Edinburgh — Week of 28 Sep 2026

A paid one-day student programme on AI skills.

A tutor-led Cisco CCNA intensive bootcamp from IT Professional Training in Edinburgh.

The IIBA Scotland branch at the Eagle Building on leading AI transformation programmes from a business analysis perspective.

A practical SEO session at Tribe Porty for small businesses that want to be found without hiring an agency.

creative soundLAB's monthly session at Bright Red Triangle for people working at the edge of sound, code and performance.

TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory's global flow measurement workshop at the EICC — specialist metrology and measurement engineering.

Ada Scotland Festival's schools gaming hub event at Summerhall, introducing pupils to games and tech careers.

The Royal Bank Accelerator's Fund Your Business Your Way series starts with debt: what lenders actually look at, and when borrowing beats giving away equity.

Geovation Scotland's community lunch at Meadowbank House with Koda Konsult — geospatial and location-data people, informally, over food.

Edinburgh's long-running monthly Tech Meetup: pizza, community announcements, a tech demo and a keynote, then drinks. The default place to start if you are new to the city's tech scene.

GameDevEd's casual social for Edinburgh game developers — all disciplines and experience levels, no agenda.

A hands-on evening at CodeBase Edinburgh where girls and young women build their own creative digital tool from scratch, supported by volunteer mentors from the city's tech community. Part of the Digital Skills 4 Girls programme, it is pitched at beginners and aims to make a first encounter with code feel practical rather than intimidating. Free to attend at CodeBase, Scotland's largest tech incubator.

The Melting Pot's monthly Catalysing Connections gathering for Edinburgh's social enterprise and impact community.

The Talent Gathering 2026 at Murrayfield — skills, hiring and early-careers pipelines for Scottish employers.

The Edinburgh edition of the global Women in Data Science conference, hosted at Heriot-Watt — research talks, career sessions and a strong local data community.

She Scales at the Royal Bank Accelerator: a session for women founders past the idea stage who are trying to grow, with practical growth and funding content.

The LGBTQ+ Founder Network's Edinburgh meetup — a relaxed morning session for queer founders and the people building alongside them.

A workshop-format clinic at A&DS:SpACE on retrofitting and decarbonising existing buildings, run by Architecture and Design Scotland for practitioners in the built environment.

Venture Café Edinburgh on innovating locally and exporting globally, with three programmed sessions and the usual open networking across the innovation community.

with Nicola Hainey (Leadership and Effectiveness Coach, Independent)

Part of Tribe Porty's Progress Sessions series: an evening on navigating career uncertainty and making your own opportunities, led by leadership coach Nicola Hainey. Small-group and practical. £10.

CTO Craft brings its engineering-leadership mixer to Edinburgh: an informal evening for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, heads of platform and the people growing into those roles. No slides and no pitches — the format is deliberately conversational, built around the problems senior technical leaders actually bring to the room: hiring, org design, platform bets, and managing up. CTO Craft runs one of the largest CTO communities in Europe, and its city mixers are the main way that network surfaces locally.

A vendor session from ALS Dental on digital denture workflows — dental tech, product-led.

The fortnightly founder co-working morning at the Bayes Centre, run with ScotlandIS. Bring your laptop, work alongside other Edinburgh founders, and stay for the conversations that happen over coffee rather than on a stage.

A repeat session of the same Dovecot Studios careers afternoon.

A careers afternoon at Dovecot Studios for people considering a move into technology, with routes in that do not require a computing degree.

Employers in data, quantitative finance and technology meet maths students and postgraduates at the Nucleus Building for a careers showcase and networking.

She Means Business Edinburgh's walk-and-talk for entrepreneurs in Saughton Park.

Edindies is Edinburgh's indie game development community, meeting every Saturday afternoon at LEVELS for co-working, playtesting and chat. Drop in with whatever you are building.