OCT15
GlasgowPartner: Hack Thursday
● Upcoming MeetupHack Thursday Glasgow: October Gathering
Thu, 15 Oct 2026(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Scottish Community Calendar
Events & Gatherings
Discover upcoming regional meetups, virtual technical streams, and collaborative Scottish cyber partner events. Always free, always high-signal.
OCT28
VirtualPartner: Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland
● Upcoming MeetupFrom Incident to Recovery: A Council's Cyber Security Story
Wed, 28 Oct 2026(10:00 – 11:30 BST)
Online (virtual)
NOV3
VirtualPartner: Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland
● Upcoming MeetupCyber Byte: Cyber Security Recruitment & Talent
Tue, 3 Nov 2026(11:00 – 12:00 GMT)
Online (virtual)
NOV6
GlasgowPartner: Glasgow Infosec / 2600
● Upcoming Meetup2600 Glasgow - Informal hacker/infosec/computer security meetup
Fri, 6 Nov 2026
NOV26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
● Upcoming MeetupCyber Scotland Connect: Edinburgh Meetup at CodeBase
Thu, 26 Nov 2026(17:30 – 20:30 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Gary Hunter— "The Path to an Agentic SoC"
- • Joshua Adegoke— "Reading Malware Config Off the Blockchain (NullReceiver Malware)"
- • Rory McCune— "Surviving 2026: A Security Practitioner's Field Guide to LLMs and Agents"
- • Caleb Eghan— "Break the Bank: Welcome to the Other Side of the Login Screen"
APR1
EdinburghPartner: DIGITCorporate/Paid
● Upcoming MeetupScot-Secure Summit 2027
Thu, 1 Apr 2027(08:30 – 17:00 BST)
OCT4
Scotland-widePartner: CyberScotland
● Upcoming MeetupCyberScotland Week 2027
Mon, 4 Oct 2027
Scotland-wide
Past Events
OCT8
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Edinburgh Meetup: Refactoring the Enterprise & UK Post-Quantum Cryptography
Thu, 8 Oct 2026(17:30 – 19:30 BST (Social from 19:30+))
Speakers:
- • Ash Hunt— "Refactoring the Enterprise"
- • Andrew Gravett— "UK Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) 2026 - State of the Nation Update"
OCT2
EdinburghPartner: Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland
ArchivedSee It, Be It – Women and Girls in Cyber Conference 2026
Fri, 2 Oct 2026
SEPT17
EdinburghPartner: OWASP Scotland Chapter
ArchivedOWASP Scotland Chapter Meeting - Autumn Session
Thu, 17 Sept 2026(18:00 – 20:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • James Walsh— "The Cyber Market for Scotland and Beyond"
- • Colin Cassidy— "ACME Windpharm"
JUN17
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber Scotland Connect: Virtual Event for June
Wed, 17 Jun 2026(18:00 – 20:30 BST)
Online (virtual)
Speakers:
- • Andrew Gravett— "OWASP Threat Atlas Overview & Demo"
- • Rory McCune— "What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes"
- • John Sotiropoulos— "Securing Agentic AI at the Speed of Change"
FEB10
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Fourteen: Cyber Scotland Week Special
Tue, 10 Feb 2026(17:30 – 20:30 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Harry McLaren— "Cyber Scotland Week: Empowering Grassroots Communities"
- • Sophie Lanc— "Cyber Scotland Week: Empowering Grassroots Communities"
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OCT8
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber Scotland Connect: Leith (Edinburgh) Meetup
Wed, 8 Oct 2025(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Meletius Igbokwe— "The AI Kill Switch: Building Failsafes for Smart Cities Under Cyber Siege"
- • Rory McCune— "So you've deployed Kubernetes Everywhere, now what?"
- • Sergey Sergyenko— "Full-Cycle LLM Development for Privacy-Critical Domains Using CPU & Open Tools"
- • Jacob Duane— "Phishing, Spoofing, and Trusted Communications in 2025"
AUG6
DundeeCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Twelve: Dundee Gathering
Wed, 6 Aug 2025(17:45 – 20:30 BST)
Speakers:
- • Rich Macfarlane— "Hardware Attacks & Physical Security Analysis"
- • Gary Hunter— "Building Cross-Regional Cyber Communities"
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AUG21
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Eleven: Engineering Resilience
Wed, 21 Aug 2024(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Gary Hunter— "Incident Response Automation & Modern SOC Metrics"
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MAY1
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC at Trustpilot: OT/ICS, Diversity & AppSec
Wed, 1 May 2024(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
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FEB29
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC at Trustpilot: Cyber Scotland Week Special
Thu, 29 Feb 2024(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
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NOV22
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC November Meetup at CodeBase
Wed, 22 Nov 2023(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
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SEPT26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC September Meetup: Microsoft WaverleyGate
Tue, 26 Sept 2023(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
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JUN26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Summer Meetup at Harvey Nash
Mon, 26 Jun 2023(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
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JUN15
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Summer Meetup Edinburgh
Thu, 15 Jun 2023(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Harry McLaren— "State of the Scottish Cyber Community"
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FEB23
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Nine: Reconnecting the Capital
Thu, 23 Feb 2023(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Harry McLaren— "Cyber Scotland Connect Reconnect"
- • Stu Hirst— "Cyber Scotland Connect Reconnect"
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NOV30
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber Scotland Connect: We're Back!
