{"id":5520,"date":"2015-03-26T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2016-03-07T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:42:36","slug":"startedin-edinburgh-comes-to-the-city-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5520","title":{"rendered":"Startedin – Edinburgh comes to the City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event began with Frank Ross – who Convenes Edinburgh City Council’s Economic Development activities.<\/p>\n

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“Pitching” the Edinburgh Offer – Frank Ross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s about graduates and about computing, academic excellence, spinouts and innovative startups. There are 15 incubators in Edinburgh – Creative Exchange, Carbon Innocation, Techcube; lots of others.<\/p>\n

There is a danger that incubators are operating in isolation – it needs to be joined up – so we’ve established the online portal Interspace – to make it easy to do business in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

It’s about quality of life, quality of jobs and quality of city! He pitches the city and he’s proud of it.<\/p>\n

Amazon has been in Edinburgh for over 10 years<\/h4>\n

“We run major chunks of Amazon from Edinburgh” says Graeme Smith of Amazon<\/p>\n

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Graeme Smith presents Amazon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here is what they get up to:<\/p>\n

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Skyscanner – it’s about the quality of life in Edinburgh<\/h3>\n

Richard Lennox from Skyscanner – this is how he sees it:<\/p>\n

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He’s from Carlisle. “I’ve always wanted to work in a global scale technology business”.<\/p>\n

Why Edinburgh not London?<\/p>\n

It’s not tangible – but it is about the quality of life in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Here are my more detailed notes and liveblog in Storify<\/a><\/p>\n

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