After two months away, we're thrilled to return to the Edinburgh Futures Institute for a special Thursday Gathering featuring ARIA, The Robotarium, and Venture Café’s founder, Tim Rowe.
The Thursday Gathering is our free, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds, from founders and investors to students and researchers, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human.
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Grab a drink, and join the conversation! Whether you're looking to meet potential collaborators, exchange ideas, grow your network, or simply continue the conversation, this is a great opportunity to connect with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and members of the community. You never know where a conversation might lead!
Equate Scotland invites you to explore your ability to listen actively. Using a game-based approach, we will give you the opportunity to test one of your essential meta skills and learn more about how it can be employed to counteract bias and the authority gap at work.
Equate Scotland is the national expert in equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) throughout the STEM sectors. Since 2006, they have been making a tangible and sustainable change, enabling women and other underrepresented groups studying and working in these key sectors to develop, by supporting their recruitment, retention, and progression.
Join Young Company Finance (YCF) for their post-conference evening gathering!
A granted patent may protect an invention, but it does not create a business. Commercial value comes from what happens next: investment, manufacturing, licensing, international expansion and patent enforcement.
At the official YCF Conference Evening Gathering, inventor and entrepreneur Alison Grieve joins her patent attorney, David Hammond of Haseltine Lake, for a candid 20-minute fireside chat about taking Safetray and G-Hold from protected ideas into international markets.
Grieve’s journey began with an accident involving a tray of champagne and has since encompassed two product brands and patent families, manufacturing in Scotland, distribution across over 20 countries, partnerships with some of the world’s largest technology companies, and global licensing deals.
Drawing on that experience, the conversation will explore how founders decide what, when and where to protect; the role patents can play in attracting investment and commercial partners; and the realities of manufacturing, licensing and selling patented products internationally.
This is the story of what comes after the patent: products, partnerships, perseverance and the unpredictable road from invention to commercial value.
Take a seat and hear from Venture Café Edinburgh Director, Claudia Cavalluzzo who will go through how to make the most of a Thursday Gathering and give you a quick preview of what's in line for this week's event.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
At our weekly Thursday Gatherings, we connect creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and visionaries to build strong, inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystem. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Edinburgh is creating a central hub for the city's innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
Join us as we welcome Tim Rowe, founder and chair of Venture Café Global Institute, and founder and Chairman of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the world leader in building and operating innovation campuses global.
Since 1999, CIC has grown from a single 250 m2 location in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts to a global company that manages nearly 200,000 m2 of shared workspace, wet labs, and event space. CIC now runs the largest innovation hubs in five countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland — and was recently selected by New York City to build the world's largest climate tech hub, in Brooklyn. Among the notable organizations that spent their early days at CIC are Android and HubSpot.
Rowe also co-founded LabCentral and MassRobotics, which are today the largest hubs in the world in their respective sectors of life sciences and robotics.
After two months away, we're thrilled to return to the Edinburgh Futures Institute for a special Thursday Gathering featuring ARIA, The Robotarium, and Venture Café’s founder, Tim Rowe.
The Thursday Gathering is our free, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds, from founders and investors to students and researchers, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Grab a drink, and join the conversation! Whether you're looking to meet potential collaborators, exchange ideas, grow your network, or simply continue the conversation, this is a great opportunity to connect with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and members of the community. You never know where a conversation might lead!
Equate Scotland invites you to explore your ability to listen actively. Using a game-based approach, we will give you the opportunity to test one of your essential meta skills and learn more about how it can be employed to counteract bias and the authority gap at work.
Equate Scotland is the national expert in equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) throughout the STEM sectors. Since 2006, they have been making a tangible and sustainable change, enabling women and other underrepresented groups studying and working in these key sectors to develop, by supporting their recruitment, retention, and progression.
Join Young Company Finance (YCF) for their post-conference evening gathering!
A granted patent may protect an invention, but it does not create a business. Commercial value comes from what happens next: investment, manufacturing, licensing, international expansion and patent enforcement.
At the official YCF Conference Evening Gathering, inventor and entrepreneur Alison Grieve joins her patent attorney, David Hammond of Haseltine Lake, for a candid 20-minute fireside chat about taking Safetray and G-Hold from protected ideas into international markets.
Grieve’s journey began with an accident involving a tray of champagne and has since encompassed two product brands and patent families, manufacturing in Scotland, distribution across over 20 countries, partnerships with some of the world’s largest technology companies, and global licensing deals.
Drawing on that experience, the conversation will explore how founders decide what, when and where to protect; the role patents can play in attracting investment and commercial partners; and the realities of manufacturing, licensing and selling patented products internationally.
This is the story of what comes after the patent: products, partnerships, perseverance and the unpredictable road from invention to commercial value.
Take a seat and hear from Venture Café Edinburgh Director, Claudia Cavalluzzo who will go through how to make the most of a Thursday Gathering and give you a quick preview of what's in line for this week's event.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
At our weekly Thursday Gatherings, we connect creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and visionaries to build strong, inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystem. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Edinburgh is creating a central hub for the city's innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
Join us as we welcome Tim Rowe, founder and chair of Venture Café Global Institute, and founder and Chairman of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the world leader in building and operating innovation campuses global.
Since 1999, CIC has grown from a single 250 m2 location in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts to a global company that manages nearly 200,000 m2 of shared workspace, wet labs, and event space. CIC now runs the largest innovation hubs in five countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland — and was recently selected by New York City to build the world's largest climate tech hub, in Brooklyn. Among the notable organizations that spent their early days at CIC are Android and HubSpot.
Rowe also co-founded LabCentral and MassRobotics, which are today the largest hubs in the world in their respective sectors of life sciences and robotics.