Ben is a designer and CEO at Public Digital which helps governments and large organisations around the world adapt to the internet era. He's a Royal Designer for Industry, the first ever for Service Design. He has won a D&AD Black Pencil, the Design Museum's Design of the Year and been inducted into the Design Week Hall of Fame. He's a Governor of University of the Arts London, a member of the HS2 Design Panel and an advisor to the London Design Festival. Previously Ben was Group Design Director at the Co-op, Director of Design at the Government Digital Service and Design Director at Wieden + Kennedy London. He co-founded Newspaper Club which he exited after a sale in 2015.

Cheyney Robinson is an award-winning Executive Creative Director. She is the former Chief Experience Officer at Isobar and previously served as Chief Creative Officer, Europe for IBM where she launched eight European studios. She is a passionate and conceptual digital storyteller with expertise in complex business transformation, omnichannel and experience design. Cheyney is deeply committed to issues of diversity and gender equality in the creative industry. Away from the office, she volunteers for Apps for Good (an organisation supporting digital literacy for children), is a frequent lecturer at Hyper Island and mentors for both SheSays and D&AD Shift. She is a member of the D&AD Advisory Board and also serves on the Board of Directors for Creative Equals.

With over 20 years of experience in the digital industry, Fura has worked on some of the industry’s most innovative digital campaigns, products and connected services. In her current role as Chief Design Officer at Huge, Fura is responsible for the agency’s design leadership across 13 international offices. She joined Huge from Publicis Sapient where she spent two years as Chief Design Officer of the Experience practice across EMEA, Middle East and Asia. Prior to her role at Publicis Sapient, Fura worked at R/GA for over 11 years, where she provided both strategic and creative vision for her clients and teams in New York and Stockholm. She was the creative lead on R/GA’s Nike account in NYC for a number of years where she drove the e-commerce & retail business, moving the account into new territories by exploring new emerging trends and innovations. She also led the creative team for Samsung US and was one of the creative leads on R/GA’s Walmart account. In 2014 Fura relocated to Stockholm to provide a new level of thought leadership and help set the strategic vision for the office. There she worked on clients such as Volvo, H&M, Absolut and ICA. Fura’s recent move to R/GA’s London office sees her take on a creative leadership role for the Middle East, with the responsibility to help expand the agency’s presence in what is a key region of growth. Fura started her career in Reykjavik, Iceland, serving local clients such as Icelandair, Icelandic Telecom, Toyota, and Hertz. She soon moved to New York to study Design & Technology at Parsons School of Design. There she explored all aspects of digital media, everything from broadcast to interactive physical video installations. Throughout the years she has won a number of well-known international rewards and recognitions, such as Clio’s, Webby’s, The One Show and many more.

Jack Renwick is a multi-award winning designer with a strong passion for ideas. She works closely with clients, getting to the heart of their problem and showing how creative thinking can be the way forward. Jack runs a creative branding agency, wittily titled Jack Renwick Studio, based in Whitechapel, London with 9 designers who are more talented than her. She has worked on a huge variety of projects over the past 20 years for clients including Amnesty International, eBay, BBC, Nokia, Royal Mail, Sir Elton John and Stella McCartney and received recognition from most of the world’s most prestigious awards. Jack originates from Glasgow and is frequently sought out as an awards jury member for her ‘refreshingly frank’ views. She is a Fellow, a board member, an examiner, an advisor, a judge, a writer and a speaker. She is a newly elected Design Trustee on the D&AD Board of Trustees alongside some pretty impressive folk.

Kai-Lu Hsiung has been working at RSA Films since January 1992; firstly in production working with Directors Steve Lowe, Laurence Dunmore and Hugh Johnson amongst others but then fifteen years ago she became Managing Director and is now based in Beak St. Kai went to Brighton Art College and then on the RCA to do Fine Art and eventually taught at Harrow Art College for a few years before moving into publishing. She helped set up Deadline Magazine with Tom Astor where she worked with comic artistes such as Jamie Hewlett. Advertising then presented itself after cycling past a shoot and the idea of working in a creative business with many challenges just seemed the right way to go. Select Recent Credits 2017 Lords of Chaos (Feature - Post Production) 2017 Rammstein: Paris (Feature Documentary) 2016 The Corridor (Short Film) - Day Dreaming With Stanley Kubrick Exhibition 2016 Red Bull, Kaleidoscope - Gold Cannes 2014 Sainsbury’s, Christmas in A Day - British Arrows - Gold 2013 20th Century Fox, Prometheus marketing films - Gold Cannes

