Cennydd Bowles

Designer and futurist

Cennydd Bowles is a designer and futurist with two decades of experience advising companies including Twitter, Samsung, Accenture, and the BBC. He is the author of Future Ethics – ‘a must read for anyone inventing the future’ – and now runs responsible design studio NowNext.

Cennydd has lectured on ethical innovation at Facebook, Stanford University, and Google. He is a frequent keynote speaker at technology and design events worldwide, and a regular commentator on ethical design and technology, quoted by The Guardian, Sky News, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED.

Cennydd has been an invited futurist for the UN, a contributor to the BSI’s Responsible Innovation steering group, and a reviewer for MIT Press. He holds a Masters in IT from the University of Nottingham, studied Innovation & Future Thinking at IED Barcelona, and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.