Cassie Robinson who will set the context for this afternoon of talks and discussions, introducing some of the central ideas and explorations we'll encounter as the day unfolds.

Speaker Cassie Robinson

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Alongside being a Co-founder of the Point People, Cassie is Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund where she’s responsible for Innovation, Policy and Practice, and a £60 Million budget. She’s also a Fellow at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University, a Policy Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL, founder of Stewarding Loss and Co-founder of Funder Ecosystems. Cassie is a Nesta Creative Pioneer, she sits on the Board of Organise HQ, and teaches on the MSc in Ecological Design and the Ecologies + Technologies programme at Schumacher College. She is on the Faculty of States of Change, and is one of the International Futures Forum Clan.

Cassie’s career hasn’t taken a traditional linear route. She prefers to live in more liminal spaces, and she’s taken on roles and projects that span the whole ecosystem of social change. From these places her passion is centred on connecting new thinking and practice, weaving together networks and growing relationships, always with the goal of justice – a more equitable and regenerative society. She’s spent time as Strategic Design Director at Doteveryone, a responsible technology think tank, as well as working directly with government departments (including DCMS and the Cabinet Office) and social businesses such as the Co-op. Cassie sees narrative and culture as an integral part of social change and she’s produced programmes of work that have shown at places like the Barbican, Somerset House and the Royal Festival hall. You can explore her multiple side projects.