Days Of Futures Passed

A podcast with guests who share the grand visions of the future from history and science fiction that inspired them as children.

Host

Theo Priestley

Keynote speaker, fractional CxO, advisor, startup mentor, storyteller, technology evangelist, author, futurist, entrepreneur, gamer, cat slave, sci-fi aficionado.
 
For all speaker enquiries please visit: https://www.theopriestley.com

Keynote Speaker, Fractional CxO

HackerNoon

Winner - Most Read Stories of 2023
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2022
Nominated - Tech Storyteller of the Year 2022
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2021

Contributing Writer

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A comprehensive history of tomorrow, exploring groundbreaking topics including Virtual Reality, AI, Privacy, Education, Economics and the Future of Work.

"The more people that read this, the better the quality of debate and planning going forward. If you have any interest in the shape of the future then this is a must-read!"
 
"This book is a fantastic collation of ideas, insights and analysis on what the future holds. It will challenge you and make you think about how your actions impact the future."

Order the book - now available through Bloomsbury directly, Amazon, Target, Waterstones, and many other international booksellers.

Author - The Future Starts Now

Metanomic

Raised venture capital to build a web3 and video game real-time analytics platform using AI. Led a fully remote, international team to deliver two products in rapid succession (one MVP, one full v1.0), built the client and partner pipeline before handing over to Sales.

Acquired in 2023.

FutureOn

Driving marketing, branding and PR for a unique cloud-based real-time visualization and collaboration platform – FieldTwin – helping Integrated Energy Companies make smarter and faster decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Vice President Marketing

We Didn't Start The Fire

A 13 episode podcast series that covered a multitude of business and technology trends leaving no stone unturned.

CSignum

Ownership of marketing, branding and PR for an offshore engineering company that manufactures patented wireless and cable-free data communications systems for the energy, environmental, transportation and aquaculture sectors.

Rebranded from WFS Technologies following a management buyout.

RawShark Studios

Bootstrapped game design studio working on web3 game projects.

Founder/ Head Of Studio

HTC Vive

Startup Mentor

Please note I no longer use LinkedIn on a regular basis. 
Visit theopriestley.com for contact details, or medium.com/@theo for articles.

ASTRA

Building a new way to discover products in virtual reality before they exist in real life called Astra!

Founder & Product Lead

Agrify Technologies

Building a platform that connects companies looking to offset carbon emissions to regenerative agriculture projects in Africa, enabling global business reach net zero and also meet SDG goals at the same time.

Waves

Building in stealth a web3 + ai marketplace to bring power to beat makers and producers. Received grant from flow blockchain to build MVP now contesting in the flow hackcthon 2023.

Geomiq

Using Heuristic evaluation and competitor analysis to improve design debt with ux optimization designing research around previous and current complaints directly from customers that have been lodged with the sales team.

User Experience Designer

Vogue Business

Working as a Product Designer in an Agile team consisting of two devs and a product owner for Vogue Business at Conde Nast. Work included doing lean UX involving competitor analysis, user journey mapping, card sort tests, and heuristic evaluation to design a registration journey and account management page. Worked hand in hand with the Devs and product owner in a role that involved UX & UI skills.

Product Designer

Worked as a midweight UX Designer at the BT consumer studio for the Mobile & Core Agile teams. Learnt every day how to apply an agile philosophy into a UX process that wasn't inherently agile and worked on some interesting projects to increase the sales of BT Mobile, BT TV, BT Broadband & BT Sport.

World Kite ltd

Working as a hybrid UX Researcher, Designer, Product Owner and Digital Recruiter at Worldkite a start-up fixing travel documentation for tax and visa residency applications. Worked on user stories with the stakeholders and designed a user journey, then recruited a visual artist and product designer to create the prototype. Tested the prototype with users and used feedback to create a better prototype now working with developers to bring it to life.

Product Owner

Fresh Prints

-Tasked with redesigning the company's home page to fit its new brand image. 
-Using Sketch app to create five high-resolution mockups within a limited timeframe. 
-Interviewing Campus Managers to understand features needed for the home page.
-Collaborating with one other UX/UI designer.

UX Research Intern

Startup Institute

Selected from a highly-competitive applicant pool for an accelerator program.
Startup Institute gives people the skills, mindset, and network to be high-impact
employees at innovative companies.

Coursework:
• Developing KPIs, Product requirement documents and MVPs 
• How to lead cross-functional teams from a product's conception through to its launch
• Develop a new product for portfolio - currently conducting additional research and interviews
• Intern with a partner company to help them achieve their goal 
• Conducting user research and testing
• Analyze market and competitive conditions
• Familiarity with tools like Trello, JIRA, Axure, Adobe XD, Agile and Google Analytics
• Best practices and techniques for responsive design
• Wireframing, low-fidelity mockups, A/B testing and rapid prototyping
• HTML, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery
• Effective portfolio presentation

Tabitha Cumi

Doing a UX Audit of the Tabitha Cumi website using Usability tools such as Optimizely, Hotjar & Crazy Egg to understand why customers were not converting, and then redesigning the website with new copy which lead to an increase in conversion by 15%.

Contract UX Designer 

Startup Founder, Innovation Manager & Product Design Lead

Delz is a lifelong student of Product Innovation with a background in Economics and Masters degrees in Marketing Management and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. 

In the past, he's worked at companies like BT & Conde Nast as a user experience designer getting mentorship from product innovators, and learning how to design products to be used by millions of people at the highest of standards. 

He's has now founded startups researching and designing new product ideas using web3 technology like Gaming, Audio, Crypto and Extended Reality (AR/VR) to play a part in the creation of a more immersive & decentralised web experience otherwise known as the Metaverse.

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