Edinburgh — Week of 20 Apr 2026

The Chartered Institute of Marketing brings Craig Edwardson (Founder, Edwardson Digital; Advisory Board Member, Marketing Society Scotland) to Princes Street for a focused breakfast session on what actually drives B2B lead generation success via digital advertising. Topics include expectation-setting, attribution, sales-marketing alignment, and account-based marketing. 1 hour of CPD credit included. Free for members and non-members alike. Pastries from 8:30 AM, session from 9 AM.

A half-day workshop exploring creative funding approaches for business growth — from grants and angels to revenue-based finance and alternative sources most founders overlook. Hosted at the Royal Bank Accelerator in Edinburgh, this session is practical and founder-focused. Free to attend.

Monthly blockchain community gathering at the Bayes Centre. Two featured speakers this month: Peter Aitchison (CEO, NanoData) on data-driven crypto copy trading, and artist Trevor Jones on 'Authorship in the Age of AI'. Includes dinner and networking across multiple venues — free entry for developers, students and members.

Weekly after-work drinks and tech conversation at The Abbey. Bring what you're building, what you're learning, or just yourself. Free and informal.

A quarterly morning networking session for Edinburgh professionals and founders, hosted at CodeBase by Barclays Eagle Labs. Relaxed format, good coffee, and a cross-sector crowd — the kind of event where you leave with a handful of genuinely useful connections. Previous themes have included Generative AI and digital transformation.

Before you sign a term sheet, you need to understand what you're actually agreeing to — and which clauses will haunt you in your Series B or exit. Foras Ventures brings together Scotland's leading law firm Anderson Strathern for a focused one-hour session helping founders decode term sheets: economic vs control terms, what's standard vs negotiable, and the downstream consequences of decisions made early. Hybrid — attend in person at Anderson Strathern's Edinburgh office or join online. Approval required to register.

Research seminar with Dr Alan Perotti (CENTAI, Turing Institute collaborator) on explainable AI techniques for natural language processing. Hosted in Informatics Forum G.03 and marked 'selling fast'. A short, high-signal session for ML engineers, researchers and product teams working on language models.

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.

Earth Day edition of Venture Café Edinburgh's weekly Thursday Gathering. Focused on practical sustainability action for Scotland's innovation community — from climate tech founders to investors and researchers. Free, open, and built around serendipitous networking across the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Two technical talks for engineers and security practitioners at CodeBase. Oleksandr Piekhota (Principal Engineer, Teaching Strategies) walks through 'AI Agents Explained: Skills, Loops and MCP', then Security Operations Analyst Cameron Cottam pulls back the curtain on practical threat intelligence work. Networking, pizza and drinks afterwards.