How to Navigate your Creative Career with I LIKE NETWORKING

Join Isabel Sachs, I LIKE NETWORKING, as she chats with Teresa Ferreira, Creative Director & AI Brand Strategist and Seb Tam and Orestis Neokleous from experience design studio Blurry Works.

The panel will explore how to build a creative practice and a sustainable career in the creative industries.

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Isabel Sachs is the founder of I LIKE NETWORKING. A creative entrepreneur and public speaker with 20 years of experience in arts, culture & entertainment, passionate about bringing diverse talent into the creative industry - from artists to arts managers. She has worked on a variety of non-profits, culture organizations and consumer-led companies, conceptualizing and producing branded experiences that engage core consumers, as well as communications campaigns, having worked with clients such as Converse, Lipton, Red Bull and Lollapalooza, amongst others.

She created and sold an award-winning cultural agency, based in Brazil, producing over 50 events a year including international tours, and managing a roster of artists and a theatre company.

Her impact work has been recognised by the D&Ad awards, The Lovie Awards and The Dots, and she was listed as one of the top 21 most influential women by Startups Magazine.

Teresa Ferreira is a Creative Director and Brand Strategist based in London, and the founder of Ferrgood Studio — an independent studio specialising in creative direction and brand storytelling for luxury and cultural brands. 

Named one of the Top 25 Creative Directors globally by Creativepool in 2026, Teresa brings over a decade of senior creative leadership to her work, including seven years as Head of Design at the Financial Times. A judge at the Creative Circle Awards and an Adobe Express and Firefly Ambassador, she sits at the intersection of brand strategy, cultural intelligence, and AI-integrated creative direction. Teresa is also a sought-after speaker on creativity, brand, and the future of AI in the creative industries.

This event is part of Upstart creative career festival. Join us to explore and expand your creative practice, meet inspiring artists and designers, develop your network and learn new skills for your creative career journey.

Seb is a multidisciplinary designer, entrepreneur and creative, as well as cofounder of Blurry Works. Driven by a desire to define, inhabit and inspire an optimistic future, Seb threads a balance of multidisciplinary discourse throughout his practice. Spanning industrial design, branding, creative tech and architecture, his past collaborations include clients such as Asahi, Amos Rex, Neom, and Floating Points.

Orestis is an engineer, designer, and researcher experienced in blending creativity and engineering across software and hardware. He has contributed to visionary projects across software and product R&D in numerous start-ups, and research institutions. Obsessively curious about the dynamics of our relationship with technology, he is a cofounder at Blurry Works, overseeing design engineering, research and development.

Blurry Works is a London-based design agency and innovation studio. We create digital products, brand identity, industrial design and spatial experiences for visionary thinkers across technology, culture and impact industries. Current projects include VR product development for a medtech start-up, branding for a computational imaging solutions company, and game design for financial literacy education.

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