Edinburgh — Week of 3 Aug 2026

Edinburgh's most consistent Web3 room returns to the Bayes Centre for an evening of talks, demos and networking on tokenisation, on-chain finance and blockchain infrastructure. Convened by Blockchain Scotland, it draws a genuine mix of developers, founders, researchers and finance professionals. Free admission for developers and students (approval required); general admission is pay-what-you-want. Includes dinner and drinks.

Edinburgh's friendly games-industry social: fortnightly drinks at OX184 for anyone working in, on or around games. All stages and disciplines welcome — students, indie devs, triple-A veterans, artists and hobbyists. No talks, no agenda, just good conversation with people who make games. A relaxed way to plug into one of Scotland's strongest creative-tech communities.

CodeBase and Techscaler's flagship founder morning: a 90-minute, no-slides session where founders connect with other founders who've faced the same challenges. Honest, practical and peer-led — the antidote to polished panel events. Held in CodeBase's events space on Castle Terrace over coffee before the working day. One of the most reliably worthwhile rooms in the Scottish startup calendar, and a strong first stop if you're new to the ecosystem.

A .NET evening hosted at Limitless's offices on Alva Street, with light refreshments. This month Mike Irving presents ‘.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!’ — an experimental journey using C# and .NET plus IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs, spanning device access, cloud storage, serverless functions and a public website, including the problem-solving needed to run it cross-platform on Linux on a Raspberry Pi. A fun, hands-on talk for .NET developers and anyone curious about practical IoT. Doors 6:30pm, talk from 6:45pm.

A two-hour celebration of HTML — part of the global HTML Day — hosted in Edinburgh by James, a co-organiser of the Edinburgh Homebrew Website Club. Bring a laptop (or pen and paper) and write HTML for the joy of it: creative freewrites, experiments with tags and CSS features you've never used, tiny hand-made web pages. Open to everyone regardless of experience, with people on hand to help beginners get started. Likely to be held in The Meadows or a nearby coffee shop depending on weather — check the event page for the final location. A lovely, low-key hidden gem for the web-craft and indie-web community.