Meet Our speakers and mentors
Michael Wolff
Wolff Olins
Michael Wolff
Wolff Olins
Co-founder of one of the world’s most iconic design companies – Wolff Olins – and recognised today as a leading thinker on brands. He designed Beatles’ album covers, BP's iconic logo, Shell's rebrand, and the identity for the London Borough of Camden. He’s also patron of the Inclusive Design Challenge at the RCA
Angie Yuanmalai
R/GA, ex-Huge
Angie Yuanmalai
R/GA, ex-Huge
Niharika Hariharan
McKinsey & Company
Niharika Hariharan
McKinsey & Company
Niharika Hariharan – Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company will identify how to build design-centric organisations discerning the ingredients to build a sustainable creative culture that facilities cross collaboration. Creating change that matters is at the core of McKinsey & Company.
Harry Pearce
Pentagram
Harry Pearce
Pentagram
Partner at Pentagram – the famous design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, Bob Gill, and Mervyn Kurlansky. They have designed packaging and products for many well known companies, such as Tesco, Boots, 3Com, Swatch and others.
Clare Devine
Design Council
Clare Devine
Design Council
Clare Devine – Director of Architecture and the Built Environment, at Design Council discusses improving people’s lives through the use of design. Design Council works with local authorities across the country to help create better quality, prosperous places. They help grow businesses, improve the built environment, and transform public services.
Jagdish Sihra
British Airways
Jagdish Sihra
British Airways
Former Design Manager at British Airways, who was responsible for the strategy and implementation of multitude of design solutions, from small-scale products to large scale projects such as complete aircraft cabin refurbishment and BA lounges.
Alan Kitching
ALAN KITCHING
Alan Kitching
ALAN KITCHING
Graphic designer, typographer, letterpress printmaker and teacher, internationally renowned for his expressive use of letterpress type processes. Among his clients: Dazed & Confused, Guardian, Tate Gallery, BFI.
Mike Trow
British Vogue
Mike Trow
British Vogue
Having completed a degree in philosophy, Mike Trow started out in fashion working on Bizarre magazine as photo editor and photographer. He has been the picture editor of British Vogue 2005-2018 – responsible for commissioning, production and art direction of most of the portraits, reportage and house shoots of the magazine.
James Fooks-Bale
Monotype
James Fooks-Bale
Monotype
Based in London, James oversees the development of Monotype’s brand as it's Senior Director of Brand. Prior to Monotype, James spent the best part of a decade working in the design studios of Burberry, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney. The team have been recognised by various organisations such as the European Design Awards, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, D&AD, and the AIGA.
Jonathan Barnbrook
Barnbrook Design
Jonathan Barnbrook
Barnbrook Design
Jonathan Barnbrook is one of the most famous British graphic designers and typographers. He is best known for designing David Bowie’s album Heathen in 2002 and collaboration with Damien Hirst. Currently, he runs his own studio Barnbrook Design which he founded in 1990.
Conlan Normington
FutureDeluxe
Conlan Normington
FutureDeluxe
Conlan Normington has worked as a motion designer in brand for the past 8 years. Learning from some of the best in the field at Interbrand and FutureBrand in Australia. Conlan then freelanced for brand agencies around the world including Superunion, Saffron, Landor and many others. Conlan is currently Brand/Motion Designer at FutureDeluxe in London, working with an incredible team of designers, creative technologists and animators to create innovative brand expressions across any platform. His work has been awarded at D&AD, Cannes Lions, ADC One Show & British Arrows and in 2019, he received a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Ab Rogers
Ab Rogers Design
Ab Rogers
Ab Rogers Design
Ab Rogers Design (ARD) is a London studio working on a range of projects across the cultural, hospitality, retail, and work sectors around the world. Among their clients are Tate Modern, Pizza Express, Showstudio, Chelsea House and others. Ab Rogers, the founder of ARD, will give a talk called '25 Objects 25 Years'.
USTWO
Digital Design Studio
USTWO
Digital Design Studio
Ustwo is a London-based digital design studio that creates and brings their own successful products to market. They are best known for its breakout mobile hit, Monument Valley — but the company is also an accomplished design studio with clients including Lush, Adidas, Jaguar Land Rover and many others. They will give a talk about automotive UX and go behind the scenes of their most successful projects.
Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell
Pentagram
Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell
Pentagram
Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell are the newest additions to Pentagram's partners. Coming from a graphic design and technology background they have a broad and multi-disciplinary approach to design and branding. In addition to their commercial work they produced self-initiated projects which have been shown at various exhibitions.
Yasmin Borain
Publicis Sapient
Yasmin Borain
Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering. Yasmin, Creative Director will show how she drives the realisation of future-focused concepts and experiences.
Alexander Grünsteidl
SENSESatelier, ex-Method
Alexander Grünsteidl
SENSESatelier, ex-Method
Alexander leads the Interaction Design team at Method in London. His expertise lies in understanding and creating the complete product ranges from uncovering user needs, crafting interface behaviours, and managing usability
Steve Buzz Pearce
Monday.com, ex-TravelPerk, ex-Skyscanner
Steve Buzz Pearce
Monday.com, ex-TravelPerk, ex-Skyscanner
Skyscanner is one of the biggest websites that enables people to compare flights, hotels and car hire. Steve Pearce, Global Head of Design, will give a talk called The New Renaissance. He describes himself as having the mind of an engineer and the heart of an artist and since the dawn of the internet he’s lovingly crafted digital products that people actually use and
Diamond Ho
Diamond Ho
Diamond is focused on building and useful product experiences from the News Feed team. Previously, it shipped multiple hardware products with Logitech as a UX designer. Diamond will talk about the secret recipe to design sprints and how can you make the process creative, fun and effective.
Mark Bain
Red&White Studio
Mark Bain
Red&White Studio
Mark Bain is a Canadian designer, currently living and working in London, and is a member of the design team at Red&White Studio. Prior to moving to the UK, he worked at Bruce Mau Design in Toronto, where he was part of the team that created Unilever's current identity.
Jesse Asjes
On, ex-Nike
Jesse Asjes
On, ex-Nike
Jesse Asjes is a developer of wearable, innovative and technical knitwear products.
She was a Flyknit Design Innovation Programmer at Nike. She is a developer of wearable, innovative and technical knitwear products. She explores the endless opportunities of creating fabric for application throughout different knitting techniques. The power of her diverse background provide the tools to think within a wide range of textile use.
Kevin Yuen
Spotless
Kevin Yuen
Spotless
Designing for calm is something that motivates Spotless Service Design Director, Kevin Yuen. He shares how Spotless adopts techniques to provide clarity and space in their design work, and continue this principle into project communications to 'one-pagers'. Spotless empowers people to deliver innovation that matters.
Andy Thornton
Clearleft
Andy Thornton
Clearleft
Clearleft are strategic design partners. They use research, design and strategy to enable innovation, deliver products and services, build design capability and transform organisations. Andy Thornton, shares how to embed a design system and quantify design capability.
Kirsty Mitchell
Kirsty Mitchell Photography
Kirsty Mitchell
Kirsty Mitchell Photography
World famous photographer, best known for her series 'Wonderland', featured by BBC, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and many others. She is also Nikon UK Ambassador, won numerous competitions, including LensCulture Grand Prize and International Photography award.
Daniel Hirschmann
Hirsch & Mann
Daniel Hirschmann
Hirsch & Mann
Hirsch & Mann is a design and technology agency with a mission to create memorable experiences for brands, retail and cultural spaces. Daniel Hirschmann, Co-founder will be explaining how to create an emotional connection through memorable experiences
David Pearson
Penguin Books
David Pearson
Penguin Books
The man who made series design fashionable (and profitable) at Penguin is also a publisher who relishes the ‘big puzzle’ of books. He has designed typographic covers for dystopian fiction, political essays and dictionaries; was named one of Britain’s top 50 designers by The Guardian; been awarded a yellow pencil by D&AD and two best in books in the CR Annual.
Daisy O'Reilly-Weinstock
Good Innovation
Daisy O'Reilly-Weinstock
Good Innovation
Good Innovation is a specialist innovation company that work with people around the world. They work with leading charities, local authorities, government departments and companies with a conscience. Daisy, Senior Innovation Consultant will talk about how to work with problems that matter to help organisations that do good to grow.
Cenydd Bowles
NowNext, ex-Twitter
Cenydd Bowles
NowNext, ex-Twitter
UX Director at Twitter, digital product design consultant with thirteen years’ experience helping companies see the benefits of good design. Previously worked as senior user experience designer at renowned consultancy Clearleft.
Lola Oyelayo
Head
Lola Oyelayo
Head
Head is an award-winning digital agency with a rapid, agile approach to innovation. Lola Oyelayo, Director of UX and Strategy has a wealth of experience as a UX specialist and she always ensures user-centered research and design are at the centre of all of their projects. She will run a workshop called 'Making space for creativity in an agile world’.
Rob Howsam
Purpose
Rob Howsam
Purpose
Founding partner and Executive Creative Director at Purpose. He has over twenty years experience in brand building; specialising in brand strategy, brand identity and communication design.
Marie-Thérèse Cassidy
FutureBrand
Marie-Thérèse Cassidy
FutureBrand
FutureBrand unites experts in strategy, design, innovation and experience to harness the power of brand for growth. Their clients include Nespresso, Cadillac, Nike and Danone. Executive Creative Director, Marie-Thérèse Cassidy, will share her ideas on the challenges & opportunities we face designing consumer & service brands in and for an ever more connected world.
Harri Nieminen
Stockmann
Harri Nieminen
Stockmann
Harri is the Service Design Director at Kuudes designing meaningful concepts that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Previously he worked at OP Financial Group, where he had a team of 22 service designers – maybe the biggest in-house team in Finland. He speaks frequently about design and customer experience in different kind of events and is active on social media.
Ben Langsfeld & Marla Moore
BUCK
Ben Langsfeld & Marla Moore
BUCK
With the growing need for brand expression across myriad platforms, BUCK is consistently being asked to provide systemic thinking for illustration, design, and, most importantly, for motion. Our brand work goes beyond the typical touch points of look and feel to structure how brands come to life through movement. Ben and Marla will share how systemic brand thinking can cross cultural boundaries to define the world’s most impactful illustration and motion languages.
Jamie Crummie
Too Good To Go
Jamie Crummie
Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go are leading a food waste revolution - an app that enables consumer to purchase leftover food from local businesses at a fraction of the selling price. Co-founder and Director Jamie Crummie discusses the process and importance of fighting food waste at scale.
Robin Wong
BT
Robin Wong
BT
BT Service Design Principal, Robin Wong demonstrates how to connect the dots between design and business and customer outcomes, and showcase a framework you can use to maximise the impact of design. BT is one of the world's leading communications services companies.