Kate is Chief Creative Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi London. Since joining in 2005, she and her Partners have enjoyed developing the Agency into one that has the depth & breadth of talent to create multi-platform ideas for both local and global clients. Creative highs have come in the form of awarded work for Carlsberg, Visa, Toyota, Guinness, Kerry foods, HSBC, EE and T-Mobile. Before arriving at Saatchi & Saatchi, Kate was Vice Chairman and Creative Director at St Luke’s, which she joined in 1995. Within two years at St Luke’s, the agency had amassed prolific new business wins including Clarks Shoes, Sky, IPC, COI, Boots and Eurostar, and an impressive body of work resulting in the agency being named Campaign’s agency of the year. Kate began her career at GGT under Dave Trott’s Creative Directorship where she created award-winning campaigns for Cadbury Flake, Cadbury Creme Eggs, Wispa, Holsten Pils, Access (Mastercard), Nurofen, Lurpak, and Seconda. Away from the creative world, Kate is married to David, has a 15 year old son Otto & dogs Rocky & Dino

Naresh Ramchandani is a writer, partner at Pentagram and co-founder of environmental non-profit Do The Green Thing. In 1990, one of the first commercials he wrote - for Maxell cassettes - won the best ad in the world at Cannes. In 1995 he co-founded and creative directed London’s only co-operative agency St Luke’s which became the UK’s Agency of The Year in 1999. In 1997 he created the Chuck Out Your Chintz campaign that put IKEA on the British map and into the British living room. In 2003, Naresh was part of a team that created the Make Tea Not War poster for the anti-Iraq war march that featured on the front page of the Sunday Times and was showcased in the Economist and V&A but failed to prevent an unjust war. Between 2005 and 2008, Naresh wrote over 60 columns for The Guardian on the subject of consumer engagement, turning his attention to political parties, cars, phones, televisions, airlines, festivals, retailers, soft drinks, television channels, charities and practitioners of commercial sustainability and how they can best engage consumers in this day and age. In 2007 Naresh co-founded Green Thing, the creativity-versus-climate-change charity that has inspired more than 50m people in 200 countries to live a greener life, taking on many traditions and institutions in the process. As a result, Naresh penned the creativity-versus-climate change talk that featured in TED 2008, has run green communication workshops at Tate and RCA and has spoken at The Houses of Parliament, Oxford University and around the world. Naresh joined Pentagram design in 2011 where he has created campaigns for YouTube, Google, Saks Fifth Avenue, Landmark in Hong Kong, University of Sussex and others, and his given talks about sustainability, his favourite words and his own (mediocre) attempts at music.

I am Academic Dean (Collaboration) and a design educator, writer on design and co-founder of GraphicDesign& with Lucienne Roberts. GraphicDesign& advocates for graphic design – what it can do and why it matters – through pioneering books, exhibitions, talks and events that explore how graphic design connects with the wider world and the value that it brings, challenging perceptions about what and who graphic design is for. GraphicDesign&’s books include Page 1: Great Expectations (GraphicDesign& Literature, 2012); Golden Meaning (GraphicDesign& Mathematics, 2014); Graphic Designers Surveyed (GraphicDesign& Social Science, 2015) and Looking Good: A visual guide to the nun’s habit (GraphicDesign& Religion, 2016). Critically acclaimed in the design and mainstream press, these books have won awards, including the Design Observer/AIGA 50 Best Books 2016 for Looking Good. Most recently GraphicDesign& has co-curated two major exhibitions; Can Graphic Design Save your Life? at Wellcome Collection, London (7 September 2017- 14 January 2018) which explored the vital relationship between graphic design and health, and Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18 at Design Museum, London (28 March - 12 August 2018) that looked at the impact and influence of graphic design in recent politics. Lucienne and I were selected by Creative Review magazine as among their 50 Creative Leaders of 2017 for their GraphicDesign& work. I have lectured, spoken at events and acted as consultant at academic institutions across the UK and abroad. My writing on design and design education has been published in books and journals and I am co-author of 'Design Diaries: Creative Process in Graphic Design', published by Laurence King in 2010. I was Vice President of ico_D, the international council of design, 2015-17.

Richard began his career as an Art Director at RKCR/Y&R later moving to Leo Burnett and CHI&Partners. In this time, he created notable work for clients such as Virgin, THINK, Shelter, McDonalds and the Sunday Times. After joining adam&eveDDB in 2013 he was responsible for the multi award-winning 2013 Christmas campaign Sorry, I Spent It On Myself for Harvey Nichols, which was awarded four Cannes Lions Grand Prix. Alongside winning five further Gold Lions, adam&eveDDB was awarded Cannes Agency of the Year 2014. Rick was also behind 2014’s Monty the Penguin Christmas campaign for John Lewis, which was awarded two Cannes Lions Grand Prix including one in effectiveness, resulting in it being the Gunn Report’s Most Awarded TV Ad of 2015. Rick was promoted to ECD in 2014 and later CCO. Under his creative leadership the agency has been awarded 7 Grand Prix over the last three years, as well as Campaign Agency of the Year for three consecutive years and Gunn report global agency of the year 2016. In 2015 he had the honour of being listed in Business Insider’s Top 10 Global Creative Directors and in 2016 he was listed in both AdAge’s prestigious 40 Under 40 and Creative Review’s 50 Creative Leaders in the UK across all industries. He was also awarded second best parent in the Brim household for the seventh year running but he hopes to change that.