Dr. Julia Goga-Coke

Julia is an academic, journalist, design thinker and entrepreneur. She leads the Academy of Design Thinking, helping organisations create innovation skills and capabilities, and adopt a design led culture.

Her career started in academia, with a Ph.D in Linguistics. She then began working for the BBC for 16 years as a broadcaster, producer, editor and senior leader. After a gap year of study in Design Thinking Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she co-founded and managed the Future of Work Research Consortium, and founded the Academy of Design Thinking.  On top of this Julia teaches Design Thinking and Foresight & Strategy at Loughborough University London and Design Thinking Accelerator at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts. She lives in London.

Marta De la Figuera

Marta is a strong believer that design and innovation have a lot to contribute to a more sustainable future and can change the way we make/do things. Curious and optimistic by nature, she is a designer, thinker and do-er.

After graduating from the University of Exeter she’s been working with different companies in the tech world helping them to open and reach new markets with a strong focus in Spain and France. She is passionate about the power of ideas and working inter-disciplinarily to address the systemic challenges we are all facing in the world today.

Paulo Calquín

Creative entrepreneur by training and art director by determination.
Paulo is an IPP Publicist with a major in creativity. He initially started out as a creative writer and turned to design and art direction, exploring design and advertising agencies such as Porta diseño, Puerto, Mccann Erickson, Wunderman, Doblegiro, MTM. He has worked with global brands in the UK and Canada in the areas of design, advertising, motion graphic, video and web. He has a wealth of experience in creativity, working on complex projects to develop design concepts into reality.

Cristian Jofré

Cristián Jofré former SVP Creative Director for MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a post which he has held since 2004. His responsibilities stretch across global creative initiatives and include the strategic development and implementation of a variety of brand identities and the creation and management of a network of world and regional design studios in Milan, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Warsaw, Stockholm, London and Singapore.

Prior to this, Jofré held a number of positions in the organization including Creative Director for MTVN Asia (including China), Australia and New Zealand and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Creative Director for MTVNI. In this position he spearheaded global on-air branding campaigns, as well as directing creative and strategic aspects of MTVNI programming initiatives, international events and trade marketing. He also held responsibility for on-air/off-air promotion, graphics and design for MTVNI’s channels around the world.