A relaxed fortnightly social for Edinburgh's game development community at OX184 on the Cowgate. Programmers, artists, designers, audio folk and anyone curious about making games gather for informal chat and networking over a drink. Open to hobbyists, students and industry professionals alike — a friendly entry point into Scotland's games scene.
An evening of talks and networking for engineering leaders, hosted at Skyscanner. LeadDev meetups bring together tech leads, engineering managers and senior engineers for three short talks on leadership, team practices and technical delivery, followed by networking. Inclusive and welcoming whether you are an established leader or growing into the role. Spaces are limited — RSVP required.
The Edinburgh chapter of the OpenAI Codex Community meets for an evening of hands-on demos and discussion for developers building with Codex and agentic AI coding tools. Expect practical show-and-tell from local builders, technical Q&A, and no-pitch networking with engineers, founders and researchers working on applied AI. A good room for anyone integrating AI coding assistants into real production workflows.
Barclays Eagle Labs Scotland hosts its quarterly networking evening for Edinburgh's tech and startup professionals at CodeBase. An informal chance to meet founders, operators, investors and ecosystem partners across the city's technology community, build connections and swap notes on what's happening in the Scottish tech scene. Open to all — from early-stage founders to established scale-up staff.
Venture Café Edinburgh's flagship weekly Thursday Gathering returns to The Bayes Centre. Every week the Gathering connects creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and technologists to build a stronger, more inclusive innovation ecosystem across Scotland — with talks, spotlights and open networking. A dependable anchor point in the Edinburgh tech calendar; full programme announced closer to the date. Powered by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA).
with Noon van der Silk (Speaker, )
The ninth edition of TechTalks Edinburgh tackles two of the moment's most talked-about developer topics: Nix (reproducible builds and declarative environments) and AI-driven development — how engineers are folding LLM coding agents into real delivery workflows. Expect concrete, practitioner-led talks, honest lessons and post-talk networking at Clockwise in Leith. Strong pick for software developers, platform engineers and anyone rethinking their toolchain in the AI era.
Weekly co-working Friday for tech founders, hosted by The Bayes Centre in partnership with ScotlandIS. Founders building scalable technology businesses work alongside peers facing similar challenges, share advice and make connections in the Bayes Lounge. Startup life can be lonely — this is a standing space to support, inspire and challenge one another. Free; open to founders across the Edinburgh ecosystem.