GameDevEd's fortnightly social brings Edinburgh's game developers together at OX184 — students, indies, studio veterans, artists, musicians and anyone working in and around games. A relaxed evening of chat and community from 6pm; all stages and disciplines welcome.
The Scotland MLOps Community presents 'Agentic MLOps in Rust: From Chatbots to Autonomous Infrastructure Actors' — a deep dive into building agentic, production-grade ML systems in Rust, from conversational interfaces to autonomous infrastructure agents. A timely session for ML engineers, platform teams and anyone shipping AI in production, with networking to follow.
Venture Cafe Edinburgh's flagship weekly Thursday Gathering at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, this week themed on education in the age of AI - how learning, teaching and skills are being reshaped by AI tooling. The Thursday Gathering connects creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and academics for talks, showcases and open networking. Programme to be confirmed closer to the date. Free to attend.
Edinburgh's PostgreSQL community returns for its July meetup — talks on Postgres internals, performance and real-world database engineering, followed by networking. Open to DBAs, backend engineers, data engineers and anyone who works with Postgres.
A free morning of inspiration and connection for founders, business owners, funders and investors across Scotland, the North East of England and Teesside. The programme runs from arrivals and an insights briefing on local funding and business-growth support, through a 'Show and Tell' of short startup/scaleup pitches, an 'In Conversation With…' fireside chat with a successful entrepreneur, and closing networking. Hosted at CodeBase, Edinburgh's flagship tech hub. Free ticket required.
with Suz Bird (Marketing Strategist, Bird & Emmy)
Digital Women's Scotland local meetup returns to Tigerlily for a relaxed morning of networking and a conversational workshop. Host Harriet Mathie welcomes women working in digital and business; marketing strategist Suz Bird leads 'Content, Coffee and Co-working' — a practical session on effective social-media strategy, evolving platform behaviour, Social SEO and sustainable, audience-focused content planning. Bring a laptop or phone to create and schedule content, or simply come for the conversation. Free; note this July edition has sold out.