Join us in Edinburgh for the IPA Scotland Members’ Reception with your fellow IPA member agencies.
This drinks reception on the evening of Thursday 19 June 2025 at The Glasshouse in central Edinburgh will be hosted by Jim Kelly, Deputy MD, Head of Planning and the new IPA Chair for Scotland. As the IPA looks to put creativity front and centre, Jim will be joined by a panel of creative thinkers to explore – and celebrate – creativity in its wider form.
It promises to be a thought-provoking and enjoyable event, as well as an excellent opportunity to network with your friends and peers in other IPA member agencies.
6.00pm Drinks and networking
6.30pm Welcome
6.45pm What is creativity and why does it matter?
Panel discussion to discuss where other people in other creative lines of work find their inspiration, how they channel it into their own ‘medium’, what creativity means to them and their peers.
7.15pm Q&A
7.30pm Drinks and networking
8.00pm Close
Bob is a widely known and highly respected creative leader, particularly in the fields of music and film. In a career spanning over 40 years, his expertise is recognised across the creative industries in Scotland and the UK. His early entrepreneurial spirit in the music industry saw success as a producer, designer and manager as celebrated in the book ‘Hungry Beat’. Bob is Co-Owner of Leith’s Firststage studios, the largest film studio in Scotland. He has been at the forefront of championing Scotland’s burgeoning TV and Film industry and is an Oscar-nominated and Bafta Award-winning film and TV producer. Previous experience includes chairing the Edinburgh International Film Festival and as Co-Chair of the Scottish Government Industry Advisor Group. He is Chair of the Board of Leith Theatre.
https://www.leiththeatre.co.uk/meet-the-board
Eleanor (Elle) Tucker is a writer whose career has spanned advertising, journalism, publishing and screenwriting – the common themes always being creativity and words. She began as a copywriter before becoming a features writer, contributing to newspapers such as The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent, and to magazines including Grazia and Red.
Her first book, Thanks for Sharing, a narrative non-fiction, got her an agent, Emily MacDonald at 42 Management & Production, and was published worldwide in 2023 by Quarto. She has recently signed a two-book deal for commercial women’s fiction, with her debut novel TURN BACK TIME publishing in spring 2026 with Hera Books, an imprint of Canelo, which is part of the DK/Penguin Random House group. She is also developing a TV drama series and co-writing a sitcom. Alongside all this, Elle consults on brand and communications strategy and regularly hosts talks, interviews and podcasts.
Emily is the founder and publisher of Kitchen Press, a boutique publishing house specialising in cookbooks. With business partner Nasim Doherty, she works with chefs, photographers, illustrators and designers to produce stylish, rigorously tested books that sell far beyond the local reach of a chef. It’s a process that thrives on collective creativity and collaboration.
Notable releases include Roberta Hall-McCarron’s The Changing Tides, Catalogued Ideas and Random Thoughts by Stuart Ralston, The Seafood Shack by Fenella Renwick & Kirsty Scobie, and Brunch with Brother Marcus by Tasos Gaitanos & Alex Large. Kitchen Press books have won accolades including the Jane Grigson Trust Award, National Geographic Traveller Award and Gourmand World Food Award, and they have been featured in everything from Observer Food Monthly, Feast (The Guardian), The Telegraph, The Times, Vogue, Waitrose, C4’s Sunday Brunch, National Geographic and Delicious.