Joanna Brassett
intO
Joanna Brassett
intO
Joanna Brassett, Founding Director of intO is an expert in combining design research with social science and strategic innovation. The intO studio research people’s attitudes and behaviour in their local language, developing strategies for businesses and organisations within the context of cultural influences, regional trends and wider worldwide patterns.
Jonny Burch
Progression
Jonny Burch
Progression
Progression is the first ever design skills framework, allowing you to save time, money and your team. With your career ladder and the app's rock-solid skills definitions, your team will know where they stand, and how to get where they want to go. Jonny Burch will talk about how to empower your design team to grow.
Dem Gerolemou
DeepMind
Dem Gerolemou
DeepMind
DeepMind is the world leader in AI research and its application for positive impact. Their mission is to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any problem. Dem Gerolemou talks about taking a holistic approach to problem solving, and what this looks like in practice.
Morgane Peng
Societe Generale
Morgane Peng
Societe Generale
Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. They combine financial strength, proven expertise in innovation, strategy of sustainable growth and a commitment to the positive transformations of society and the economy. Morgane Peng talks about how she is taking their product and UX design practices to the next level.
Hem Patel
Signal Noise
Hem Patel
Signal Noise
Signal Noise create experiences that persuade, inspire and excite their customers towards their ambitions. Shaped by their own Data-Design philosophy - a compelling new approach for building products, telling stories and imagining new futures. Hem Patel and Christian Thümer will talk about how they are reinventing how people see and use data.
Jenna Smith
UserZoom
Jenna Smith
UserZoom
UserZoom helps businesses get the insights they need to deliver highly intuitive user-friendly solutions, using agile, feedback-based design methodologies. They make user research a standard practice in the design process, applying their research software and services. As Global Director of Research Strategy & Operations Jenna knows that UX Research is never pretty and shares why that's not a bad thing. Along with Lee Cooper, VP UX Research they'll demonstrate how to overcome the constraints of perfect UX research.
Alice Cappo
Phantom
Alice Cappo
Phantom
Phantom is an independent, digitally-led creative agency with London and Auckland. They adapt and evolve, collaborating with brands and craft business-transforming solutions that change the game and perform to extraordinary levels. Alice Cappo explores how Phantom uses technology to create meaningful experiences.
Jan Struek
Trainline
Jan Struek
Trainline
How do you design data-driven products at pace? Jan Srutek, Lead Product Designer discusses how Trainline combines multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative insight to inform its product design decisions. Trainline is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide. People can seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place and offer customers the best price for their journey and smart, real-time travel information on the go.
Nat Buckley
Bulb
Nat Buckley
Bulb
Nat Buckley, Lead Designer at Bulb demonstrates DIY Design Systems in an interactive workshop. Bulb is a startup energy supplier that provides 100% renewable electricity and gas to homes across the UK. They make energy simpler to manage through their easy to use digital counter parts.
Eva and Marta Yarza
Yarza Twins
Eva and Marta Yarza
Yarza Twins
How do you get inspired in unconventional ways? Creative Directors Eva Yarza and Marta Yarza share how local farms and old bread factories can inspire to create good design. Yarza Twins is a multidisciplinary arts and design studio that try to reinvent visual language through a different design process. They were awarded a D&AD Pencil in Packaging Design, 2018 and was selected as 1 of the 15 most exciting designers under 30 by Print Magazine, 2016.
Mike Reed
Reed Words
Mike Reed
Reed Words
Visual identity is important for a brand but what about the verbal identity? Mike Reed, Founder of Reed Words talks about brand’s tone of voice. Reed Words is a team of writers, working with clients across the world to build their brands through language. They work on the tone of voice, verbal identity, guidelines and training as well as write memorable campaigns and help develop brand names. They have worked with some of the worlds biggest brands such as Disney, Barbican, Virgin and more.
Greg Niemand and Evan Gildersleeve
Mount Audio
Greg Niemand and Evan Gildersleeve
Mount Audio
The look and feel of a brand is important but what about the way it sounds? Mount Audio Creative Directors Greg and Evan, uncover about the importance of sound within a brands identity. Mount Audio is a creative sound studio specialising in original composition and sound design for motion. With a passion for process, they are commissioned by the world's leading visual artists and have worked with companies such as Bose, BAFTA, Footlocker and more.
Ilaria Squicciarini
Depop
Ilaria Squicciarini
Depop
Depop is a social marketplace where over 13M people go to buy, sell and discover unique items. You can discover creativity, sell your clothes, share style and meet the Depop community, all from the comfort of your phone. Their mission is to empower fashion creatives, offering them with a platform that celebrates their individuality. Ilaria Squicciarini, Brand Marketing Manager; Emma Love, Senior Production Manager; Christianah Jones, Social Media Manager and Octavia Pendrill-Adams, Art Director Depop talks about the importance of community when building a brand.
Campbell Butler
Lovework, ex-Design Studio
Campbell Butler
Lovework, ex-Design Studio
Campbell is cofounder of Lovework Studio with Robyn Butler. It’s a new studio based in Brisbane that is focused on designing brands and digital experiences that people love. It combines brand strategy with graphic power. Their teams are made from an international network of strategists, designers, artists, animators, coders and photographers that can solve any brand challenge, in any timezone.
Campbell has 18 years of international design experience and has worked in some of the worlds leading branding agencies. He was previously the leading Creative Director of DesignStudio London for four years. He was responsible for setting the creative vision, inspiring clients and expanding the team (now 85+ staff). Before DS Campbell was Design Director at Wolff Olins for seven years. He led the charge for digital and experiential design and worked on a wide range of massive projects from telcos to technology companies.
Campbell's projects at DesignStudio include One Football, Arc, The Out, GetYourGuide, Alan, OLX, Scout 24, Panasonic, Virgin, World Athletics, Riot Games and Depop. Before DesignStudio, Campbell led branding projects at Wolff Olins for Skype, EE, Oi, Telia, Orange, Hive, Meraas and PwC
David Dalziel
Dalziel & Pow
David Dalziel
Dalziel & Pow
David Dalziel, Creative Director is a founder of Dalziel & Pow. Dalziel & Pow is a leading, creative agency aiming to create the world’s favourite, consumer-centric brand experiences. They define, design and bring brands to life through physical and digital experiences using their expertise across strategy, branding, communications, environments and digital.
Georgia Fendley
Construct
Georgia Fendley
Construct
Georgia Fendley has created new visual identities and positioning for luxury hotels, fashion and food brands. She was also brand director at Mulberry from 2008-2013 and last year, launched her own fashion label with former colleague and fashion designer Emma Hill. In her talk she shares Construct's unique approach including the importance of the depth of understanding, commercial, cultural and political that the agency bring to every project, using examples to illustrate this and demonstrate how this influences project outcomes.
Matt Rice
Sennep
Matt Rice
Sennep
Is user experience the branding for the digital space? Matt Rice, Founding Partner & Creative Director discusses this topic.
Sennep is an interactive design studio that provides a tailored approach when delivering smart digital products and experiences. Matt Rice, Founding Partner & Creative Director has worked with clients like The Guardian, Sky, Elton John and more over his eighteen year career, and will be talking about user experience and how it’s the branding for the digital space.
Melissa Cain
McCann London
Melissa Cain
McCann London
McCann London is apart of McCann Worldgroup, it is one of the largest advertising agencies in the UK with extensive experience of building and developing brand ideas. They're home to some of the world’s most famous brands including MasterCard, L’Oréal, American Airlines and Xbox. Melissa Cain, Creative Director shares the process for building brand love.
Jon Cockley
Handsome Frank
Jon Cockley
Handsome Frank
How do you pick the perfect illustrator for your brand? Co-founder Jon Cockley explains how Handsome Frank match makes the perfect illustrator for every project. Handsome Frank is an illustration agency which launched in 2010, they now represent 30 illustrators, spread across five continents and working with some of the biggest brands and agencies in the world like Chanel, The Guardian, John Lewis, GQ and more.
Richard Roberts
Jason Bruges Studios
Richard Roberts
Jason Bruges Studios
Richard Roberts, Managing and Design Director at Jason Bruges Studio share the future of experiences and how his team creates unique installations for various brands. Jason Bruges Studio comprises of architects, artists, lighting designers, industrial designers and visualisers as well as specialists in electronics, programming and project management. They’ve created one off spectacles for museums and galleries such as Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate and Natural History Museum as well as an epic urban-scale intervention for Hull 2017 in which industrial robots performed unique choreographies with light.
Moe Krimat
Seen Displays
Moe Krimat
Seen Displays
As consumers continue to influence the purpose of a brand’s existence, Moe Krimat shares Seen Displays’ human-centric approach and proven framework to future-proof the retail experience, shedding light on the emerging attitudes in Generation Z and their impact on the future of retail.
Tom Castle
Futurice
Tom Castle
Futurice
“Data is the new oil’, or so the saying goes. We hear a lot about the value of data in organisations, we also hear a lot about the ethics and implications for its misuse and challenges getting positive ROI. Futurice introduces tools and frameworks to help their clients get their heads around this new data dynamic and better explore opportunities for data and AI in their business.
Sandeep Raithatha
Wayra
Sandeep Raithatha
Wayra
Wayra's Head of Engagement is passionate about championing start-up innovation into corporates. Wayra is a world-leading start-up accelerator programme powered by Telefonica. Since 2012, it has helped more than 160 British and Irish start-ups take their businesses to the next level, helping them raise over $150m in third-party funding. Sandeep explains how companies can create startup ecosystems that will deliver real commercial value.
Sam Brown
Doteveryone
Sam Brown
Doteveryone
Doteveryone is the responsible technology think tank, fighting for better tech, for everyone. Responsible innovation is at the core of their practice. Sam Brown leads a highly interactive workshop where participants will carry out Doteveryone's new agile practice that encourages participants to take a values-driven approach to product design and consider the intended and unintended consequences of their products.
Jonathan Legge
&Open
Jonathan Legge
&Open
Hyper-personalisation is a fallacy. The future of any business operating at scale is about taking care to prioritise the human experience. &Open creates gifting experiences that forge lasting relationships between brands and their customers - gifts which are personal, not personalised.
Lydia Howland
Deliveroo
Lydia Howland
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is an app that over five years has transformed the way consumers use food delivery; ensuring that they have access to the best of the food-scene, no matter where they live. How is it possible to deliver consistent user experiences in global markets? Lydia Howland from Deliveroo's Experience Team shares how they approach the challenge of scaling consistency in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Antony Parham
Imagination
Antony Parham
Imagination
Antony is a hands-on strategic Executive Creative Director at Imagination, working with some of the world’s biggest brands and leading industry figures, thinkers and creative teams. His experience has taken award winning creative pedigree to the nuances of many global markets including Europe, Russia, China, Middle East and India.
