International Success for the Data Summit 2023

That the Parliament welcomes the successful completion of The Data Lab’s Data Summit 2023 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on 2-3 November; notes that the Data Summit is part of DataFest 2023, an annual two-week festival of all things related to data and artificial intelligence (AI) across Scotland; supports what it sees as The Data Lab’s global leadership in this area and understands that nearly 600 international delegates from 17 countries and four continents gathered to discuss what it considers as the critical issue of AI and data; understands that delegates heard how data and AI influence the human condition from culture to net zero, privacy to disinformation, and religion to space travel; further understands that the event was the most diverse to date, with 65% of delegates female, and that it took place in parallel to the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park; acknowledges that the summit saw data scientists, nuclear chemists, genomics experts, entrepreneurs, professors, astrodynamicists, journalists and broadcasters come together to share their advanced knowledge on the new future of innovation, and congratulates The Data Lab on organising this event, and on its wider work, in what it sees as this critical area, which, it believes, will make an increasing contribution to the Scottish economy over the coming years.