This month Productivity Club will focus on innovation in business.
This event is part of the University of Dundee's Entrepreneurship Week and is open to everyone.

This is a joint event with Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SDCI)

Innovation is the secret ingredient of every organisation, without it there is no development or growth.

We will hear from Dr Peter Cridland, Head of Cloud Enablement, Brightsolid about their collaboration with CodeLab, and how this collaboration led them to gain a fresh perspective on the positioning of their Cloud Foundations product within the wider market, and a clearer alignment of their development priorities and direction with market demands. This has enabled an evidence-driven review on Brightsolid vision for the future of the product and how it would best serve both their existing customers and target market.

In the summer of 2022, the Centre for Entrepreneurship completed a pilot stage of activity for CodeLab with the tech company Brightsolid over a span of 10 weeks. To learn more about this initiative, click HERE.

We will also hear from Brian McNicoll, Head of Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee the support that the Centre for Entrepreneurship offers to businesses to innovate and grow.

By innovation we mean the practical implementation of an idea that can result in a new process, strategy or product/service that can contribute to the success of the organisation.

Dr Peter Cridland, Head of Cloud Enablement, Brightsolid
Pete is passionate about delivering cost-effective, compliant cloud solutions, delivered by CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.

Pete has 20 years of enterprise IT experience, and over 7 years of experience in enabling multinational organisations adopt public cloud in a secure, compliant manner.

Brian McNicoll, Head of Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee
Graduating from applied computing at the University of Dundee in 2003 Brian founded the BAFTA-award winning Dynamo Games best known for developing Championship Manager mobile. Brian grew a successful business to a team of 25, designing 40+ digital products. In 2012 Brian moved to Design in Action a £4m Scottish-wide AHRC-funded research project led by the school of Art and Design at the University of Dundee where he managed a portfolio of 17 design thinking-led businesses. Brian now leads the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurship helping staff, students and graduates launch their startup and spinout business ideas which has the first business accelerator programme to be based on a Scottish University’s campus: dundee.ac.uk/entrepreneurship

The sessions are interactive with group discussion, Q&A and networking opportunities.

08.30 Registrations, networking breakfast

09.00-09:45 Case study and expert presentations + Q&A

0.945-10.30 Group Discussion

10.30 Close

As this is a partnership event, registration details will be shared with the University of Dundee and Productivity Club.