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Name: Traveltech Meet-Up
Start: 2026-11-24T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-24T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute

We offer open and participatory events that showcase interdisciplinary work and impact and spark ideas, inspiration and debate.

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November 2026
Technomoral Conversations: AI and the Future of Fundamental Rights

Talk/Discussion

3rd November 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM GMT

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
In this fireside chat, we'll hear from Javier Ruiz Diaz, tèmítópé lasade-anderson, Haylea Campbell and Zeerak Talat.

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Traveltech Meet-Up

Mixer

24th November 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT

Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
TravelTech Meetup: Show Us What You’ve Built with AI.

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Making Waves

Making Waves is an exciting programme of events that explores creativity in different forms, crossing areas such as the arts, technology, science, and the environment..

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Learning Curves

Our Autumn 2024 programme of events explored the future of education through panel discussions, poetry readings, live music and performance, and deep intellectual debate and discussion.

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POWER TRIP

Our Autumn 2023 programme of events explored leadership in all its forms – from the seats of power to the front lines of activist movements and even in our own workplaces.

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Love machine

Our Spring 2023 programme of events explored the interconnections of AI and data with humanity through conversations, performances, and workshops.

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First Breath

Our Autumn 2022 programme featured more than 20 events exploring crisis, migration, displacement and equality coalescing around the theme of Climate Justice.

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"The production and intellectual content of your recent events has been fantastic! Thank you for the opportunity to attend and learn. This is probably the best event I have been to all year."
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

"Really, really impressed with Futures Institute events. Properly impressive speakers, and seamless technical management. Thank you for keeping them hybrid/online – it's a really nice way to keep in touch!"
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

"Amazing! I hope that Utopia Lab can ring in every event season, the dream space that you curate and allow to flourish is an important and novel lens that Edinburgh Futures Institute offers partners, students, staff, researchers and anyone with an interest in collaborative thinking and doing."
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

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Alice Disley

Events Co-ordinator

Fraser Pringle

Project & Events Administrator

Ioannis Kalkounos

Programme Manager

Lewis Williams

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Events

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November 2026

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Making Waves

Learning Curves

POWER TRIP

Love machine

First Breath

Meet the events team

Alice Disley

Fraser Pringle

Ioannis Kalkounos

Lewis Williams

Join us to challenge, create, and make change happen.