Speaking
Available for keynotes, panels and workshops. I speak from practice—not from theory—on what it takes to do serious design work inside large organisations, and what that means for the AI-native world that’s arriving faster than most design practices are ready for.
Topics
AI and Consciousness
What consciousness is really for—evolutionarily, functionally—and what that means for the systems we are now building.
Enterprise UX at Scale
How design leadership works inside large, complex organisations. Growing teams, setting standards, and making design hold at programme level.
Digital Accessibility through Governance
Why accessibility fails at the audit stage—and how to embed it into organisational structure, procurement, and accountability.
AI Ethics and Design Accountability
Who is responsible when AI systems harm? What design accountability looks like when the consequences are real, not theoretical.
The Future of Design Practice
How the AI-native world changes what it means to be a designer—and which parts of the craft are more important than ever.
Futures Design and Speculation
Using speculative and futures thinking to make better decisions in the present—and to help organisations see what they would rather not.
Building Products Without a Budget
Designing, building and launching end-to-end digital products solo. What constraints reveal that resources obscure.
Community-led Heritage and AI
How grassroots archives have moved past the debate institutions are still having—and what the sector can learn from it.
Accessibility as Design Leadership
Accessibility is not a compliance exercise. It is the highest expression of design intent—and the argument for treating it as such.
Papers submitted · November 2026 · Pending acceptance
How AI transformed the LGBT History Project: from replatforming the wiki to building an editorial governance agent and developing Nearmark, a GPS-based LGBTQ+ heritage walking tour platform. What this means for how community-led archives can partner with institutional collections—and what the institutions might learn from how grassroots projects move.
Queer Heritage and Collections Network →Grassroots heritage projects have already moved past the technophilia/technophobia debate that museums are still navigating. The practical AI integration achieved by the LGBT History Project—without budget, team, or institutional mandate—offers the sector a working model worth examining. This paper makes the case that the most useful thing institutions can do now is look outward, not inward.
Museums and AI Cultural Heritage Conference →Previous
Founder, organiser and regular speaker at the annual Capgemini global UX conference—now in its sixth year and the largest internal gathering of UX practitioners across the organisation’s worldwide practice. Each conference brings together over fourteen speakers from across the global practice. The professional UX community I built at Capgemini has more than 1,500 members, sustained by monthly presentations I have organised and hosted since 2021.
Regular speaker at Capgemini’s IT leadership forums, presenting on experience strategy, accessibility governance, and the future of enterprise design practice.
Keynote speaker at HMRC’s annual LGB and Trans conference, alongside Phillipa Dew MBE and Michael Cashman—the only speaker on the platform without a national honour.
If you’re looking for a speaker who can talk about AI, design and heritage from lived experience rather than commentary, get in touch.