Turing Fest 2025

Turing Fest 2025 returns to Edinburgh on 7 and 8 May for its milestone 10th edition, bringing together startup founders, product leaders, growth experts, and investors to learn, network, and shape the future of technology.

Hosted at the prestigious EICC in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, this landmark event creates a unique environment where today’s best thinkers and operators connect with the brightest minds building tomorrow’s technology businesses.

With over 1,000 attendees from more than 30 countries, Turing Fest offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, forge valuable connections, and do business in an atmosphere that balances intensive learning with genuine fun. The event creates a special kind of magic that happens when people gather not just to absorb information, but to actively engage, collaborate, and support each other on their tech journey.

What Makes Turing Fest Uniquely Valuable

Turing Fest stands apart by offering four specialised content tracks BUILD, GROW, LEAD, and INVEST each carefully curated to deliver maximum value to different segments of the tech ecosystem. With a strict “no commercials, no paid content, and no dull panels” policy, every session delivers authentic insights and actionable knowledge from genuine industry experts.

The conference goes beyond traditional keynotes by offering intimate speaker and mentor roundtables where attendees can engage directly with presenters, receiving personalised guidance tailored to their specific business challenges. This direct access to top minds in global tech represents an invaluable opportunity for meaningful mentorship and problem solving.

Turing Fest’s AI powered matchmaking app and structured networking events create efficient opportunities to connect with potential customers, partners, and investors. And when the formal sessions conclude, the networking continues at exclusive social events throughout Edinburgh’s legendary venues, creating the perfect blend of professional development and enjoyable community building.

Speakers Include:

• Ryan Singer, Author of Shape Up
• Radhika Dutt, Author and Speaker on Radical Product Thinking
• Jonny Brooks Bartlett, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify
• Colin Jarvis, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI
• Hannah Parvaz, Founder of Aperture
• Sara Gordon, General Manager at Zoe
• Andrew Davies, Chief Marketing Officer at Paddle
• Sam Mallikarjunan, General Manager at Agent.ai
• Angeley Mullins, Chief Commercial Officer at Resourcify
• Nopadon, Co Founder at SYSTM
• Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer at Intercom
• Gil Dibner, General Partner at Angular Ventures
• Taavi Kotka, CEO & Co Founder at KOOS.io
• Mark MacLeod, Founder
• Aiste Miskuniene, Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Vinted Go
• Simone Maini, Chief Executive Officer at Elliptic

Four Specialized Tracks

The BUILD track caters specifically to engineers and product managers from individual contributors up to C suite executives, focusing on the challenges and opportunities in creating exceptional tech products.

The GROW track serves professionals working on the customer facing side of tech, including marketing, growth, sales, and customer success specialists looking to drive business expansion.

The LEAD track provides founders and executives with insights on effective leadership, organizational development, and strategic decision making to guide companies through various growth stages.

The INVEST track brings together leading early stage VCs from across Europe for peer networking, collective knowledge sharing, and deep learning about the evolving investment landscape.

Who Should Attend

Turing Fest is ideal for founders, CEOs, COOs, and C suite executives from early stage (10 to 50 employees) to mid stage (50 to 300) tech companies who want to accelerate their growth trajectory.

Product and engineering leaders including CTOs, CPOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of Product, lead developers, heads of product, product managers, and senior individual contributors will find immense value in the specialized technical content.

Growth focused professionals such as CMOs, CROs, CGOs, VPs of Marketing, VPs of Sales, VPs of Growth, sales directors, directors of marketing, and department heads seeking strategic insights and tactical approaches will benefit from the growth oriented sessions.

Investors operating at seed to Series B levels will discover a rich environment for connecting with promising startups and fellow VCs while deepening their understanding of emerging tech trends.

With its blend of world class content, meaningful networking opportunities, and vibrant social events, Turing Fest 2025 represents an essential investment for anyone serious about building, growing, or investing in the next generation of technology businesses across Europe and beyond.