Canvas X
Location
Birmingham , United KingdomAttendance
In-person and Online Event
About Canvas X
Canvas is a single day digital product conference sharing insider stories and actionable insights for the community of designers, engineers, owners, strategists, CDOs, CPOs and more. Each year Canvas brings together a collection of voices that offer new ways to approach creating digital products and experiences - this year Canvas turns 10 and they’re celebrating in style!
Canvas X will be hosted at Cineworld Birmingham on November 18 - they have exclusive access to the entire venue for the full day and are delighted to welcome some of the most influential minds in digital product to share their insider stories and insights with the community. The speakers lead by example, not just by job title. No sales pitches. No corporate evangelists. Just real-life stories from people creating world-class digital products and experiences. You can expect faces from Monzo, Gymshark, Zoopla, Beam, ITV, Sketch and InVsion (with more being announced soon!)
Speakers
Learn more about Vuokko Aro
Vuokko is a VP of Design at Monzo, where she leads Design across the company’s customer-facing surfaces: Personal Banking, Business Banking, and Brand & Card Design. Over the past four years she’s worked to scale the team and its culture through phases of hypergrowth while leading designers to create a high-quality, user-centric product that creates revenue. Before Monzo, Vuokko worked as a Product Designer in startups across London and NYC.
Learn more about Ben Francis
Ben Francis is the Founder and ambitious entrepreneur behind leading UK fitness brand, Gymshark. Ben founded Gymshark when he was 19 years old, while still a student at Aston University. In addition to his full-time commitment to his studies, Ben juggled working as a pizza delivery man to fund his Gymshark venture. In August 2020, Gymshark became the first DTC brand in the UK to achieve Unicorn status with no external capital funding. The recent investment partnership with General Atlantic will see Gymshark become a true global brand.
Learn more about Seb Mills
Seb Mills is Digital Product Director at Gymshark, an innovative and rapidly growing fitness clothing brand. During his first 5 years at Gymshark he started and lead the tech function. More recently he has moved to focus on all things Digital/Tech Product. Responsible for looking after the what, when and why of Gymshark’s digital landscape. The ever-expanding Product team is made up of Product Managers, Analysts, Designers, Researchers and Content Managers.
Learn more about Jo Wickremasinghe
Jo has led a number of product teams at News UK, Microsoft, the BBC and Babylon Health. Born and raised in Australia, Jo started her career as an Aerospace Engineer, moving to the UK in 1998. In 2000 she got into tech, joining MSN during the first dotcom bubble. She is currently VP of Product at Zoopla, helping to drive enterprise growth and radically improve the consumer and customer experiences of property.
Learn more about Flora Devlin
Flora recently joined Beam as Head of Product. Beam has a mission that is close to her heart - helping homeless people get back into independent work - and building innovative and intuitive products are central to that mission. Before that Flora worked at Monzo where she was product director and managed a team of product managers and led the strategy, vision and direction for about 50 people. Before that, Flora worked in both product and data science at Intercom in Dublin & London and Hootsuite in Vancouver, Canada. Her passion is in roles that are creative, collaborative and involve solving real problems for people.
Learn more about Stu Jones
With over 25 years in Digital Consumer facing services, Stu has steered the Product ship on some of the UK's most well-known brands including The Telegraph, Nando’s, KFC, Betfair, Channel 4 and currently ITV where he is Head of Product for ITV Hub. He’s currently establishing and executing the product strategy for the next phase of VOD Streaming in the UK.
Canvas X trailer
Price
Virtual Location
Venue
Cineworld
181 Broad Street
B15 1DA, Birmingham
United Kingdom