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Ewan McIntosh is a teacher, speaker and investor, regarded as one of Europe’s leading voices in developing engaging experiences through digital media for public services. He has worked on and created high profile digital coups in the past 10 years: led the first high school blogging and podcasting in Europe, created world’s first iPad investment fund and has managed the SNP’s digital re-election campaign to the Scottish Government. He still works with school teachers and students every week.

He is a former National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures for the Scottish Government, and blogs about learning and teaching at edu.blogs.com.

As Founding CEO of NoTosh Limited, he develops the skills of startups and creative media companies to take their ideas from paper pitch to a product in the market. NoTosh then works with partners in schools and universities in the Middle East, Australasia, Africa, North America and Europe to apply the ways of working from the world of the creative industries to the world of schooling.

He is a Trustee of the RSA’s Opening Minds Curriculum and sits on the Board of Interactive Ontario’s INplay conference, showcasing where play, video games and learning meet.

He launched the world’s first iPad Investment Fund in 2010, has been at the centre of $5m of creative media investments since January 2010, including $2.5 of non-profit projects with the MacArthur Foundation to improve the learning of students from North America to India. Companies in which he has invested have won a Media Guardian Award for the Best App of 2010 and another developed one of Apple’s Top 30 All-Time Best Selling Apps, appearing in the Guardian’s Tech Invest 100, 2010.

A high school teacher until 2005, the Scottish Government’s first National Advisor on learning futures until 2008, he was then the first Digital Commissioner for Channel 4’s £50m Innovation for the Public Fund.