edinburgh

UXDX Edinburgh brings the UX and product design community to Apple's flagship Edinburgh store for a hands-on session exploring cognitive accessibility features across Apple devices. Discover how Assistive Access, Background Sounds and Focus modes can help you design more inclusive digital experiences. Free, dog-friendly, with post-event drinks at The Guildford Arms.

A strategic product-thinking workshop led by 25-year digital product veteran Andy Irvine. Attendees use their own AI agent to work through a synthetic business scenario, stress-test product strategy and identify blind spots. Hosted at Skyscanner HQ with food and networking before the session — currently sold out with a waitlist.

Edinburgh's go-to monthly founders gathering returns at Shepherd and Wedderburn's offices, courtesy of their Start to Scale initiative. The format is built for real connection: colour-coded speed networking badges, a tactical fireside chat with experienced founders, and open networking with drinks. Hosts Selby Cary (Scaleup Lessons), Cat Burton (Goth Boss Studios), and Mo Zamzam (Neuron) bring diverse operator perspectives. Drinks continue at The Jolly Botanist from 8:30 PM. Worth every penny of the £5 entry.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing brings Craig Edwardson (Founder, Edwardson Digital; Advisory Board Member, Marketing Society Scotland) to Princes Street for a focused breakfast session on what actually drives B2B lead generation success via digital advertising. Topics include expectation-setting, attribution, sales-marketing alignment, and account-based marketing. 1 hour of CPD credit included. Free for members and non-members alike. Pastries from 8:30 AM, session from 9 AM.

A half-day workshop exploring creative funding approaches for business growth — from grants and angels to revenue-based finance and alternative sources most founders overlook. Hosted at the Royal Bank Accelerator in Edinburgh, this session is practical and founder-focused. Free to attend.

Monthly blockchain community gathering at the Bayes Centre. Two featured speakers this month: Peter Aitchison (CEO, NanoData) on data-driven crypto copy trading, and artist Trevor Jones on 'Authorship in the Age of AI'. Includes dinner and networking across multiple venues — free entry for developers, students and members.

Weekly after-work drinks and tech conversation at The Abbey. Bring what you're building, what you're learning, or just yourself. Free and informal.

Scottish Parliament election hustings on tech, AI and the digital economy — hosted at the Bayes Centre by National Conversations with ScotlandIS. Confirmed speakers include Daniel Johnson MSP (Labour), Miles Briggs MSP (Conservatives), Ben Macpherson MSP (SNP), Andy Williamson (LibDems), Brian Baglow (Scottish Games Network) and Prof Fiona McNeill (Edinburgh). A rare chance for the Scottish tech sector to put questions directly to parliamentary candidates.

Before you sign a term sheet, you need to understand what you're actually agreeing to — and which clauses will haunt you in your Series B or exit. Foras Ventures brings together Scotland's leading law firm Anderson Strathern for a focused one-hour session helping founders decode term sheets: economic vs control terms, what's standard vs negotiable, and the downstream consequences of decisions made early. Hybrid — attend in person at Anderson Strathern's Edinburgh office or join online. Approval required to register.

A quarterly morning networking session for Edinburgh professionals and founders, hosted at CodeBase by Barclays Eagle Labs. Relaxed format, good coffee, and a cross-sector crowd — the kind of event where you leave with a handful of genuinely useful connections. Previous themes have included Generative AI and digital transformation.

Research seminar with Dr Alan Perotti (CENTAI, Turing Institute collaborator) on explainable AI techniques for natural language processing. Hosted in Informatics Forum G.03 and marked 'selling fast'. A short, high-signal session for ML engineers, researchers and product teams working on language models.

A lunchtime guided tour of the 'Between Glass and Magnetic Fields' exhibition at Inspace — a shorter, drop-in friendly follow-up to the 16 April interactive talk. Walks through how glass art and medical imaging data are combined in this Design Informatics collaboration with Fraunhofer MEVIS.

Earth Day edition of Venture Café Edinburgh's weekly Thursday Gathering. Focused on practical sustainability action for Scotland's innovation community — from climate tech founders to investors and researchers. Free, open, and built around serendipitous networking across the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Two technical talks for engineers and security practitioners at CodeBase. Oleksandr Piekhota (Principal Engineer, Teaching Strategies) walks through 'AI Agents Explained: Skills, Loops and MCP', then Security Operations Analyst Cameron Cottam pulls back the curtain on practical threat intelligence work. Networking, pizza and drinks afterwards.

Edinburgh's long-running monthly Tech Meetup — one of the city's flagship community events for founders, engineers, designers and operators. April edition features community announcements, a tech demo and a keynote speaker, followed by networking over drinks. Hosted by UK Startup Hub and sponsored by FanDuel.

Weekly Wednesday-night informal tech meetup at The Abbey pub — one of the most reliable, no-agenda networking rooms in Edinburgh's tech scene. Drop in for drinks and conversation with founders, engineers, designers and anyone working in or around tech.

Clean Digital's focused morning workshop on where search actually lives in 2026 — AI Overviews, TikTok, and beyond Google. Aimed at CMOs, marketing managers and business owners who need to adapt their digital strategy. Intimate group capped at 20, selling fast. A share of ticket proceeds goes to Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity.

One of Scotland's largest business expos. Around 60 exhibitors, 8 seminars and workshops, and structured networking sessions across a half-day at the Royal Highland Centre. Free to attend — organisers report 82% of delegates are decision-makers, making it a useful room for B2B founders, marketers and sales teams targeting the Scottish market.

Weekly Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Edinburgh, this week exploring programmable immunity and the shift from reactive medicine toward proactive biological resilience. Relevant for health-tech founders, researchers and operators building at the bio × tech boundary. Free, open, networking-first format at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Test connection only - please ignore

Panel discussion at the Royal Society of Edinburgh exploring how AI is reshaping reading, writing, learning and translation. Speakers include Dr Sharon Deane-Cox (Strathclyde), Prof Peter Mackay (St Andrews), Dr Carolina Orloff (Charco Press) and Prof William Lamb (Edinburgh). Hybrid format with in-person and online audience Q&A — a thoughtful session for anyone thinking about AI's cultural impact.

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.

Edinburgh International Data Facility's bi-annual town hall, open to companies, academics and public sector users of Scotland's HPC research infrastructure. Hear use cases from Garandor, the National Collection of Aerial Photography and the Genomic Data Analysis Centre, with Q&A and networking. Hybrid format — attend in person or remotely.

CodeBase's relaxed monthly morning for anyone in or around Edinburgh's tech ecosystem. Good conversations over coffee, community announcements, and the chance to meet new faces — from seasoned founders to people exploring a career in tech. No agenda, no pitch, no pressure. First Wednesday of every month.

Edinburgh's flagship pre-seed to Series A founder-investor summit returns to The Biscuit Factory. A full day of honest conversation about what's working, what's not, and where the opportunities are for early-stage founders and the investors backing them. Second release tickets now available — connection over pitches.

Scotland's embedded systems and hardware community gathers at CodeBase to explore the latest in embedded tech, tools and best practice. Technical presentation, live demo and networking for firmware engineers, hardware developers and anyone working at the silicon-to-software boundary. Organised by non-profit Open Circuit Scotland.

CreateFuture gathers senior Scottish technology leaders for a frank panel discussion on practical AI implementation. Hear from Paul Gillespie (Director of Engineering, Skyscanner), Sarah Thomson (Head of Tech UK, People's Postcode Lottery) and Stuart Bell (Head of AI & Innovation, M&G) on identifying real opportunities, avoiding costly distractions and building board-level trust in AI. Selling fast.

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.