Edinburgh — Week of 29 Jun 2026

Edinburgh's flagship monthly tech meetup and one of the largest in Scotland. Doors and pizza from 5:30pm, then community announcements, a tech demo and a keynote from 6:15, with networking and drinks running into the evening. Deliberately discipline-agnostic - no specific languages or technologies required, no sales pitches - just peer talks, community projects and new connections across the whole Edinburgh tech scene. Sponsored by CreateFuture; run by community volunteers under a code of conduct. Free; currently running a waitlist.

The Data Lab's flagship community meetup turns to one of the decade's defining challenges: data and AI for energy and net zero. A strong speaker line-up — Andrew Sudmant (Edinburgh Climate Change Institute), Gavin Johnston (BE-ST), Lily Bell (Map Impact), Emily Seward (Intelligent Growth Solutions) and Adam Sroka (Hypercube Consulting) — spans optimising energy use, tracking carbon footprints and AI-informed architecture and urban design across the natural and built environment. Expect substantive talks and one of the best data/AI rooms in the city.

CodeBase's relaxed monthly morning for anyone in or around Edinburgh's tech ecosystem. A friendly, low-key way to start the day: coffee, conversation and connections with founders, operators and ecosystem people, open to businesses of all sizes. A reliable fixture from Scotland's largest tech incubator and a good first port of call for anyone new to the city's scene.

with Claudia Cavalluzzo (Director, Venture Cafe Edinburgh) · Ross Tuffee (Co-Founder, MotionLab Ventures) · Fiona McIntyre (Managing Director, Scottish Women's Premier League) + 1 more

A SportsTech-themed edition of Venture Cafe Edinburgh's flagship weekly Thursday Gathering at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. An evening on the innovation, data and leadership shaping the future of sport in Scotland - from fan engagement to scaling women's sport - with an innovators showcase featuring MotionLabs, Crowd Legends and SEITA, a fireside on scaling women's sport with the Scottish Women's Premier League, and a view from Deloitte's Sports Business Group. Open networking throughout. Free; one of the broadest rooms in the Scottish ecosystem - founders, investors, operators and the curious.

Edinburgh's Rust and Friends community gathers for its July talks night, headlining a session on the Bevy game engine plus a second talk to be announced. A friendly evening for Rustaceans of all levels — systems programmers, game developers and the merely curious — with discussion and drinks afterwards.

Founders Hub is ScotlandIS and the Bayes Centre's weekly drop-in co-working community for technology startup founders. Every Friday, early-stage and scaling founders gather in the Bayes concourse to work side by side, swap notes and beat the isolation of startup life — no agenda, just the right people in the room. First come, first served.