In this quick-fire talk, Jess will talk to us about the benefit of playing role-playing games like DnD and how the skills involved are related to UX design work. Roll for initiative!

#37 - Jessica Lovegood: Dungeons, Dragons, and Design

Some producers and DJs make hundreds of thousands of pounds a year or more, have teams of marketing people, brand principles, and even ghost writers. Most don't.

Dave started programming music on the Commodore 64 back in the 1980s, and in a few minutes he'll try and cover 30 years of Doing-It-Yourself in the electronic music industry, where it's going, and how you can now make it - all using your laptop.

#37 - Dave Curran: How we made it in the electronic music industry

Mr Bingo will be talking about creating art during the Pandemic of 2020/21 and how it influenced and changed his output over this period.

#37 - Mr. Bingo: Art in a Pandemic

Shiti is an award-winning business leader with 14 years of experience across 11 countries and has managed multi-million-dollar projects to success in the US, UK, Europe and India.

Shiti strongly believes in harnessing the power of technology for social impact. In Nov 2019 she left her corporate job to start work full time on her own digital health startup BreatheHappy driven to put care before healthcare. Breathe Happy offers personalized solutions using AI for posture correction using computer vision and machine learning.

#38 - Shiti Rastogi Manghani: Leaving 9-5 for an entrepreneurial life

When did digital designers stop taking risks? Did user experience and accessibility standards take away freedom and kill creativity?

Sam will be giving us a concise look at how 20 years of technological advancement have changed digital design. He will be reminding us that we can still delight and entertain audiences without going backwards for the sake of inclusivity.

#38 - Sam Cranwell: Balancing the mediocre against the magnificent

AI means more hype, more technology, more future - and more money! But what actually is it? In this talk, Doug will explain what people mean by artificial intelligence and machine learning, what sort of problems they can solve, and how they do it. We'll see a range of examples where they're being used, and look at how it goes well and how it goes wrong, from entertaining AI weirdness to serious algorithmic bias. You won't end up being able to implement techniques like Support Vector Machines or Generative Adversarial Networks (unless you already could) but you should end up with a better idea of what the people who can are up to.

#37 - Doug Clow: What actually is artificial intelligence?

The importance of learning your tools, honing your craft and the value of failure.

Shaun is a designer and artist. With a passion for automotive design, at a revolutionary time in the industry, he currently works as Visualisation Lead for Arrival - a company radically changing the way electric vehicles are designed and manufactured. Having graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Industrial Design, Shaun has spent the years that followed further developing his skill set, creating design concepts that inhabit his fictional world of an alternate reality Earth. He is also the founder and director of start-up online school of design - Almond.

#37 - Shaun Wellens: The Self Apprenticeship

Going full-time freelance can be challenging enough, but taking the plunge to bring your ideas to life as physical, sellable products can be even more intimidating. In this talk, Geri will discuss how she switched her career focus to turn her lifetime passion into a livelihood.

Geri is a colour-obsessed Canadian illustrator and designer living in Nottingham, UK. A former ad agency art director, she has worked with companies such as Simply Accessible, Microsoft, Google, Nokia Withings, Scholastic, and A List Apart; as well as numerous magazines including Courier and Standart. She is the author of Color Accessibility Workflows by A Book Apart and was voted net Magazine’s Designer of the Year in 2014. Her side business, Geri Draws Japan, showcases her love for Japanese culture through original art prints, pins, stationery and more.

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