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Please join us for some thought provoking conversation with interesting people keen on design thinking. This month Ben Crothers will be helping us to reimagine our design meetings, to make them better for ourselves, and the teams and clients we work with.

Make Your Meetings by Design, Not by Default
Love 'em or loathe 'em, meetings are a big part of design in particular, and work in general. But often they're like the Tips app on the iPhone: they're kinda useless, and we wonder why they're there in the first place. If design meetings were a product, what job are we really hiring them to do, especially in the face of so much change? And can we uninstall them, and design something better?

No, this isn't all about "10 Winning Ways to Actually Keep People Engaged in Your Zoom Meetings". Join fellow meeting-sufferer Ben Crothers, as together we bash meetings for the gaudy inert piñatas that they are, watch their innards burst out, and then use our combined design powers to rebuild them to be the powerful gatherings of productivity and meaning that they should be.

ABOUT BEN CROTHERS
Ben has been involved in design since before Netscape ruled the www, and is still nostalgic about typesetting pages by rubbing letters out on paper from those thousands of stupid Letraset sheets. Ben is currently Principal Facilitator at Bright Pilots (his online training and facilitation business), and spends a lot of his time teaching design and facilitation techniques, running strategic workshops, and helping teams get un-stuck. Previous to Bright Pilots, Ben was Principal Designer at Atlassian, a design director at Second Road (a strategic innovation consultancy), plus some assorted startups, agencies, and government departments.

Above all, Ben wants everyone to be just as good at the whiteboard as they are at the keyboard, to be better at thinking, communicating, and solving problems visually. He's the author of a few books, including Presto Sketching: Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design. He also begrudgingly enjoys pandemic lockdown pastimes such as veggie gardening and baking bagels.

EVENT SPONSOR
Thanks again to ThoughtWorks, our long standing event sponsor.

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