Can the UK do more to help creative tech companies scale up?
The Communications and Digital Committee takes evidence from UK creative tech firms, trade bodies and venture capital firms as it continues its inquiry into scaling up: AI and creative tech.
Meeting details
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Scaling up - AI and creative tech
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Synthesia
Founder at AudioStack
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cooperative Innovations
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Scaling up - AI and creative tech
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Chief Executive Officer at Creative UK
Chief Executive Officer at The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Edge Investments
Background
The Committee is exploring the scale-up scene and why the UK still struggles to turn innovative start-ups into successful scale-ups, and ensure their long-term expansion happens in the UK.
Possible areas for discussion
Possible areas for discussion with the first witness panel include:
- The challenges faced by creative tech businesses in securing investment capital,
- the effectiveness of government support programmes, and
- the future impact of AI on the creative tech sector.
Possible areas for discussion with the second witness panel include:
- How innovation and growth in the creative tech sector can support the government’s ambition for the creative industries to be one of the country’s key drivers of growth,
- how access to growth capital can be improved in the creative sector, and
- what can be done to help creative tech businesses attract the talent and specialised facilities they need to scale.