Jos Creese, BCS President Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
7th October 18:30 - 19:45	Predictive Models of Development Teams and the Systems They Build Speaker: Robert Smallshire Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Robert Smallshire's presentation (pdf)
29th September 18:30 - 19:45	The Enigma Coding Machine Speaker: Dr Mark Baldwin Venue: Room G.07, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
2nd September 18:30 - 19:45	Database as a Service (DBaaS) Speaker: David Martin, Oracle Consulting Venue: Edinburgh Training & Conference Centre , 16 St Mary Street Edinburgh , EH1 1SU David Martin's presentation (pptx)
1st July 18:30 - 19:45	The Rationale for Continuous Delivery Speaker: Dave Farley Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Dave Farley's presentation (pdf)
3rd June 18:45 - 20:15	Small Is Beautiful Speaker: Kevlin Henney Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Kevlin Henney's presentation (pdf)
6th May 18:30 - 19:45	Privacy is always a requirement Speaker: Eleanor McHugh Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
8th April 18:30 - 19:45	Where are all the Girls? Speaker: Hannah Dee, Aberystwyth University. Venue: Room G.07, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Monday 6th April 17:30 - 18:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Robotic Right and Wrong Speaker: Prof Noel Sharkey, chair of the Committee for Robot Arms Control Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall, Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF: www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/robotic-right-and-wrong
1st April 18:30 - 19:45	Lessons Learned Breaking the TDD Rules Speaker: Nat Pryce Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Nat Pryce's presentation: Speaker Deck, PDF
4th March 18:30 - 19:45	Security in Service Provision – Different Services, Different Threats Speaker: Martin Torzewski Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th February 18:30 - 19:45	Microservices and the one true way Speaker: James A. Lewis Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB James Lewis's Presentation (pdf)

2014

Date	Event
3rd December 18:30 - 19:45	Public Procurement of ICT, Challenges, Approaches and Changes a foot Speaker: Stuart Misson Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Stuart Misson's Presentation (pdf)
5th November 18:15 - 18:30	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM 2014. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Notification of Annual General Meeting Committee nomination forms: Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Committee Member
5th November 18:30 - 19:45	TDD for Business Strategy: Developing Agile Business Strategies Test-First Speaker: Tom Sedge Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Tom Sedge's Presentation (pdf)
1st October 18:30 - 19:45	Software Craftsmanship on a penny a day Speaker: Markus Gärtner Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
3rd September 18:30 - 19:45	Rules for Revolutionary Performance Speaker: Stuart Corrigan Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
2nd July 18:30 - 20:00	Long Life Software Speaker: Mike Long Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
4th June 18:30 - 19:45	Lean UX. How to make it work in your team Speaker: Spencer Turner Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Thursday 29th May 18:30 - 19:45	On Complete Testing Speaker: Matt Heusser Venue: Edinburgh Training & Conference Centre , 16 St Mary Street Edinburgh , EH1 1SU.
7th May 18:30 - 19:45	Brooks’ Law in a Free Software context Joint meeting with the Open Source Specialst Group Speaker: Dr. Paul James Adams, KDAB Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Monday 28th April 18:30 - 20:00	Delivering mission-critical systems Speaker: Colin Butcher CEng, FBCS, CITP Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Colin Butcher's Presentation (pdf)
Friday 11th April 20:00 - 21:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival The Six Waves of Computing Lecturer: Dr Hermann Hauser CBE Venue: National Museum of Scotland
2nd April 18:30 - 19:45	Effective Online Learning in the 21st Century Joint meeting with BCSWomen Speaker: Professor Liz Bacon, BCS President Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
5th March 18:30 - 19:45	Black swan farming using cost of delay Speaker: Ozlem Yuce Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
5th February 18:30 - 19:45	Software for Programming Cells Speaker: Colin Gravill, Microsoft Research Cambridge Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

