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Edinburgh — Week of 18 May 2026

Mon 18 May – Sun 24 May 2026 · 6 events

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GameDevEd Social Meetup — May 2026

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.

Tue 19 May · 6:00pm · OX184

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EdinburghJS — Coding the Coder

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.

Tue 19 May · 6:30pm · Perk, 3rd Floor, Nova House

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ProductTank Edinburgh: World Product Day 2026

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.

Wed 20 May · 6:00pm · 23 The Mound

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Edinburgh UX meetup: UX and AI (part 2)

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.

Thu 21 May · 6:00pm · FanDuel

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Founders Hub — Friday Co-Working for Tech Founders

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.

Fri 22 May · 9:30am · The Bayes Centre