Claire Campion & Ellen Turnill Montoya
Anyways Creative
Claire Campion & Ellen Turnill Montoya
Anyways Creative
At Anyways Creative the team adapt their working process according to the brief, the brand and the wider cultural context; this is how they stand apart from traditional agencies. Senior Creatives Claire and Ellen will talk about the importance of adaptability throughout the creative process. From the way you structure a project, to who you work with to bring it to life, how it lives in the world and even the way you approach that client/agency relationship.
Bianca Berning
Dalton Maag
Bianca Berning
Dalton Maag
Bianca is a creative based at the intersection of typography, type design and technology. She has over 8 years experience working with some of the most respected global design agencies and the world’s leading brand owners. She put her creative expertise to work by combining strategic and commercial objectives to get to the core of a company’s culture and help them find their very own tone of voice.
Asa Cook
Intertype Studio
Asa Cook
Intertype Studio
According to research, people are now so overwhelmed with information that we now officially have attention spans shorter than that of a goldfish. Asa Cook, Creative director and founder of Intertype studio, will talk about how creativity can cut through to create memorability for brands, sharing examples of his work from his 18 years at leading brand design agency, Design Bridge.
Jeremy Lindley
Diageo
Jeremy Lindley
Diageo
Jeremy is passionate about the way design can connect on an emotional level with consumers and about consistently delivering the highest standards of ideas and execution. He is responsible for Design across Diageo’s current brands and new products worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Board Director of the Design Business Association and part of the Design Commission that advises the UK government on design policy.
Sean Thomas
Jones Knowles Ritchie
Sean Thomas
Jones Knowles Ritchie
Jones Knowles Ritchie has been reigniting some of the world’s most well-known brands for over 30 years. From Budweiser to Burger King, Dunkin’ to Heinz, Snickers to The National Lottery – but how do you ensure these legacy brands stay relevant for today? Executive Creative Director Sean Thomas shares how JKR designs brands that stay true to their core but continually evolve to engage consumers through identity and experience.
Sarah Richards
Content Design London
Sarah Richards
Content Design London
Content Design London apply user-centred techniques to create interfaces, written content and publishing strategies that work. Founder Sarah Richards will demonstrate real-world examples of how a single word can break a service how preconception, belief and subconscious language affects behaviour and how measuring intention will give you much better success and value criteria for your content.
Kristof Goossens
Made By Many
Kristof Goossens
Made By Many
How do you build data driven products? Magic? A few data scientists? Kristof Goossens, Product Designer at Made by Many will share what they learned building and launching a data-driven product from scratch for Carlsberg.
Dan Makoski
Lloyds Banking Group
Dan Makoski
Lloyds Banking Group
Dan Makoski is an executive who believes in the power of Design to foster healthy habits, helping us end the day a bit better than it started. He is Chief Design Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, leading a multi-disciplinary human-centered team with the singular goal of helping Britain prosper through empathetic and courageous design.
James Greenfield
Studio Koto
James Greenfield
Studio Koto
Studio Koto envision, design and build brands across platforms both digital and physical. James Greenfield founded Studio Koto along with Jowey Roden and Caroline Matthews in 2015 to intersect the world of brand and product.
Mazy Burns
Dennis
Mazy Burns
Dennis
Dennis are dedicated to growing Britain’s best loved media brands, restlessly innovating across different platforms to bring audiences new sources of inspiration, information and entertainment. Mazy will share the ins and outs of building an effective UXD team & process for commercial online media.
Katie Wishlade
Clearleft
Katie Wishlade
Clearleft
Katie shapes, defines and designs digital services. She specialises in defining the proposition for digital platforms and then ensuring that the design and implementation does this proposition justice. A visual and intuitive thinker, Katie likes to quickly visualise concepts in sketch form and then iterate on those concepts in response to user and stakeholder feedback. She's an expert in using graphic facilitation and storyboarding to quickly capture and communicate the essence of an idea or concept.
Clara Gaggero Westaway
Special Projects
Clara Gaggero Westaway
Special Projects
Designer and inventor Clara Gaggero Westaway is leading the search for ways in which technology can feel human and be accessible to all. Working at the intersection of innovation, design and ethnography, her award-winning studio is pioneering new ways of enhancing the unquantifiable aspects of life: empathy, wellbeing, and delight, with meaningful design and invention. Her studio's combination of a unique methodology and user-led intuition is demonstrated in deep-dive case studies of some of their most groundbreaking projects.
Antonio Nardi
The Sound Agency
Antonio Nardi
The Sound Agency
Antonio Nardi is the Director of Design at The Sound Agency, a leading company in sound branding and sonification of public spaces founded by Julian Treasure, five-time TED speaker and world expert in sound and communication. Working across the globe for clients like Harrods, Honda, Majid Al Futtaim, HBO, and IKEA, The Sound Agency have consistently improved customer engagement, customer experience, and brand value.
Johanna Drewe
Studio Output
Johanna Drewe
Studio Output
Johanna is an inspirational leader and a thoughtful, inquisitive Creative Director. Her knowledge of branding combines with an understanding of the digital landscape to create unique and powerful brand experiences which reach deep into products.
She leads the creative team on a mission to push the boundaries of projects, ensuring brands are distinct and memorable across any platform or interaction. Recent highlights include rebranding Mixcloud, defining digital design languages for Auto Trader, Equals and Monzo Business, alongside unique digital experiences for The Mill and J.K. Rowling's Pottermore.
With 16 years in the industry, Johanna is keen to share her learnings, process and experiences. She’s spoken at design events across the UK and is a guest lecturer at London Universities LCC and London Met.
Carolyn Chmielewski
Spotify
Carolyn Chmielewski
Spotify
Passionate about understanding users and focused on creating a positive user experience across multiple platforms, Carolyn specialises in ethnographic research, usability testing and the connection between usability and brand experience. As the Senior UX Researcher at Spotify, she conducts ethnographic observation and other qualitative research methods that provide a deep understanding of users' behaviours.
Dines
Studio BLUP
Dines
Studio BLUP
Dines is a award winning Creative Director and international speaker. He received his BA Hons in Graphic and Typography Design at Southampton Solent University in 2007 before pursuing a career in digital design. He is currently active as Co-founder and Creative Director of award-winning design company Studio BLUP.
Rob Self-Pierson
Verb
Rob Self-Pierson
Verb
Join Rob Self-Pierson as he reveals how to create and tell a story that moves your audience and inspires deeper connections. In this fast-paced, hands-on workshop, Rob will share how the most successful storytellers—from Hemingway to Honda—win attention, provoke emotion and leave people wanting more. Prepare for a steep dive into character, conflict, action and transformation.
Charly Lester
Lumen
Charly Lester
Lumen
Charly Lester is an award-winning entrepreneur and marketeer. She is the Co-Founder and CMO of Lumen, the first app-only dating platform for over 50s. She was named one of the Women of the Future in 2018, Women in Tech 100 in 2019, and she won a Stevie Award for Entrepreneurship for her work on Lumen.
Luke Weston
Household design
Luke Weston
Household design
Household is an award-winning creative agency specialising in brand and experience design on a mission is to create better futures for brands and their fans.
David Jenkinson
Pearlfisher
David Jenkinson
Pearlfisher
David is a partner at Pearlfisher. He is used to constantly pushing and challenging what is possible creatively and is the ethos he nurtures with the design team at Pearlfisher. From beer to transport and education, his design career has taken him into very diverse industries and brought him face-to-face with diverse creative scenarios. His mission and mantra have always been – and remain – the same, to create brands with a clear and compelling central idea that exceeds client expectations and makes the change they want to see.
At work or play, his visual antenna is always finely tuned and I am constantly seeking out new inspiration in the world around me.
Natalia Christina
The Digital Fairy
Natalia Christina
The Digital Fairy
Natalia is a Brand and Communications Strategist with ten years of hybrid experience across internationally renowned brands, publishers and agencies — leading teams or working on a consultancy basis.
Rebecca Swift
Getty Images
Rebecca Swift
Getty Images
Rebecca joined the photography industry over 20 years ago and was one of the founding members of the creative research team at Getty Images, introducing visual research methodology to the industry.
Today, Rebecca leads the Creative Insights team who set the content strategy for Getty Images, through researching and analysing trends in visual communication. This knowledge helps inform Creative Insights – an online destination from Getty Images that gives behind the lens access, authentic thought-provoking imagery and a curated glimpse of today’s visual trends. Rebecca also runs global research projects investigating the future of visual communications and has published many trend reports.
Rebecca lectures at conferences and seminars across the globe and guest lectures at universities across Britain. She has sat on the judging panel for most of Europe’s significant photography, design and advertising awards.
In 2020, Rebecca was recognized as one of AdAge’s “20 Women to Watch” and is Campaign magazine’s Female Frontier honouree. She was awarded the “Most Influential Leader in UK Visual Media” in 2020.
Marc Maleh
Huge Inc
Marc Maleh
Huge Inc
Marc Maleh currently serves as MD, Technology at Huge. In this role he focuses on leveraging new technologies to create intelligent and immersive experiences for clients company-wide leveraging AI, mixed reality, 5G, crypto and as well as newly emerging technology trends. Marc’s passion is to understand the potential of new technologies and inspire, humanize, and enable teams to adapt them. He is a deep believer in the power of technology to create products that not only solve client’s business needs but create value for the end users. Marc has been both Jury President and a Juror at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity and has spoken at Fast Company Innovation Festival, Venturebeat AI Conference, NYC Media Lab, General Assembly, Parsons and Montana State University and served as an adjunct professor at NYU.
Matt Hexemer
Huge Inc
Matt Hexemer
Huge Inc
Matt is an Executive Design Director at Huge Inc. where he connects vision to execution for intelligent products and environments. Matt has built multi-disciplinary teams for over 20 yrs, and is seasonal faculty in design strategy at The Institute Without Boundaries. Matt also works with brands like Nike, Red Bull, Google, and Procter & Gamble to reimagine retail and workplace experiences. He has launched over 100 consumer products to market for brands like Thule, Land Rover, and Salomon. He has been awarded over a dozen patents and design awards including a Red Dot for the Kobo Arc E-reader and a Silver Pencil for the Scott Sports Aero Helmet. Always insightful and dedicated to the end user, Matt is at his best when connecting the dots between brands, technology, and people.
David Feldman
Social Chain
David Feldman
Social Chain
David is one of London's most well-rounded Creative Directors. He has worked at Facebook twice, been a Creative Director for Netflix, launched the UK's first Amazon TikTok Original Series, created award-winning campaigns for YouTube and hit the front page of Reddit 4 times in 24 hours.
