Here’s your Campfire for Monday, 9th November.
📣 Asks, Offers, Updates, & Deadlines
🏃 Building in sports or wellbeing tech? MotionLabs has launched its first accelerator cohort, with 15 Scottish startups and 21 founders working with universities and sporting bodies on venture building, real-world testing and routes to customers and investors. Follow MotionLabs here.
🏴 Starting a business in Fife? Fife Council’s Start-Up Grant is open until 14 February 2027 for people starting to trade in Fife. Apply here.
💷 Got questions about R&D tax credits? ScotlandIS is hosting an online session on 17 November on the challenges facing Scotland’s tech sector when it comes to R&D tax relief. Register here.
👭 Interested in connecting with possible co-founders? Fill in your listing on Cofounder Curious today! Connect with others for possible cofounder matching here.
👷Are you hiring? Send us a blurb and we’ll include it in the next newsletter!
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📅 Events
💡 09/11, 18:30 🗺️ Inverness: TechMeetup Inverness November 2026 The monthly meetup for the Highlands tech community, with a featured talk and networking. MORE INFO
🤖 09/11, 10:00 🗺️ Inverness: AI Agents for Your Business A free, practical Peer Works workshop to help entrepreneurs and SMEs understand and prepare for AI agents. Register interest to check eligibility. MORE INFO
📱 10/11, 18:30 🗺️ Glasgow: GlasgowJS November Meetup – Publishing and Marketing an App Frances Maxwell speaks on publishing and marketing apps, with a lightning talk from Claudia Wilson of Waracle on tech recruitment and AI. MORE INFO
📊 10/11, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Data Visualisation with AI Agents: You Design, the Agent Builds A Data Lab session on using AI agents to build data visualisations from your own designs. MORE INFO
🛡️ 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: TechTalks Edinburgh #10 – Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change Lead software engineer Dmitriy Fedoryshchev shares lessons from modernising a 600-table legacy system with AI agents, and how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier. MORE INFO
💻 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Cyber & Script Meetup A meetup at Abertay cyberQuarter exploring cybersecurity, automation and tech trends with local experts and peers. MORE INFO
🎮 10/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: GameDevEd Social Meetup A casual fortnightly meetup for game developers of all ages, stages and disciplines, from students to industry veterans, artists and hobbyists. MORE INFO
📊 11/11, 13:30 🗺️ Dundee: Unlocking Regional Data: Exploring Opportunities A Dundee Digital Fortnight session on the University of Dundee Health Informatics Centre’s Trusted Research Environment, covering secure data access, regional data gaps and how connected data can support research and innovation. MORE INFO
☕ 12/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Coffee Club A founders-only networking morning with no pitches or speeches, followed by a day of co-working. MORE INFO
🌱 12/11, 14:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: World Usability Day Special: Tech for Good A World Usability Day edition of the Edinburgh User Experience Meetup, focused on tech for good. MORE INFO
🌍 12/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: The Global Approach: Building Bridges, Accelerating Growth A Venture Café Thursday Gathering on going global, with fundraising advice from US biotech investors, researcher-turned-founders sharing their journeys and a session on export finance. MORE INFO
📈 12/11, 14:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Talent2Scale An Invest2Scale masterclass for founders and leaders moving from startup to scaleup, run with Eden Scott and Cosh and Co, on the leadership, culture and team structures needed to support growth. MORE INFO
❄️ 12/11, 17:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: ESEN Winter Networking 2026 The Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network’s annual networking evening, bringing together social entrepreneurs, anchor institutions and private businesses, with speakers. MORE INFO
👩💻 12/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Women in Tech Edinburgh – OutGeekWomen An evening of networking for women working across tech, with the chance to meet CTOs, developers and people behind well-known tech brands. MORE INFO
