Product For Learning: Building responsible products for children with Laura Kirsop, CPTO at Raspberry Pi Foundation
The next Product For Learning meetup will focus on the timely topic of building responsible products for children. We’ll be welcoming Laura Kirsop the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Chief Product and Technology Officer for a fireside chat and spark conversation.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a global charity democratising access to Computer Science education. Laura's team builds the platforms and tools used by millions of children and educators globally.
She'll be sharing insights from the coalface of designing safe, responsible products for young people, and why RPF's mission-driven model creates both a responsibility and a genuine opportunity to do things differently.
She'll be giving her take on questions including:
What does it actually mean to design with learning and wellbeing, not just engagement, in mind?
How do you build principled frameworks for safety, data, and responsible design without reinventing the wheel?
What happens when you co-design with children? (Spoiler: they'll surprise you every time.)
How to navigate the heavy lift of regulation, particularly when expanding into the US.
Why is so much technology still not designed with young people's interests at heart, and what can we do about it?
As well as the chance to quiz Laura, there will be the usual opportunity to get to know others building new learning products in breakout discussions.
Our hosts are Brighteye, the most active learning and future of work-focused venture capital fund in Europe who invest in Seed and Series A stage companies. Their offices are in Notting Hill.
The evening will be compared by Matt Walton, coach and fractional EdTech product leader.
Agenda
6pm Welcome, networking, drinks, pizza
7pm Talk, plus Q&A
7.30pm Breakout groups inspired by the talk
8pm Playback and informal networking
9pm Hometime
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More about Laura
Laura Kirsop has spent over 20 years working in education - as a playworker, primary school teacher, and leader of technology education organisations. She built Code Club from a small volunteer network into a national movement as its Managing Director, led product at FutureLearn, and is now interim Chief Technology and Product Officer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Laura has a fascination with what education looks like when it's creative and joyful - when children are playing, making things, and finding meaning. She holds an MA in Sociology of Education (Distinction) from UCL's Institute of Education, a PGCE from Goldsmiths, and a BSc from LSE. She lives in Cambridge.