12-13 May 2025 The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Thank you for joining us in 2025!

A massive thanks to everyone who attended DataFest 2025!

Your energy, insights, and enthusiasm helped make the event a truly memorable and inspiring experience.

Whether you joined us in person or tuned in to the livestream, we appreciate you taking the time to engage and connect with Scotland’s data & AI community — from thought-provoking key note sessions to lively interactive discussions, it was brilliant to see so many of you taking part and joining in the conversation.

An extra special thank you to our speakers, partners and friends who contributed to the success of this year’s conference. We look forward to continuing the conversation and hope to see you again next year for DataFest 2026!

Catch up with DataFest 2025!

Watch back all the action from DataFest 2025 over on The Data Lab Community!

2025 Speakers

Zoe Kleinman

Technology Editor
BBC

Colin Jarvis

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
OpenAI

Orlando Machado

Chief Data & AI Officer
Lego

Duncan Clark

Head of Europe
Canva

Eleanor Drage

Research Fellow
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Daniel Hulme

Chief AI Officer
WPP

Rachel Curtis

CEO & Co-founder
Inicio AI

Ross McNairn

CEO & Founder
Wordsmith AI

Iain Mackie

CEO & Co-founder
Malted AI 

Stephanie Earp

Head of AI
Space Intelligence

Hadi Larijani

Director for SMART Technology Research Centre
Glasgow Caledonian University

Corine van der Schans

AI Policy and Delivery Team Leader
The Scottish Government

Mark Byrne

Managing Director, Applied Intelligence Accenture

Anneli Ritari-Stewart

Head of Digital Marketing
Royal London

Hazel Jane

Founder
Life Rites

Heather Thomson

CEO
The Data Lab

It genuinely was one of the best events I have been to for a long time.


- Liz Whitefield, Hippo Data

DataFest 2025 Partners & Exhibitors

IBM Logo
Wheatley Group Logo
Accenture Logo
Teradata Logo
Lloyds Banking Group logo
Caledonian MacBrayne logo
Elementz Logo
Research Data Scotland logo
TALAN Logo
Scottish Government logo
Association for Black Engineers - Logo
Bayes Centre Logo
Built Environment - Smarter Transformation Logo
Calybre Logo
Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland logo
Data for Children Collaborative logo

Deep Miner logo
Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre logo
EDINA Logo
Equate Scotland Logo

Geovation Scotland Logo
Gigged AI logo
Go LLM logo
Holyrood Communications logo
Interface Logo
Malted AI
PHAWM Logo
Predictiva logo


Scottish AI Alliance Logo
Scottish Tech Army logo
Sen Guard Logo
TechUK Logo
Tomoro AI logo
UnityFlow Logo

Partner & Exhibitor Opportunities

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