{"id":3292,"date":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:49:22","slug":"2020-computing-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/2020-computing-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Computing Conference report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s annual Computing Conference took place yesterday, at the Stirling Court Hotel in the grounds of the University of Stirling. It was the biggest Computing Conference that we&#8217;ve ever held, with almost 160 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3293 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Audience view of keynote presentations from Judy Robertson\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>The event commenced with two keynote presentations from Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University, and Medlinda Matthews-Clarkson of CodeClan. The remainder of the day was spent in workshops which covered a number of topics including cyber security, data science, National Qualifications, vocational qualifications, and digital literacy.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3295 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"2020 Computing Conference audience watching presentation\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3296 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Computing Conference audience watching the West College Scotland presentation\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>The event will be formally evaluated but, from informal conversations, it appeared to be a success. All of the presentations are <a href=\"mailto:Jenna.Vallance@sqa.org.uk\">available from Jenna<\/a> on request. Please <a href=\"mailto:computing@sqa.org.uk\">contact the team<\/a> if you would like to follow up on anything from yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s annual Computing Conference took place yesterday, at the Stirling Court Hotel in the grounds of the University of Stirling. It was the biggest Computing Conference that we&#8217;ve ever held, with almost 160 people in attendance. The event commenced with two keynote presentations from Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University, and Medlinda Matthews-Clarkson of CodeClan. The remainder of the day was spent in workshops which covered a number of topics including cyber security, data science, National Qualifications, vocational qualifications, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}