2013

Date	Event
4th December 18:30 - 19:45	Test-Driven Development: That's not what we meant Speaker: Steve Freeman Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Steve Freeman's Presentation (pdf)
6th November 18:30 - 19:45	Catch: A natural fit for automated testing in C, C++ and Objective-C Speaker: Philip Nash Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
2nd October 18:30 - 19:45	Cash Flow Driven Development Speaker: Clarke Ching Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Clarke Ching's Presentation (pdf)
4th September 18:30 - 19:45	Digital Forensics Speaker: Jamie Graves, CEO at ZoneFox Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
7th August 18:30 - 19:45	Building Successful Cross-functional Development Teams Speaker: Helen Sharp, Professor of Software Engineering, The Open University. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Helen Sharp's Presentation (pdf)
3rd July 18:30 - 19:30	Cross platform mobile development - a tale of two approaches Speaker: Stuart Lodge and Chris Hardy Venue: Room G.03, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Stuart Lodge's Presentation (video); Chris Hardy's Presentation (pdf)
5th June 18:30 - 19:30	Increase Business Value of IT by managing technical debt strategically Speaker: Ali Law FBCS, IT Director at Royal London Intermediary Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
1st May 18:30 - 19:30	Growing Fast Within Government Speaker: Anna Shipman, Cabinet Office, Government Digital Service Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Speaker's Presentation (pdf)
5th April 20:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival The Power of Quantum Computing Lecturer: Professor Alan Woodward Venue: Teviot Row, 13 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ. Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF.
3rd April 18:30 - 19:30	Child Centred Computing Speaker: Janet Read, Child Computer Interaction Group Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
6th March 18:30 - 19:30	Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed Speaker: Keith Gordon Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 12th February 19:00 - 21:00	Joint meeting with The IET Real Time Optimisation Speaker: Dr. Jack Dempsey Venue: Apex European Hotel, 90 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5LQ
6th February 18:30 - 19:30	SOLID Deconstruction Speaker: Kevlin Henney Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

2012

Date	Event
5th December	Why projects (still) fail, and what you can do about it Speaker: Dr. Graham Oakes, FBCS Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 6th November 18:45	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM followed by BCS Edinburgh Branch 50th Anniversary Pub Quiz Venue: The Beehive Inn, 18-20 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU The pub quiz will be organised in teams of 5. You’re free to come in a prearranged team however those who do not will have an excellent networking opportunity as we will help team you up with 4 other people for the quiz. To celebrate our 50th Anniversary we will be providing 50 free drinks on a first come first served basis for our members. Both the AGM and the 50th Anniversary Pub Quiz are free of charge and open to all. No registration required - just turn up. BCS members and non-members are welcome but only BCS members will be eligible to vote at the AGM.
3rd October	What is BDD and why should I care? Speaker: Matt Wynne Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
5th September	HTML5 - Blurring the boundaries of the web and native applications Speaker: Cameron Hunter, Amazon Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. Speaker's Presentation (HTML5 of course! Best viewed in Google Chrome)
22nd August	Raspberry Pi Meets Arduino Speaker: Dr. Simon Monk. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. Speaker's Presentation (pdf)
1st August	Agile revolution or an agile evolution? A talk about Kanban and change Speaker: Chris McDermott Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. Speaker's Presentation (pdf)
4th July	Is IT making us more global or more local? Speaker: Rashik Parmar - President, IBM Academy of Technology. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
6th June 2012	Business Patterns for Software Developers Speaker: Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 15th May 2012	The Frustrated Software Architect Speaker: Simon Brown, founder of Coding the Architecture. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Speaker's Presentation (pdf, 32Mbytes)
2nd May 2012	The HECToR Supercomputer & Pushing past the Petaflops Barrier Speaker: Dr Mark Parsons, EPCC Executive Director. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Speaker's Presentation (pdf)
25th April 2012	Demanding Professionalism Speaker: Robert C. Martin, President and CEO Uncle Bob Consulting. Venue: Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St. Mary's Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SU.
4th April 2012 20:00 - 21:30	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Computer Animation: Where Science Meets Art Lecturer: Ronen Barzel. Venue: National Museum of Scotland lecture theatre, Edinburgh Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF.
7th March 2012	Blackford Analysis - From Stars to Spinout Speaker: Ben Panter, Chief Executive of Blackford Analysis Ltd. Venue: University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Tuesday 21st February 18:30 - 19:30	What and why every developer needs to know about mobile development Speaker: Matt Lacey Venue: University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Joint meeting with Scottish Developers
8th February 2012 19:00 - 21:00	Computers and Disability Speakers: Martha Lester-Cribb, Sandy Kerr and Dr Alison Crerar. Joint meeting with IET (Scotland South East) IT Can Help presentation (pdf) \| Pass It On presentation (ppsx) \| Pass It On notes (pdf)
1st February 2012	Patient Centric Health Care: An Integrated and Secure, Cloud-based, e-Health Platform Speaker: Professor Bill Buchanan, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University.

