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Events Creative Operations Summit London 2026 - Reading List

The Creative Operations Summit London 2026 Reading List

As Creative Operations Summit London 2026 approaches, we’ve curated an essential reading list to get you inspired and ready for the event. These hand-picked blogs and resources from our speakers and sponsors offer a sneak peek into the innovative ideas, real-world strategies, and forward-thinking conversations you’ll experience at the summit.

Events Event Speaker Rachel Ilan Simpson

Rachel is the Founder of Ilan Studio, an independent studio partner for startups and tech companies. After spending 8 years building Chrome and Search at Google, she scaled UX from 4-20 people as Director of UX at Multiverse and built the product from 0-1 as Founding Designer at software generation startup Tessl.

Events Event Speaker Sam Balderstone

Sam is the Founder of DSRPTN, a production strategy and growth consultancy helping agencies and brands rethink how production works in a tech-accelerated world.

With over 20 years at the forefront of creative production, Sam has built and transformed production ecosystems across global networks, including Cheil Worldwide, Publicis Groupe and Havas. He’s partnered with some of the world's largest brands such as LinkedIn, L’Oréal, Samsung, Adidas, Nike, Carlsberg and GSK — delivering ambitious creative at scale while embedding smarter, future-facing ways of working.

Events Creative Operations On Demand Content Realising The Full Strategic Value of Design Operations: Engage, Grow, Amplify Course Summary

Session 1: Organizational Assessment

How to diagnose the Design organization and identify opportunities to address the needs of your team. Develop a fit-for-purpose roadmap for change to bring structure and visibility to DesignOps programs in your organization.

Session 2: Engage: People, Process, Infrastructure and Programs

Events Creative Operations On Demand Content Realising The Full Strategic Value of Design Operations: Engage, Grow, Amplify

Realising The Full Strategic Value of Design Operations: Engage, Grow, Amplify

In organizations across industries, Design teams are evolving rapidly. Design Executives are strengthening their leadership teams and expanding their practice.

Building a solid Design Operations practice is fundamental to enabling:

Events Event Speaker Matan Arbel

Matan is the Design Operations Manager at Monday.com, where he leads the Design Ops practice and drives AI adoption across the product design guild. With a background in VFX and motion graphics and seven years of industry experience, he specialises in technical enablement and cross-functional problem-solving. Before joining Monday.com, Matan served as the Head of Design Operations and AI Labs at Lightricks. He is passionate about helping teams scale excellence by integrating AI into every layer of their operations.

Events Event Speaker Bradley Tangonan

Bradley Tangonan is a director and creative technologist with 12+ years of experience crafting documentary and narrative films for leading brands and agencies. A Stanford-educated cell biologist turned filmmaker, he brings a systems approach to storytelling, connecting technical ideas and human emotion through compelling visuals and clear narrative design.

A Google Labs’ Flow Sessions artist, in which ten filmmakers worldwide collaborated with mentors from Google Labs, Creative Lab, and DeepMind to create a short film using Google’s generative AI video tool Flow.

Events Event Speaker Anne Cogan

Events Event Speaker Maria Ottewell

Maria Ottewell is Co-Director of Linney Create, the creative and strategy-led agency within Linney that blends insight, creativity and technology to deliver multi-channel brand, campaign and customer experience solutions.

She leads the agency’s client services, commercial, digital signage, and business operations teams. With over 20 years in marketing services, Maria combines operational excellence with commercial expertise to scale complex client accounts and build high-performing teams of 220+.

Events Event Speaker Jamie Williams

Jamie Williams is Business Operations Lead at Linney Create, the creative and strategy-led agency within Linney that combines insight, design and technology to deliver multi-channel brand, campaign and customer experience work. A qualified multimedia designer, Jamie specialises in designing people-first systems, content and processes that enable teams to deliver their best work.

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