Ray Bugg is an entrepreneur who is the founder and director of DIGIT FYI, a technology media and events company. After a few years working in catering, Ray got the opportunity to work for a major publishing company which was the kickstarter of his career. Ray was then headhunted to run the prestigious event, The World Youth Congress where he learned the value in engagement and the meeting of people to discuss ideas. His roles in publishing and events came together at Holyrood ICT Media and Events where he held conferences and major stakeholder events for the government. After seeing a gap in the market for events and news catering to the enterprise sector, Ray pitched his idea to Holyrood but it was not taken forward. Ray didn’t want to leave the idea on the sidelines and he secured clients at Holyrood to come to his first IT conference which provided seed funding to start his business. Fast forward to now, DIGIT FYI is Scotland’s leading technology media and events company providing tech news, views, opinion for IT and Digital users and consumers. Ray talks about the value in protecting the data that you hold and using that data in a meaningful way, his philosophy of two ears and one mouth and finally, why he is sceptical of digital media in an era of fake news.
