Speaker: Professor Mark Logan, former Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, Scottish Government
University of Aberdeen Partners with Startup Grind Aberdeen to Host Professor Mark Logan for “From Hypothesis to Horizon: Shaping Scotland’s DeepTech Future”
Join us on Tuesday, 19 November 2025, from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM at the Sir Duncan Rice Library (Level 7, Craig Suite) for a visionary session with Mark Logan, one of Scotland’s most respected technology leaders and a driving force behind the nation’s innovation agenda.
Mark is the former Chief Entrepreneurial Advisor to the Scottish Government, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow, Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, and Co-founder of Ipso-Facto Management, a scale-up consultancy.
With over 25 years of leadership experience in the tech and start-up sector—including his role as COO of Skyscanner, where he helped scale the company from 90 to 1,000 people before its £1.45B acquisition—Mark brings world-class insight into what it takes to turn bold ideas into global success stories.
A key advocate for building Scotland’s “DeepTech Supercluster”, Mark has been instrumental in shaping national strategies that bridge academia, entrepreneurship, and industry.
In this session, he will explore how Scotland can transform groundbreaking research into world-changing technologies—turning hypotheses into horizons that define the nation’s economic and technological future.
Event Details
Date & Venue:
Wednesday, 19th November | 11:00 – 13:30
Level 7, Craig Suite, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
Whether you’re a student, researcher, or entrepreneur, this is a rare opportunity to engage with the visionary behind Scotland’s DeepTech movement and discover how you can be part of the country’s next innovation frontier.
- Speaker
- Professor Mark Logan, Former Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, Scottish Government
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library
- Contact
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abventures@abdn.ac.uk
- Booking
- Online booking available