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Matt Webb

Founder of Acts Not Facts

A middle-aged white man on stage with a microphone gesticulating as he stares into the future.

About Matt Webb

Matt Webb is founder of London-based studio Acts Not Facts. For 20 years he has collaborated with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology. He is currently manufacturing a clock that tells the time with AI-composed poems (Poem/1, at poem.town) and created the app Galactic Compass.

Previously Matt has run startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, was co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, and in 2004 he co-authored Mind Hacks, a pop science dive into cognitive neuroscience.

Non-human teammates and AI clocks

What is it like to work with AI? What is it like to live with AI? Matt explores…

  • some high-level models for AI collaboration
  • how a multiplayer approach unlocks human-AI interaction design
  • what it feels like to hang out with AI anyway.

Matt is speaking on day two, June 19th

Day two focuses on Product Design.