It was energetic and very much felt like a community. I was particularly impressed by all the ways it made the conference accessible (people with kids, live captioning etc.)
Camp Digital 2027: design and digital conference
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)
Description
Camp Digital brings together people from across design, technology and digital for a day of inspiring talks, bright ideas and thought-provoking conversations.
Expect practical insights, fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking about topics including UX, accessibility, content, service design, product management, emerging technology and more.
In 2027, Camp Digital celebrates its 15th anniversary. For 15 years, we've brought together curious minds from across the digital community to share ideas, challenge assumptions and learn from one another. We'll be celebrating the bright ideas that have shaped our community, exploring the conversations that matter today, and creating space for new thinking about the future.
Whether you're a designer, researcher, developer, content specialist, product leader or digital strategist, Camp Digital offers the opportunity to learn from experts, connect with peers and return to work with new ideas and inspiration.
Our speakers
Seyi Akiwoko
Seyi Akiwowo is a governance architect bringing a public health approach to AI and digital safety. She helps organisations move from cleaning up harm after it happens to designing it out from the start, building duty of care into how products are made, how services are commissioned and the questions boards ask. She started in public service, elected at 23 as the youngest Black female councillor in East London. After facing coordinated online abuse, she founded Glitch, which grew into Europe’s leading charity tackling online abuse and helped shape debate on the Online Safety Act. She has sat on TikTok and Twitter’s Trust and Safety Councils and Yoti’s ethics council, and advised product and policy teams at Google Jigsaw, Pinterest and Virgin Media O2. Seyi is the author of How to Stay Safe Online (Penguin), a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and a Policy Fellow at Royal Holloway’s London Social Media Observatory. www.seyiakiwowo.com
Gavin Strange
By Day, Gavin is a Director and Designer for the UK’s beloved creative studio Aardman Animations. By night he goes under the alias of JamFactory, indulging in all manner of passion projects from music to movies. He’s a keynote speaker, giving creative talks around the world from Berlin to Buckingham Palace and he’s the author behind the motivational mantra ‘DO Fly’, published by the DO Book Company.
Lou Downe
Lou Downe is the author of Good Services, the bestselling book on how to design services that work and the founding director of the School of Good Services Lou is the former Director of Design for the UK Government where they founded the discipline of service design, growing a 2000 strong team of designers into one of the largest, and most influential design team’s in the UK - winning a Designs of the Year award and a D&AD lifetime achievement award Before this Lou’s career spanned big cultural organisations, telcos, banks and most of the regulated industries you can think of where they developed an expertise for developing services under challenging conditions Lou is a hugely experienced and engaging coach and speaker and delivers the majority of courses and coaching here at the school
Sarah Drummond
Sarah Drummond is the co-founder and ex-CEO of Snook, where she built one of the first and most successful Service Design practices in the UK from the ground up and went on to become the Chief Digital Officer of NEC Software Solutions Sarah brings a wealth of experience of building service design capability inside organisations across Government, third and private sector Sarah was given an honorary doctorate from the Glasgow School of Art for services to design in 2019, awarded a Google Fellowship for her work in technology and democratic innovation and was named as Good magazine’s 100 extraordinary individuals tackling global issues in creative ways for CycleHack, an initiative to reduce barriers to cycling. Sarah sits on the board of Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park and previously held trustee positions at Withyou, a mental health, drug and alcohol charity
Ettie Bailey-King
Tash Willocks
Tash Willcocks is a facilitator, learning designer, and creative leader in the design and digital space with over 30 years’ experience helping people unlock ideas, confidence, and collaboration. From leading MA programmes at Hyper Island to building digital academies at Snook and TPXimpact, Tash has shaped thousands of changemakers across government, healthcare, and the creative industries. Her practice blends facilitation, service design, and systems thinking to create spaces where people feel safe to explore, challenge, and learn by doing. She’s worked with organisations like the BBC, NHS, UN, and Adidas, always with a focus on making learning stick, building psychological safety, and turning theory into practice.
Zhen Yang
FAQs
- Who is Camp Digital for?
Camp Digital is for people who design, build, manage and improve digital products and services. Our audience includes designers, researchers, developers, content specialists, accessibility professionals, service designers, product managers, digital leaders and more.
If you're curious about digital and want to learn from others, you'll fit right in.
- What can I expect from the day?
Expect a full day of talks, workshops and conversations with people from across design, technology and digital.
The programme combines inspiring stories, practical lessons and fresh perspectives on topics including UX, accessibility, content, service design, product management, research and emerging technology. There'll also be plenty of opportunities to meet other attendees, share ideas and continue the conversation throughout the day.
- Is food provided?
Yes. Lunch, refreshments and snacks are included with your ticket.
We'll do our best to accommodate dietary requirements provided during registration.
- What accessibility support is available?
We want Camp Digital to be as welcoming and accessible as possible.
The venue offers step-free access and accessible facilities throughout. We also work hard to make the event itself accessible, including providing captioning for talks and clear event information in advance.
If there's anything we can do to support your attendance, please let us know when booking or contact us at hello@nexerdigital.com.
- What does the livestream ticket include?
Livestream tickets include access to the Camp Digital 2027 main stage talks.
Workshops and networking activities are only available to in-person attendees.
Testimonials
The people, the atmosphere, the celebration of digital and that it was in Manchester. An excellent, enjoyable uplifting event.
I love it all, best conference of the year by far, always.
Inspiring and interesting talks, great opportunity to meet like-minded people and learn about brilliant work people are doing.
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