Sponsoring Camp Digital – 3rd July 2025

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I have attended the excellent Camp Digital conference in Manchester many times (I think seven all together). I sponsored the conference this time. I had a stand which was in a great position at the top of the stairs as people came up for refreshments and lunch.

I live in Dorset now, so we drove up on Wednesday to stay in Leeds near family and I braved the trains from Leeds on the morning of the event.

My stand which was a 6ft table with a double ended table runner showing two versions of my logo, my laptop and a screen showing my website and an easel with a foam board displaying a laminated A2 version of my start canvas and some stickers. I brought along some business cards, some fidget things to give away and some kudos cards which people found interesting. I am a big fan of appreciation. You can also see my mini fan which was essential on the day and a piece of cake which was lovely. Alt text – my logo is a circle with 21st Century Mindset – Illuminating the way forward together around the outside and multicoloured overlapping shapes in turquoise, jade, yellow, orange, dark green and black

My alternative logo 21st Century Mindset. – Alt text grey background 21st Century in black and Mindset in black with the colours of my logo across ‘INDSE’. Turquoise, jade, yellow, orange and dark green.

I had an entry on the website partners page:

21st Century Mindset helps teams thrive by fostering psychological safety, trust, and collaboration. Specialising in supporting your already neurodiverse teams, we create conditions for innovation and growth. Let’s unlock your team’s potential!

I had some great conversations with people who were very interested in talking about neurodivergence, workshops and 1:1 & team coaching. In my experience, a high proportion of people attracted to work in change have some aspects of neurodivergence. Lots of us are attracted to creative and VUCA environments. Lots are also attracted to the public and 3rd sectors.

I got to see two sessions, I couldn’t miss Jukesie talking about The Power, peril and privilege of working in the open. I have seen him speak about working in the open quite a few times at Service Design in Government, and various GovCamp conversations. This one was pitched differently. It was more personal and he talked about the impact of being open. It was a great talk and you should catch it when the videos are released. Here is where you can find the videos from previous years and I would expect that the ones from this year will appear soon.

Matt had a lovely slide with a list of people who inspired and supported him including Vicky Teinaki 💙.

Matt on the ‘stage’ in front of a huge screen. on the screen a list of names. Humans.txt matt thompson, laura dewis, matt webb, rachel coldicutt, anil dash, coco chan, dan barrett, dan hon, russell davies, melody kramer, martin weller, sam villis, tom loosemore, audree fletcher, ann kempster, giles turnbull, emily webber, jeni tennison, matt edgar, steve messer, james higgott, laura hilliger, james cattell, janet hughes, stefan czeniawski, vicky teinaki, louise cato, doug belshaw, sarah prag, james herbert, hilary hartly, neil williams, ella fitzsimmons, terence eden, anna shipman, will myddelton, honey dacanay, richard pope, steph gray, alice bartlett, simon wilson, cyd harrell, ian ames, lou downe, martin jordan, sarah drummond, jeremy gould, elizabeth ayer, dave briggs, kelsey gee, benjy stanton, jamie arnold

The other session I saw was the excellent 300 seconds with Sharon O’Dea and six brilliant new speakers. There was at least three who talked about things I don’t know much about and found really interesting and they were all great on stage.

Lunch was really good and I managed to only have two pieces of the excellent lemon drizzle cake.

I had to make a quick exit to get back before the park and ride bus service finished, (which I failed to do thanks Northern Rail) but I did manage to catch up with James and Dave (in what Dave termed a Bougie coffee place) in the morning.