What's happening: Week of 27 July 2026
Chrisando Ryan (Skyscanner) · Greg Cavé (Accenture)
Cybersecurity engineers from Skyscanner and Accenture unpack what it takes to build a resilient security culture as organisations race to adopt AI. Chrisando Ryan (Skyscanner) shares hard-won lessons from embracing…
A hands-on evening meetup where founders and anyone who cares about growth get direct access to marketers and operators to work through real growth challenges. The format: arrivals with pizza…
A friendly, informal meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and the independent web. Bring a laptop to work on your own site, share recent breakthroughs and demos, and chat with the IndieWeb Edinburgh community. No RSVP needed — just show up. In-person, upstairs at Costa Coffee in Princes Mall.
with Chrisando Ryan (Security Engineer, Skyscanner) · Greg Cavé (Enterprise Security Architect, Accenture)
Cybersecurity engineers from Skyscanner and Accenture unpack what it takes to build a resilient security culture as organisations race to adopt AI. Chrisando Ryan (Skyscanner) shares hard-won lessons from embracing AI at pace — what burned, what they changed, and how far to trust autonomous systems — alongside Greg Cavé (Accenture) on the leadership buy-in, strong foundations and shared responsibility that matter as much as the technology. Free and in-person at 47 Potterrow (with an online option); essential for anyone working with data, AI or digital systems who wants to better protect their organisation. Part of The Data Lab Community's Cybersecurity & Privacy series.
CodeBase and Techscaler's flagship founder morning: a 90-minute, no-slides session where founders connect with other founders who've faced the same challenges. Honest, practical and peer-led — the antidote to polished…
Edinburgh's friendly games-industry social: fortnightly drinks at OX184 for anyone working in, on or around games. All stages and disciplines welcome — students, indie devs, triple-A veterans, artists and hobbyists. No talks, no agenda, just good conversation with people who make games. A relaxed way to plug into one of Scotland's strongest creative-tech communities.
with Mike Irving (Software Developer, )
A .NET evening hosted at Limitless's offices on Alva Street, with light refreshments. This month Mike Irving presents ‘.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!’ — an experimental journey using C# and .NET plus IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs, spanning device access, cloud storage, serverless functions and a public website, including the problem-solving needed to run it cross-platform on Linux on a Raspberry Pi. A fun, hands-on talk for .NET developers and anyone curious about practical IoT. Doors 6:30pm, talk from 6:45pm.
A two-hour celebration of HTML — part of the global HTML Day — hosted in Edinburgh by James, a co-organiser of the Edinburgh Homebrew Website Club. Bring a laptop (or pen and paper) and write HTML for the joy of it: creative freewrites, experiments with tags and CSS features you've never used, tiny hand-made web pages. Open to everyone regardless of experience, with people on hand to help beginners get started. Likely to be held in The Meadows or a nearby coffee shop depending on weather — check the event page for the final location. A lovely, low-key hidden gem for the web-craft and indie-web community.