Scottish Ethnic Minority Talent Summit & Festival 2026 — Edinburgh Edition

A full day on how Scotland's workforce absorbs AI and economic shift, and on who gets a say in it. Keynotes, panels and roundtables run 08:30 to 16:00 in the Gorgie Suite at Tynecastle Park, in a room built for 500-plus.

This is the Edinburgh finale of a week that has already run in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Fife, and the day the organisers call the national convergence point for policy, finance and tech. The DataKirk runs it and Linda Scott chairs. The 2026 programme across the four editions lists 118 speakers, among them Simita Kumar MSP and Tom Arthur MSP.

Standard tickets £100, students £30. The evening Awards and Festival at the same venue is booked separately.

Why go: ministers, tech employers and the people shut out of tech careers in one session on talent and AI is not a room Edinburgh gets often. Best for anyone who hires, sets policy or carries a diversity brief in tech or finance.