Our Events

DigiFest Scotland 2025

📅 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

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Scottish Safe Haven Network's Federated Governance Pilot: Overview and Next Steps

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 16th December 2025, 11:00 – 12:00

📍Location: Online (Zoom)

Event Info:

This webinar will cover the Federated Governance Pilot run by the Scottish Safe Haven Network, a collaboration of the organisations behind Scotland’s secure data infrastructure. This network is comprised of the National Safe Haven and four Regional Safe Havens, which offer secure access to health-data extracts for research. Each Safe Haven has their own individual application and review process. In recent years, there has been a growth in the number of projects seeking granular data from several Regional Safe Havens. The separate application processes have proven to be a barrier in allowing data from different regions to be combined within individual research projects.

In response to this, the Scottish Safe Haven Network explored the establishment of a federated system of governance across Scotland’s Regional Safe Havens. The main objective has been to enable a researcher to make a single application for access to regional data from multiple Safe Havens, with pseudonymised data extracts transferred to a single Trusted Research Environment for analyses. Involving leading NHS voices and building on existing data security protocols and research governance pathways, this collaborative project has simplified regional systems of governance, better enabling data from multiple health boards to be securely accessed for research with public benefit.

In this webinar, Federated Governance Pilot manager Susan Krueger will provide an overview of the pilot to date and introduce the anticipated next steps following the pilot work.

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Digital Health and Care Conference 2026

📅 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.

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Health & Social Care Transformation 2026

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 12th March 2026, 08:15 – 16:30

📍Location: University of Strathclyde, Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow

Event Info:

Registration is now open for the Transforming Health & Social Care Scotland 2026 Conference, taking place on Thursday, 12th March at the University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow.

Scotland’s health and social care system is entering one of its most significant periods of change in a generation. With MyCare.scot set to begin its first live deployment at the end of 2025, the focus now turns to how services, pathways, and data will evolve to meet the expectations of a modern, digitally enabled NHS.

On 12th March, the Transforming Health & Social Care Scotland 2026 Conference will bring together national leaders, clinical innovators, and international experts to explore what this next chapter looks like in practice — from AI-enabled decision-making and integrated digital pathways to workforce readiness and system-wide redesign.

This year’s agenda will examine:

• The phased rollout of the Digital Front Door and what it means for citizens and clinicians
• How policy is shifting from strategy to delivery across health and social care
• The rise of AI, predictive analytics and data-driven planning
• New approaches to telehealth, virtual care and integrated pathways
• The culture, leadership and skills needed to embed digital change

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DataFest 2026

📅 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.

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DigitalScotland 2026

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 24th November 2026

📍Location: Edinburgh international conference centre

Event Info: 

Digital Scotland is the annual summit for technology and policy leaders engaged in building Scotland’s future public services. In 2025 we showcased the new national Digital Strategy, designed and led by Scottish Government and the local government umbrella organisation, COSLA.

Keynote Speakers for 2025:

• Ivan Mckee, Minister for Public Finance, Scottish Government
• Joe Griffin, Permanent Secretary, Scottish Government
• Geoff Huggins, Digital Director, Scottish Government
• Ann-Marie Gallacher, Chief Information Officer, NHS

We take a deep dive on the constantly-evolving story of AI, and its implications for public services, with emerging use cases and inspiring examples of how that technology – and others – are reshaping the citizen experience. Featuring over 70 speakers, 100 exhibitors and 1,200 delegates, the conference is the biggest forum for public sector technology leaders, with case studies from across the UK, as well as partner nations, including Denmark, Estonia and Finland.

The conference tapped into the public tech zeitgeist – covering the latest from the global GovTech movement, digital ID, cloud services, payments, AI, IoT and Cybersecurity.

Digital Scotland is the meeting place where government ministers interact with technology upstarts and disruptors engaged and motivated by the goal of creating world-class digital experiences for citizens of the future. Be part of the conversation.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the strategic direction for government digital policy and programmes with a new national Digital Strategy.
• Hear how GovTech leaders from across the UK and Europe are pursuing technology-led transformation of government services.
• Experience best-in-class technology projects from an array of public services, from healthcare to social services, local government, environment and justice.
• Learn playbook approaches to tech implementation from experienced public-sector technology leaders.
• Attend industry masterclasses spanning user-centred design, data, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and IoT

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