Founders · Social
Thursday Gathering #34
Hosted by Venture Café Edinburgh
Thursday 26 November 2026 · 5:00pm · Edinburgh Futures Institute · hosted by Venture Café Edinburgh
about this room
This week's Venture Café Thursday Gathering, "Powering Tomorrow: Energy, Gaming and Unlikely Connections", asks what game design can do for problems outside gaming.
Brian Baglow, founder of the Scottish Games Network and author of Level Up Scotland, hosts a 20-minute session at 18:35 with speakers from financial services, defence, edtech and the creative industries. Hilary Young of Forumm and Adam Barnard of ASPBelong follow with a short innovator spotlight. Director Claudia Cavalluzzo opens at 18:00, and open networking runs 17:00 to 20:00 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Free, but you register to confirm a place and see the full agenda. ARIA backs the series.
the weekly room where Edinburgh founders, researchers and investors actually mix, and this week Baglow brings the games crowd into it. Good for founders in fintech, defence or edtech weighing up whether playful design is worth building in.
getting there
rooms like this, every friday morning.
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