Design Thinking & innovation Week

An immersive programme for creative entrepreneurs, innovation directors and business owners – introducing you to London's most innovative businesses and uncovering the latest approaches to design thinking and innovation.

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When

9th - 12th August, 2022

Where

London

Spots available

18 (out of 30)

Cost

£2,200

Subject to 20% VAT; if you are paying as an individual living in Europe, UK or if you are a UK business

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Programme structure

Programme structure
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Cost & Accommodation
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Every day consists of keynote presentations, case studies, roundtable discussions and visits to the top companies who adopted the human-centered approach, where you will meet the teams behind their latest research and innovation. Some people call our format a 'design safari', some say it's a VIP behind-the-scenes experience or a research trip. During the week you will also explore the latest trends and discoveries in virtual reality, sustainability and the future of technologies. You will learn about the latest innovation methodologies, and best tools for product and business management – and have the opportunity to ask any questions in an informal atmosphere.

This programme is designed to give you inspiration and tools for your work, to help you get an expert opinion on your current projects, and keep you up-to-date with the latest trends in the industry.

Who attends this programme

CEOs, CIOs and business owners
Heads of R&D, innovation and CX
Product managers and team leaders
Service and experience designers
UX researchers
Innovators and trendsetters

What you will learn

What methodologies and processes companies use to create new products and services
How to create a culture of innovation
Best frameworks for research, prototyping and testing ideas
Tools and techniques to come up with better ideas
How to scale Design Thinking in an organisation
Corporate innovation best practices
Latest trends and new technologies

Programme Includes

WORKSHOPS & OFFICE VISITS

We will immerse you into London tech and innovation industry, by connecting you with the most influential people in the industry and taking you to the offices of leading UK companies. Each speaker will share their own insights and will be able to answer any questions you might have. By having only 30 participants on this programme, we make sure that each of you will get the most out of this experience.

VISITS TO THE BEST LONDON SPOTS

You’ll be able to visit secret London spots, view the city from the top of a skyscraper; visit the most exciting exhibitions of the year; and you’ll discover where London’s creative community spends their free time. In addition, you’ll get recommendations to guide your own explorations, with tips on the best places to eat, drink and relax in capital of Great Britain.

DINNER & NETWORKING

Learning is not just about the content, but it's about the context and connections. This is why we've planned various activities to give an opportunity for the cohort to connect and exchange experiences.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday | 6:00-8:00 pm

Wednesday | 10 am-6 pm

Morning Guest

The first activity of the day includes an informal talk from one of our amazing industry experts. You will interact with other participants, share your ideas, experiences and expectation for the day and meet local professionals to get to know more about the backstage of the branding industry.

Morning Session

We will travel to a company's office or creative working space for a lecture, fire-side chat or a workshop from one of London's top companies.

Lunch Break

Between the morning and afternoon sessions, we will have a short break when you will have an opportunity to have lunch and enjoy one of London's creative areas.

Afternoon session

It is the last learning session of the day, where you will have a chance to visit another top London agency and listen to their team revealing tools and methodologies they use in everyday work.

Debrief and the city

After a long day of absorbing new ways of working, innovating and creative thinking we will debrief the content of the day to better organise them in our minds. This activity will be short and engaging and it will take place straight after the afternoon session in locations that we can then visit as cultural and social activities such as museums, galleries, event spaces or bars.

Thursday | 10 am-6 pm

Morning Guest

Similar to the previous day, we'll start the day with an informal talk from one of our amazing industry experts. You will interact with other participants, share your ideas, experiences and expectation for the day and meet local professionals to get to know more about the backstage of the branding industry.

Morning Session

We will then travel to a company's office or creative working space for a lecture, fire-side chat or a workshop from one of London's top companies.

Lunch Break

Between the morning and afternoon sessions, we will have a short break when you will have an opportunity to have lunch and enjoy one of London's creative areas.

Afternoon session

It is the last learning session of the day, where you will have a chance to visit another top London agency and listen to their team revealing tools and methodologies they use in everyday work.

Debrief and the city

After a long day of absorbing new ways of working, innovating and creative thinking we will debrief the content of the day to better organise them in our minds. This activity will be short and engaging and it will take place straight after the afternoon session in locations that we can then visit as cultural and social activities such as museums, galleries, event spaces or bars.

Friday | 10 am-8 pm

Morning Guest

Same as the day before, we'll start with an informal talk from one of our amazing industry experts. You will interact with other participants, share your ideas, experiences and expectation for the day and meet local professionals to get to know more about the backstage of the branding industry.