Wed, 30 Nov 2022(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
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OCT19
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedLessons from Working in Cyber During the Pandemic
Tue, 19 Oct 2021(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
- • Scott McGready— "Remote Culture & Social Isolation in Security"
- • Kevin Gray— "Defending Healthcare During a Pandemic"
- • Waqas Ahmed— "Architecting for Distributed Teams"
- • Rich Macfarlane— "Educating & Training Cyber Students Remotely"
FEB24
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber War Stories: Challenges & Triumphs
Wed, 24 Feb 2021(18:30 – 20:30 GMT)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
- • Holly Grace Williams— "Tales from the Offensive Frontline"
- • Dave McK— "Incident Response Under Extreme Pressure"
- • Federico Charosky— "Navigating Enterprise Ransomware Incidents"
- • Sarah Clarke— "Ethical Dilemmas in Incident Response"
OCT7
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Eight: Breaking Into Cyber
Wed, 7 Oct 2020(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
- • Magda de Jager— "Transitioning into Security Operations"
- • Angus Skinner— "Self-Directed Cyber Skills Acquisition"
- • Federico Charosky— "What Hiring Managers Actually Look For"
- • Sarah Clarke— "Governance, Risk & Human-Centred Security"
JUL30
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber Scotland Confessions (Volume One)
Thu, 30 Jul 2020(18:30 – 20:30 BST)
Virtual Stream
Speakers:
- • Javvad Malik— "Uncomfortable Infosec Truths"
- • Gary Hunter— "Lessons from the SOC Trenches"
- • Richard Grey— "Identity & Access Misadventures"
- • Sean Wright— "Software Security Confessions"
- • Kevin Gray— "Healthcare Resilience Lessons"
- • Jai Aenugu— "Startup Security Realities"
JUN17
VirtualCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Virtual Gathering: June 2020
Wed, 17 Jun 2020(18:00 – 20:00 BST)
Online Livestream
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DEC4
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Five: Youth in Tech & Rapid Incident Response
Wed, 4 Dec 2019(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Callum Butler— "Offensive Security in the Wild"
- • Gerry Magennis— "Offensive Security in the Wild"
- • Tia Hopkins— "Navigating Cyber Career Pathways"
- • Toni Scullion— "Championing the Next Generation of Girls in Cyber"
- • The Turing's Testers— "Championing the Next Generation of Girls in Cyber"
SEPT26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Four: Culture, Law & Cloud Infrastructure
Thu, 26 Sept 2019(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • The Beer Farmers— "Mental Health & Authenticity in Security"
- • Laura Irvine— "Cyber Law & Regulatory Exposure"
- • Craig McIntyre— "Securing Cloud Workloads at Scale"
- • Anoop Joshi— "Securing Cloud Workloads at Scale"
SEPT12
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCyber Scotland Connect: Open Mic Night
Thu, 12 Sept 2019(17:30 – 20:00 BST)
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JUL17
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Three: Privacy, Networks & Incident Response
Wed, 17 Jul 2019(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Sorcha Lorimer— "Privacy by Design & Data Ethics"
- • Scott McAndrew— "Next-Generation Network Architecture"
- • Gerry Grant— "Deconstructing the Breach: Real-World Lessons"
MAY23
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume Two: AppSec & Threat Detection
Thu, 23 May 2019(18:00 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Tash Norris— "Building Security Culture from Scratch"
- • Federico Charosky— "Modern Threat Hunting & Managed Detection"
- • Jamie O'Hare— "The Next Generation of Cyber Talent"
MAR14
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedCSC Volume One: Inaugural Gathering
Thu, 14 Mar 2019(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Harry McLaren— "Welcome to Cyber Scotland Connect"
- • Stu Hirst— "Welcome to Cyber Scotland Connect"
- • Ian Murphy— "Real-World Cyber Security & Social Engineering"
- • Magda de Jager— "Culture, Inclusion & Community in Scottish Infosec"
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NOV14
EdinburghPartner: DIGIT
ArchivedIntroducing Cyber Scotland Connect at DIGIT Expo
Wed, 14 Nov 2018(12:30 – 14:00 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Harry McLaren— "Uniting Scotland's Cyber Community"
- • Stu Hirst— "Uniting Scotland's Cyber Community"
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OCT30
EdinburghPartner: ISSA-UK & Quorum Cyber
ArchivedISSA-UK Regional Meeting: Horror Stories from the Frontlines
Tue, 30 Oct 2018(17:30 – 20:30 GMT)
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SEPT26
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 14
Wed, 26 Sept 2018(19:00 – 21:30 BST)
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NOV9
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 9: Hosted by Wood Mackenzie
Thu, 9 Nov 2017(19:00 – 21:30 GMT)
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AUG3
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 8: Responding to Global Ransomware
Thu, 3 Aug 2017(18:15 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Stuart Peck— "Responding to Global Ransomware Outbreaks"
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MAY11
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 7
Thu, 11 May 2017(18:15 – 21:00 BST)
Speakers:
- • Ken Munro— "IoT Vulnerabilities & Doll Hacking"
- • Chelsea Jarvie— "Cyber Security Education in Scotland"
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APR6
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 6: BSides Edinburgh Warm-Up
Thu, 6 Apr 2017(18:15 – 21:00 BST)
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JAN23
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedThe Enigma Machine is coming to Skyscanner!
Mon, 23 Jan 2017(18:15 – 21:00 GMT)
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FEB11
EdinburghCSC Gathering
ArchivedSecurity Scotland Chapter 1: The First Security Scotland MeetUp
Thu, 11 Feb 2016(18:00 – 21:00 GMT)
Speakers:
- • Stu Hirst— "Welcome & The Vision for Security Scotland"
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