Speaking
I only speak about work I have actually done and things I actually believe.
Which is why I turn things down. Keynotes, panels, workshops and live demonstrations — and I would rather show you something working than describe it.
What I am asked for most:
- 01
Where the creative sits now.
The model can generate it, so what is the person for? Authorship, direction and taste, and why they turn out to be the scarce part.
- 02
AI, past the creative industries.
What it actually changes about how things get made, whether it is a megaphone for the people who want to build something, and where it is being oversold.
- 03
Building it, growing it, selling it.
Twenty years from the first hire to an eight-figure acquisition, six million users, and what selling a company you built is really like.
- 04
Culture, and what it cost to learn.
Small teams, whole problems, and real support when it got hard. Twenty-five years of lessons you can have for nothing.
- 05
A global company, built in Norfolk.
What it takes to build creative software a long way from anywhere that calls itself a technology hub, and what the distance is actually like.
The rooms I like best are schools, colleges and universities: people at the beginning of it, finding their voice. They are the audiences I end up in front of most, wherever in the world the event is, and the ones I will clear a diary for. The rooms themselves are below.
Where I speak
Industry stages
Apple, iPad Pro launch keynote · SXSW · AI on the Lot, Amazon MGM Studios · NAB · IBC · SIGGRAPH · VidCon · VRX Europe
and many other conferences, festivals, hackathons and industry events.
Broadcast and press
BBC · ITV · Channel 4
and many technology, video, IT and business publications.
Universities and colleges
University of East Anglia · Norwich University of the Arts · Norwich City College · BBC Radio 1 Academy
and many other schools, colleges and universities.
START A CONVERSATION
Tell me the audience, and what you want them to leave with.
I will tell you whether I am the right person for it, and what I would do with the slot. If what you have is a decision rather than a stage, that is advisory work instead.