Morning Session

We will travel to a company's office or creative working space for a lecture, fire-side chat or a workshop from one of London's top companies.

Lunch Break

Between the morning and afternoon sessions, we will have a short break when you will have an opportunity to have lunch and enjoy one of London's creative areas.

Insights Summary

To make sure we all digest everything we've learnt throughout these intense 4 days, our team will facilitate a structured session, where you will be able to exchange insights and discuss learnings through the lens of each other's professional experience.

Final Party, Certificate Ceremony and Networking

At the end of this intensive week, we are hosting a party for all participants, with lecturers, special guests and people from the industry. After presenting certificates to each participant, we’ll have some drinks and a party. It’s a great opportunity for everyone to get useful contacts, be introduced and just enjoy the company of inspiring and successful people.

Saturday-Sunday | Self-paced

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

ThoughtWorks UK

Sapna Maheswari

Head of CX, Product & Design

Sapna is a product and technology leader who thrives to create successful products by championing customer-centric thinking and bringing thought leadership. Over the last 2 decades, Sapna has played diverse roles from developing & delivering large scale distributed systems to defining and executing complex customer centric product & portfolio strategy. Sapna has a strong understanding of how to execute business initiatives and drive strategic growth. She has helped organisations embrace agile and bring business and technology teams together around a common goal.

STBY

Bas Raijmakers

Co-founder | Creative Director

Bas Raijmakers is currently creative director and owner of STBY London and Amsterdam. He completed his PhD in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in 2007. During his MA studies in cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam, he focussed on how people use media, from magazines to TV. In STBY they do creative people research to inform and inspire design and innovation processes. Their work is based on many years of the previous company in the Netherlands (ACS-i and Lost Boys content and usability), as well as the recent PhDs in the UK on methods to do ethnographically inspired research at the start of innovation and design processes.

FutureGov

Megha Wadhawan

Design Lead

Megha is a designer, researcher and strategist who works on complex social and organisational challenges, while building capability through coaching and training. She’s worked across a wide range of sectors and topics including social innovation for international development, funding services, planning and infrastructure guidance, health and social care, setting up data observatories, scaling for clean energy skills, race and gender equality. Her clients include the Department for Education, Nike Foundation, Forum for the Future, Square, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, & the Lloyds Banking Group. Megha’s design practice is rooted in systemic, inclusive and futures approaches

Bob W

Jeremy Slater

COO

Jeremy is helping Bob W to accomplish its operational goals, enhance the leadership team and build a productive, incentivised workforce of "Bobstars". Bob W is a responsible tech company operating in hospitality. Their exceptionally cool short-stay apartments combine hotel-like quality with the authenticity of private rentals. Backed by Europe’s top real estate investors and VCs like NREP, TESI, Kaamos, byFounders, and Superangel, they are building the autonomous hospitality tech to give every guest a 5-star experience at scale. And they are doing it while leading the world's transition to sustainable hospitality and as the first international climate-neutral hospitality provider.

Parlia

J. Paul Neeley

Co-Founder | Head of Design | Speculative Designer

J. Paul Neeley is a Designer and Researcher based in London. He has a background in Service Design, Speculative Design, Design Research, and Strategy. J. Paul has worked professionally at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation as Service Designer & Researcher focusing on the healthcare experience and delivery, at Teton Radiology as Service Design Manager realizing innovative medical imaging solutions, and at Unilever in Consumer & Market Insights on brand development. J. Paul's current design work explores the social, cultural, economic, and ethical implications of emerging technologies, designing speculative futures that help us engage with possibility as a way of reframing and understanding anew our current state. Recent projects have focused on climate change, happiness, healthcare & wellbeing, self quantification, future mobility, AI, synthetic biology, and issues of complexity and computational irreducibility in design and business.

Bob W

Rob Cahn

CEO

Bob W is a responsible tech company operating in hospitality. Their exceptionally cool short-stay apartments combine hotel-like quality with the authenticity of private rentals. Backed by Europe’s top real estate investors and VCs like NREP, TESI, Kaamos, byFounders, and Superangel, they are building the autonomous hospitality tech to give every guest a 5-star experience at scale. And they are doing it while leading the world's transition to sustainable hospitality and as the first international climate-neutral hospitality provider.

Livework studio

Anna van der Togt

Senior Service Design Consultant

Anna is a service design consultant at Livework, where she has collaborated with companies such as Adidas, Nesta, Lufthansa, JP Morgan, Danone and Gucci. Her specialities include design for sustainable futures, servitization, design thinking, service design, consumer research, design research, service prototyping, service transformation and service strategy. She helps clients understand how their customer expectations and contexts are changing, and then co-design, build and prototype a novel and integrated customer experience or strategy.

