Innovation Events - Health Innovation South East Scotland

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 25th November 2025, 14:00 – 16:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

This online matchmaking session spotlights digital solutions that enable personalised, human-centred care at a distance; for example, remote diagnostics and monitoring, AI/machine learning supported care pathways, and tools that help manage chronic conditions.

This session includes a brief introduction about the UNITE call and an explanation of how matchmaking is facilitated to form project consortia. The central aim of this meeting is to form project consortia.

The main objective of this meeting is to give organisations the opportunity to connect and explore potential collaborations. Organisations will present project ideas for this call and look for partners to further develop them collaboratively within UNITE. The session ends with the opportunity for discussion and to connect needs and offers across the value chain. Companies, research groups, testbeds/living labs, and end users will meet potential partners and identify gaps to build or strengthen cross-regional consortia. We will share the profiles on our matchmaking site B2Match, live to make follow-up easy. Participants leave with concrete contacts and clear next steps towards submission.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th November 2025, 10:30 – 12:30

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Join this upcoming Horizon Europe workshop to find out more about the wealth of health-related funding opportunities.

Unlock the Future of Health Innovation with Horizon Europe

Scottish Enterprise is delighted to host an online event exploring the full spectrum of Horizon Europe health funding opportunities. This is supported by Scottish Government’s Chief Scientific Office, NHS Research Scotland and Innovate UK.

Join for a dynamic deep dive into upcoming calls, strategic priorities, and expert insights that can help shape your next big project. Whether you’re a researcher, innovator, SME, University, public sector or community organisation, this session will equip you with the knowledge and connections to make the most of Europe’s flagship funding programme.

Horizon Europe is the European Union’s key funding programme for research an innovation and designed to foster scientific excellence, support innovation and address societal challenges through international collaborative research. To note, the UK is eligible to apply to Horizon Europe.

The event will be live via teams, and it will be recorded. There’ll be the opportunity to engage and ask questions.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th November 2025, 12:00 – 12:45

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Join us for InnoScot’s last educational webinar of 2025, entitled ‘When innovation takes flight – how Scottish drones consortium is transforming healthcare’. This free to join session will offer Scotland’s healthcare workforce ‘lunch and learn’ insights on a true ‘Once for Scotland’ initiative which is pioneering the use of drones to deliver vital medical supplies. InnoScot Health believes it is a key opportunity for the workforce to learn more about this vital initiative which has continued to develop successfully through rigorous trials, heralding what has been termed ‘the next era of aviation’.

The NHS Scotland partner believes that its free session on Project CAELUS (Care & Equity – Healthcare Logistics UAS Scotland) will be a fascinating look at the UK’s first drone enabled medical logistics network.

The educational webinar will be a great opportunity to:

Learn from NHS innovators who are embedded in a project of national significance
Understand how a large-scale project with many stakeholders can be successfully coordinated
Discuss how Project CAELUS is expected to develop in future

It will be introduced and led by InnoScot Health’s Innovation Commercialisation Manager Frances Ramsay, who will be joined by guest speakers National NHS Innovation Programme Lead for NHS Grampian, Karen Bell, Associate Director for Research, Development, and Innovation at the Scottish Ambulance Service, Professor Paul Gowens, and Senior Consultant in Transport with Connected Places Catapult, Tom Levermore.

The accessible, bitesize sessions are hosted on Microsoft Teams, regularly providing a platform for inspiring guest speakers whilst allowing InnoScot Health staff to share their deep knowledge and insights on innovation.

Pre submit your questions for our panel discussion to info@innoscot.com.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th November 2025, 09:30 – 13:00

📍Location: National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), 3 Netherton Square, Paisley PA3 2EF

Event Info:

Be part of Scotland’s robotics future – collaborate, share ideas, and shape the National Robotics and Autonomous Systems Cluster. Join the first regional event in the Scottish Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Cluster engagement series, bringing together businesses, researchers, and public partners from across Scotland’s robotics ecosystem. This interactive session marks the start of a new national initiative to connect the full robotics supply chain – from start-ups and SMEs to universities, investors, and manufacturers – and to build a coordinated, high-impact cluster that accelerates innovation, strengthens collaboration, and drives economic growth. This session focusses on stakeholders within Glasgow and the surrounding areas in the West of Scotland.

Outside of Glasgow? Look out for sessions in Edinburgh and Aberdeen in early 2026 with more ways to engage coming soon!