Gemma Ballinger
Studio Output
Gemma Ballinger
Studio Output
Gemma is a Managing Director and Partner at Output. Having experience throughout the business, she now runs it, building the strategy, new business and client relationships. With years of experience in broadcast, entertainment and publishing, she has delivered branding, design and digital to some of our most exciting clients, including BBC, Penguin, Pottermore, Vodafone Foundation, Merlin, Science Museum and Warner Bros. She's particularly focused on ensuring to set a strong vision for the future, have an engaged and happy team and continue to build an agency people want to work with.
Harry Ashbridge
Monzo Bank
Harry Ashbridge
Monzo Bank
Harry is the Head of Writing & Customer Experience at Monzo Bank, where he established a writing culture and has built the writing team from scratch. He is a writer, trainer and language strategist. He has trained thousands of people to be more confident and effective with words, including lawyers, engineers, journalists, bankers, brand people and writers from agencies like Wieden+Kennedy, M&C Saatchi and Ogilvy. He believes that better writing can measurably improve every single aspect of a business, inside and out, and I spend my days trying to prove it.
Rob Cahn
Bob W
Rob Cahn
Bob W
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.
Sapna Maheswari
ThoughtWorks UK
Sapna Maheswari
ThoughtWorks UK
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.
Jeremy Slater
Bob W
Jeremy Slater
Bob W
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.
Megha Wadhawan
TPXimpact
Megha Wadhawan
TPXimpact
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
Anna van der Togt
Livework studio
Anna van der Togt
Livework studio
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.
Ben Reason
Livework studio
Ben Reason
Livework studio
A founder of Livework with 20 years experience with a wide range of public, and private sector organisations. He leads the team on projects that bring a customer view to major challenges and opportunities in industries including healthcare, financial services, public transport, public services and manufacturing.
Bas Raijmakers
STBY
Bas Raijmakers
STBY
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.
Glenn Garriock
Logic + Rhythm
Glenn Garriock
Logic + Rhythm
Glenn Garriock is a Principal Product Designer at Logic + Rhythm currently living and working in Germany. Since 2009 he's worked in various fields such as branding, print, packaging, web & user interface design, as well as cultural & social communication. He co-founded the design blog FormFiftyFive in 2007 which showcases the best creative work from around the globe that recently merged with Made by Folk.
Louise Windo
ustwo
Louise Windo
ustwo
Louise Windo is a Strategy Principal at ustwo, where she leads the discovery of new digital products from vision setting, through to designing and delivering programmes for continuous testing and iteration in the wild. A make-test-learn approach to research is at the core of her toolkit for creating products that are both delightful and de-risked.
Sahil Sachdev
Founders Factory
Sahil Sachdev
Founders Factory
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.
Rochelle Williams
Elsewhen
Rochelle Williams
Elsewhen
Throughout her career Rochelle have striven to have a strong strategy and rationale behind every project she works on and decision she makes.
She currently achieves this by working as a digital product designer, where she uses service design, user research, behavioural psychology, workshop facilitation, information architecture and product strategy to connect the dots and enable the creation of truly valuable products for the business and end user.
Elsewhen is a digital product consultancy based in London, bringing consumer-grade CX to enterprise businesses, in Financial Services and beyond. Since its inception in London in 2011, Elsewhen has strived to provide a different approach to digital consultancy—one that combines strategy, design and engineering into one unified process. Today, Elsewhen is trusted by FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies to deliver best-in-class solutions into business-critical functions, end-to-end, for clients including Google, Mastercard, Microsoft, Inmarsat, Procter & Gamble, Citi, JCDecaux, Tesco, Pollen Street Capital, Bupa, and specialises in the financial services, data, banking and insurance sectors.
J. Paul Neeley
Parlia
J. Paul Neeley
Parlia
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.
Kota Kobayashi
Arrival
Kota Kobayashi
Arrival
Kota is an amazing Design Leader with 10+ years of experience across different projects. His work lies in the intersection of brand, product, and technology.
Arrival is a British electric vehicle manufacturer focused on creating zero-emission, human-centred solutions for cities.
Monique Bissell
Design Bridge
Monique Bissell
Design Bridge
Monique is heading up the growing Communications Design team at DesignBridge, a global design agency with 5 Studios around the world, founded in 1986 in London. She is working across many brands within the agency bringing brands to life beyond pack and logo, interrogating the why, what and how and finding creative solutions to creative puzzles.
Dave Blendis
DixonBaxi
Dave Blendis
DixonBaxi
Dave is Head of Strategy at DixonBaxi, a brand consultancy designing a better future, founded in 2001. They believe that in a world of rapid, constant change, there has never been a greater need to future-proof brands. DixonBaxi is trusted by Netflix, IMAX, Audible, AC Milan, AT&T, The Premier League and British Land, companies that seek to be bold and challenge convention.
Claire Langer
DixonBaxi
Claire Langer
DixonBaxi
Claire is a Senior Strategist at DixonBaxi, a brand consultancy designing a better future, founded in 2001. They believe that in a world of rapid, constant change, there has never been a greater need to future-proof brands. DixonBaxi is trusted by Netflix, IMAX, Audible, AC Milan, AT&T, The Premier League and British Land, companies that seek to be bold and challenge convention.
Jacob George
Founders Factory
Jacob George
Founders Factory
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.
Jason Bootle
Babylon
Jason Bootle
Babylon
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.
Remy Brooks
Future Platforms
Remy Brooks
Future Platforms
Remy is a Product Manager & Senior Strategist who is passionate about design, data, user insight and helping large organisations tackle complex digital challenges.
He has worked with clients including Google, HSBC, ERM & Pfizer.
For over 20 years, Future Platforms have delivered digital products and experiences, that users love and keep coming back to, for clients, such as FirstGroup, Domino’s Pizza, PSG, and more. Their bespoke digital experiences and services have transformed businesses and the lives of their users. The products they create serve hundreds of thousands of customers each day and result in over £1B in yearly revenue for our clients. We use our award-winning experience and proven expertise in technology solutions to drive eCommerce revenue, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce friction. Most recently, we were awarded the Mobile Marketing Brand of the Decade, Most Effective App, Biggest increase in ROI for a Mobile Campaign, as well as Digital Agency of the Year.
Greet Jans
Future Platforms
Greet Jans
Future Platforms
For over 20 years, Future Platforms have delivered digital products and experiences, that users love and keep coming back to, for clients, such as FirstGroup, Domino’s Pizza, PSG, and more. Their bespoke digital experiences and services have transformed businesses and the lives of their users. The products they create serve hundreds of thousands of customers each day and result in over £1B in yearly revenue for our clients. We use our award-winning experience and proven expertise in technology solutions to drive eCommerce revenue, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce friction. Most recently, we were awarded the Mobile Marketing Brand of the Decade, Most Effective App, Biggest increase in ROI for a Mobile Campaign, as well as Digital Agency of the Year.
Dani Sampson
Uncommon
Dani Sampson
Uncommon
Dani specialises in establishing unique approaches to market, brand identities and growth strategies for funded start-ups to accelerate their growth. She has also worked with larger, established businesses that require a pivot to future-proof their operations, reputation and relationship with their community.
Dr Kirk Barron
SkyArrival
Dr Kirk Barron
SkyArrival
Dr Kirk is an amazing UX leader with more than 17 years of experience.
Henrik Kubel
A2-TYPE
Henrik Kubel
A2-TYPE
Together with Scott Williams, Henrik Kubel established A2/SW/HK + A2-TYPE, an independent Design and Typography studio in London in 2000. The studio specialises in design, art direction and typeface design and works internationally with a wide range of clients. Kubel is the current national president of AGI in UK.
Katie Rose Thorne
Framestore
Katie Rose Thorne
Framestore
Katie, a Creative Director and integral member of Framestore's creative development team since 2014, plays a key role in shaping and executing projects across diverse platforms. Her focus revolves around conceptualizing and developing initiatives that enable globally recognized IPs and brands to share their narratives.
During her tenure at Framestore, Katie has demonstrated her expertise on numerous projects characterized by innovation. She has collaborated with prominent entities such as Manchester City, Volkswagen, Bompas & Parr, London & Partners, HBO, and Morgan Stanley, contributing to a range of immersive experiences. Most recently her work with HBO for the …And Just Like That immersive experience ‘Carrie’s Closet’ has earned a Clio award for Innovation.
Katie's motivation stems from the vast potential of innovative technologies. She actively employs technology to explore new frontiers and seeks inventive ways to integrate it seamlessly into storytelling across various formats, including installations, location-based experiences, and the realms of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.
Paz Martinez Capuz
Household
Paz Martinez Capuz
Household
Paz is a design director and accomplished graphic designer with experience across a range of sectors. With the ability to direct multidisciplinary teams in a creative environment within numerous projects.
Able to combine creative flair with business objectives in designing 360 brand experiences. Excellent creative direction skills and passionate designer. Actively seeking opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Angus McGuffin
Avery Dennison
Angus McGuffin
Avery Dennison
As a multidisciplinary creative, Angus partners with designers, writers, materials scientists, digital technology experts, sustainability specialists and business leaders from around the world to bring physical and digital experiences to life. A passionate brand storyteller and strategic thinker, he believes bold ideas crafted with business acumen and turned into impactful design experiences can inspire audiences, drive change and transform brands into powerful and valuable assets.
Rosie Isbell
Wise
Rosie Isbell
Wise
Rosie is a multi-disciplined Design leader specialised in the development of brand-led products and services. Internationally experienced in crafting solutions to complex social, business and cultural challenges through research, strategy and design. For over a decade Rosie has grown, managed and led multi-disciplinary design teams to launch new brands and products for organisations across the world.
Rosie is currently Group Design Lead at Wise where she leads design teams across Growth & Discovery squads. She has previously worked for design studios; Wolff Olins, R/GA, ustwo and frog for clients including: Google, Visa, BMW, Disney and Nike. Rosie is passionate about supporting emerging design talent and is a visiting tutor at the Arts University, Bournemouth.
Roscoe Williamson
MassiveMusic
Roscoe Williamson
MassiveMusic
As Global Creative Strategy and Innovation Director for MassiveMusic and their parent company Songtradr; Roscoe is one of the world's most respected experts on sonic branding. Roscoe works with brands around the world to help them leverage the power of music and sound through innovative, award-winning, creative and technological solutions. Roscoe has led sonic branding strategy for brands such as TikTok, Premier League, Colgate-Palmolive, eBay, Gymshark and The Wikipedia Foundation (Wikipedia).
Ed Trotter
MassiveMusic London
Ed Trotter
MassiveMusic London
Ed is Head of Business Development at MassiveMusic London, and has previously held planning roles at GroupM, Omnicom and Spotify. Ed works closely with brands to bring them into the world of sonic branding, and help inspire and educate people on it's benefits. Ed also lectures on sonic branding at London School of Economics as part of their brand management course.
