SPEAKERS

Rod Judkins

Rod Judkins is an accomplished artist and bestselling author who lectures at Central St Martin’s in London. He trained at The Royal College of Art and has exhibited at the Tate Britain, National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Academy. His bestselling books include The Art of Creative Thinking and Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self. He has lectured on the subject of creativity to universities and businesses around the world and works as a creative consultant for numerous private companies and global brands including Apple, Google, Bombay Sapphire and Samsung. He has also recently delivered training workshops for The Guardian masterclass series and Dubai Television.

Alvaro Bravo-Cole

Alvaro Bravo-Cole is a leading creative professional specialising in sustainable and innovative design in the context of well-being and social enterprise. He lectures and works in the UK, Canada, America, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and his native country of Chile where he has trained individuals and businesses and worked with communities to overcome internal and external challenges and improve operational practices. His work spans from helping aboriginal communities in South America to coaching and mentoring youth classes here in the UK to foster creativity in young people. He was recently awarded a place on the Central Saint Martin’s/Birkbeck (University of London) MBA which is the first MBA globally to combine Design and Business thinking as tools to address global challenges. He holds an MA from the world class design school at Central Saint Martin’s and is a lecturer in creativity, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Julia Goga-Cooke

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.

Benjamin Fritsch

Ben is a Product Marketing and Innovation Director with a record of customer growth in a range of Consumer (D2C and Retail) and SME industries.

His experience blends digital and physical product and service development with a focus on customer insight, value proposition, brand, online and offline customer experience.

Ben has helped brands such as Eurostar, Avis, Zipcar, Homeserve, EE and Carphone Warehouse, to respond to the new customer demands from merging digital and physical customer experience and evolve how they package products, service and subscription portfolios to drive customer acquisition, satisfaction, trade up and loyalty.