Edinburgh Conference Centre

About the venue

Set in Heriot-Watt University’s beautiful parkland, Edinburgh Conference Centre offers versatile facilities for 6-600 throughout the year ranging from meeting rooms for up to 90 delegates to a superb purpose built conference and exhibition centre comprising of two dynamic and distinctive interlinking venues under one roof.

Organiser can also incorporate the centres vacation only facilities - 4 recently refurbished lecture theatres and 30 seminar rooms. In addition Edinburgh Conference Centre offers the convenience of a range of highly skilled on-site specialist support services including conference coordination, audio-visual support and language interpretation. Together with 165 bedrooms available throughout the year and over 1000 bedrooms in vacation periods, Edinburgh Conference Centre provides fantastic value and flexibility all year round, whatever the size of your group or the objective of your event. Situated on the edge of one of Europe’s most exciting cities, the centre is conveniently located for access to all major road networks and air routes and there is ample free parking.

Meeting rooms

In the table below, you can hover over the underlined room names to see a photo of that room.

Room name

Capacity (people)

Theatre

Classroom

Boardroom

Cabaret

Banquet

Ushape

Rec.

Dimensions(H/L/W/A)

Leonard Horner Conference Lounge

36

20

20

-

-

18

-

5/9.8/6.8/70

Cedar Suite

90

50

40

64

-

30

-

2.7/12.6/11.1/139

Oak Room

30

20

22

24

-

24

-

2.7/11.1/4.7/53

Beech Room

30

20

22

24

-

24

-

2.7/11.1/7.9/55

Academic-Various

-

80

-

-

-

-

-

-/-/-/-

Lecture Theatre 1

200

-

-

-

-

-

-

-/-/-/-

Lecture Theatre 2

100

-

-

-

-

-

-

-/-/-/-

Lecture Theatre 3

140

-

-

-

-

-

-

-/-/-/-

Lecture Theatre 4

300

-

-

-

-

-

-

-/-/-/-

James Watt 2 - Main Hall

360

320

-

224

-

-

-

3/27.2/27.2/682

James Watt 1 - Auditorium

600

210

-

192

-

-

-

5.6/24/21.8/506

Gibson Room

120

80

-

64

-

55

-

3/19.2/7.4/141

James Watt 1 - Carnegie Room

120

80

50

64

-

50

-

2.7/19/9/171

James Watt 1 - Wardlaw Room

60

28

26

24

-

30

-

2.7/12/6/72

James Watt 1 - Bruce Room

60

28

26

24

-

30

-

2.6/12/8/72