Livework studio

Founders Factory

Sahil Sachdev

Head of New Ventures

Founders Factory is a Startup Accelerator and Venture Studio. They partner with the world’s best founders and corporates to build, fund and scale ambitious startups worldwide. The studio has received investment from some of the world's most influential companies, to build and invest in exceptional founders solving global problems using technology. Combined with unparalleled access to corporate partners, they invest cash and deliver bespoke support with the team of 100+ specialists. They run two programs across London, New York, Paris and Johannesburg - the Accelerator invests in founders and their teams who have a product in market and are ready to leverage an expert team and global partners to scale. Their Venture Studio builds start-ups from scratch, investing in founders who know what it takes to turn bold ideas into venture backable businesses. To date, we have backed and built almost 200 companies.

Founders Factory

Jacob George

Head of Product

Jacob is a strategic and innovative leader with multiple years of proven experience in product leadership, commercialization strategy, technology procurement, implementation, as well as, program development and management. A strong entrepreneurial background through experience working in the world’s 3rd fastest growing technology corridor, with the executive teams of startups and SMEs on growth hacking to boost revenue by +200%, on capital strategy to support in a total of ~$63M raised, road-mapping to improve product-market fit and scale the company by >100%. Founders Factory is a Startup Accelerator and Venture Studio. They partner with the world’s best founders and corporates to build, fund and scale ambitious startups worldwide. The studio has received investment from some of the world's most influential companies, to build and invest in exceptional founders solving global problems using technology. Combined with unparalleled access to corporate partners, they invest cash and deliver bespoke support with the team of 100+ specialists. They run two programs across London, New York, Paris and Johannesburg - the Accelerator invests in founders and their teams who have a product in market and are ready to leverage an expert team and global partners to scale. Their Venture Studio builds start-ups from scratch, investing in founders who know what it takes to turn bold ideas into venture backable businesses. To date, we have backed and built almost 200 companies.

Babylon Health

Jason Bootle

Service Design Manager

Jason is an experienced and passionate designer who believes that organisations can excel by putting the needs of the people that use their services at the heart of their decision making. Currently designing services at Babylon Health, Jason has years of crafting experiences for Home Office, The Telegraph, Ministry of Justice, The Premier League and various startups and small businesses. Co-organiser of the Design Thinking London meetup group, Jason has held the stage at NUX, Agile on The Beach, Service Design in Gov, UX Scotland, UX Cambridge and UXDX. He is excited to be hosting and presenting for Future London Academy's Design Thinking & Innovation Week.

Programme curators

98% of the participants find that Future London Academy programme was valuable for their experience.

I would highly recommend. I learned a lot and got a very special experience. Mo was an excellent advisor. And Ekaterina and Emma made the group felt like a small family.

Janet Caroo

Managing Director at UWI

Really enjoyed the variety and calibre of the speakers. Needless to say that the organisation was spotless. Would recommend to anyone who is working or interested in innovation.

Kristina Brjazgunova

Business Designer at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP

I would highly recommend. I learned a lot and got a very special experience. Mo was an excellent advisor. And Ekaterina and Emma made the group felt like a small family.

Janet Caroo

Managing Director at UWI

Really enjoyed the variety and calibre of the speakers. Needless to say that the organisation was spotless. Would recommend to anyone who is working or interested in innovation.

Kristina Brjazgunova

Business Designer at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP

I would highly recommend. I learned a lot and got a very special experience. Mo was an excellent advisor. And Ekaterina and Emma made the group felt like a small family.

Janet Caroo

Managing Director at UWI

Really enjoyed the variety and calibre of the speakers. Needless to say that the organisation was spotless. Would recommend to anyone who is working or interested in innovation.

Kristina Brjazgunova

Business Designer at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP

PROGRAMME
COST
AND ACCOMMODATION

£2,200

Subject to 20% VAT; if you are paying as an individual living in Europe, UK or if you are a UK business.

Price includes:

all talks, office visits, discussions and workshops
exhibition entries and planned cultural activities during the programme
party/networking event at the end of the week
certificates

Price doesn't include banks transfer fees, food, travel, visa, accommodation or any other extra expenses.

We recommend staying in the Shoreditch area, as most of the sessions will be held there. It's the most creative part of London, so there will be a lot to see as well. Nearest tube stations is Old Street.

We partnered with 2 great hotels to give you the best deals, please use the links below:

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