The Principal of the University of Aberdeen will share the platform with one of the most celebrated figures of the information age at a conference in Aberdeen tomorrow.
But Professor C Duncan Rice will be hundreds of miles away at Lews Castle in Stornoway when he joins Professor Nicholas Negroponte in hosting a seminar at King’s Conference Centre (KCC).
Using the latest BT-based video-conferencing technology, Prof Rice’s welcome to the event will be broadcast to six centres throughout the North and North-east, including KCC and four colleges in the University of the Highlands and Islands network in Oban, Orkney, Inverness and Perth.
Around 200 specially invited leaders of industry, education and government will take part in the seminar which kicks off at 9.30am. It will be chaired by Sir Iain Vallance, Chairman of BT and there will also be a presentation from Neil Holloway, Managing Director of Microsoft Limited.
Prof Negroponte, author of the world best seller ‘Being Digital’ has been invited to Scotland by a partnership of leading public and private sector organisations including Microsoft, Scottish Enterprise, BT, Grampian Enterprise, Compaq and the Aberdeen-based BusinessLab.