Beth Simone Noveck (NYU professor of technology, civic tech pioneer and former US Deputy CTO under Obama) in conversation with Oliver Escobar on the civic role of the university in…

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What's happening: Week of 1 June 2026
Venture Café Edinburgh's weekly Thursday Gathering marks World Oceans Day with 'Below the Surface' — an open-door evening at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Free to all, with no agenda beyond…
A breakfast networking session for Edinburgh's greentech and cleantech community, hosted by Barclays Eagle Labs at CodeBase. Expect short talks, introductions and discussion on sustainability, clean technology and the circular…
Thursday 4 June— 1 event
Informal evening social for the Edinburgh Drupal community — open to anyone working with Drupal, PHP, open-source CMS or the wider web-dev ecosystem. The first-Thursday meetup spot in the Grassmarket pub. No talks, just conversation, pints and contacts.
week of 8 June 2026
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Edinburgh's monthly product management meetup returns to CodeBase with three featured speakers: Tremis Skeete, Geoff Todd and Lisa Venter. ProductTank Edinburgh draws a consistent crowd of product managers, designers and…
Scotland's flagship UX and service design conference returns to Pollock Halls for two days of talks, workshops and networking. Organised by Software Acumen, UX Scotland draws practitioners, researchers and product…
The Chartered Institute of Marketing Scotland hosts an evening session at the Scotsman Picturehouse exploring the intersection of creativity, cultural insight and customer experience. A smart pick for marketers, brand…
Monday 8 June— 1 event
First GSF Scotland hybrid event, hosted in-person at the Edinburgh Futures Institute with University of Edinburgh as a Green Software Foundation Scottish Partner. Talks from Sathpal Singh, Joanna Masraff, Osh Doherty, Sophia Ashley and Emma Horrell on building greener websites and software. Lunch-time format — perfect for software engineers, sustainability leads and anyone thinking about the carbon footprint of what they ship.
Tuesday 9 June— 1 event
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Edinburgh's monthly product management meetup returns to CodeBase with three featured speakers: Tremis Skeete, Geoff Todd and Lisa Venter. ProductTank Edinburgh draws a consistent crowd of product managers, designers and founders — strong signal quality and a reliably well-run format. Free to attend via Meetup.
Thursday 11 June— 1 event
Edinburgh's PostgreSQL community gathers at the University of Edinburgh for talks and discussion on Postgres internals, operations and ecosystem. Run as a low-key technical meetup for database engineers, SREs and anyone serious about open-source data infrastructure. Free to attend via Luma.
week of 15 June 2026
Edinburgh's JavaScript community returns to TravelPerk's Nova House for a deep-dive talk on writing an emulator in JavaScript — a chance to see how the language can be pushed to…
Flagship of the Edinburgh Finance Festival: Ethical Finance Global brings together the world's leading financial leaders, policymakers, academics and practitioners for a full day at the Sheraton Grand. The 2026…
Sustainable Gastronomy Day at Venture Café Edinburgh: 'Future-Proofing the Plate' digs into how technology, science and business model innovation are reshaping the food system — from regenerative agriculture and alternative…
Tuesday 16 June— 1 event
Edinburgh's JavaScript community returns to TravelPerk's Nova House for a deep-dive talk on writing an emulator in JavaScript — a chance to see how the language can be pushed to model low-level computing behaviour. EdinburghJS is a long-running meetup that pulls a strong audience of frontend, full-stack and language-curious engineers. Pizza, drinks and the usual post-talk chat.