What's happening: Week of 20 April 2026
A strategic product-thinking workshop led by 25-year digital product veteran Andy Irvine. Attendees use their own AI agent to work through a synthetic business scenario, stress-test product strategy and identify…
Edinburgh's go-to monthly founders gathering returns at Shepherd and Wedderburn's offices, courtesy of their Start to Scale initiative. The format is built for real connection: colour-coded speed networking badges, a…
Scottish Parliament election hustings on tech, AI and the digital economy — hosted at the Bayes Centre by National Conversations with ScotlandIS. Confirmed speakers include Daniel Johnson MSP (Labour), Miles…
A lunchtime guided tour of the 'Between Glass and Magnetic Fields' exhibition at Inspace — a shorter, drop-in friendly follow-up to the 16 April interactive talk. Walks through how glass art and medical imaging data are combined in this Design Informatics collaboration with Fraunhofer MEVIS.
Edinburgh's long-running monthly Tech Meetup — one of the city's flagship community events for founders, engineers, designers and operators. April edition features community announcements, a tech demo and a keynote…
Panel discussion at the Royal Society of Edinburgh exploring how AI is reshaping reading, writing, learning and translation. Speakers include Dr Sharon Deane-Cox (Strathclyde), Prof Peter Mackay (St Andrews), Dr…
Weekly Wednesday-night informal tech meetup at The Abbey pub — one of the most reliable, no-agenda networking rooms in Edinburgh's tech scene. Drop in for drinks and conversation with founders,…
Weekly Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Edinburgh, this week exploring programmable immunity and the shift from reactive medicine toward proactive biological resilience. Relevant for health-tech founders, researchers and operators building at the bio × tech boundary. Free, open, networking-first format at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.