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The city's biggest community tech meetup: an evening of networking, pizza, demos and keynote talks bringing together founders, developers, designers and tech professionals from across Edinburgh. A dependable monthly fixture with a broad, welcoming crowd — good for meeting people building interesting things and hearing what's happening across the local scene. Exact New Town venue address is released on registration.

A friendly, informal meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and the independent web. Bring a laptop to work on your own site, share recent breakthroughs and demos, and chat with the IndieWeb Edinburgh community. No RSVP needed — just show up. In-person, upstairs at Costa Coffee in Princes Mall.

with Chrisando Ryan (Security Engineer, Skyscanner) · Greg Cavé (Enterprise Security Architect, Accenture)

Cybersecurity engineers from Skyscanner and Accenture unpack what it takes to build a resilient security culture as organisations race to adopt AI. Chrisando Ryan (Skyscanner) shares hard-won lessons from embracing AI at pace — what burned, what they changed, and how far to trust autonomous systems — alongside Greg Cavé (Accenture) on the leadership buy-in, strong foundations and shared responsibility that matter as much as the technology. Free and in-person at 47 Potterrow (with an online option); essential for anyone working with data, AI or digital systems who wants to better protect their organisation. Part of The Data Lab Community's Cybersecurity & Privacy series.

A hands-on evening meetup where founders and anyone who cares about growth get direct access to marketers and operators to work through real growth challenges. The format: arrivals with pizza and networking, a keynote and fireside chat with marketers and founders, then open clinic sessions and drinks. Hosted by Cent Amadi and sponsored by CodeBase. No qualifications needed — bring a growth objective, or just come along. Free.

Edinburgh's most consistent Web3 room returns to the Bayes Centre for an evening of talks, demos and networking on tokenisation, on-chain finance and blockchain infrastructure. Convened by Blockchain Scotland, it draws a genuine mix of developers, founders, researchers and finance professionals. Free admission for developers and students (approval required); general admission is pay-what-you-want. Includes dinner and drinks.

Edinburgh's friendly games-industry social: fortnightly drinks at OX184 for anyone working in, on or around games. All stages and disciplines welcome — students, indie devs, triple-A veterans, artists and hobbyists. No talks, no agenda, just good conversation with people who make games. A relaxed way to plug into one of Scotland's strongest creative-tech communities.

CodeBase and Techscaler's flagship founder morning: a 90-minute, no-slides session where founders connect with other founders who've faced the same challenges. Honest, practical and peer-led — the antidote to polished panel events. Held in CodeBase's events space on Castle Terrace over coffee before the working day. One of the most reliably worthwhile rooms in the Scottish startup calendar, and a strong first stop if you're new to the ecosystem.

with Mike Irving (Software Developer, )

A .NET evening hosted at Limitless's offices on Alva Street, with light refreshments. This month Mike Irving presents ‘.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!’ — an experimental journey using C# and .NET plus IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs, spanning device access, cloud storage, serverless functions and a public website, including the problem-solving needed to run it cross-platform on Linux on a Raspberry Pi. A fun, hands-on talk for .NET developers and anyone curious about practical IoT. Doors 6:30pm, talk from 6:45pm.

A two-hour celebration of HTML — part of the global HTML Day — hosted in Edinburgh by James, a co-organiser of the Edinburgh Homebrew Website Club. Bring a laptop (or pen and paper) and write HTML for the joy of it: creative freewrites, experiments with tags and CSS features you've never used, tiny hand-made web pages. Open to everyone regardless of experience, with people on hand to help beginners get started. Likely to be held in The Meadows or a nearby coffee shop depending on weather — check the event page for the final location. A lovely, low-key hidden gem for the web-craft and indie-web community.

Venture Café Edinburgh's weekly Thursday Gathering returns from its summer break to spotlight the people building better systems for Scotland's charities and social enterprises. Founders, funders, technologists and changemakers come together for honest conversations on how skilled volunteering and smarter funding infrastructure can close the resource gap — including the launch of More Than Profit®, a new organisation supporting the sector. Free, at the Bayes Centre, with spotlights, open networking and connections that go beyond the room; the city's most reliable weekly cross-ecosystem gathering.