Edinburgh's game dev community gathers fortnightly at OX184 for drinks and conversation. Whether you're a developer, artist, producer or just game-curious, it's an easy-going way into one of Scotland's most active creative tech scenes.
EdinburghJS's May meetup at Perk's Fountainbridge offices. The headline talk is Dennis Stanoev's rescheduled session on 'Coding the Coder' — patterns and tooling that change how developers work day-to-day. Light refreshments, lightning conversation, friendly room for anyone touching JavaScript or TypeScript professionally.
ProductTank Edinburgh celebrates World Product Day with a very special guest: Matt LeMay, author of Product Management in Practice and one of the sharpest voices in the product world. His talk — 'Why Every Cross-Functional Team Needs to Watch the Documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster' — promises to be one of the most memorable product talks of the year. Free entry, open to all product professionals.
Venture Café Edinburgh teams up with Future Worlds for a Thursday Gathering focused squarely on Scotland's AI research ecosystem — what's in the lab, what could become a company, and where the connectors are. Built for PhD students, postdocs, professors and founders working with AI, with lightning talks, showcases and structured networking. Open and free.
Edinburgh UX Meetup returns to FanDuel for the second instalment of its UX-and-AI series, with two speakers exploring how designers and researchers should be reshaping their craft around generative tools. A reliable monthly meetup for product designers, UX researchers and anyone building human-facing tech in Edinburgh.
Weekly Friday co-working and community session for tech founders hosted by ScotlandIS and the Bayes Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Drop in for focused work time, informal roundtables and peer support with other early-stage and scaling founders.