Edinburgh — Week of 5 Oct 2026

Tutor-led CCSP certification bootcamp covering cloud architecture, data security, platform and infrastructure security, and compliance, with virtual attendance available.

A cloud security certification bootcamp from a local training provider.

Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh Business School runs its five-day APM PMQ project management qualification.

The FCA holds its Annual Public Meeting in Edinburgh for the first time, with the Chair, Chief Executive and Executive Directors taking questions. Directly relevant to anyone building in fintech, payments or regulated financial services in Scotland.

Creative Edinburgh's monthly Creative Circles meetup, this time on the careers that do not appear in any careers service handbook. Hosted at Napier's Bright Red Triangle Startup Studio. Free and currently full — worth joining the waitlist.

Unfiltered Edinburgh at CodeBase: candid, off-the-record founder conversation about what is actually going wrong, run by the team behind Techscaler.

A one-day Microsoft Copilot training course in Edinburgh from Platform Logic.

Tribe Porty's Progress Sessions on designing for wellbeing — try, review, adjust.

BCS Edinburgh at Skyscanner on what an enterprise AI transformation actually looks like from the inside, told by people who have run one.

Scottish Enterprise at CodeBase on funding, selling and scaling internationally — the practical mechanics of getting a Scottish company into overseas markets.

Founders Coffee Club's Edinburgh meetup at Jamaica Yard — a recurring, low-friction founder coffee with no pitching.

The Edinburgh Business Show at Village Hotel — a general small-business expo with exhibitors and talks.

A general careers fair at the Assembly Rooms with employers across sectors, including tech.

Royal Bank Accelerator's Grow Your Sales series: building and using a repeatable sales process.

The Food Incubator on taking shelf-stable food products from idea to retail — foodtech product development and route to market.

A data science course from a local training provider.

An afternoon seminar aimed at directors and senior managers rather than security engineers: what cyber fraud and attack actually cost a business, where accountability sits, and what board-level resilience looks like in practice. Useful for founders and operators at companies without a dedicated security function who still carry the risk.

Group coaching for founders at the Royal Bank Accelerator.

Denholm Associates asks who is actually in control of AI in your organisation — governance, accountability and the gap between policy and practice.

The weekly Venture Café Edinburgh Thursday Gathering — free, open and reliably the widest mix of founders, investors, researchers and students in the city on any given week.

The Data Lab at the Bayes Centre on what it really takes to get an AI model into clinical use — regulation, evidence and the long road from paper to ward.

Cyber Scotland Connect comes to CodeBase Edinburgh, sponsored by Cyera, with a social at BrewDog Lothian Road afterwards. One of the more reliably useful cyber community evenings in the city.

IT Professional Training's data analytics essentials course, October cohort.

An evening seminar at the Royal Scots Club on where AI and cyber security meet — both as a threat and as a defence.

An early-morning AI discussion over breakfast at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, convened by Twin Path Ventures. Aimed at people actually deploying AI inside companies rather than watching from the sidelines - expect operators, founders and a few investors. Free, 08:30-11:00. Entry condition: every ticket type (Investor, Startup, Researcher, Student, Ecosystem) is approval-gated - the host has to approve your registration before you are in, and the exact room within the Futures Institute is only shown once you are approved. Register well ahead rather than on the morning.

A Government Skills (Cabinet Office) Sector Connector session for Edinburgh's academic sector, on how government buys and builds skills provision. Free.

The learning-and-development counterpart to the same afternoon's academia session: Government Skills meets L&D providers working with the public sector in Scotland. Free.

Devs & Bevs: drinks and conversation for Edinburgh's game development community.

Edinburgh's Linux user group for sysadmins, tinkerers and first-time distro installers alike — shell scripting, self-hosting and hardware, in person.

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.

IT Professional Training's CompTIA Security+ course in Edinburgh, October cohort.