Charles Waples FRSA's Linkedin Analytics

Charles is an Innovation Programme Delivery Manager at Digital Catapult which is the UK's leading advanced digital technology innovation centre driving early adoption, making UK businesses more competitive and productive, to help grow the UK economy. Recently delivered Heritage XR - a new Immersive programme for Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival and specialised in stakeholder management. As Delivery Lead on Samsung's Solve For Tomorrow 2022, a programme aimed at the 16-24 years age group, seeking new tech solutions to societal issues and bringing together young innovators from across the UK onto this landmark programme from Samsung Electronics producing new solutions in diversity, education, sustainability and social isolation. The programme culminated in awards ceremony at Samsung London in the presence of the Minister of State for Digital Media and Culture, and the CEO of Digital Catapult. In the previous year Charles, along with the CreativeXR Programme team worked on the onboarding of a cohort of 20 creative companies. Charles' company - Scribes Like Us - continues to provide Graphic Recording and Facilitation, ( live capture on boards, walls or digital media during business workshops, conversations, conferences and meetings) and for clients including the big four global consultancies providing work based on Design Thinking and collaborative methodologies such as MG Taylor - with Rich Pictures, Storyboards (for business and TV/Film) and Caricature. Published illustrator of Comic Books, Book illustration and film and advertising storyboards. Charles started as an actor and writer, working across British TV and Film, including BBC, Channel Four, Sky and ITV and has provided Graphic work for boutique marketing and consultancy companies, PR agencies and Marketing Companies since 2002. This work has been embraced by Government, Advisory, Defence, Media, Consultancy, Change Management, Blockchain. Film and Television.