InnovationTech lecture to be held at EICC

Chris Forrest, Managing Director of Microsoft Scotland and Professor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, will deliver the keynote presentations on innovation in Scotland’s technology industry at the EICC’s June InnovationNation talk.

Both speakers will present their views in 20-minute talks before joining forces to lead an open forum discussion. The InnovationTech lecture event on Monday 22 June 2015 starts at 6.30pm, with doors opening and refreshments available from 6pm.

Tickets are free with registration to attend through EICC’s website http://www.eicc.co.uk/innovationnation.

Professor Harald Haas is Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering and is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at pureLIFI. The term Li-Fi was coined by Professor Haas and is described as a ’rail track’ technology, which was developed in Scotland and first demonstrated by streaming a video through an off-the-shelf LED lamp at TED Global 2011. Subsequently, LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine.

Chris Forrest is the Managing Director of Microsoft Scotland. He will discuss the ’Modern Workplace’ and how that is being shaped by rapidly changing social norms, environmental factors and technology advances.

Chris Forrest comments; “I am delighted to be supporting the EICC’s ‘InnovationNation’ lecture series. Scotland has an abundance of talented people of all ages bristling with innovative ideas and projects which it seems apt to celebrate at the heart of Scotland’s capital and at the EICC.”

Doors open at 1800 for a 1830 start. The lecture will be followed by a networking drinks reception.

Following Monday’s lecture, the next talks in the InnovationNation series are: InnovationArts in August, InnovationCity in September, InnovatonSpace in October and InnovationLight in November. More details on the series can be found on the EICC website.

Submitted by Jill Spink