Tech Events by Geovation Scotland

with Glen Stocco (Exited founder and strategic adviser, Plane & Simple)

Geovation Scotland's Lunch and Learn at its Meadowbank House hub, an hour of fireside chat and lunch for people working in land, property and location data. November's guest is Glen Stocco, who co-founded Plane & Simple — an online marketplace for independent builders' merchants — and took it from concept through national expansion to an exit. He now advises founder-led businesses on growth, team structure and financial clarity, and has a commercial property development background. Expect the exit story and the advising view rather than a geospatial technical session. Free, 13:00 to 14:00, open to all. Meadowbank House is a Scottish Government building, so attendees are booked in as visitors. Why go: an exited founder talking through what actually happened, in a small room, over lunch. Best for early-stage founders in proptech or geospatial, and anyone weighing a marketplace model.

The December edition of Geovation Scotland's Packed Lunch series, held at Meadowbank House on London Road. The series usually pairs a short Lunch and Learn talk with food; this one drops the talk and runs as an end-of-year community session instead. The room is the Geovation Scotland network: the current accelerator cohort, alumni companies, the Geovation team and people working across land, property and location data in Scotland. One hour, lunch provided, free. Why go: Geovation's accelerator is the main route into Scottish geospatial and proptech support, and this is the one session in the series where the cohort is in the room with no agenda to get through. Best for founders building on location or property data, and for anyone weighing up an application.

Geovation Scotland's October community lunch at Meadowbank House, for the geospatial and location-technology community. It is a free lunchtime session from 13:00 — the Packed Lunch series is informal, with the community rather than a speaker list as the draw. One practical note worth reading before you book: Meadowbank House is a Scottish Government building and attendees are signed in as visitors, so bring photographic ID (passport, driving licence or government-issued ID) for security on the day. Anyone who already holds building access does not need to be booked in. Why go: Scotland's geospatial sector is small, well-connected and unusually open, and Geovation is the hub the whole of it passes through — one lunch gets you most of the network. Best for anyone working with location data, mapping, Earth observation or planning tech, and founders looking for Ordnance Survey-adjacent routes to market.

Geovation Scotland's community lunch at Meadowbank House with Koda Konsult — geospatial and location-data people, informally, over food.