Talks

29 entries

2022

Bold creativity winsCreativity in practice: bringing an idea to fruition. The online school built in six days, and what happens to the ideas that don’t make it.
How to scale your data teamWith Thomas in’t Veld of Tasman Analytics, at dbt’s Coalesce London 2022: how On Deck pulled 400-plus SaaS tools into one data platform without a data team.

Unlocking Potential (keynote)He was provocative and challenging at the same time as being positive and inspiring. He fulfilled his brief completely and was very flexible in the lead up to his keynote- flexing the content and checking with me that he was getting the messaging right.

Life, Time, Value ConferenceStef Lewandowski at LTVConf 2017.
LTV Conf podcast, episode 5After a life-changing illness at 19, Stef vowed to create something every day. He tried agency-life and the VC-world but it turned out working alongside his wife on her passion project was the way to finally to balance their family life with their work life.

Building early-stage startupsA talk on building early-stage startups, while building Makelight, at the London Startup Growth Meetup.
The EphemeraldHow to get things done as a serial side-project maker, at RedMonk’s Monki Gras 2016.
Sketching out the futureA talk at UX Brighton 2016 on sketching with code: making the thing to find out whether it should exist.

Accenture (speaking engagement)Stef was great and delivered a great presentation and the audience found it very engaging. he recieved high praise and was a very approachable guy.
ColourAn improvised talk about creativity using my Deck Roulette format. A series of randomised slides based on a set of images and slide titles. Whatever the computer chooses next is what you have to talk about!
Starting with a hackSoftware developer Stef Lewandowski kicks off the session with a talk about starting new projects, gaining ownership over your own process and keeping your business playful.
The Gender Setting: Flexible Technology, Narrow SexualityA FutureFest 2015 discussion session, billed with Stef Lewandowski as “Technologist, Artist and Startup Founder”.
Hack, play, learn.A hack-first approach to prototyping ideas in parallel to find the ones that work.

Create Something Every DayWhat I’ve learnt having this as my general rule for living for half my life. I did the talk as a hack by making it randomly pick from a set of slides so I didn’t know what would come next!
Sketching with DataA 15 minute talk about the “hackableness” and malleability of data, and some of the sketchy, playful hacks I’ve been doing in my spare time that perhaps point towards an opportunity to improve how playful we can be with data.
Teach Your Kids to Create as Well as Consume GamesA 20x20 Pecha Kucha lightning talk (I’d never used this format before!) including how to be a robot dad and how to play with Scratch.
Leancamp London 3Stef Lewandowski spoke at Leancamp London 3.

A Morning with MakeshiftStef Lewandowski spoke at Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013.
Hack, Play, Learn (Hacker News London)What we’re learning by building play, failure and parallelism into the Makeshift process.
Hack, Make, ShiftAn overview of our stage-gate process for evaluating new ideas.
Hack, Play, Learn (Tech Talkfest, Google Campus)“Hack, Play, Learn” is the part of the Makeshift process that precedes the “Build, Measure, Learn” workflow that many people will be familiar with.
In conversation: Max Fraser, Stef Lewandowski and Christopher RaeburnWhat a collaboration between a fashion designer and a creative technologist looks like, at Wearable Futures 2013.

Find Better ProblemsI gave a short talk at the first Find Better Problems event.
Hacking an IslandAbout my hacker residency on the island of Eigg.

media140 Frontiers: BarcelonaStef Lewandowski spoke at media140 Frontiers: Barcelona.

Now Try FailingA graduation ceremony talk about allowing yourself to fail so that you can succeed.

Common Purpose — The Entrepreneur’s GameYesterday I was playing a ‘dragon in the den’ at a Common Purpose event as part of their Navigator Programme on leadership development.

Authenticity of PlaceI was one of a handful of speakers at the initiation event around the next ten years of regeneration of the city of Birmingham. My word was “Authenticity”, which is something easily lost in a project of this kind.

Museums on the Web conference (V&A Arts and Crafts)Presented at Museums on the Web conference.