Keynotes
Professor of Sociology
Bristol Digital Futures Institute
Chief Digital Officer
Genomics England
Our 2021 keynotes are Professor Susan Halford and Rakhi Rajani.
Susan is the founding co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), which is at the centre of the University’s new Temple Quarter innovation campus. BDFI is a University Research Institute that pioneers transformative approaches to digital innovation.
Rakhi is Chief Digital Officer at Genomics England where she leads interdisciplinary teams in developing complex healthcare services. She has always sat at the intersection of psychology, emerging technology and design and has worked across a range of industries to help organisations experiment, think forward and invent the future.
Speakers
Realise Product Design
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Cape Town
Design Anthropologist & User Experience Researcher
Head of Social Purpose
Yoti
Senior User Experience Researcher, Doctor Care Anywhere
Assistant Professor
IIIT Bangalore
Chair in Personal Finance
University of Bristol
Project Manager (Young People & Creative Technology), KWMC
Research Fellow in Design Research, University of Surrey
Co-Founder
Missing Link Studios
Impact Strategist
Digital Fabrication Technician (Training & Design), KWMC
Design Lead
Open Food Network
CEO
Eticas Research and Consulting
Senior Design Anthropologist
Alexandra Instituttet
Visual anthropologist, PhD researcher, UCL
Arts Programme Manager
Knowle West Media Centre
Conversational AI Architect
Elzware
Creative Technologist & Artist
Privacy Technologist
Assoc Prof, Social Policy & Social Robotics, University College Dublin
Senior Researcher
Stripe Partners
Research Associate, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics
Product Director, Eticas Research and Consulting
Lecturer in Design-led Innovation, University of Bristol
Senior Policy Advisor, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Researcher, Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Cape Town
Chief Scientific Officer, Method X Studios
Documentary filmmaker and researcher
Senior Data Scientist
BiBerk
Cyber Anthropologist
Covea Insurance
Anthropologist and filmmaker
Maynooth University
Ethnographer
Solita
Collaborative & Industrial Design Masters Student, Aalto University
Senior Designer, Siili Solutions
Applied Cybernetics Masters Student, ANU
Director
LagomWorks Consulting
Director
Centre for Public Impact
Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Cape Town
Founder & CEO
Future Narratives Lab
Digital Strategist
Senior Digital Ethics and Innovation Consultant, Sopra Steria
Strategist
Ogilvy