Founders Meet-up Glasgow: Bridging the Creative Tech Gap

​Founding a company is an act of creation, yet founders are often siloed by discipline. Technology founders build technology businesses. Artists and creatives build creative work. These worlds rarely overlap in a structured way.

​However, many of the most influential modern companies sit between these domains. Platforms such as Canva, Adobe and Blender are technology businesses that enable creative work at scale. They raise a simple question: are these creative enterprises, or are they technology companies?

​This event is designed to bring founders from different disciplines into the same space. The aim is to encourage collaboration between creative and technical perspectives, helping to form business ideas that are more robust, more scalable, and better grounded in real world creation across sectors.

​An informal fireside conversation will explore the theme of bridging the gap between creativity and tech founding, followed by open networking from 8.00pm.

​Guests

​Mark Logan Former Chief Entrepreneur of Scotland and Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow. He also holds part time roles as Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Visiting Professor at the Glasgow School of Art. He is co founder and director of Ipso Facto, where he advises start ups and scale ups on product management, market growth, and organisational development.

​Rebecca Warner Perry Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Glitchers, leading business development, operations, and production. Her background spans senior roles in animation and film production, including work at The Illuminated Film Company and freelance line producer roles on major BBC children’s and broadcast projects. Her experience covers end to end production management, from series delivery to studio operations, with a strong focus on scaling creative teams and production businesses.

Angela Pretner-Smight
As Managing Director of This is Milk and founder of the learning platform Neve, she has spent the last decade translating human, behavioural and creative insight into scalable, commercially viable products. Her work bridges design and engineering, inclusion and growth, creativity and systems, helping organisations build things that genuinely work for people. She is known for bringing clarity to ambiguity and turning ideas into execution, which is why founders, corporates and public bodies regularly work with her when they want to build things that are both meaningful and capable of scaling.

​Host Dave Hughes: Founder/ex-CEO Novosound, and founder of Different Circle Consulting Ltd, a deep tech founder-to-founder advisory service.