Dr. Peter Mowforth
Chief Executive and Joint Founder/Owner with Gillian Mowforth (since 1995) of INDEZ.
INDEZ is Scotland's longest established web agency that specialises 100% in Ecommerce. INDEZ works with a portfolio of clients whose focus is to grow and automate their online retail/wholesale trade. Tasks undertaken by INDEZ include web design/builds, support, automation and marketing. INDEZ clients are responsible for nine figure online sales both in the UK and overseas. Ecommerce Client growth in 2023 was 84%. INDEZ is a Google Premier Partner making it in the top 3% of digital agencies.
- Joint Director of the Ecommerce Club with Ann-Maree Morrison MBE. Today the club is Scotland's primary organisation and educational network for Ecommerce.
- Conceived Ecommerce Scotland as the national event for those involved with web-based online trade.
- Serves of various Government committees.
- Provides various talks on technology, business and ecommerce at both professional and schools level.
Peter has been a long-term evangelist for the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Smart Automation - particularly in its application to trade. This stems from his formative years as a founder, a programmer and then Director of Research at the Glasgow-based Turing Institute. During the 1980's The Turing Institute became the largest AI laboratory in Europe with around 100 staff. He helped secure key funding from Nasa, European Space Agency, BA, Westinghouse, ICI, ABB, Dräger, Esprit and the DTI Journeyman Scheme.
Prior to his contributions with 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 Machine Learning ID3 algorithm (1983) with Charlie Reece of Radian Corp.
- Getting funding from S.W.I.F.T. to build an Intranet based web in 1988.
- Designing and building one of the first passive 3D cameras (authored MSSM) (1989).
- Conceiving & running the First Robot Olympics (1990).
- Author of over 50 research papers and 3 books in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Robotics and Computer Vision applications.
