Innovation Events - Health Innovation South East Scotland

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 28th May 2026, 12:00 – 13:30

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

This webinar is part of COMFORTage knowledge exchange pathway towards COMFORTage Call for Twinnings. The aim is to provide an opportunity to the RSCN community to become familiar with emerging innovative good practices and share the experiences of the pilots during set-up and implementation. COMFORTage Pilots will have the opportunity to become familiar with the potential adopters of their good practices. Specific attention will be provided to the different users’ perspectives in the care settings where the GPs were implemented: QoL for patients and caregivers, impact on daily work activities for professionals, technological bottlenecks and lock-in to secondary use of data, training gaps for patients, caregivers and professionals etc.

The third webinar is focused on how Living Labs and innovation ecosystems can support the integration of digital and organisational innovations into real health and care services for older adults at risk of frailty and cognitive decline. Rather than focusing on individual technologies, the discussion will explore how regions can build innovation environments where solutions are co-created, tested and embedded into existing care pathways through real-world experimentation.

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 2nd June 2026, 13:00 -16:30

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

This webinar will detail how the blueprint has been designed to assist in supporting the delivery of the next generation of homes, that are affordable to run, aligned with net zero, and designed to support the flexible and adaptable health and wellbeing needs of their residents.

The blueprint is a bold rethinking of the future home as a living system: one that generates energy, supports wellbeing, anticipates need, and evolves with its occupants over time. Designed for rural Scotland (through Moray Growth Deal – UK Gov) but relevant far beyond, it combines low-carbon construction, digital health, and adaptive design into a single, integrated blueprint. The model is structured across three horizons, allowing housing providers and policymakers to act immediately while planning for future integration. The webinar will share the model and resources developed and opportunities for early adopters, with an expert panel that will discuss the relevance and context on how this can be used in practise.

Key learning points that will be covered:

🏡 Smart future homes as living systems

🌱 Net zero and affordability by design

🔗 Integrated housing, health and digital needs

🧭 Three horizons for delivery and planning (short, medium and long term)

🚀 Clear pathways for early adopters

Who should attend:

👥 Anyone with an interest – strong cross‑sector relevance and of particular interest to housing providers, designers, policy and planning and health and care staff, academia and industry

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 2nd June 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

📍Location: The Symposium Building, Edinburgh

Event Info:

Before the FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture, join an in‑person showcase bringing together the organisations, technologies, and people turning engineering biology from breakthrough science into deployable solutions for health.

This interactive lunchtime event highlights the full implementation pathway—from design and build, through validation and scale‑up, to regulation and adoption. Companies, researchers, NHS partners, regulators, and investors will present real‑world use cases that show how programmable biology is moving from the lab bench into clinical, manufacturing, and diagnostic settings.

What to Expect

A practical implementation showcase illustrating how engineering biology progresses from early design and build through validation, scale‑up, regulation, and adoption. Exhibits and posters from industry, academia, and the NHS will show how different tools, platforms, and approaches connect across this pathway—highlighting the problems they address, the evidence behind them, and the next steps required for deployment. Exhibitors include Ingenza, ZYTHERA, and the Edinburgh Genome Foundry. Together, they will demonstrate how these components work in concert to enable safe, effective, and scalable applications in health.
Cross‑sector insight from researchers, clinicians, NHS partners, industry leaders, regulators, funders, and policy teams on the barriers and enablers shaping the UK’s engineering‑biology ecosystem, including standards, skills, data, finance, and routes to market.
Structured networking and opportunities to form collaborations between innovators, end‑users, investors, and regulators, with opportunities for targeted introductions and discussion of shared implementation challenges.

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 2nd June 2026 – Thursday, 4th June 2026, 11:00 – 12:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

Futurescot are delighted to announce their free-to-attend webinars on the Futurescot AI Challenge 2026!

As part of this year’s Challenge, you will have the opportunity to participate in a series of sector-focused webinars to help you fine-tune your idea by exploring relevant use cases, reflect on common challenges, and consider how ideas could be developed into practical, scalable proofs of concepts.

Tuesday, June 2nd Webinar – Scottish Local Government
Wednesday, June 3rd Webinar – NHS Scotland
Thursday, June 4th Webinar – Scotland’s Public Services

These 60-minute webinars are an opportunity for Scottish public sector organisations to learn more about the AI Challenge as it relates to their service areas and ask questions directly to our experts during the webinar’s Q&A session.

During the webinars you will also receive guidance on how to develop a strong and credible Challenge entry.