👩💼 13/11, 14:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: ASB 30th Anniversary Celebration & Awards 2026 The Association of Scottish Businesswomen’s annual awards, marking 30 years of the network and bringing together women in business from across Scotland. MORE INFO
🏗️ 13/11, 10:00 🗺️ Dundee: Founders Hub Dundee – Digital Fortnight A co-working morning at Abertay cyberQuarter for founders building scalable tech businesses, from early stage to scaling up, run by ScotlandIS. MORE INFO
🚀 17/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Meetup Edinburgh – November 2026 A monthly meetup for founders, potential co-founders and investors, with community shoutouts, speed networking and a fireside chat with Valentin Hinov, co-founder of Thankbox, hosted by Laura Bernal of CodeBase. MORE INFO
🧠 17/11, 18:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: EdinburghJS November Meetup – Developer Wellbeing and Open Source Psychologist Miranda Heath on AI burnout and developer mental health, drawing on nearly 1,000 developer survey responses, followed by a group discussion. MORE INFO
☁️ 17/11, 18:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Glasgow AWS User Group #39 The regular meetup for people building on Amazon Web Services in Glasgow. MORE INFO
📈 18/11, 10:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: The Data Lab Leaders Forum – The Reality of Delivering AI The first in a new quarterly series for senior data and AI leaders, with open peer discussion on governance, data quality, scaling AI and measuring value. MORE INFO
🎲 18/11, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Workshop: Build Your Own AI Game Master A hands-on workshop from AWS User Group North East Scotland. MORE INFO
🛠️ 19/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: CTO Craft Mixers: Edinburgh An evening of networking and shared experiences for CTOs and senior technology leaders in Edinburgh. MORE INFO
🏆 19/11, 09:45 🗺️ Edinburgh: Scottish EDGE Round 28 Live Final The latest cohort of finalists pitch for up to £200,000 in funding at the live final of Scotland’s largest funding competition for high-growth startups and small businesses. MORE INFO
🎉 19/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Venture Café Edinburgh Turns 1 A first-anniversary Thursday Gathering for founders, investors, researchers and Edinburgh’s wider innovation community. MORE INFO
🔥 19/11, 16:00 🗺️ Dundee: Techscaler Dundee & Tay Cities Tech Meetup The monthly Tay Cities tech meetup from CodeBase and Techscaler. MORE INFO
☕ 20/11, 11:00 🗺️ Glasgow: Founders Coffee Club Glasgow A monthly coffee meetup for founders, freelancers, startup builders and small business owners, with no pitches or speeches. MORE INFO
🤝 20/11, 09:30 🗺️ Edinburgh: Founders Hub Edinburgh – by Bayes and ScotlandIS A co-working morning at the Bayes Centre for founders building scalable tech businesses, from early stage to scaling up. MORE INFO
📊 24/11, 18:00 🗺️ Dundee: Dundee Data Meetup: November 2026 The monthly meetup for Dundee’s data community at Abertay cyberQuarter, open to data practitioners, students and anyone interested in how data shapes the world. MORE INFO
✈️ 24/11, 16:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Traveltech Meet Up The regular meetup from Traveltech for Scotland for people working in travel and tourism technology. MORE INFO
👩💻 24/11, 18:15 🗺️ Glasgow: Ladies of Code: November Meetup The in-person monthly meetup from Ladies of Code Glasgow for women working in or learning to code. MORE INFO
🎮 24/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: GameDevEd Social Meetup A casual fortnightly meetup for game developers of all ages, stages and disciplines, from students to industry veterans, artists and hobbyists. MORE INFO
🤖 25/11, 17:15 🗺️ Edinburgh: Edinburgh Data Science Meetup – Agentic AI Special An agentic AI edition of the Edinburgh Data Science & AI meetup. MORE INFO
🥪 25/11, 13:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Packed Lunch: Geovation Scotland Lunch & Learn with Glen Stocco A networking lunch for innovators in land, property and location, with a fireside chat where Glen Stocco shares his experience in the startup world. MORE INFO
🧭 26/11, 18:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: LeadDev Meetup Edinburgh – November 2026 The regular LeadDev meetup for engineering leaders and senior developers in Edinburgh, with talks and networking. MORE INFO
🗽 26/11, 17:00 🗺️ Edinburgh: Venture Café Thursday Gathering #34 The weekly free gathering at Edinburgh Futures Institute for founders, investors, students and researchers from Edinburgh’s innovation community. MORE INFO
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