This year’s speakers have a wealth of global experience bringing an all important international view to the Forum. The speakers (Left to right)  include:

Laxman Badiga, Chief Information Officer, Wipro Technologies (India) global CIO with exceptional leadership skills for one of the world’s largest outsourcing companies.

Court Coursey, Managing Partner, Tomorrow Ventures LLC (USA)  a seriously serial entrepreneur who founded his first business aged 14 years and has built up a number of successful companies over the past 20 years.

Ewan McIntosh, Founder, No Tosh and 38minutes.co.uk (UK)  one of Europe’s leading experts in digital media for public services.

David Thomson, MD of Ludometrics (UK)  entrepreneur, game designer and screenwriter.

Stephen Whitelaw, Technology and Marketing Director, Europc (UK)  who consults with and trains large global corporations on social media.

These experts will share and sometimes argue their views on the 10Big Things for the ICT industry, which includes innovation, the pace of technology change, next generation internet and leadership.

Executive director of ScotlandIS Polly Purvis (right) said: “The key themes for 10BigThings are highlyrelevant to the society we live in. Advances in technology are already creating major changes to all our lives, such as the move to mobile, social media and crowd sourcing, (ie community collaboration used to help solve problems.) Scottish ICT businesses need to react to these trends quickly in order to develop effectively for the future.”

The Forum goes hand in hand with the ScotSoft 2010 awards dinner. In addition to the Young Software Engineer of the Year awards, 2 special industry awards for outstanding performance will be presented. Over 400 people from across the industry are expected to attend

David Mitchell,  (left) senior VP of IT Research at Ovum and chairman of the Forum, said:  “A competitive and innovative Scottish technology sector will be crucial to the continued growth of the Scottish economy as a whole, and to our international competitiveness. The sector is at its most powerful when academia, small business, major enterprises, policy makers and the business users of technology work together.”