Why you won’t want to miss ScotSoft 2026

This year’s leading Scottish tech conference will bring together technical excellence and leadership vision to create a truly inspiring event for industry professionals at all levels.

From students to Junior Developers to Project Managers to CTOs, there will be something for everyone across our keynote speakers, breakout sessions, workshops, and lots of networking opportunities. 

During this conference you will: 

• Connect with peers and industry leaders to develop your network
• Discover new business and career opportunities
• Learn about new and emerging trends from trusted industry leaders, academics and futurists capable of forecasting the coming year
• Be inspired by a range of fantastic speakers

Here’s a flavour of who you’ll hear from at ScotSoft 2026 

• Discover keynote Emma Logan’s expertise as Deputy President of BCS, and long-time advisor to government and global organisations. Through real stories from industry and the public sector, Emma will unpack why trust in technology isn’t a technical feature but a professional obligation – and why the next decade of software innovation will depend on the competence, ethics and accountability of the people who build it.

• Senior Cyber Security Consultant at N-able, Kostandino Kustas, will be exploring ‘Defending Against Adversarial AI’: how threat actors are weaponising AI, the principles of what good AI‑assisted security looks like, and the ever more important human-in-the-loop judgement factor..

• As a founder of Quantcore and Professor of Quantum Technologies at University of Glasgow, Martin Weides’ session will explore how superconducting circuits, semiconductor platforms, and photonic systems are being engineered—and crucially, interfaced—to build practical quantum hardware.

• Expanding into the EU market offers significant opportunities for tech companies, but also comes with complex regulatory challenges. NEON’s attorney-at-law, Lisa-Marie Schuchardt, gives a practical overview of key EU AI and data regulations and common pitfalls, including how to integrate legal considerations early in product development to support scalable and sustainable growth.

• Autonomous AI agents are dominating industry hype, but are they actually the right tool for production environments? Matt Leeper of Silmaril Consulting cuts through the marketing noise to translate complex agentic architectures into clear, bottom line realities for engineering teams and management alike.

• Laure Mora‘s started as an engineer in Oil and Gas, before expanding her career to waste heat recovery and geothermal in 2019 and subsequently working in green hydrogen, to become Business Growth & Transformation Manager at Offshore Energies UK (OEUK). She’ll lead a fireside chat discussing the digitalisation journey across the energy industry.

This is a great opportunity for you to bring back new ideas, strategies and methods that will ultimately benefit your organisation. Share key takeaways, including practices that you can start to implement immediately. 

Book tickets now or check out the agenda so far on our ScotSoft 2026 homepage, or find out how you can align your brand with Scotland’s leading tech conference through a variety of sponsorship options.

Thank you to our sponsors: Lloyds Banking Group, Sopra Steria, Leidos, Resillion, KAL ATM Software, BCS, and 2i.