Our speakers come from a rich variety of occupations. This conference seeks to discuss design and understanding in a broad context. We are as interested in what led people to make what they made as much as the finished experiences. Talks should be insight rich, with reflective, constructive critique.
The speaker timings will be announced at the end of the year.
Matt Cottam
Matt is CEO and co-founder of Tellart, who's most recent project was the Google Chrome Web Lab in the Science Museum in London. As well as an educator at Rhode Island School of Design since 1999, he is currently on the Faculty of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
Ben Terrett
Ben is Head of Design, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office for the UK Government. Before that he was Design Director at Wieden & Kennedy London.
Cait O'Riordan
Cait developed the BBC's London 2012 Olympics coverage across web, mobile, tablet and connected television, with2,500 hours of live and on demand video coverage of every sport from every venue at the summer's games.
Cait previously lead online development for the World Cup in 2010 and the delivery of BBC's award-winning Democracy Live site, as well as being a journalist at BBC News.
Justin McGuirk
Justin McGuirk is the design critic of The Guardian and director of Strelka Press, the publishing arm of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow.
Lloyd Shepherd
Lloyd has a past in web product development at Yahoo, Guardian, BBC - and has since published his first novel - The English Monster.
Beeker Northam
Beeker is a communications strategist, co-founding Dentsu London in 2010 as head of strategy, innovation and technology. Before that Beeker was at glue London working on the launch of Google's Chrome and Toyota's iQ.
Tobi Schneidler
Tobi is a Inventor in Command at Spotspot Creative + Engineering, whos Bouncepad is just one project that looks at how object, people and space combine.
Stefanie Posavec
Stefanie is a designer who's projects range from information design, data visualisation, book cover design, and book design. Her Writing Without Words project featured in many publications and has been widely exhibited.
Phil Gyford
Phil works freelance and as part of Really Interesting Group. Private work includes The Diary of Samuel Pepys, an ongoing ten year project to put his 17th century diaries online.
Will Stahl-Timmins
Will is a researcher who studies the effectiveness of different information communication methods on members of the public. His current work is in the health sector.
Joe Parry
Joe is founder of Cambridge Intelligence, specialising in security applications including Key-Lines which uses Social Network Analysis to catch terrorists.
