🚀 Signals in-person briefings, Blockchain Scotland, Pre-Fringe Fest, a Serious Clown-Guide to Authentic Connections
Here’s your Campfire for Monday, July 13th
🚀 Signals applications are open, deadline July 24: £200k VC investment from Techstart Ventures for outlier founders at the very early stages of building what could become very large global companies. Two sentences are all that’s needed to guarantee a first call. More info and briefing sessions here.
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📅 Events
🌱 13/07, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: People, Planet, Pint Sustainability Meetup
Informal sustainability networking for anyone interested in climate, nature, social impact and creating positive change. MORE INFO
🛍️ 15/07, 12:00 💻 Online: From Product to Profit: Product Listings, Images and Videos Learn how to create effective product listings, images and videos to improve your ecommerce sales across online marketplaces. MORE INFO
🎭 15/07, 18:15 🗺️ Edinburgh: Playful Vulnerability: A Serious Clown's Guide to Connecting Authentically An interactive session exploring authentic communication, connection and vulnerability through clowning, storytelling and practical exercises. MORE INFO
💼 15/07, 10:00 🗺️ Melrose: Bookkeeping Essentials for Small Business
A practical workshop covering bookkeeping basics, financial record keeping and key accounting essentials for small businesses. MORE INFO
🤝 16/07, 16:00 🗺️ Dundee: Techscaler Dundee & Tay Cities Tech Meetup
Connect with founders, investors, mentors, and tech professionals at this community meetup focused on growing Dundee and the Tay Cities tech ecosystem. MORE INFO
🎪 16/07, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Pre-Fringe Fest: The Tech, Data and Talent Behind Edinburgh's Festival Season An evening of talks and networking exploring the technology, data and talent powering Edinburgh's festival and creative sectors. MORE INFO
⛓️ 16/07, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Blockchain Scotland Meetup Monthly blockchain meetup featuring talks, networking and discussions for developers, founders, researchers and industry professionals. MORE INFO
🚀 16/07, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Signals Briefing (at Codebase) £200k inception-stage investment for those with unique insight into massive opportunities who want to grow them into globally important companies. MORE INFO
🤖 16/07, 10:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Build Your First AI Agent, Copilot Agent-a-thon
Hands-on workshop covering Microsoft Copilot and AI Agents with live demonstrations, practical use cases and an interactive agent-building challenge. MORE INFO
🍻 16/07, 19:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: EdinburghJS Summer Social Informal summer social for developers, technologists and the wider tech community to meet, chat and network. MORE INFO
📣 20/07, 17:00 🗺️ Galashiels: Content with Confidence: Build a Social Media Presence That Actually Works Learn practical social media content strategies to build your online presence, engage your audience and support business growth. MORE INFO
🚀 21/07, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Meetup July 2026 Monthly meetup for founders, entrepreneurs, investors and aspiring co-founders, featuring networking, fireside chats and startup community updates. MORE INFO
🧪 21/07, 11:00 💻 Online: Live Lab Customer Discovery in Practice
Interactive online workshop exploring customer discovery techniques, practical experiments and asking better questions to understand user needs. MORE INFO
🤖 21/07, 10:00 🗺️ Glasgow: SMAS: Using AI to Strengthen Manufacturing Problem-Solving Practical workshop exploring how agentic AI can support root cause analysis and problem-solving in manufacturing environments. MORE INFO
🧪 21/07, 11:00 🗺️ Online: Live Lab Customer Discovery in Practice
Interactive online workshop exploring customer discovery techniques, better interview questions and real-time feedback through practical exercises. MORE INFO
📣 22/07, 10:00 🗺️ Langholm: Stop Guessing, Start Growing – Practical Marketing for Early-Stage Business Practical marketing workshop for pre-start and early-stage business owners covering customer identification, messaging and marketing fundamentals. MORE INFO
🏛️ 23/07, 14:00 🗺️ Aberdeen: Can AI Help Bring Our Empty Buildings Back to Life? Dr Katherine Gunderson is the Founder and CEO of Grand Bequest, Scotland’s first PropTech B Corp. Her work sits at the intersection of regeneration, data and AI, and the future of vacant and underused buildings. MORE INFO
🤖 23/07, 18:00 🗺️ Glasgow: AI Builders Scotland: Monthly Pub Meetup
Monthly AI meetup featuring demos, networking and discussion for people building, working with or interested in artificial intelligence. MORE INFO
🎙️ 27/07, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: creative soundLAB – All Things Podcast & Music Showcase Networking event featuring podcast publishing experts, podcast demos, music showcases and opportunities to connect with Edinburgh's creative community. MORE INFO
⚡ 28/07, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Tech Meetup Edinburgh July 2026
Community tech meetup featuring networking, pizza, demos, keynote talks and opportunities to connect with founders, developers and tech professionals. MORE INFO
📈 30/07, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Growth Clinic Hands-on meetup for founders, marketers and operators featuring networking, keynote discussions and open clinic sessions to tackle business growth challenges. MORE INFO
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