GDR Speakers
Kate Ancketill
CEO and Executive Editor
After 12 years at GDR, 8 as owner, Kate is in demand as a professional speaker on design innovation and future trends. She receives the highest possible feedback from conference delegates, ensuring return visits and top billing for the world's major global conferences on retail and hospitality. Her secrets include: strategic scene setting, storytelling, relevance, up-to-date content and visual illustration of trends that provide concretely usable insights for everyone present.
email: kate@gdruk.com
“The GDR report is a designer's roadmap to leading edge design. Each issue fills me with envy, lust, pride and wrath.”
Creative Director
EMEA, NIKE Image Design
“At the Drapers Fashion Summit, October 2005 in London, speakers were rated from 1-4, with 1 as poor and 4 as excellent. GDR's scores were: Content: 3.4 and Presentation: 3.7”
Karen Hutt, Conference Producer
Emap Conferences
“Seeing design excellence across diverse disciplines is invaluable. Whether it's creative, commercial or 'blue sky design' - we always find GDR’s presentation inspirational, thought provoking and commercially relevant to our ongoing design strategy.”
Design Director
Marks & Spencer
United Kingdom