Talia Cotton
Cotton.design
Talia Cotton
Cotton.design
Talia Cotton is a designer, coder, educator, and leading specialist in the intersection of branding and technology. She is the Founder & Creative Director of Cotton, an award-winning design and technology agency and consultancy. Prior to Cotton, Talia spearheaded the design and development of data-driven and algorithmic brand identities on two teams at Pentagram, working alongside design giants Michael Bierut and Giorgia Lupi.
Talia has received recognition from major design awards and publications such as The One Club, The TDC, Fast Co Design, and It's Nice That. Fast Company recently described her as “one of the leading graphic designers of the moment to embrace the possibilities of code.”
Lucia Turco
BP, ex-Babylon
Lucia Turco
BP, ex-Babylon
Lucia facilitates design development through human-centered research. She helps businesses tackle their diverse challenges and design meaningful experiences with a positive impact.
With 10+ years experience working across the public and private sectors on a mix of B2C and B2B projects, she collaborates closely with stakeholders at all levels to help organisations simplify complexity and focus their energy on what matters most.
She was previously Lead User Researcher at Babylon Health is a digital-first health service provider and value-based care company that combines an artificial intelligence powered platform with virtual clinical operations for patients. Patients are connected with health care professionals through its web and mobile application.
Kate Pincott
Cleo
Kate Pincott
Cleo
As a Product Design Manager at Cleo, Kate leads a team of talented designers to create engaging and impactful digital products that help people improve their financial health and well-being. She has over 10 years of experience in leading software design teams, working with world-class clients such as Ustwo, Barclays, Pentagram NY, and Meta LND.
She is also the CEO and Design Coach at Reality Prototyping, a platform that helps product designers unblock their careers by increasing their product influence, creative confidence, and intuition using reflexive frameworks.
She has founded four startups, curated a design talk series at the V&A museum, launched an art studio and trained as a career coach. Her practice covers the intersections between product strategy, user experience design, service design, design operations, workshop facilitation, and Ritual design. She offers remote product consultancy, mentorship, talks and coaching for product teams.
Valeria Adani
Projects by IF
Valeria Adani
Projects by IF
Valeria Adani is a Partner at Projects by IF, a strategy and design agency that specialises in trust. Drawing on her 12+ years of experience in product, service and organisation design, Valeria brings a human-centred perspective to data and technology. In her work at IF, she helps organisations increase trustworthiness in their products and services to drive adoption and growth. Before IF, Valeria was Head of Service Design at frog. She has worked as a service designer, facilitator and design thinking coach in design agencies & academic institutions in the UK, Italy and China.
Dev Morgan
Projects by IF
Dev Morgan
Projects by IF
Dev Morgan helps organisations grow their trustworthiness, avoid harms, and act responsibly through good practice. In the last 14 years he’s worked for startups, studios and large businesses, most recently in zero-to-one services for regulated industries like healthcare. He focuses on hype free approaches to complex problems.
Tim Smith
UXIXD
Tim Smith
UXIXD
Tim is the Founder and Director of user experience and interaction design agency UXIXD.
He is a multi-award-winning designer (Webbys, Lovies, Design Week, FWA, YCN, FastCo) with over 20 years experience in graphic, digital, interaction and user experience design and innovation. Tim is also a recognised thought leader in the design industry and has regular speaking slots at design events such as Web Summit, MWC, SXSW and Financial Times events.
Adam Morris
The Economist
Adam Morris
The Economist
Adam is the Head of Product Design and UX at The Economist. He's focussed on creating intuitive experiences that deliver The Economist's indispensable analysis and ideas for the world's most curious people.
As a designer and leader he cares about making products that drive change, growing people and applying process to make strategy real through design.
Before joining The Economist, he led the product design practice at strategic design studio Made by Many. He's launched products and services for companies such as BBC, ITV, Skype, Carlsberg, Cannes Lions, Gates Foundation, Finnair and Expedia.
Helen Fuchs
ustwo
Helen Fuchs
ustwo
Helen Fuchs is Executive Design Director of ustwo and leads a team of product and service designers across the London, New York, Malmö, Lisbon and Tokyo studios. With over 25 years of experience designing innovative digital experiences across sectors, she has always been motivated to create impactful work that gives people more agency in their daily lives, has a positive impact on society, and helps move businesses forward with confidence in their future.
Laurence Mencé
Found
Laurence Mencé
Found
Laurence Mencé (she/her) is a British-French motion designer working across branding, film, product & UX.
Macaila Vorster
Interbrand
Macaila Vorster
Interbrand
Macaila has over 13 years experience working with global clients across diverse sectors and channels. She is a hybrid creative, stretching her skills and thinking across multiple categories - corporate, consumer, strategic and user experience (both digital and physical). Her holistic approach brings big picture ideas, attention to detail and craftsmanship to every project. Macaila strongly believes in purpose-led and human-centric design, resulting in brands that are born from deep user insights and champion inclusive design. She is also meticulous about their real-world activation and loves the synergistic effect between brand and culture.
Oliver Winter
Seymourpowell
Oliver Winter
Seymourpowell
As a seasoned Senior Strategist and Designer specialising in Transport and Product Design, Oliver earned his Master's in Intelligent Mobility from the Royal College of Art. Rooted in human-centred and system-thinking approaches to design, he’s cultivated a unique set of tools and techniques, leveraging data and real insights to craft holistic user journeys and visionary concept directions for the future of products, transport, and services.
His career began with collaborative efforts with tech start-ups, where he played a pivotal role in developing innovative and educational products. Oliver's academic pursuits further honed his skills, and post-graduation, opportunities enabled him to delve into researching the evolving landscape of the transportation industry. During this phase, he collaborated with automotive brands and research facilities, contributing to the development of solutions that
sought to humanise autonomy.
Currently at Seymourpowell, Oliver channels his knowledge, diverse skill set, and passion for strategy into an array of projects. His involvement spans closely with all teams at Seymourpowell, as he diligently identifies, develops, and creates innovative solutions that elevate brands and enhance the lives of individuals, all guided by his human-centred and system-thinking philosophy.
Rae Dominique
Seymourpowell
Rae Dominique
Seymourpowell
Rae is a senior design and innovation strategist with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Management. He started his foray into innovation as an inventor at What If Innovation, where he specialised in consumer insight and experimentation. Rae also has experience in entrepreneurship- starting an experiences business for bars and nightclubs fresh out of university.
For now, in a effort to reduce the ever-rising impact on the environment, Rae has a keen interest in exploring ways we could manage and reuse our waste in a more environmentally safe manner.
Rita Faia Marques
Nesta
Rita Faia Marques
Nesta
Rita is a Collective Intelligence (CI) Designer at NESTA where she brings together large groups of people, data and technology to solve complex problems. Her work spans the fields of health, climate change and humanitarian aid. Prior to joining Nesta, she worked at Microsoft Research, where she specialised in designing AI systems with a focus on ethics and inclusivity. Rita led the design work of Microsoft's first 'Responsible AI' internal training and co-designed AI features with the blind community. Rita has an academic background in product and service design and is interested in leveraging technology to create better futures.
Jehangir Byramji
Lloyds Banking Group
Jehangir Byramji
Lloyds Banking Group
Jehangir leads a team with a remit to explore and experiment with emerging technologies that have the ability to drive business model innovation at Lloyds Banking Group. He previously developed LBG’s relationships with fintechs and early stage ventures.
Jehangir is a business builder with a background in strategy and innovation both in consultancy and in-house. Jehangir moved into corporate innovation, where he is a recognised thought leader who brings innovative solutions to life by applying strategic, evidence-based approaches to learn first-hand, reduce business risk and accelerate speed to market. Prior roles include Corporate Partner at StartupBootcamp and strategy consulting at Deloitte; he is also a Trustee of a local network of State schools and a mentor to start-ups and social enterprises.
Solveiga Pakštaitė
Mimica
Solveiga Pakštaitė
Mimica
Solveiga is an inventor and entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She invented Bump, a patented temperature-sensitive food spoilage indicator to radically reduce unnecessary food waste. Solveiga is the Founder & Director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also holds an Honorary Lectureship at UCL and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.
Orr Vinegold
Unrest
Orr Vinegold
Unrest
ORR VINEGOLD is the Co-Founder of the Unrest which has invested in 63 founders building environmental and social good startups with revenue potential of at least £100M. Following Reading at two Top 10 Business Schools he had a successful career in business with Proctor & Gamble and L’Oréal where he led over £30m of growth and 17 New Product Launches whilst heading a team of seven. He also against all odds secured a 30% vote share for the Labour Party and a +9.6% swing when standing as the Parliamentary Candidate in the 2017 UK General Election.
Simon Gough
Redfront
Simon Gough
Redfront
Simon is a service design consultant, facilitator and writer with clients ranging from FMCG companies to central government. Over the past decade he has focused on developing an expanded toolkit that brings together design thinking, systems thinking, data and economics, working on projects that combine environmental, social and technology themes. Most of his work involves helping to facilitate design processes and capabilities, from helping to create and grow new services and startups to building design capacity in large enterprises.
James Sullivan
Bitstamp
James Sullivan
Bitstamp
James is responsible for overseeing a multidisciplinary legal team at Monzo. With a career spanning over 20 years, James has worked across multiple sectors, notably FinTech, investment management, real estate, crowdfunding, and telecoms. He has been working in disruptive, fast-growth, early-stage companies since 2018, helping establish the infrastructure of an in-house team and working on solutions to help the legal teams scale.
Robyn Butler
Lovework Studio
Robyn Butler
Lovework Studio
Robyn works with companies to refine their purpose and design flexible brands that work in digital and physical environments. She loves collaborating with ambitious clients and other creatives to create brands with impact.
For the past 20 years She has worked across a diverse range of sectors from large corporate companies to start-ups, branded a film award, a global charity, a health partnership, a castle restaurant, a theatre production and a winning World Cup bid.
Cal Thompson
Headspace
Cal Thompson
Headspace
Cal is a design leader who champions human centered research and strategy within the elegant craft of design. They lead teams to build creative products and services that help humanity. They love brave designers who are unafraid to shift society and culture and do so with elegant digital + physical products and services.
At Headspace, Cal lead the product design & research teams: Product, UX, and service design + clinical and design research.
Dr. Lusine Tarkhanyan
Method
Dr. Lusine Tarkhanyan
Method
Scientist driven by a passion for turning ideas into data augmented digital experiences & products.
Lusine is a senior digital technology leader that advocates for a data-driven design philosophy that merges Design Thinking with Data Science to shape and monetize data for value creation. Her academic and professional career has followed a path from designing physical spaces to the frontiers of modern data-driven science, driven by a passion for the social implications of design practices.
Currently serving as the Head of Data Design practice at Method, she is accountable for executive management engagements, shaping data-driven digital strategies, and delivering transformation project portfolios. Her role entails harnessing the power of data to assess, prototype, and deploy cutting-edge technologies such as GenAI, ML, and Digital Twin, all aimed at driving substantial organizational value.