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th November 2025, 14:00 – 16:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

This online matchmaking session focuses on data-driven innovation aligned with the European Health Data Space: interoperability, governance, secure data use, and privacy-preserving analytics. Themes include health-data integration and predictive analytics, digital therapeutics and mHealth, and the application of AI/Machine Learning to healthcare data.

This session includes a brief introduction about the UNITE call and an explanation of how matchmaking is facilitated to form project consortia. The central aim of this meeting is to form project consortia.

The main objective of this meeting is to give organisations the opportunity to connect and explore potential collaborations. Organisations will present project ideas for this call and look for partners to further develop them collaboratively within UNITE. The session ends with the opportunity for discussion and to connect needs and offers across the value chain. Companies, research groups, testbeds/living labs, and end users will meet potential partners and identify gaps to build or strengthen cross-regional consortia. We will share the profiles on our matchmaking site B2Match, live to make follow-up easy. Participants leave with concrete contacts and clear next steps towards submission.

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 27th November 2025, 09:30 – 14:35

📍Location: BioQuarter, Edinburgh

Event Info:

Have you, or has someone you know, recently started in a clinical research job in Lothian?

ACCORD and Edinburgh CRF are holding a Welcome Day for those who have recently been appointed into a clinical research role in NHS Lothian or University of Edinburgh. Suitable for all roles including clinical research support staff, delivery teams, researchers and academics.

Objectives for the day include:

To introduce the research landscape in NHS Lothian and understand where and how individual roles fit within this;
To raise awareness of the support structures and resources available to those working in clinical research;
To network and engage with colleagues across the organisation;
To inspire and motivate individuals in their new role.

This event is free-of-charge to attend.

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 27th November 2025, 09:30 – 13:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

This timely symposium will examine the challenges that exist in digitally transforming the NHS, explore the opportunities that digitisation can bring for increased efficiency and improvements in patient care and health outcomes, assess the government’s plans for moving from an analogue to a digital NHS, and evaluate the policy and practical innovations required to bring about a revolution in healthcare in the UK.

Programme:

Evaluate the current progress, challenges and opportunities in the digital transformation of the NHS
Learn about and assess the government’s plan to digitally transform the NHS
Examine the funding constraints for digital transformation facing NHS trusts and how these can be addressed
Understand how government, NHS Trusts and other stakeholders can improve their collaboration to deliver digital transformation in the NHS
Exchange views on how the NHS can make better use of patient data, join up health records, improve the NHS App and harness AI to transform care
Consider the impact that abolishing NHS England could have in digitally transforming the NHS in England
Develop strategies for improving digital skills training and recruitment
Implement plans for improving digital interoperability and digitally integrating the NHS and social care

📅 Date and Time: Friday, 28th November 2025, 10:00 – 11:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Learn how NICE and the NIHR HRC Network support industry in developing and adopting HealthTech across the health and care system.

This seminar will be jointly delivered by the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre Network and the NICE Advice team. You’ll benefit from unrivalled expertise in healthtech evidence generation and evaluation and hear valuable insights from NIHR and NICE about how to make the most of opportunities for healthtech development and evaluation support.

What will be covered:

The role of NIHR HealthTech Research Centres
How NIHR supports HealthTech development, including evidence generation
How technologies are selected for NICE evaluation
NICE’s lifecycle approach to evaluating HealthTech
How NICE advice can support HealthTech

The session will be especially useful for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) currently developing HealthTech, who could benefit from NIHR or NICE support.

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 27th November 2025, 08:00 – 16:45

📍Location: The Social Hub Glasgow, Glasgow

Event Info:

The Scotsman Life Science Conference 2025 brings together industry leaders, innovators, and researchers to discuss the most pressing topics and emerging trends in life sciences today. Set in the heart of Glasgow, this one-day conference will explore the intersection of AI, genomics, sustainability, and cutting-edge therapies that are transforming the landscape of healthcare and biotechnology.

What to Expect:

Panel Discussions on the latest developments in biotech start-ups, AI & big data in healthcare, and the integration of sustainability into life sciences innovations.
Interactive Sessions focusing on precision medicine, AI, and sustainable biotech practices.
Insights into Scotland’s biotech ecosystem, examining opportunities for collaboration and scaling within the local and global market.
Opportunities to connect with top professionals, investors, and decision-makers from the life sciences ecosystem, fostering collaboration and growth.

This conference is essential for anyone interested in the future of personalised medicine, biotech entrepreneurship, data-driven healthcare, and green innovation. Join us to stay at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field.