📅 Date and Time: Tuesday, 2nd June 2026, 14:00

📍Location: The Symposium Building, Edinburgh/Online

Event Info:

Engineering biology is transforming healthcare and the UK is poised to play a leading role. Join the FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture 2026 by Professor Susan Rosser, with cross-sector discussion chaired by Professor Dame Angela McLean, Chief Scientific Adviser. The Lecture will take place from 14.00 to 17.00 on Tuesday 2 June in-person in Edinburgh, followed by a networking reception. Alternatively, you can register to view the livestream online.

What if we could programme living cells to sense disease, store information, and make decisions to treat or even prevent disease? Join us in-person for a keynote lecture from Professor Susan Rosser, Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Edinburgh, as she explores how engineering biology is transforming healthcare, from diagnostics to therapeutics and beyond. From engineering “surveillance cells” that can patrol the body for early signs of disease, to developing biocomputational circuits that allow cells to process information and store memories in their DNA, her work opens a window into a future where biology itself becomes a programmable platform.

Following the lecture, Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS HonFREng FMedSci, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government, will chair a cross-sector panel discussion. Panellists will discuss the policy, regulation, investment, and innovation pathways needed to unlock the full potential of the UK’s engineering biology ecosystem—and how to implement engineering biology for the improvement of health. Panellists include:

Dr Andy Cureton, Director – Engineering Biology, Innovate UK
Professor Paul Freemont, Co-founder, Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation; Co-director, SynbiCITE; Director, London BioFoundry
Dr Velia Siciliano, Principal Investigator, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

For the in person event click on the link below and for the online event please register here.

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, 4th June 2026, 11:00 – 12:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

MyCare.scot represents a step-change in how citizens access public services. In this session on Thursday, 4th June we will explore the kind of digital leadership required to design and deliver a truly seamless front door – one that is grounded in user needs, enabled by effective system integration, and driven through strong cross-organisational collaboration and transformation.

Join this webinar with Greg Thomson, Programme Director for Digital Front Door at Public Services Delivery Scotland, as he shares practical insights from leading a high-profile national programme – and take the opportunity to ask questions about the Programme and MyCare.scot.

📅 Date and Time: Monday, 8th June 2026, 13:00

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

While many organisations are still grappling with basic AI and LLMs, the goalposts in AI have already moved.
We have entered the age of Agentic AI – Systems that act autonomously. Agentic AI is already showing major shifts in management and leadership; It’s transformed how work is delivered, how decisions are made and what effective leadership actually is.

In this session, Phininder Balaghan, CTO & Founder, Traversally will explore how to lead confidently in the age of Agents, touching upon 3 key pillars:

Agentic Orchestration
Governance
Risk & Assurance

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 18th June 2026, 10:00 – 16:00

📍Location: Church House Westminster

Event Info:

This flagship event brings together policymakers, regulators, funders, and leaders from the Regulatory Science and Innovation Networks (RSINs) and the Centres of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs). It will explore how regulatory science can better generate and translate evidence into smarter, more agile regulation across health and life sciences.

This programme, led by Innovate UK, enables consortia of businesses, academics and other organisations to build networks of expertise in regulatory science and innovation across emerging technology sectors throughout the UK. These networks are developing regulatory science based tools that underpin smarter, more adaptable regulation for new products, services and treatments.

The Summit will share insight from the first wave of pilot activity, highlight what has been learned, and examine how evidence is shaping future regulatory approaches. It marks an important moment as the UK moves towards the next phase of support for regulatory science.

📅 Date and Time: Wednesday, 1st July 2026

📍Location: Online

Event Info:

AI tools like Copilot are becoming part of everyday working life but using them well requires more than just access to technology.

This session cuts through the hype to explore what Copilot can genuinely support, where leaders still need to apply judgement, and how to adopt AI in a safe, ethical, and people‑first way. Designed for leaders responsible for digital transformation, service improvement and workforce development, this webinar focuses on practical leadership decisions, not technical detail.

In this session, we will explore:

What Copilot is, and isn’t
Where Copilot can add value for leaders
How leaders can support responsible, ethical, and inclusive use
Why data quality, governance and human oversight still matter
Real-life use cases
How to move teams from curiosity to confident, everyday use

📅 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

Our Events

Upcoming Innovation Events

COMFORTage Twinning Webinar

Launch of the Smart Home Digital Blueprint

Engineering biology to improve health - Implementation showcase & networking lunch

Futurescot AI Challenge 2026 Webinar

FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture 2026: Engineering biology to improve health

Leadership Webinar - From Vision to Delivery: Leadership Insights from the Digital Front Door Programme

Winning as a Digital Leader in the Age of Agentic AI

Regulatory Science and Innovation Summit 2026

Leading Well with Copilot: Confidence, Capability and Control

DigitalScotland 2026