Claire Carroll
Claire has built an impactful 20 year career in strategic innovation roles analysing and implementing the evolution of digital, media and technology to grow and scale businesses.
She has led teams working with Richard Branson’s B-Team on the future of work, doing groundbreaking research into the societal paradox of data privacy and personalisation (published in Harvard Business Review), and building a world-first prototype of digital identity for ID2020 & the United Nations using blockchain and biometrics to give refugees, in particular, validated proof of identity.
More recently, Claire was Director of The Human Insights Lab, at Accenture’s Global Centre for Innovation, where she pioneered a new team of social scientists and public engagement specialists to cultivate action research at the intersection of business, technology and society.
Claire’s primary focus is on devising public/private partnerships to design and bring about systemic change.
Niall Morahan
Niall is a transdisciplinary designer, researcher and educator with a background in social impact.
Working with a range of clients on their most complex problems, he has surpported the UK Ministry of Justice to help young offenders break the cycle of crime, Oxfordshire CCG to integrate people with complex needs safely back into their communities, and many more from Vodafone and BCG-Digital Ventures to The British Design Council.
Niall is a serial social entrepreneur, with a focus on education. In 2014 he founded Project 42 in the UK, a holistic programme of open-ended immersive learning experiences for young people that help them develop their confidence, empathy and problem-solving.
Across all his work Niall pushes an inclusive and future-focused agenda, forging unlikely partnerships and collaborative ideas Niall holds an M.A. in Service Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a B.A. in psychology and English from Trinity College Dublin.