For Future Tuesdays Ben Bland presented his Future Screens NI Rewriting the Narrative funded project Neoco: Tools & Patterns for Progressive Operations. The Neoco Toolkit & Playbook is a collection of “pathways to brighter business”, built during lockdown by Ben Bland and partners. The new web platform aims to help people find ways to improve the way they work, collaborate and build successful lives for themselves. Neoco includes over 240 tools, 50 published guides, 16 case studies and much more. Ben shared key insights from researching and building Neoco over the last year.
More information on Neoco can be found here: https://neoco.io/
Ben Bland is a leader within the digital industries, spearheading developments in online marketing and e-commerce, digital strategy, and wider tech startup consulting & entrepreneurship. He is a partner at a newly-founded innovation practice, Loopers. http://loopers.co/
Ben has a twenty-year career split between London and Belfast, working within agencies, small-to-medium size businesses, NGOs, and as a freelancer. Ben's creative industry experience includes working with dozens of local startups, agencies and industry bodies. He led operations at Belfast-based AI company Sensum for five years, and serves as Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ P7014 working group to develop a global standard for the ethics of empathic technology.
More information on Ben can be found here: http://benbland.me