The October edition of Tech Meetup Edinburgh, the city's long-running monthly general tech evening. The format is fixed and well worn: arrival and pizza from 17:30, a product demo and…
World Usability Day special: Tech for Good
Thursday 12 November 2026·5:15pm·CodeBase
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Date & Time
Thursday 12 November 2026
5:15pm – 7:30pm
Price
Free
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Organiser
UX Edinburgh
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About this event
UX Edinburgh marks World Usability Day with two founders who have built public-good products, talking about what it actually took.
James Buchan, founder and CEO of ePass, traces the route from a CivTech challenge to national government infrastructure: doing discovery when every council works differently, designing for citizens, businesses, licensing officers and policy teams at once, and building one common component that 160+ licence types can configure. Tirtho Dasgupta, founder of Nirmanaa, built an accessibility co-pilot solo in nine weeks and talks about designing for uncertainty rather than certainty.
Doors 17:15, talks from 17:45, close 19:30, at CodeBase. Free.
Why go: both talks are first-hand delivery stories rather than theory, and the government-services one is material you rarely hear outside closed service-design circles. Best for designers, researchers and product people, and anyone working on public-sector digital in Scotland.
Speakers
JB
James Buchan
Founder and CEO, ePass
TD
Tirtho Dasgupta
Founder, Nirmanaa
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