📅 Date and Time: Friday, 28th November 2025, 13:00 – 14:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

In this webinar we look at ‘AI in Medicine: Promise and Paradox‘

Artificial Intelligence is transforming medicine, from diagnostics and drug discovery to personalised treatment and predictive analytics. But alongside its promise come some important challenges: Algorithmic bias, data privacy, accountability and the tension between human judgment and machine intelligence. This webinar brings together medical scientists and academic physicians to explore the realities behind the (potential) hyperbole. An expert faculty will examine how AI can responsibly be integrated into clinical and research practice, what ethical safeguards are essential and how medical professionals can shape the AI-driven future of healthcare.

Aimed at medical scientists, academic physicians, clinical researchers, bioinformaticians, healthcare administrators and postgraduate medical trainees interested in digital medicine.

Learning goals

Understand current and emerging applications of AI in medicine
Evaluate technical, ethical, clinical and regulatory challenges
Identify strategies for integrating AI tools responsibly in research and practice

Exploring the following questions

How can AI augment rather than replace clinical expertise?
What mechanisms can ensure reliability, transparency and fairness in AI algorithms?
How should accountability be assigned when AI-driven errors occur?
What data governance frameworks best protect patient privacy?
How can medical education adapt to prepare clinicians for AI-enabled care?

Programme

Personalized cardiac care through digital twins – Dr. Steven Niederer
Clinical applications of AI-enhanced electrocardiograms – Professor Fu Siong Ng
Yes, but are we ready? – Professor Alastair Denniston

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 27th November 2025, 13:00 – 14:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Looking to develop and evaluate your HealthTech innovation in the UK? Join this webinar for an insider’s guide to navigating the UK health and care research ecosystem and understanding the support available through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

This session will explore how NIHR’s HealthTech Research Centres and wider research infrastructure can help you design, test and generate the evidence you need to bring your technology to patients faster. Hosted by Dr Sajni Haria, Business Development Lead at NIHR, the session will feature:

Ravi Chana, Executive Director, Diagnostics at the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), who will share industry insights and the value of partnering with NIHR to navigate the UK landscape effectively.
Professor Richard Dobson, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at CogStack, who will share real-world experience of collaborating with the NIHR Life Sciences Industry Hub to accelerate development, evaluation and adoption of data-driven HealthTech.

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 9th December 2025, 10:00 – 16:00

📍Location: Discovery Point, Dundee

Event Info:

This dynamic sandpit-style event will bring together academics, health and social care professionals, entrepreneurs, innovators, and clinicians from across the region to help shape the upcoming Open Call for Projects from Tay Health Tech, with up to £700k available for tech development, access to facilities, secondments, network creation and more.

Join us to:

Explore connections and spark ideas
Collaborate across disciplines
Co-create project concepts to bid for funding that will be announced in December

Whether you have a seed of an idea or are looking to connect with others to build something impactful, this is a chance to contribute to shaping the future of health tech innovation in Tay.

📅 Date and Time: 3rd and 4th December 2025

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Following the success of the Health and Care Analytics (HACA) conferences in 2023 and 2024, we are delighted to invite you to register for HACA 2025, a national celebration of the vital work of health and care analysts across the UK. The conference brings together analysts, leaders, and decision-makers to explore how high-quality analysis drives impactful decisions across systems. This year’s theme ‘Rising to the challenge: Analysis at the heart of health and care systems of the future’ recognises the growing role of analytics in shaping future-ready services, influencing policy, and enabling innovation across health and care.

The conference is free and open to anyone working in the NHS, local authorities, universities, civil service, and the third sector, particularly those in analytical, leadership, or strategic roles.

We’re excited to present a rich and varied programme, including:

Insightful plenary sessions
Learning events led by experienced practitioners
Poster presentations showcasing practical impact
Interactive workshops for peer exchange and skill-building

The conference offers a unique opportunity to:

Celebrate and promote high-quality analytical work
Discover innovative approaches to solving system challenges
Highlight the strategic value of analytical teams
Build networks and foster collaboration
“Steal with pride” from the best work around the country
Spark inspiration – before, during and after the conference!

📅 Date and Time: Friday, 5th December 2025, 09:00 – 16:30

📍Location: Malmaison Hotel, 44 Whitehall Crescent, Dundee DD1 4AY

Event Info:

SPaRC and the NHS Research Scotland Pain Specialty Group will host the 15th Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December 2025 at Malmaison in Dundee. This will be an opportunity for meeting, sharing research, and identifying potential collaborations. You are invited to attend this meeting and to submit an abstract for presentation (oral or poster).

