Dr. Peter Mowforth

Chief Executive of INDEZ, which he co-founded in 1996 and owns jointly with Gillian Mowforth.

INDEZ is one of Scotland's longest-established ecommerce agencies and specialises 100% in ecommerce. It works with a portfolio of clients who want to grow and automate their online retail and wholesale trade. Its work covers web design and builds, support, automation and marketing. INDEZ clients are responsible for nine-figure online sales in the UK and overseas, and their ecommerce growth in 2023 was 84%. INDEZ is a Google Premier Partner, placing it in the top 3% of digital agencies.

• Joint Director of the Ecommerce Club with Ann-Maree Morrison MBE. The club is now Scotland's leading organisation and educational network for ecommerce.
• Conceived Ecommerce Scotland as the national event for everyone involved in online trade.
• Serves on various government committees.
• Gives talks on technology, business and ecommerce to professional audiences and schools.

Peter has long championed the adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning and smart automation, particularly in trade. This stems from his early years as a founder, programmer and then Director of Research at the Glasgow-based Turing Institute. During the 1980s the Turing Institute became the largest AI laboratory in Europe, with around 100 staff. He helped secure key funding from NASA, the European Space Agency, BA, Westinghouse, ICI, ABB, Dräger, Esprit and the DTI Journeyman Scheme.

Before joining the Turing Institute, Peter received funding from The Royal Society to study for a PhD in what became AI, at Cambridge and Sheffield.

Personal achievements at the Turing Institute:

• Helping build the NASA Space Shuttle Auto-lander using the ID3 machine learning algorithm (1983), with Charlie Reece of Radian Corp.
• Securing funding from S.W.I.F.T. to build an intranet-based web (1988).
• Designing and building one of the first passive 3D cameras (authored MSSM) (1989).
• Conceiving and running the First Robot Olympics (1990).
• Writing over 50 research papers and three books on artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced robotics and computer vision applications.

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