Claire Lorman
TCS Interactive
Claire Lorman
TCS Interactive
An industrial designer by trade, Claire now applies that skillset to the digital realm. With over 10 years of industry experience, she is particularly passionate about service design, design research and storytelling methods and practices. She has helped solve problems and bring about organizational change for clients such as facebook, AMEX, Verizon, Target, Deloitte, Under Armour and PepsiCo. She's also co-created an award winning Figma wireframing kit that democratizes design – with over 30k users and counting. Currently a Senior Designer at TCS Interactive (formerly w12 studios), she is helping to build and scale the NYC design studio.
Paddy Smith
Born Social
Paddy Smith
Born Social
Paddy Smith is the Creative Director at Born Social, an award-winning agency working with the UK's leading startups and small businesses, through to some of the world's biggest and most exciting brands.
Nellie Veltman
B&B Studio
Nellie Veltman
B&B Studio
Jono Holt
Otherway
Jono Holt
Otherway
Jane Austin
Digitas
Jane Austin
Digitas
Jane is a strategic, skilled leader with twenty years experience in zero to one product development, scaling start ups globally and digital transformation of legacy businesses. She specialises in product, design, and consumer strategy, product and service design, research, customer development, design systems and OKR setting.
Digitas, Part of Publicis Groupe, is an advertising agency, specialising in getting their clients future ready through our Experience Consulting, Products & Platforms, Customer Engagement and Digital Media capabilities.
Caroline Jacob
Seymourpowell
Caroline Jacob
Seymourpowell
Caroline's expertise lays in the treatment of waste materials conducive to social and sustainable design projects as well as in craft, material and colour generating fruitful experimentations and new material uses. She combines communication and technical know-how with problem solving skills to push the boundaries in every project she works on.
Matthew Jones
Accept & Proceed
Matthew Jones
Accept & Proceed
Matthew Jones is the Creative Director and a Partner at the award winning East London design studio Accept & Proceed. With a global client base they partner with visionaries people who hunger for radical ideas they are renowned for producing thoughtful work with both the analytics and aesthetic in mind.
Ian Ritchie
Jones Knowles Ritchie
Ian Ritchie
Jones Knowles Ritchie
In 1990, Ian co-founded design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR). Since then, he has been responsible for shaping the appearance of consumer packaged goods found in households around the world, working with businesses such as ABInBev, Mars, PepsiCo and Unilever.
Neil Cooper
Brilliant Basics
Neil Cooper
Brilliant Basics
Neil Cooper is Chief Design Officer at Brilliant Basics and leads the global design practice. He has over 20 years of experience and has worked with many of the world’s leading brands.
Marta Swannie
Superunion
Marta Swannie
Superunion
Marta is a Senior Creative Director with a focus on innovation. She has nearly 20 years of experience creating award-winning work for brands. She has created visual identities, communications, experiences, products, and services for some of the world's most exciting companies, including ESL, PlayStation, Red Bull, Orange, Sony, LEVEL, Tate, and the National Gallery.
Emma Barratt
Wolff Olins
Emma Barratt
Wolff Olins
Emma leads the creative charge at Wolff Olins London, guiding teams across multiple clients, whilst setting a creative vision for the studio. She brings deep experience in branding, motion, advertising, and digital experiences, helping Alibaba, Google, and Uber to bring new technology to the world.
Bidisha Sinha
Zaha Hadid Architects
Bidisha Sinha
Zaha Hadid Architects
Bidisha was born in Damascus and raised in Delhi. She joined ZHA in the summer of 2005 and has more than a decade of experience delivering international architectural projects across all stages from design concept through to completion. Bidisha also has extensive experience liaising with public authorities and project stakeholders on high-profile projects around the world.
Marina Willer
Pentagram
Marina Willer
Pentagram
Marina is a Pentagram Partner and Creative Director with a background in graphic design, branding, and filmmaking. She has led the design of many iconic brand identities such as Tate Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, Southbank Centre, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Enda Ridge
Enda Ridge
Enda works on Product Analytics at Google Geo and is the author of "Guerrilla Analytics – a practical approach to working with data". His previous role was Chief Data Scientist at Sainsbury's. He is an accomplished data scientist who sets up and grows data science teams to help businesses leverage data to stay competitive.
Matt Fenby-Taylor
ClearScore
Matt Fenby-Taylor
ClearScore
Matt is product leader who builds consumer and business-facing products and businesses in fast-moving markets. He is currently Chief Product Officer at ClearScore. In previous roles, he has built products for travelers at Skyscanner and for creators at SoundCloud.
Fura Johannesdottir
Huge
Fura Johannesdottir
Huge
With over 20 years of experience in the digital industry, Fura has worked on some of the industry’s most innovative digital campaigns, products and connected services. In her current role as Chief Design Officer at Huge, Fura is responsible for the agency’s design leadership across 13 international offices.
Laura Jordan Bambach
Grey London
Laura Jordan Bambach
Grey London
Laura is Chief Creative Officer at Grey London, and an award-winning creative with a long history of innovative commercial work. She is a former president of D&AD, has been named one of Britain’s most influential people within the Debrett’s 500 annual list, as well as scooped up Individual of the Year at the Dadi Awards. She is a firm believer in the power of creativity to make positive change.
Joel Bailey
EY Seren
Joel Bailey
EY Seren
Joel is a dedicated Director with over 20 years of experience in service design, systems thinking, and research, working to transform and improve services across sectors. He takes a very practical and hands-on approach to help clients with their most complex challenges so they can protect, optimise, grow and transform their businesses.
Divinia Knowles
ex-Mind Candy, Pact Coffee
Divinia Knowles
ex-Mind Candy, Pact Coffee
Divinia was one of the driving forces behind Mind Candy, transforming it from what was a small start-up based in Battersea, to a $250m company that has developed the global kids phenomenon Moshi Monsters. Previously COO for Pact Coffee, she currently works as a Leadership Coach with clients include Monzo, Bacardi, Bloom&Wild, Thiva, and Runway East.
Phill Burton
Bloom & Wild
Phill Burton
Bloom & Wild
Phill is an energetic, driven, and passionate startup leader. His expertise focuses on leadership, management, and scaling organisations. He is an active mentor in the London startup scene through Seedcamp and Tech Nation.
Elin Sjursen
Visa
Elin Sjursen
Visa
Grace Francis
Karmarama
Grace Francis
Karmarama
Grace has built a career at the intersection of product and marketing, working on commercial and creative projects for clients such as Adidas, Barclaycard, Coca-Cola, Disney, Doconomy, Ikea, Lego, and Universal Music Group. She has a passion for the ethics and empathy of design, and how technology is shaping humanity and intersectionality.
David Pratt
Checkout.com
David Pratt
Checkout.com
David is an accomplished global finance executive with an unusually rich experience covering many fields of finance across multinational group and operating company functions. He has extensive international experience in finance leadership roles across financial operations and control, commercial and transformation with teams of up to 60 staff, as well as shared service centre and system integrator organisations.
Philip Strain
Spotify
Philip Strain
Spotify
Philip has a seasoned career in tech accessibility, working with Google, Apple, and most recently Spotify. As Insights Manager he manages a team of user researchers and data scientists located across London and Stockholm. He also founded and leads the accessibility guild at Spotify - a network of designers, engineers, researchers, and product managers collaborating to ensure Spotify is accessible to all.
Christopher Fielden
innocent
Christopher Fielden
innocent
As Group Supply Chain Director at innocent, Chris looks after everything from fruit sourcing to technical and regulatory affairs, manufacturing and distribution. Both Chris and innocent are passionate about sustainability, and Chris is leading the project to make the most sustainable manufacturing facility in Europe to act as a flagship for how industry can do it’s bit to reduce the impact of climate change.
Sara Sheridan
ClearScore
Sara Sheridan
ClearScore
Sara heads up the Insight team at ClearScore, fueling long-term growth at the company. She has a background in data and analytics, driving change in her past roles at Liberty Global, BT, and MTM where she delivered research and strategy projects for clients including Google, YouTube, BBC, Channel 4, NBCU Universal, Sky and Discovery. She is a regular speaker at conferences and events.
Sinx
ustwo
Sinx
ustwo
John Sinclair (Sinx) is Co-Founder of the ustwo group. He formed the company in 2004 with his business partner and best friend Mills. Before becoming Chairman of the Studio Group Sinx held the position of CEO and ran the London, Malmö, New York and Sydney studios. He also sits on the board of ustwo Games which is famously known for creating the Monument Valley series. With over 20 years of experience in the design and technology industry, John has worked with blue-chip clients across a range of sectors from consumer electronics, to retail, finance and health.
Guy Duncan
Tide
Guy Duncan
Tide
Guy is a focused technology agile leader who has lead teams at Tide, BMW, and PayU across product development, strategy, operations, and customer service projects. As CTO at Tide, guys leads the collaboration between different product groups on business, product strategies, customers and multi-year product roadmaps.
Jamie Thomas
Co-Founder
Jamie Thomas
Co-Founder
Jamie served as Chief Financial Officer at Qubit from 2011-2020. He has since co-founded The Network Lab which helps organisational networks to boost innovation, drive engagement and build truly inclusive cultures. He is a part-time angel investor and part of the advisory board at investment and innovation firm, True.
Jennifer Kruegel-Hanna
Avery Dennison
Jennifer Kruegel-Hanna
Avery Dennison
A multilingual copywriter, creative strategist and brand voice consultant, Jennifer uses the power of words and ideas to creatively drive businesses and brands across cultures and industries around the world. As an enthusiastic brand storyteller — with a deep understanding of how to engage people’s hearts and minds through communications and tone of voice — bringing brands, design experiences and concepts to life through language and strategic thinking is her passion.
Ruby Steel
Studio Exception
Ruby Steel
Studio Exception
Ruby Steel is a trailblazer in inclusive design. She is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Studio Exception, a design collective that champions diversity in people to create better products and services for all. Their intent is to embed a new inclusive design standard into organisations, instilling a set of principles to design with our differences in mind using a process called 'The Exception Method'.
Yates Buckley
UNIT9
Yates Buckley
UNIT9
Yates has been bridging technology and creativity over the last 22 years and acts as a cross-domain problem solver with a passion for diverse areas, from neuroscience to game design and virtual reality. His work at UNIT9 is around the technical strategy that underlies a sustained history of award-winning work.
Thierry Brunfaut
Base Design
Thierry Brunfaut
Base Design
Thierry co-founded Base in 1996 and oversees Base's New York and Geneva studios. At Base, Thierry has lead landmark projects including MoMA QNS, Maison Michel, San Francisco Art Institute, Mobistar, BeTV, Bozar, Hotel Missoni, The Olympic Museum, and La Monnaie Opera. As a design leader, he follows a philosophy of graphic and conceptual simplicity that emphasises concise communication.
