Internet, charities, chocolate & dogs.
Founder, chair, director or trustee of a truly marvelous list of organisations that this box is too narrow too contain 🏳️🌈
Previously a social media fan. See me about public funding for innovative creative industries businesses in the UK. Knitting and crocheting. And probably complaining about trains/the weather/aging.
Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Loss to Hope and Collective Imagined Futures - the artist role.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
I've been a long-time supporter of the government technology and transformation communities since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, TransformGov Talks and the UK Polyamory Association.
Author: Villager, 1983, Everything Will Swallow You. Shirley Jackson Horror Writing Award winner who doesn’t write horror. "Hilarious" - Stephen Fry. "Made me laugh out loud" - David Sedaris. "Arrived damaged." - Amazon reviewer https://www.tom-cox.com
Engineering and ML/AI @Dutch Government & @Ditto · Formerly @Spotify @DPGMediaIT @GoogleAI @BlendleNL · Intern @MSFTResearch @yandexcom · PhD from @irlab_amsterdam · https://anneschuth.nl
Digital strategist and service designer ✨ Leyton lowlife 🤷♀️
Director at dxw. Most things public sector digital and comms. Sheffielder in London.
Content design, measurement, crockery and cycling. Usually around Glasgow.
Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.
Public service innovation - independent adviser and consultant. Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Associate Fellow at IPPR. Senior Advisor at PPL.
Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer
Public sector Product and Delivery person, Husband, Dad and Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg.
Persistent tapping will break the stone.
#IStillBelieveInDigitalTransformation
Own views - mostly about:
Cymraeg / Welsh 🏴
User-centred services for public good
Agile, public service, facilitation. He/him.
Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Co-founder of https://www.ff.studio/
I find LinkedIn a bit inhumane, so lets try this place. All my thinking out loud is my own.
Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
https://www.cattell.com
I run The Pensions Regulator's Data and Digital Industry Working Group.
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
CEO at YoungMinds. Society, technology, design, change. Hoping this is a more hopeful place.
Service designer, tinkerer and generally just getting in the way, UK Gov. #weeknotes
Foodie and geek. Dad to two great boys. Ramblings and views mine. Boosts, posts, toots and reblogs ≠ endorsement.
🐘 @ed@me.dm
🦋 @garcez.eu
old tweets here > https://egarcez.github.io
Senior Director @ Public Digital, but these views are just mine. Also at @robmiller31@mastodon.social and occasionally blogging at bytherye.com/about-me/. Have quit the Bad Place.
Head of Design for GOV.UK at GDS. Ex HM Land Registry. Public speaker. Observer of humans. Crisp connoisseur. Yarn hoarder. Northerner.
Knows her own know best. Agile comms and content design. Curator of @allconsuming.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
Previously CDIO, Crown Prosecution Service. Personally: LFC, Barnet rugby ‘coach’ and cello.
Information manager, Long Covid, dementia care, choral singing. An atheist of Jewish extraction who really likes Anglican churchgoing. She/ Her.
Something will turn up; it usually does
I love plain language, content design, cats, chickens and floating on doughnuts in Portuguese and Spanish swimming pools. ☀️
From Liverpool 🇬🇧 Live in NZ 🇳🇿
Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Digital government and open source policy/research. Senior Policy Advisor at at OpenForum Europe. Formerly with Public Digital and the Digital Impact Alliance. You can also ask me about coffee, bagels, improv, films, books and travel! Views my own.
Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/
She/Her Mouth almighty, spoonie, deaf af, horror nerd, cat owner, queer, anti-racist, I stand with all LGBTQA+
No TERFS, No SWERFS
Currently recovering from a stroke
Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Doctor, clinical leader, clinical digital health lead@RCP usable health tech enthusiast
Director at Public Digital.
Systems Change Sherpa
Helping people understand and access generative AI tools
Creative Industries (again)
Supporting Ukraine defend against the genocidal invasion by our barbaric neighbour
Tango dancing
Sauna enthusiast
Study level flight simulators
Head of Tech, Data, Experience Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. Public Sector Endurance Medallist. Wife to music writer Harold Heath. Daughter of a loop da loop era.
The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Humanist, agilist, ale-ist. DOGS. Sometimes, I write things down at jamiearnold.com.
Hello friend it’s sandwiches alright 🥪
Also baking bread / cakes, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data 📊
He / Him
user researcher
Cambridge, UK
he | him
banner is a photo of Composition 8: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1924
Content accessibility, music is music, Luddite, tax the rich. Profile pic= HAL9000. Banner pic=my god, it’s full of stars. 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🐝
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
LCFC supporter, going very grey, older and sometimes wiser, fighting my natural levels of sarcasm. Working to be the best i can at leading innovative and transformative people and teams. Also fitting in parenting 3 amazing kids.
Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner.
Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Generalist civic technologist (& final year DPhil). Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://digitalbydefault.com/
Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion.
Londoner in Merseyside.
Blog at emilywebber.co.uk
Biz at hellotacit.com
Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk
Geek. Cymru. Digital technology specialist. Consulting Practice CTO at Public Digital. Independent Member for Digital at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Co-founder of GDS. Views my own.
Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
Director at Public Digital, supporting organisations through radical transformation. Spent 20+ year in UK LocalGov, and 6 years at Placecube working with councils to co-design and develop an open source SaaS digital platform.
Husband, dad, chemist, services, gardening and thinking the best of people
Tax and gov and rock and roll.
Director at Public Digital. Ex GDS, Dept of Health, NHS Digital, Doctorlink and accuRx
I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Partner and healthcare lead @publicdigital.bsky.social Walthamstow via Durham.
Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder Lithos Partners, DWXS and 300 Seconds. Gym bore. Takes too many photos of Amsterdam.
Chair/NED/Adviser #localgov, "digital", governance, strategy, democracy, data, operational research. Militant optimism. Slightly retired so also: travel, theatre, WRU :-( , F1, politics-watcher, Wingnut and CFA superfan. Harpenden. #dysgwyr
Digital, woodworking and eco dad living (repair cafe, EV, solar, heat pump) in south London. Work-wise now: still celebrating Railway200, digitising wartime letters and troubleshooting tech/supplier/team issues. https://stephgray.com/now
Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (GB National Champions ‘24). Prolific knitter. She/her
Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Running ff.studio, listening to Taylor Swift. Brighton / London.
Technical product person. Love data, interop, tech plumbing ❤️. Organiser of @nhshackday and @ukhealthcamp
Also at @mattstibbs@mastodon.social and @mattstibbs@x.com
digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Director of Digital at Northumberland County Council. Cyclist. Purveyor of trees. I draw.
Data/AI policy @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
(Political) philosophy of tech @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
Views my own 🔮✨
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
He doing organisation development and design. Farming and Countryside Programme, Defra. #OneTeamGov, @ukgovcamp.bsky.social
Government romantic and lover of decaf tea.
Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
