Keynote Speakers
Laura Goodwin
Laura will be our host for the EIE24 Showcase Day and she has been a broadcast journalist for 15 years. She started her broadcasting career at Moray Firth Radio before moving to STV North in Aberdeen as a presenter and reporter.
She joined the BBC as Innovation Correspondent in 2018. Since then Laura has covered a range of stories celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of Scotland’s business and academic community.
Laura regularly presents live news programmes including The Nine, Reporting Scotland and recently anchored part of the political coverage ahead of the BBC Scotland Leaders’ Debate.
Professor Mark Logan OBE, FRSE
Mark has been an advocate of EIE for a number years and we are delighted he will be joining us at the EIE24 Showcase Day. He is the Chief Entrepreneurial Advisor to the Scottish Government, a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. Mark has over 25 years of senior leadership experience in the tech and start-up sector. In 2014, the Institute of Directors named him Director of the Year and in 2016 he won the UK Digital Masters Award for Excellence in General Management.
In 2022, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contribution to Scotland’s technology industry. He was awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for his contribution to the economy. He is also co-founder of Ipso-Facto Management, a consultancy to start-up and scale-ups in the tech sector, an investor and non-executive director.
Graeme Codrington
Graeme will be sharing his incredible insights into the future of tech at the EIE24 Showcase Day. Graeme is a futurist and scenario planner, specialising in the future of work and is recognised as one of the world’s leading futurists and leadership experts. He is lead futurist and head of a global research team at TomorrowToday Futures Institute.
He has achieved five degrees in five different faculties from five different universities. Graeme has clients in over 150 countries and has worked extensively across 99 countries. He is the author of six best-selling books and is a guest lecturer at eight leading business schools around the world. Graeme is one of the 52 featured ‘Global Shorts’ TEDx speakers for 2021.
