Join our series of events, ScotlandIS Tech Tidbits, on the first Tuesday of every month!

These 30 minute webinars will be short, informative sessions on a variety of topics, from exporting to cybersecurity, cloud computing to procurement, and many more.

Each event will feature a ScotlandIS member offering their expert insights and advice on the topic in hand, however you do not need to be a member to attend these talks.

For June, we’ll be joined by ScotlandIS partner, the Edinburgh Remakery.

When we talk about end-of-life tech, recycling is often presented as the solution. This session argues that recycling should be the last conversation we have, not the first. Through the lens of Edinburgh Remakery’s Social IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) programme, this session will explore how extending the life of tech through reuse, repair and redistribution delivers significantly greater environmental benefits while creating meaningful social value.

One of the key challenges is demonstrating and maximising the social value of tech, alongside its environmental impact. Many organisations are keen to do more with their redundant tech but are unsure how to align this meaningfully with ESG commitments, compliance requirements, and measurable outcomes. There’s also a growing need for clearer, joined-up approaches that address e-waste, digital exclusion and carbon reduction together, rather than treating them as separate issues. Clients are looking for practical solutions that deliver impact while remaining operationally and financially viable.

From reducing carbon emissions to tackling digital exclusion, circular approaches to IT enable organisations to turn redundant tech into real-world impact. The session will highlight how circular economy principles can be embedded into tech management strategies, helping organisations move beyond compliance and towards outcomes that support ESG goals, community benefit and environmental responsibility at the same time.

By sharing practical insights and lived experience from the frontline, Elaine Brown, the CEO of Edinburgh Remakery will talk about how a social-first, circular approach to tech can redefine value, reshape responsibility, and ensure that tech works for people as well as the planet.

​State of Open Con 26 On The Road, hosted by OpenUK takes the UK’s open technology conference, now in its 4th year, across the UK.

Where better to kick off than in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, on 5th June? The day will focus on the AI stack, working up from Compute through Models and Agents to user experiences and ROI.

You can guarantee that there will be a fair level of debate around sovereignty in the AI Stack as we look at open source software, data, hardware, standards and AI.

​Standard tickets: £149

​Free tickets for community, students and those between jobs available on application – contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk

​Tickets include catering and the conference party on 4th June.

This year’s theme is all about transformation and emerging opportunities for businesses and individuals to explore the rapidly growing space sector.

The programme will highlight how organisations from adjacent industries can diversify, adapt existing capabilities and pivot into space markets, alongside sessions focused on skills development and career transitions. It will also provide a platform for established space companies to connect, collaborate and scale, strengthening supply chains and accelerating growth across the sector.

Attendees can expect inspiring panels, practical workshops and high-value networking designed to spark collaboration, new partnerships and future-ready business growth. This is more than a conference – it’s a launchpad for innovation, diversification and economic impact in the North East and beyond.

Dr. Onur Duman of Glasgow Caledonian University will explore exciting opportunities for collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) in the field of cybersecurity.  This session will highlight how partnerships between academia and industry can drive innovation, strengthen resilience and deliver real-world impact.

Dr. Duman is particularly interested in working with industry partners to both advance academic research and translate it into practical applications.  At this event, he will outline how organisations can collaborate with GCU through KTPs to address technical challenges and create impactful, mutually beneficial solutions.

The session will cover:

• Insightful overviews of Dr. Duman’s work tackling complex cybersecurity challenges and the real impact these solutions have delivered for companies
• Interactive discussion on the key cybersecurity challenges currently facing organisations
• Practical examples of potential areas for collaboration between industry and academia
• Open Q&A session with the opportunity to explore project ideas and partnership possibilities

As organizations embrace Kubernetes for container orchestration, the need to integrate and manage virtual machines (VMs) alongside containerized workloads has become increasingly essential.

Join Frontier alongside Red Hat and Portworx on June 11, 2026 at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, to explore how Red Hat^® OpenShift^® has evolved to support VMs through technologies like Kubevirt, enabling seamless coexistence of legacy applications with modern cloud-native architectures. The event will provide a comprehensive overview of running VMs in OpenShift, including:

• Introduction to VMs on OpenShift: Understanding why and when to run VMs in OpenShift, and how this approach bridges traditional and cloud-native workloads.
• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization deep dive: A technical overview of OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat’s Kubernetes-native virtualization solution, covering architecture, deployment, and features.
• Unified storage and data management: Strategies for managing VMs and containers storage and data side-by-side, using OpenShift’s robust orchestration and scaling capabilities.
• Use cases and best practices: A customer panel showcasing real-world examples of organizations modernizing infrastructure with Kubernetes-native VM support, including legacy application migration and hybrid workload scenarios.
• Hands-on lab: Practical demonstrations of deploying and managing VMs in OpenShift, showcasing tools and workflows to simplify storage operations.

By attending, you’ll gain insights into the benefits, challenges, and strategies for adopting VMs on OpenShift, enabling a unified platform for both legacy and modern workloads.

This event is perfect for IT architects, infrastructure engineers, DevOps practitioners, and system administrators looking to strengthen their Kubernetes expertise with a focus on OpenShift, security, storage, and data management solutions.