Glug Reading – #3

Hi Gluggers,

We're very much looking forward to welcome you to our 3rd Glug Reading event on the 7th of July. We've got some great speakers lined up for you so make sure to RSVP now before the tickets are gone...

See you all very soon!

Glug Reading

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Line up

The Dots – Pip Jamieson

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Pip Jamieson, Founder of The Dots (https://the-dots.com/). Best described as a ‘LinkedIn for creatives’, The Dots is a creative networking platform designed to help creatives showcase work, network, collaborate and (most importantly) connect with opportunities. An entrepreneur with a distinctive marmite laugh (you either love it or you hate it) Pip has spent the last 13 years immersed in the creative industries, including executive roles at MTV Australia and New Zealand.

Ben Holliday, Head of User Experience, DWP

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Head of User Experience at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Ben Holliday has, over the last 18 months, established a large design team working across DWP’s digital services.

He was previously a User Experience designer at FreeAgent and has also worked with the Government Digital Service (GDS).

Ben is joining Glug Reading to talk about his experience working in the UK Government, building a design team, and why design matters if you want to deliver successful products and services.

Blog: benholiiday.com (http://benholiiday.com/)
Twitter: @benholiday

Christina Ohanian
The App Business

As an avid agile evangelist, Christina is passionate about helping build and support self-organising teams and individuals from the ground up. She is especially interested in finding new techniques and ways of empowering teams. As a member of the Agile community of practice, she is a regular conference speaker and workshop facilitator, both in the UK and abroad. She’s also a Graphics Illustrator and enjoys bringing this into the workspace to facilitate meetings.

We’re super-excited that Christina will be talking to Glug Reading about Creative spaces for creative thinking, as organisations increasingly realise that space plays a critical part in enabling creative thinking, innovation and greater agility.

In her talk, she’ll draw upon why she thinks creative spaces have such a great impact on ideas, dynamics and most of all team performance - be it technical software development teams, or non-technical sales teams. Christina will share her top tips, to help us think about building a workspace to inspire our own/ team's creativity.

Christina started her career right here in Reading, as a test engineer for Yell.com's scrum team.

Blog: http://www.agileandsketch.com/
Twitter: @ctohanian

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