I'm Josh, a technology executive based in Leeds with over a decade leading engineering in product-led businesses.
As CTO of a UK EdTech I've taken AI from an executive question to organisation-wide practice: strategy, governance, and day-to-day engineering adoption. I grow managers into senior leaders, and build distributed engineering organisations that product teams trust, executives understand, and engineers thrive in.
I also founded All Day Hey!, one of the UK's longest-running independent technology conferences, and host Off Script, a podcast on engineering leadership and AI.
Earlier this month, we delivered the final All Day Hey! conference, our tenth edition. I've been reflecting in the aftermath of the event as people have published their thoughts on the day and said many lovely things, about the purpose of events like ours and how their existence is fundamental to our industry.
A conversation with Jack a few months ago set me off on an idea that radically changed how I work. We were talking about how skills in Claude could add an intelligent layer on top of the notes I'd been keeping in Obsidian for years. By the end of it, I'd started building something tailored to how I work as a CTO.
The Title II requirements are a timely reminder to make sure your accessible design is up to scratch. But the gold standard for accessible design isn’t that it’s ‘compliant’, it’s that you’re thoughtful and transparent about what users can expect (and trust) from their experience with your products.