The objectives of the SPaRC Annual Scientific Meeting will be to:

Update SPaRC members on pain research
Share current and recent research between members of the Community (submitted abstracts, invited speakers and posters)
Identify the ways in which patients will benefit from the research
Identify and develop collaborations within the Community
Identify other possible activities within the Community

Guest speakers include:

Professor David Bennett, Oxford University
Brona Fullen, Associate Professor, University College Dublin

The registration for the event and the call for abstracts opens on Friday, 1st August. Abstracts are welcomed for both oral presentations and posters. The submission window will close on Monday, 6th October.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 10th December 2025, 11:00 – 12:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

When most people hear ‘telecare,’ they think of a phone call or an emergency button – but today due to the migration to digital, it’s so much more. From the deployment of enhanced digital sensors to improved outcomes through better use of data, telecare is transforming the way we connect, care, and stay independent. In this webinar, you’ll discover why telecare in the digital age isn’t what you expect – and why that’s a good thing.

Featured Speakers:

David Brown, Business Relationship Manager, Digital Telecare, Digital Office
Colin McFadyen, Senior Programme Manager, Digital Telecare, Digital Office
Sam Leonard, Senior Project Manager, Digital Telecare, Digital Office

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 11th December 2025, 08:15 – 16:30

📍Location: Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow

Event Info:

Hosted by the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) and delivered in partnership with the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland, in association with Futurescot, this year’s DigiFest comes at a pivotal time for transformation in Scotland’s health and care services.

DigiFest 2025 will spotlight the national rollout of the Digital Front Door, a £27 million programme revolutionising access to care across Scotland—starting in NHS Lanarkshire. It will also showcase real-world projects like Digital Lifelines Scotland, which has already supported over 5,500 people with digital access, skills, and services.

Whether you work on the frontlines, in local or national policy, innovation, housing, care or academia, DigiFest is your opportunity to connect, share, and lead.

Key Themes for 2025:

Digital Front Door: Launching Scotland’s bold new digital gateway to care
Data-Driven Innovation: Predictive, preventative, personalised care
Integrated Care Pathways: Seamless support across health and social care
From Research to Real-World: Turning evidence into frontline impact
Future Digital Skills: Empowering tomorrow’s digital workforce

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 10th February 2026, 09:25 – 15:00

📍Location: Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh

Event Info:

Scotland’s leading Digital Health and Care Conference returns to Edinburgh on the 10th and 11th February 2026 for it’s 17th consecutive year, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever.
Across the two days, Scotland’s top political voices, health leaders and senior representatives from across the public and third sectors will come together to explore the journey from ambition to impact by collaborating and discussing the key challenges and opportunities facing the health and care sector through a packed agenda of panel sessions, masterclasses and keynote addresses.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 27th May 2026

📍Location: James Watt Centre, Heriot-Watt University

Event Info:

Medical Device Manufacturing Centre is excited to announce the 5th Annual MDMC Conference will be taking place on Wednesday, 27th May 2026 at the James Watt Centre, Heriot-Watt University. Keep an eye on their LinkedIn page for more information in the coming months.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 27th May 2026 & Thursday 28th May 2026

📍Location: Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Event Info:

DataFest 2026 returns on 27th–28th May at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. Tickets go on sale in October — join The Data Lab Community for exclusive early-bird access and be among the first to secure your spot at Scotland’s leading data and AI event.

Our Events

Upcoming Innovation Events

Digital Innovations Advancing Personalised Remote Care

Unlock the Future of Health Innovation with Horizon Europe

When innovation takes flight - how Scottish drones consortium is transforming healthcare

Scottish Robotics and Autonomous Systems Cluster - Stakeholder Engagement

Advancing the European Health Data Space

Lothian Clinical Research Welcome Day

Digital Transformation in the NHS: Making the transition from an analogue to a digital NHS a reality

NICE & NIHR: Enabling HealthTech Development and Uptake

Life Sciences Conference 2025

AI in Medicine: Promise and Paradox – Free Webinar

Insider’s guide to developing your healthtech innovation in the UK

Tay Health Tech’s Connect & Create

Health and Care Analytics Conference 2025

SPaRC NRS Pain 15th Annual Scientific Meeting

Pioneering Digital Telecare: Harnessing data and digital to unlock innovation

DigiFest Scotland 2025

Digital Health and Care Conference 2026

SAVE THE DATE - MDMC Conference 2026

DataFest 2026