2011

Date	Event
7th December 18:30 - 19:45	Challenging Requirements Speaker: Gojko Adzic
2nd November	BDD and Feature Injection Liz Keogh
5th October	Managing the Private Cloud (with Microsoft System Center 2012) Nigel Cain, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management Division
14th September	Jeepers GPars, It's All so Easily Parallel Speaker: Russel Winder Russel Winder's presentation (pdf)
10th August	Skyscanner story and technology past and future SPeaker: Gareth Williams, Founder and CEO, Skyscanner
13th July	A Quantum of Computing Speaker: Dave McMahon, Ridgian Dave McMahon's presentation: PPTX (4.1 MB), PDF (12.8 MB).
8th June 18:30	Ahead in the Cloud Speaker: Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services Matt Wood's presentation (pdf, 7.5 Mbytes)
11th May 18:30	Agile is so old hat, all the cool kids are doing lean now Speaker: Richard Fennell, Black Marble Ltd Richard Fennell's presentation: PPS slide show (5.5 MB), PDF (1.5 MB).
20th April 18:00 - 19:00	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival The Trials and Tribulations of the Silver Surfers Alan Newell, Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing at Dundee University. This event is free of charge, but tickets must be obtained in advance from the EISF.
Monday 11th April 18:30	Discovering Startling Things from Your Version Control System Speaker: Michael Feathers, Chief Scientist at Obtiva Corporation
9th March 18:30	Developing applications for iPhone, iPad (and other iOS devices) Speaker: Pete Goodliffe. Pete Goodliffe's presentation: Slide show, Full PDF (43 MB), Small PDF (18 MB)
9th February 18:30	Sensor and sense-ability: building systems in the face of uncertainty Speaker: Professor Simon Dobson, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews
12th January 18:30	Green IT Speaker: Bob Crooks, Green IT Lead at Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Presentation (ppt, 5MB), Presentation (pdf, 3MB)

2010

Date	Event
8th December 18:30	Transforming BCS Speaker: Elizabeth Sparrow, President BCS CANCELLED
Tuesday 16th November 18:30	Joint meeting with Edinburgh Napier Univsity Interactive event on Computer Ethics Speaker: Professor Simon Rogerson (De Montfort University) Venue: Edinburgh Napier Univsity Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh
10th November 18:30	The November Debate: e-Commerce Skills for Scotland Presenters: Sara Dodd (Net resources Ltd) and Wendy McDougall (MD, 9-20 recruitment)
Monday 1st November 18:30	Joint meeting with the BCS Young Professionals Group (YPG) Managing your Career Presenter: Daniel Cohen, IBM
Thursday 14th October	BCS Edinburgh Branch AGM followed by ... Invisible Interfaces Speaker: Professor Aaron Quigley (University of St. Andrews)
Tuesday 7th September	Joint Meeting with the Consultancy Specialist Group Ian Burgess, CTO of SymetrIQ, and Alan Fowler, Isochron Ltd Ian Burgess' presentation (pdf), Alan Fowler's presentation (pdf)
11th August	Building a smarter planet: Smarter cities Daniel Cohen, IBM. Presentation (ppt, 8.6 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 5.2 Mbytes)
Tuesday 13th July	British Military Decision Making Scott Maxwell Presentation (pptx, 3.5 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 4.5 Mbytes)
9th June	Filesharing, Digital Economy Act and ACTA David Flint, Partner, MacRoberts LLP
12th May	An Overview of Some Computer Conservation Society Projects Christopher Burton, Computer Conservation Society
7th April 8:00 pm	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Mind, mouse and body: designing engaging technologies Professor Kristina Höök, Mobile Life centre, Stockholm.
10th March	Work Life Balance for the IT Professional Gillian Arnold (BCS Women Strategy Group), Alison McLaughlin (Client Director, SOPRA Group) and Kate Ho.
10th February	Cloud Computing: Location, Location, Location Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation.
13th January 2010	Contingency Planning and the Impact of Pandemics on Computational Infrastructures Professor Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow

