Studio intO at WIN Unconference: Designing the Next Decade
Event Date: 11 Sep 2025
Location: RSA House, London
Our Founder and CEO, Joanna Brassett, will speak on the “Creating a Better Digital World” panel at this year’s WIN Unconference. She’ll share insights on equitable innovation and inclusive design from Studio intO’s global research practice.
This dynamic, participatory event brings together a global community of women in innovation to explore bold ideas, challenge the status quo, and imagine better futures.
📍 RSA House, London 📆 Thursday, 11th September 🕜 12:30–6:30 PM 🎟️ Hosted by Women in Innovation
Joanna will join the panel “Creating a Better Digital World”, where she’ll share insights from Studio intO’s global research work – including how equitable design, cultural context and inclusive innovation must shape the next generation of tech.
With her background in industrial design and ethnography, Joanna has spent over a decade working with teams at Google, Amazon and IKEA to embed lived local experience into strategy and design. At intO, she leads a globally distributed team of researchers working across 60+ countries, translating complex real-world behaviours into strategic direction for our clients.
We’re proud to be part of this year’s WIN Unconference—an event that celebrates courageous leadership, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the power of women to design the change we want to see.
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