Tom is co-founder of Public Digital, a digital transformation consultancy which helps large organisations adapt to the internet era. Previously, Tom founded the Government Digital Service, winning the UK's most prestigious design award for GOV.UK, the UK's single government website and transforming the UK Government into a global leader in digital service design. Before that he was a senior leader at the BBC, helping launch its first websites, and way back in the mid-90s he was an editor on Wired magazine. He's looking forward to sharing his scar tissue with regard to how you bring design into the heart of large institutions. He may also rant a bit about how design systems go wrong.

Ben is a designer and CEO at Public Digital which helps governments and large organisations around the world adapt to the internet era. In 2020, as Deputy President, he declined the D&AD Presidency to make way for a more diverse appointment. He remains a Trustee. He was elected a Royal Designer for Industry, the first ever for Service Design, in 2018. He was inducted into the Design Week Hall of Fame in 2017. Ben holds a series of non-exec roles; a Governor of University of the Arts London, Trustee of D&AD, a member of the HS2 Design Panel and an advisor to the London Design Festival. He has won various industry awards including the Design Museum's Design of the Year and a D&AD Black Pencil.

Jahan Mantin is the co-founder of Project Inkblot, a BIPOC owned and operated company that provides transformational design education through Inkblot Design™. Jahan began her career in advertising and marketing at Time Out New York magazine before joining Beyond Race magazine as the Associate Editor. Jahan earned a B.A. in Communications and Culture from Clark University and is the recipient of the Kate Spade and Company Fellowship at the New Museum Incubator, NEW INC. An avid traveler, Jahan has lived in far-reaching locales from Colombia to Scotland. She is a proud native New Yorker and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Boyuan is a hybrid thinker, creator and builder, and the co-founder and principal of Project Inkblot. She’s traversed many worlds through “work”, meandering through unexpected crevices and subcultures, such as once working in a floral wholesale warehouse servicing primarily funeral homes and churches, to coaching young people in juvenile detention centers throughout NYC, to being the owner and Editor-in-Chief of a global jazz publication partnering with legendary people and institutions like the Miles Davis Estate. Prior to Project Inkblot, Boyuan has also worked as a digital marketer, a community organizer, curriculum designer, music and culture journalist, workshop facilitator, amongst various other “titles”. Boyuan approaches the world of design through the lens of cultural anthropology, even when she’s designing jewelry, knitting hats, or frolicking in the deep bear and fox populated woods of Western Massachusetts, where she now resides.

Paul Jervis Heath is an award-winning product strategist and designer with almost 25 years of experience. He is Chief Creative Officer and a founding partner of Modern Human, a multidisciplinary design practice and innovation consultancy. PJH's highly diverse portfolio of design projects includes dashboards for autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, platforms that power intelligent environments, geospatial information services that help conservationists protect endangered species and augmented reality toys. He believes that the products, services and environments we all design should actively enrich modern life and that design is a vital tool to empower and liberate real people.

Sadia leads UX for Shopify's Ecosystem, which helps merchants get what they need from third party developers who build apps and themes that supercharge their business. Previously, she led content strategy for Airbnb Experiences and was a founding member of the Pinterest creative team. She's a former journalist who never stopped being curious (and a bit nosy). These days, she's more excited to talk about The Future than going "back to normal."

Felix Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of the world's fastest growing social learning network, ADPList and sets the vision and strategy for the company. A designer and entrepreneur, Felix has embedded his creative roots in ADPList culture, product and community. Previously, Felix sold his first company at age 20 and was the first Design Lead at Gotrade (YC S19), "Robinhood in Southeast Asia." He's been featured on Forbes, Tech in Asia, StraitsTimes and CNBC. He is excited to be looking with new perspectives on the world and humanity.

Rachel is the CEO and Cofounder of Wethos, a platform that helps freelancers team up and form “Virtual Studios” by providing the financial infrastructure that simplifies complexities from pricing projects to paying teammates. A former advertising creative working across big brands like Covergirl and Hershey, Rachel Renock quit her agency job at 25 in pursuit of more meaningful work. She teamed up with her now cofounder Claire to build technology that helped them scale their own freelance studio to $1.4M in revenue in just 18-months. In 2021 they released their platform which now powers over 35,000 freelance businesses. Since founding Wethos, Renock has raised over $12M in VC funding and has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider and the New York Times. With 95% of freelancers not breaking six figures, she’s excited to share tools and strategies that will help creative independents put more money into their pockets.

Konval Matin is an angel investor with an aptitude for problem solving. As an investor, she is interested in founders solving real-world problems at its root cause using a systems-thinking approach. Her investment portfolio focuses on SAAS, infrastructure, and DTC businesses. Previously through Konval’s nine years at Shopify, she scaled the company culture from 100 to 4000+ employees as Director of Culture and Talent Development, and then moved on to work with the product discipline as the Chief of Staff to the CPO. In her latest role, Konval served as the Director of Merchant Storytelling, where she helped Shopify discover and share stories that spoke to the humans behind their 1.6M+ merchants. Apart from angel investing, Konval serves on the Board of Feed Ontario, an organization committed to securing fresh and healthy food sources, and advocating for solutions to end hunger and poverty. Konval took up printmaking, illustration, and photography as mediums to tap back into her creative talent and has exhibited and sold pieces at the Ottawa School of Art.