Join us for Milton Keynes Geek Night on Thursday 25th June. Tickets are now live — go get 'em!
We are happy to announce our first speaker for June, Luke McConkey 👇
The full lineup will be announced shortly.
📆 When: 18:00-22:30, Thursday 25th June, 2026 – talks start at 19:15
📍 Where: x+why, Unity Place, 200 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes, MK9 1UP – big love to them for supporting the venue!
🍕 Pizza: With thanks to Unity Place, we'll have a stack of pizzas waiting for you
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Luke McConkey
Made in the shade
Come and join Luke as he tries to embraces the positive bits of being a creative and human. He'll talk a little bit about his career as a commercial Illustrator and the stuff that's helped him stay happy(ish).
About Luke
Luke is an illustrator born, raised and currently working in Liverpool, he wants to embrace the silliness of life with a little colour and gooey shapes. Luke loves to bring characters and scenes to life with bold lines, bright colours and squishy forms. Luke has worked with a lot of lovely clients including Apply, Nike, Glastonbury Festival, Netflix, Uniqlo and many more.
Matthew Hall
Diagnose, Don't Guess
We're all certain we know why people behave the way they do - and we're almost always wrong. After 20 years building and optimising websites, Matthew has watched hundreds of real people get stuck, confused and quietly give up on sites that looked, on paper, perfectly fine. In this talk he shares the surprising, occasionally baffling things you learn when you stop guessing and start watching: why the "obvious" fixes rarely work, why copying the competition fails, and what actually changes when you diagnose a problem before you prescribe a cure. Expect real stories, a few myths busted, and a simple framework you can apply to anything you make for other humans.
About Matthew
Matthew is the founder of Hallway, a Shopify agency that helps ecommerce brands grow by understanding why their customers really behave the way they do. Over two decades in the industry - and a Shopify Partner since 2013 - he's moved from building websites to a customer-centric craft that blends UX research, design and development to uncover the real reasons people buy, hesitate or leave. He's spent more hours than he'd care to admit watching strangers struggle with websites, and is mildly obsessed with the gap between what people say and what they actually do.
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