IA Conference Scotland 2026

The Investment Association's flagship Scottish conference, at The Exchange in Edinburgh — 20-plus sessions across more than eight hours, for an expected 300-plus asset managers, regulators and policymakers. Technology runs through most of it: a leadership panel with Xavier Meyer (Aberdeen), Kirstie MacGillivray (Aegon) and Sandra Boss (BlackRock); a tokenisation spotlight with Janus Henderson and Baillie Gifford; an operational-resilience fireside with M&G; Lucy Castledine of the FCA on consumer investments; and a Power Pitch from Dr Sonia Schulenburg of Level E Research. Stephen Flynn MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, is in conversation. Free for IA full members, £49 plus VAT for affiliate members, £199 plus VAT otherwise. Why go: Edinburgh's investment-management industry is one of the UK's largest buyers of financial technology, and this is the one day a year its decision-makers are all in one building. Best for fintech founders selling into asset managers, and anyone working on tokenisation or AI in regulated finance.