Christopher Bahry
Tendril
Christopher Bahry
Tendril
Chris is the Co-Founder of the internationally renowned design and animation studio Tendril, with 40 employees and offices in Toronto and São Paulo. Over the course of his creative career, Chris has actively sought out beauty and meaning in the places where the visual arts and sciences converge. Tendril has been awarded globally by leaders in the fields of design, communication, interactive arts, and motion graphics by such governing bodies as Cannes, the YDA, the ADCCs, the FWA, AIGA, and many others.
Kate Bate
Tendril
Kate Bate
Tendril
Kate has 20+ years of experience in the advertising and design industry. Her business sensibilities matched with her savvy commitment to always taking bold risks led her to launch three production/post-production facilities, all culminating to what is now Tendril. She is community minded and has served on numerous charity and industry boards. Kate Co-Founded and is Chair of a MakeWay initiative called Together Project, promoting diversity, inclusion, and civic engagement through programs that connect refugee newcomers with volunteers.
Kate Dawkins
Kate Dawkins Studio
Kate Dawkins
Kate Dawkins Studio
Kate Dawkins is an acclaimed designer and director, specialising in bespoke content for live performances, shows and brand events. In a career that spans more then 20 years, Kate has worked for some of the largest global brands, including high profile projects for the giant 360˚ ‘Audience pixels’ for the London 2012 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, Samsung, Elton John, YouTube and the MTV European Music Awards.
Mike Reed
Reed Words
Mike Reed
Reed Words
Mike has been a writer for brands since 1993, and founded up Reed Words in 2014, growing the company to become a full-fledged brand writing agency. Drawing on decades of experience, Mike heads up a team of strategically-minded brand writers, based in London and working across the world. Reed Words has delivered projects for some of the worlds leading brands, including clients like Formula 1, Skype, Tesco, Ladbrokes and Argos.
Sébastien Van Laere
Superframe
Sébastien Van Laere
Superframe
Sébastien is the founder of Superframe. After more than a decade of using insight and foresight to develop innovation and strategy for some of the biggest global brands, he started Superframe to help businesses be more resilient by being more prepared and more agile. He has worked globally with senior business leaders across sectors including consumer technology, fashion, luxury, retail, place-making and media. By. By combining his expertise Sébastien helps businesses to anticipate change and accelerate decision making to help them thrive in a turbulent world.
Alexandre Torres
Tendril
Alexandre Torres
Tendril
Alexandre Torres is one of the founders of Tendril, with a creative career spanning from a rural community in Brazil, to becoming an up and coming designer in Rio de Janeiro, before his moving to Toronto to co-found creative studio Tendril. Tendril is a design-driven animation, vfx, and digital innovation studio creating beautiful and thoughtful visuals across all mediums.
Vivienne Sung
Vivienne Sung
Vivienne is an entrepreneur, start-up advisor, angel investor, and a passionate product person, currently Product Lead at Facebook. She helps companies improve their products, focusing on building easy to use, effective, beautiful experiences both online and offline.
Jessica Cheng
Idean UK
Jessica Cheng
Idean UK
Jessica is a strategic and experience design specialist with background in design and business. She helps business define, develop and deploy their propositions, products, and services to transform the way they operate and engage with customers across channels.
Lesley Swarbrick
ex-Time Inc, BBC, and Amnesty International
Lesley Swarbrick
ex-Time Inc, BBC, and Amnesty International
Lesley is a Commercial HR and OD Director with corporate, interim, and consultancy experience. She has worked in HR leadership positions with Time, BBC, and Amnesty International. Her experience covers, Music, Media, Broadcasting, Public, Financial Services, Charity and NGO. She is a writer, coach, and occasional keynote speaker.
Rocio Galan
Social Chain
Rocio Galan
Social Chain
Social Chain is a social media company that creates, develops and scales of social media brands. Among its clients include YouTube, Superdry, Coca-Cola, Braun, Mastercard, Apple and Adidas.
Rocio looks after audience-led, idea-centric strategies for her clients at Social Chain.
Her team creates and sustains social media strategies for global clients and develops influencer strategies to amplify the reach of campaigns.
Aubrian Watson
Aubrian Watson
At the intersection of data analytics and creativity, Aubrian's experience ranges from marketing, brand-building, digital content strategy, and end-to-end project management - focusing on creating a cultural and social impact and meaning through the lens of technology, innovation, and lifestyle.
Rafay Agha
Oliver Agency
Rafay Agha
Oliver Agency
Rafay Agha work's across global and national brands, from travel, luxury, media & FMCG. Rafay leads Unilever’s in-house digital agency social content strategy across dozens of global and local brands such as AXE/LYNX, Marmite, Rexona, Simple, and TRESemme - focussing on driving relevance and saliency through content and community management.
Sara Hansson
Oatly
Sara Hansson
Oatly
Oat drinks company Oatly was named the 2nd most innovative company in branding, and the 9th most innovative company in the world by Fast Company in 2019. The Oatly Facebook Page was chosen as a 'Success Story' by Facebook.
Sara is responsible for social media marketing at the Oatly Department of Mind Control. Her work includes strategy on a global as well as local level, project management and creative content development.
Dan Brill
Spotify
Dan Brill
Spotify
Emmy-losing group creative director. Pop culture columnist. New Jersey apologist.
For the past 5 years Dan has been looking after Spotify’s global brand marketing, including one of the most-shared Wrapped campaign. Prior to Spotify, he was a Senior Copywriter for Droga5 and before that held the same role at Razorfish. Across his career, Dan has created award-winning campaigns for partners like Google, Smart Car and the Obama Administration, and artists including Travis Scott, Cardi B, Lil Wayne and many more. Dan has also developed several viral personal projects and been a contributing culture writer for Refinery29.
Simon Peihl
Bureau for Visual Affairs
Simon Peihl
Bureau for Visual Affairs
Bureau for Visual Affairs is a design and technology team at home in London and Berlin which specialises in content-led design and technology for brands and institutions across both the cultural and commercial sector. Their expertise includes Strategy & Consultation, UX & UI Design and Technology. They are the agency behind digital experience for the creative industry’s favourite website — It's Nice That and Alexander McQueen exhibition at V&A; identity for the Lovie Awards which recognises European excellence in digital and London's National Theatre among others.
Anna Radchenko
Anna Radchenko
Anna Radchenko
Anna Radchenko
Anna Radchenko is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary artist from Moscow, who now resides in London. She specialises in short films, music videos, commercials, mixed media editorial projects and art installations. Graduating with a distinction in MA Fashion Photography from London College of Fashion, Radchenko's films have been selected for the world's major fashion and short film festivals including London, Berlin, Los Angeles and more. Anna uses surreal ideas to create content that is both optically arresting and memorable. Her clients and publications include: Nike, Vogue Italia, Warner Music, Toni&Guy, Radisson, Hunger, Post Office, to name a few.
Cathal Berragan
Social Chain
Cathal Berragan
Social Chain
Based in NYC, Cathal is the Creative Director for Social Chain USA, relocating from their UK headquarters in 2016. Social Chain is one of the world's fastest-growing, social marketing agencies, creating record-breaking campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands. Clients include TikTok, Twitch, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and Brita with 6 global offices across the UK, Germany, and the USA. Having worked in social marketing since he was 16, he’s built an acute understanding of how social content should be ideated, created, and distributed. He’s additionally been responsible for building some of the world's largest social media communities, amassing millions of followers alongside international press coverage.
Jim Kalbach
Mural
Jim Kalbach
Mural
Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in design, customer experience, and strategy. He is currently Chief Evangelist at MURAL, the leading online whiteboard. Jim is the author of three books: Designing Web Navigation (O’Reilly, 2007), Mapping Experiences 2nd Edition (O’Reilly, 2020), and most recently The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (Rosenfeld, 2020). He is also the Co-founder and Principal at the JTBD Toolkit, an online resource with learning, trainings, and content. Jim blogs at experiencinginformation.com and tweets under @jimkalbach.
Mandeep Basi
ex-Shopify
Mandeep Basi
ex-Shopify
Mandeep has a PhD in Anthropology and has since translated her expertise in qualitative research to become a UX researcher. She is passionate about how people interact with technology, and each other. Formerly at Shopify where she helped design experiences to help new business owners get started, she now runs her independent research consultancy at Sociotekno.
Sara Hansson and Ida Backman
Oatly
Sara Hansson and Ida Backman
Oatly
Sara Hansson, Global Social Media Manager and Ida Backman, Copywriter, have been part of the creative team at Oatly Department of Mind Control since 2014 respectively 2015. Both starting of at traditional agencies before Sara started her own business with Oatly as one of her first clients before becoming a full time out punk, and Ida taking the big and scary step over to the client side.
Kate Towsey
Atlassian
Kate Towsey
Atlassian
Kate Towsey specialises in consulting on Research Operations for large organisations - a significant contributor to the emerging practice of Research Ops. Kate started the ResearchOps Community in 2018 and instigated the #WhatisResearchOps initiative, a global movement that put Research Ops on the map. That same year, moving from England to Sydney, Kate built and now manages a global team delivering Research Operations for Atlassian.
David Farkas
CollabraLink Technologies, Inc.
David Farkas
CollabraLink Technologies, Inc.
David Farkas is a UX design consultant based out of Philadelphia. With over ten years experience, David works across industries and focuses on user research, workflow, and design process. David leads research workshops and workshops on adapting principles of improvisational performing for application across all phases of product design. David co-authored UX Research (2016) and authored Collaborative Improv (2019).
Brad Nunnally
U.Group
Brad Nunnally
U.Group
Brad Nunnally is the Director of Service Experience at U.Group and a co-author of “Designing The Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation” for New Riders (Voices That Matter) and “UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products” for O’Reilly Media. During his career, Brad has worked with clients spanning almost every major industry, mostly focusing on healthcare and financial services. For the past few years, Brad has enjoyed writing and speaking on topics that include user research, interactive prototyping, and how cognitive psychology applies to design. Recently, he has taken that passion to working more closely with the public sector. He now spends his days contemplating how the government can be redesigned to be more people focused and how organisations can mature to meet the demands of how business and technology work today. When he is not thinking about the world of design, he spends time learning important life lessons from his children, playing too many video and tabletop games, and learning woodworking through a constant string of failures.
Rebecca Destello
Rebecca Destello
Rebecca Destello is a Research Manager at Facebook where she leads teams who work on special projects aimed to improve the quality of experiences in Facebook’s products.
Since 2007, she’s led research for a wide variety of problem spaces, including healthcare, government, e-commerce, social media, and startups. She is also an Affiliate Faculty member at the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) department where she has been teaching graduate students in user-centered design, design thinking, research, usability testing, and web design since 2012.
