Data Day Edinburgh 2026

Data Day Edinburgh 2026 brings Scotland's public-sector and civic data community together at the COSLA Conference Centre for a full day on what is actually being built with data here. The emphasis is on delivered work rather than strategy — services, pipelines and analysis running inside councils, health boards, government bodies and the organisations that work with them. Free to attend, from 08:30, at COSLA on Haymarket Terrace. The audience is a mix of analysts, data engineers, service designers and policy staff, which shapes the questions asked after each session. Why go: civic data work rarely gets written up, so a day of people describing what they shipped inside a public body is unusually hard to get anywhere else. Best for anyone working with or selling into Scottish public services, and for data practitioners who want to see what the constraints really look like.