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Edinburgh — Week of 6 Apr 2026

Mon 6 Apr – Sun 12 Apr 2026 · 5 events

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Edinburgh Tech Social

Low-key after-work tech conversation at The Abbey — no agenda, no pitch decks. A good option for an Easter-week post-holiday reconnect with Edinburgh's tech community.

Wed 8 Apr · 5:30pm · The Abbey

Founders · Investors

Venture Café Thursday Gathering — Building Scotland: Turning Conversations into Action

Venture Café Edinburgh's flagship Thursday Gathering at Edinburgh Futures Institute. This week's theme asks why Scotland supports startups and scaleups — and how to move the ecosystem beyond discussions, programmes and reports to genuine action. Open, free, no hard sales — the room spans founders, investors, students, researchers and operators.

Thu 9 Apr · 5:00pm · Edinburgh Futures Institute

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Founders Hub — Weekly Co-Working for Tech Founders

The Bayes Centre founders community continues post-Easter — weekly co-working and roundtables for people building scalable tech ventures, hosted with ScotlandIS at one of Edinburgh's leading innovation spaces.

Fri 10 Apr · 8:30am · The Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh

AI & ML · Design

AI for All: Designing Responsibly 2026

Annual drop-in exhibition from Edinburgh's NLP research community at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Hands-on exhibits explore how Natural Language Processing underpins voice assistants, translation tools and generative AI — and how researchers are building more responsible systems. Free, all-day, all ages.

Fri 10 Apr · 10:00am · Canopy, Edinburgh Futures Institute