In 2015 she was given the UX Community Leadership Award from UXPA Seattle, Puget Sound SIGCHI, and UX Happy Hour and in 2016 was given the Myron L. White award from the University of Washington’s at Human Centered Design & Engineering program. She has presented at UXPA, ConveyUX, TIDE, and given guest lectures at colleges and universities around the nation.
Anuj Tewari
Anuj Tewari
Anuj leads research on Messenger Business and Product Foundations. As an engineer turned UX Researcher with a background in Human Computer Interaction, AI/ML and Education, Anuj is passionate about complex data, business and analytics problems. Before Facebook, Anuj led the Sales Cloud research team at Salesforce. He was also one of the founding members of the research team at Uber, where he built the internal tools and the self-driving cars research teams.
Tom Foley
Monotype
Tom Foley
Monotype
Tom Foley is a Creative Type Director for Monotype, in his role he is responsible for leading a team of type designers creating fonts for the Monotype Library and corporate brands. Words and letters are in Tom’s blood - his great-grandfather was from a family of stonemasons that specialised in letter carving, and his uncle was a sign painter.
Rosie Pearmain
Otherway
Rosie Pearmain
Otherway
Having grown with Otherway over several years, Rosie works on the creative ideation and execution of the wide range of work they do – from branding to comms.
A firm believer in an ideas first approach, Rosie loves the space that sits between insightful strategy and exciting design. This reflects the work that they do at Otherway - as a strategically led brand agency they're all about crafting and bringing to life well thought out ideas that reflect an evolving consumer landscape.
Warren Hutchinson
ELSE
Warren Hutchinson
ELSE
Warren has worked in experience design and strategy for over 20 years and in that time has developed a deep expertise in helping businesses identify, create, launch and support new products and services. He care's most about projects and initiatives that seek to change behaviour in a positive way. Warren founded ELSE back in 2010 which is a strategic design consultancy that helps businesses to create innovative and effective product and service experiences. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors at the Design Business Association where he's a mentor, a guest lecturer at Brunel University, delivering the Experience Design module on the MSc in Digital Design. He has also guest lectured at Cambridge University on the MBA.
Deborah Madelaine
Mars
Deborah Madelaine
Mars
Deborah Madelaine works at Mars as Senior Learner Experience Manager with a focus on social learning. In her previous role, Deborah helped bring design thinking to the hearts and minds of Mars Associates globally by building a movement for change counting 10,000 members and 1000 champions. Originally from France, Deborah has lived in 7 countries throughout her career and now happy to call London home. She published her first book “You Got This!” in 2017 and is now working on her second book, a practical guide for the corporate change agents. In 2019 she spoke at TEDxKTH in Stockholm about using prototyping as a metaphor for self-actualization. In her spare time, you’ll find her walking in Holland Park listening to an audiobook and drinking bubble tea.
Charlotte Black
Saffron Brand Consultants
Charlotte Black
Saffron Brand Consultants
Charlotte leads brand, experience and innovation strategy for a number of their key global clients. As an interdisciplinary strategist, she is passionate about building brands that are authentic, true to their purpose and create a positive impact in the world. Since joining Saffron Charlotte has played a key role on projects including the creation and development of the Facebook company brand.
Scarlett Montanaro and Myron Darlington
Revolt
Scarlett Montanaro and Myron Darlington
Revolt
Myron has lead the Revolt design department over the past year and a half, having worked at a number of independent branding and advertising agencies. Previously an Art Director working on accounts for Beam Suntory including the likes of Jim Beam and Laphroaig amongst other start up alcohol brands and leading the opening of a studio in Chicago.
Since joining Revolt Myron has worked across a broad range of our accounts ranging from Budweiser to Henkel and Gut Stuff, grown our team and developed the Revolt brand whilst overseeing the design of a number of our Change Accelerator projects.
Scarlett Montanaro is Creative Director at Revolt and works across Mars, PepsiCo and L'Oreal. Before joining she created award winning work at both And Rising and AMV BBDO. Outside of advertising, she co-founded the non-profit, CRACK + CIDER, which was recognised in the top 4 social enterprises in the UK by The Guardian for its contribution to homeless people. She's also blogged for the Huffington Post and spoken at TEDx, Cannes Lions and Eurobest.
Craig Matchett
Saffron Brand Consultants
Craig Matchett
Saffron Brand Consultants
Craig is a Design Director in London overseeing the design team there and connecting creatives across the other Saffron locations. Since arriving at Saffron in 2016, he has been involved in team building, attracting talent and creating a number of global projects from Europe, the Middle East and Russia.
Andreas Roos
Visa
Andreas Roos
Visa
Leading and developing the co-creation practice in VISA from the Innovation centre in London. Andreas works on internal and external collaborative projects across regions and teams, creating user centred prototypes and launching future facing pilots aimed for commercialisation. He is a deliberate creator of creative culture & behavior through sprints of all types that solves for business problems. Fascinated by herding cats and transforming hippos into creative collaborators tackling the challenges of the future. Obsessed with user focused innovation & creativity formats that drives real business value. Always approaching serious things playfully and playful things seriously. Convinced creativity will be the key differentiator that saves us all in the future.
Anna Tyurina
Saffron Brand Consultants
Anna Tyurina
Saffron Brand Consultants
Anna drives excellence across live projects and new business opportunities on a global basis. With a background in retail and omni-channel design, her passion lies in the creation of brands that are manifested in unique tangible experiences. Some highlights of her career to-date include leading the creation of new automotive start-up Lynk & Co, from positioning to experience, retail and identity, through to innovation and brand activation; the refresh of Nokia’s visual identity and the creation of a new business proposition for Hyundai’s EV brand.
Tony Currie
Imagination
Tony Currie
Imagination
An award winning Creative Director, Tony is a strategic storyteller; always seeking out new and exciting ways to tell compelling stories that excite, provoke and immerse.
Tony creates inspiring solutions channelled through the execution of immersive technology across omni-channel landscapes. Tony is an insightful, collaborative and entrepreneurial innovator motivated in delivering memorable and measurable experiences.
Dan Press
Accenture
Dan Press
Accenture
Dan is design team lead at Accenture’s London Liquid Studio, a creative studio, they are experts in bringing design thinking, innovation and New IT together to resolve client and industry challenges in a fast and agile way, creating the next generation of digital experiences.
Kyle Loughlin
Native
Kyle Loughlin
Native
Kyle joined Native as an Industrial Designer in 2010. Today, his role is to help companies unlock growth by creating products consumers love. He specialises in working across disciplines to solve problems with a multitalented team of designers, researchers, strategists, engineers and developers.
Kyle’s agile process fuses consumer empathy, business strategy, technology and design to help clients create ground-breaking, award winning, commercially successful products, services and experiences.
He has helped tackle some of Native’s most difficult challenges across FMCG, automotive, retail, telecoms, insurance, medical and consumer electronics for clients including AB InBev, Ford, VEON, Coloplast, HP Inc., Nespresso, Novo Nordisk, TomTom and Bowers and Wilkins.
Jasmin Fischer
SHARE Creative
Jasmin Fischer
SHARE Creative
Jasmin has 10 years experience in digital marketing and social media analytics working across brands such as Coca-Cola and Microsoft. She has a passion for innovation and invention and has recently joined the advisory board of Clout.Art, a company specialising in NFT’s. Leading SHARE’s Intelligence department, Jasmin helps businesses to leverage social intelligence and transform unstructured data into knowledge and insight.
Helen Le Voi
Method
Helen Le Voi
Method
Helen Le Voi is Executive Creative Director at Method, a digital strategy, design, and engineering consultancy. Helen is a people-centred leader with a proven track record of design and development, team management and research in both academia and industry, client-side and agency.
Helen is especially interested in new challenges, technology and product/service experiences that balance business and technology but meet the needs and desires of real people. Her specialities and special interests include IoT, the circular economy, service design, strategic planning and innovation.
Tom Kerwin
Apploi
Tom Kerwin
Apploi
Tom is a product design leader at Apploi with over two decades of experience leading design, customer research and experimentation and co-founded two of the UK’s biggest lead generation startups.
Saskia Liebenberg
Anaplan
Saskia Liebenberg
Anaplan
Saskia loves helping teams work more effectively and achieve their best. She has enjoyed doing this as a project manager guiding diverse, cross-functional teams to successful delivery, and more recently as an operational lead setting up processes and systems to remove friction and optimise capacity in growing teams. She cut her teeth in publishing, with four years at Deliveroo proving to be an intense crash course in all things tech, and now work at Anaplan, where she supports a fantastic team of 22 researchers and designers based in the US and the UK. London has been home for the past decade, although her love of country walks with her dachshund Otto is slowly beckoning her away from the city!
Jure Martinec
Arrival
Jure Martinec
Arrival
Jure Martinec is a European designer & technologist interested in emerging technologies that augment us, particularly tools for people to make stuff. As Head of Design at ARRIVAL he is setting strategic direction, guiding design efforts and growing world-class design talent across multiple product teams building next-generation vehicle design & engineering tools. In his previous life at IDEO, he worked across many industries and technologies to help companies shape user-centered strategies, products and services.
Claire Rowland
Claire Rowland Associates
Claire Rowland
Claire Rowland Associates
Claire Rowland is a London-based consultant specialising in product strategy, experience design and research for IoT and hardware-enabled services. She has helped a wide range of organisations develop consumer, commercial and industrial connected products and hardware-enabled services, from breast pumps to industrial power tools, home automation and energy management, to supply chain and automotive. She is the lead author of Designing Connected Products: UX for the consumer internet of things, published by O’Reilly.
Daniel Nieuwenhuizen
Magic Leap
Daniel Nieuwenhuizen
Magic Leap
Daniel is a Design Lead on the In-device Core OS team for Magic Leap, previously working as Head of Product Design for out of device experiences. Previously, Daniel worked with Fintech delivering B2C and B2B platforms for startups and big orgs, and as an Associate Creative Director at R/GA, delivering projects like Beats Music, Google Searching for Syria and O2 Priority.
Kate Magoc
Proto
Kate Magoc
Proto
Kate is a writer with a background in linguistics, dramatic writing, film theory and acting. Currently, she's the Associate Director of Verbal Design at Proto, where she contributes creative and strategic writing to multidisciplinary innovation teams. Outside of her work in branding and innovation, she works with other mediums of language arts including poetry, music, and film.
Simon Dixon
DixonBaxi
Simon Dixon
DixonBaxi
Simon Dixon is a creative director and the co-founder of DixonBaxi, one of the world's leading creative consultancies, with clients as big as Netflix, AC Milan and the Premier League. As a designer, creative director, strategic thinker and agency leader, he has explored where creativity, design, and technology overlap for three decades.
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