Ben Bland
Consultant Emerging Technology at Loopers
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Bland is a consultant and founder with 12 years in digital product, operations and emerging technology, currently advising Liberty IT while leading Loopers and Neoco. He combines hands-on prototyping and technology assessment with strategic digital transformation, specialising in empathic human-machine interaction and progressive organisational design. As Chair of IEEE P7014 he steers global standards for the ethics of emulated empathy, reflecting a rare blend of technical pragmatism and values-led practice. Previously as COO at Sensum he helped deliver AI-driven emotion-sensing solutions for major brands, grounding his ethics work in real-world deployment experience. Ben’s background spans agencies, startups and NGOs across London and Belfast, giving him deep insight into what makes teams and processes actually work. Outside the obvious, he deliberately pairs scientific curiosity with storytelling and adventure, shaping how teams adopt new tech as much as what they build.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
King's College London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
static-site10
jekyll9
google-sheets6
member2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
benbland/farsetlabs.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
adminrubyreviewmergepull-request
FarsetLabs/farsetlabs.github.io
Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
Farset Labs' static website which utilises Jekyll. To add content please open a pull request and we will review it.
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
jekyllstatic-sitecharityhackerspace
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