A technology community in Edinburgh.
adhocSpace began as the TechTalks Edinburgh meetups and has grown into a community-driven home for the events, the recorded talks, and the speakers behind them, with a few tools built alongside. The focus is practical — engineering and product work, explained by the people who did it.
The events and everything around them live here — talks, speakers, and the blog — alongside adhc.to, a link shortener we built and use.
Practical talks
Sessions focus on real work — what someone built, how it went, and what they would do differently. Technical and specific, not promotional.
Open by default
The site, the tooling, and the content pipeline are open source and maintained in the open.
For practitioners
Engineers, founders, and people who build things — meeting to learn from each other in person.
Oleksandr Piekhota
Founder
Principal engineer with 12 years shipping Go and PHP back-ends, cloud-native systems, and AI. He builds the platform and the tools around it, and co-runs the TechTalks Edinburgh events.
Olha Sydorenko
Cofounder
Comes from a talent and people background in tech. She runs the community side — the members, the speakers, and the human logistics that turn a room and a projector into an evening worth showing up for.
Join us at an event.
Events are free and held in Edinburgh. See what’s coming up, or watch a recorded talk first.