We are partnering with CreativeTech Scotland Gathering to host a special reception and networking event after their annual event. Expect panels, exhibitions, and hands-on activities.
Join us for an evening of conversation, collaboration, and connection with innovators, founders, creatives, and curious minds from across the community.
Designed as a relaxed and welcoming space, this is an opportunity to exchange ideas, meet potential collaborators, and engage with new perspectives in an open and informal environment.
Whether you’re looking to grow your network, explore new opportunities, or simply have interesting conversations, there’s a place for you here.
Quas is a sourdough fermented drink made here in Edinburgh. Non-alcoholic, low-sugar, and plant-based, it is brewed from rye, barley, Scottish water, and a 180-year-old sourdough cultures, giving it a distinctive tangy depth unlike anything else in the drinks aisle. On the night, guests can drop in and try three flavours: Original, Ginger, and Mint and Lime.
Come as you are and try something genuinely different from Edinburgh's own fermented drinks maker.
The Titanium Angel is an immersive installation combining large-scale painting, AI generative video, animation, and audience interaction. Presented beside the original triptych painting, a 65-inch screen transforms viewers into participants within the artwork’s dystopian steampunk world in real time. Blurring the boundary between observer and artwork, the installation explores themes of surveillance, identity, technology, and the evolving relationship between humans and AI.
Grab a seat, have a chat, and watch as our Illustrator-in-Residence creates a hand-crafted doodle portrait inspired by you!
Fun, expressive, and completely unique, each illustration is a personalised keepsake for you to take home.
Whether you’re curious to see yourself reimagined in sketch form or simply want to enjoy a creative moment during the event, come along and see yourself in doodle form!
Contribute to a growing interactive mind map exploring the future of the Creative Tech ecosystem. Through prompts, conversation, and hands-on circuit building, attendees are invited to share ideas, challenges, hopes, and connections - adding their own illuminated contribution to a collective piece that evolves throughout the event.
What does it truly mean to design for inclusion; not as an afterthought, but from the very first sketch? In this conversation, architect, researcher, and design consultant Martin Quirke joins Knowledge Exchange and Impact specialist Jennifer Rao‑Williams to explore how creativity, technology, and lived experience can come together to build more dignified and welcoming futures. They'll tackle the real tensions and opportunities in designing for ageing and cognitive difference, from evidence‑based design and VR tools to genuine co‑creation with people living with dementia. This is for anyone who believes that better design starts with difference, not despite it.
This isn't just a keynote, this is a founder story designed to inspire and energise our creative community.
Ana Stewart didn’t begin her career in a corporate office, she started it in the studios of art college. Here she embraced a different way of thinking, one that prioritised curiosity, constant experimentation, and the grit to build something from nothing.
Long before she was advising the Scottish Government on the future of our economy, Ana was in the trenches as a founder. She co-founded i-Design, taking a creative tech idea from a spark to a global success story, eventually leading it to a listing on the London Stock Exchange. Ana is living proof that a creative education is the ultimate training ground for tech innovation.
In this session, Ana will be sharing the raw, real-world insights about her journey from art student to tech CEO, and how her current work at the heart of the Scottish Government is still driven by those creative roots.
Registration for this event is closed.
We are partnering with CreativeTech Scotland Gathering to host a special reception and networking event after their annual event. Expect panels, exhibitions, and hands-on activities.
Join us for an evening of conversation, collaboration, and connection with innovators, founders, creatives, and curious minds from across the community.
Designed as a relaxed and welcoming space, this is an opportunity to exchange ideas, meet potential collaborators, and engage with new perspectives in an open and informal environment.
Whether you’re looking to grow your network, explore new opportunities, or simply have interesting conversations, there’s a place for you here.
Quas is a sourdough fermented drink made here in Edinburgh. Non-alcoholic, low-sugar, and plant-based, it is brewed from rye, barley, Scottish water, and a 180-year-old sourdough cultures, giving it a distinctive tangy depth unlike anything else in the drinks aisle. On the night, guests can drop in and try three flavours: Original, Ginger, and Mint and Lime.
Come as you are and try something genuinely different from Edinburgh's own fermented drinks maker.
The Titanium Angel is an immersive installation combining large-scale painting, AI generative video, animation, and audience interaction. Presented beside the original triptych painting, a 65-inch screen transforms viewers into participants within the artwork’s dystopian steampunk world in real time. Blurring the boundary between observer and artwork, the installation explores themes of surveillance, identity, technology, and the evolving relationship between humans and AI.
Grab a seat, have a chat, and watch as our Illustrator-in-Residence creates a hand-crafted doodle portrait inspired by you!
Fun, expressive, and completely unique, each illustration is a personalised keepsake for you to take home.
Whether you’re curious to see yourself reimagined in sketch form or simply want to enjoy a creative moment during the event, come along and see yourself in doodle form!
Contribute to a growing interactive mind map exploring the future of the Creative Tech ecosystem. Through prompts, conversation, and hands-on circuit building, attendees are invited to share ideas, challenges, hopes, and connections - adding their own illuminated contribution to a collective piece that evolves throughout the event.
What does it truly mean to design for inclusion; not as an afterthought, but from the very first sketch? In this conversation, architect, researcher, and design consultant Martin Quirke joins Knowledge Exchange and Impact specialist Jennifer Rao‑Williams to explore how creativity, technology, and lived experience can come together to build more dignified and welcoming futures. They'll tackle the real tensions and opportunities in designing for ageing and cognitive difference, from evidence‑based design and VR tools to genuine co‑creation with people living with dementia. This is for anyone who believes that better design starts with difference, not despite it.
This isn't just a keynote, this is a founder story designed to inspire and energise our creative community.
Ana Stewart didn’t begin her career in a corporate office, she started it in the studios of art college. Here she embraced a different way of thinking, one that prioritised curiosity, constant experimentation, and the grit to build something from nothing.
Long before she was advising the Scottish Government on the future of our economy, Ana was in the trenches as a founder. She co-founded i-Design, taking a creative tech idea from a spark to a global success story, eventually leading it to a listing on the London Stock Exchange. Ana is living proof that a creative education is the ultimate training ground for tech innovation.
In this session, Ana will be sharing the raw, real-world insights about her journey from art student to tech CEO, and how her current work at the heart of the Scottish Government is still driven by those creative roots.