2009

Date	Event
9th December 2009	The Codebreakers - Enigma, Bletchley Park and the Battle of the Atlantic Dr. Mark Baldwin
11th November 2009	The November Debate: “User Experience is the Concern of the IT Professional” John Knight (User Experience Manager, Vodafone Ltd) and Chris Rourke (MD, UserVision).
14th October 2009	Working In A Wired World - how social media can make you and your organisation more effective Euan Semple
22nd September 2009 2:00 pm	JANET - the first 25 years Joint meeting with the Computer Conservation Society. Bob Day, Roland Rosner and Shirley Wood.
9th September 2009	The state of the Scottish job market Stuart Nicol and Luke Westendarp, Computer Futures
12th August 2009 7:00 pm	Visit to the Museum of Communication in Burntisland
8th July 2009	Grid Computing for the Large Hadron Collider Professor Tony Doyle, University of Glasgow Presentation (ppt, 48 Mbytes), Presentation (pdf, 22 Mbytes)
10th June 2009	Bringing A Smarter Planet to Life Paul Fryer, Senior Project Manager, Marketing, IBM UK Ltd Slide show (pps, 10 Mbytes) Slide show (pdf, 4.3 Mbytes)
13th May 2009	Virtual tour guide with personality Professor Rob Pooley, Heriot-Watt University
15th April 2009 8:00 pm	Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival A Gentle Introduction to Climate Modelling, Observing and Projections Professor Simon Tett, Chair of Earth System Dynamics and Modelling, University of Edinburgh.
11th March 2009	Women in Technology - What's the problem? Heather Jackson, Chief Information Officer, HBOS plc Presentation (ppt), Pod-cast (mp3, 19 Mbytes)
11th February 2009	People, your greatest asset, your greatest vulnerability? Nigel A. Jones, director of the Cyber Threat Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) Presentation (pdf)
14th January 2009	A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality Professor Wenfei Fan, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh This is a repeat of the BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2008 by the award winner.

2008

Date	Event
10th December 2008	SFIAplus Mike Chad, Deputy chairman BCS Membership committee Presentation (Powerpoint), Presentation (pdf)
12th November 2008.	Exchange of Ideas: Agile/XP and User Experience Adrian Williamson, People, Technology and People and Technology Consultant and Jim Williams, weeworld.com Adrian Williamson's presentation (Powerpoint), Jim Williams' presentation (Powerpoint)
8th October 2008 7:00 pm	The Three Ghosts of Microsoft Security Joint meeting with IET Scotland SE Local Network. Speaker: Stephen Lamb, Microsoft UK. Presentation, Pod-cast (mp3, 45 Mbytes)
Saturday 4th October 2008	BCS Edinburgh Branch visit to Bletchley Park Photos from the visit
13th August 2008	Cancelled
3rd July 2008	HECToR – The New UK National High Productivity Computing Service Dr Mark Parsons, Commercial Director, EPCC Presentation (pdf, 3.3 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 26 Mbytes)
11th June 2008	Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
14th May 2008	Computer Forensics Russell May, AccessData Corp.
16th April 2008	Visit to Edinburgh Airport Traffic Control Tower.
26th March 2008 8:00 pm	The Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Systems biology: what is the software of life? Professor Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow Presentation (PowerPoint, 4 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 11 Mbytes)
12th March 2008	Is Privacy dead? Do we care? Professor Anne Anderson, University of Dundee
20th February 2008	Genetic databases: intellectual property and individual privacy Professor Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh Pod-cast (mp3, 25 Mbytes)
30th January 2008	Introduction to WiMAX, LTE and 4G Mobile Services Colin Bendall, Motorola Presentation (PowerPoint, 9 MB), Pod-cast (mp3, 20 Mbytes)
9th January 2008	Building the World's Biggest Next Generation Network Tim Hubbard, Head of 21CN Technology Futures, BT Presentation (PowerPoint), Pod-cast (mp3, 31 Mbytes)

2007

Date	Event
5th December 2007	Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Systems John Favier, DEM Solutions
21st November 2007	Virtual Worlds - Next Step for the Internet Professor Austin Tate, AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Speakers' presentation slides (PowerPoint. Warning: 65 Mbytes)
24th October 2007	Games and learning – the state of play Chris Brannigan, Caspian Learning
10th October 2007	Massively Parallel Architectures Colin Egan and Jason McGuiness, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire Slides (pdf)

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