Adam is a bright, passionate, punk engineer with an adoration for the web. He prefers using his skills for best in class UI/UX and empowering those around him. He’s worked at small app agencies, medium design agencies, startups, and consulting companies. At those companies his roles spanned product lead, front end architect, UI/UX engineer, UX designer, designer, design lead, and platform lead. These roles lead to developing over 50+ web apps across nearly every imaginable stack and screen size. His perspective on web dev is extracted from these experiences.

Andy is a designer, front-end developer and the founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli. His focus is on making stunning websites that work for everyone, regardless of their device or connection speed and educating his peers in the industry to help them get the most from their careers.

Lucy Blakiston is an author and creator of Sh*t You Should Care About aka SYSCA, a global multimedia phenomenon that cuts through the jargon and clickbait to make news accessible and entertaining, for all.

With a unique pull on Gen Z, SYSCA has a highly engaged audience including 3.4m on Instagram, 370,000 subscribers to their Substack newsletter (72% open rate) and across their their two podcasts, Sh*t Show and Culture Vulture, all of which include fun dissections of global news, pop culture commentary and more.

Lucy shares her unique insight into brand-building and Gen Z audiences through her speaking and consultancy work. She states: “At Sht You Should Care About we whole-bloody-heartedly believe that we should all be able to understand the news and the world around us because it’s happening to all of us. So that’s exactly what we help to do. We cut through the bullshit, the jargon, the clickbait – all of the shit that makes information feel inaccessible – and make it accessible (with a few Harry Styles pictures thrown in there for good measure).”*

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⇾ SYSCA on Instagram
⇾ The Shit Show Podcast

Jared is a designer, futurist & artist. He was a founding partner at argodesign and is one of four frog design fellows. He has been working at the intersection of humans and technology for over two decades with a focus on innovative technologies or unconventional interfaces such as voice, gesture or multi-modal interaction.

His design creedo is Think by Making and he has designed products for clients like HP, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Harman Kardon and many more. He spent 3 years leading a strategic design partnership with Magic Leap, helped design the Voice and Gesture interface of the Xbox One and has published many vision pieces on the future of computing.

Jared also is an Interactive Artist having directed the SXSW Interactive Opening party. His pieces provoke an examination of technology vs humanism have been activated around the world including in Black Rock City home of the social experiment known as Burning Man. He speaks international about Design, Art & Technology and was the first person to bring live fire onto the TED stage in his talk “Eyes Can Hear”

Jo is a DevRel Engineer at Deno. She is passionate about improving developer experience, teaching good use of JS and TS and building sparkly, wearable, internet connected tech. She mentors junior developers, advocates for mental health awareness and is devoted to improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Brad Frost is a design system consultant, web designer & developer, speaker, writer, teacher, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He helps people establish & evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and design & build software together. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.

Brad recently started the Design Tokens Course together with his brother Ian.

Thorsten is a digital Sustainability Activist, responsible AI advocate and Sustainable UX Trailblazer. He is the founder of the non-profit initiative and global community SUX Network and of the SUX Academy, co-leads the UX chapter of the W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines and is the host of the SUX Podcast.

Thorsten is guiding, advising and teaching designers and product-managers as well as design- and product-teams or entire organisations in crafting sustainable, responsible and ethical digital products while using tech and AI in a responsible way. His passion for the outdoors and mountaineering drives his commitment to making sustainability and responsibility a fundamental aspect of digital design and the digital world in general.

Sacha Judd is a writer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. She’s spent the last decade advising and investing in technology startups, and speaking about the intersection of the tech sector and fan communities at conferences like Velocity, Webstock, and Beyond Tellerrand. She has written on these topics for Letterboxd’s Journal, The Spinoff, Shit you Should Care About, and has been quoted in Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone and has an out of control LEGO collection. You can subscribe to her newsletter here.

Cabeza Patata is a multidisciplinary studio specialising in character design. Created by Katie Menzies and Abel Reverter in 2018, their world of playful characters, full of energy and positivity, pop everywhere in campaigns for clients like Google, LEGO, Spotify, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.

A love of crafts has been with Cabeza Patata from the outset and is part of everything they do. Even in digital work, the beauty of imperfections is always present. They love mixing techniques and exploring how new technologies can be applied to traditional methods.

Ana works as a front-end developer at tech-for-good agency Hactar. She started coding as a teenager building fan sites, and has been working as a front-end developer for the last 12 years.

Nowadays, Ana spends most of her free time experimenting on her personal blog and is particularly interested in ethics, IndieWeb, sustainability, privacy, and all things CSS.

Hannah is Director of Operations for Green Web Foundation and co-founder of Green Tech South West.

She has a background in Computer Science. She previously worked as a freelance WordPress developer, and also for the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She lives in the temperate rainforest in Exmoor National Park, UK.