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07/09/2025

✨ I’m officially a Canvassador! ✨

I’m thrilled to join the Canvassador community, and grateful for the opportunity to co-create, explore, and share Canva’s potential in education and visual innovation.

For those unfamiliar, this group of Canvassadors are volunteer educators who collaborate with the Canva for Education team to share ideas, inspire creativity, and help shape how Canva is used in classrooms around the world.

Over the past year, my blog (https://tommysthoughts.thetommyverse.com/) has been a space to explore the features Canva has to offer.

The main part of this has been to experiment with AI-powered, playable classroom games using Canva Code, turning lessons into immersive experiences.

I’ve always believed in the power of creativity and technology to unlock new pathways for engagement. Becoming a Canvassador feels like a perfect next chapter. Combining design, pedagogy, and digital storytelling into one vibrant journey.

A huge thank you to Jade for approaching me about this opportunity. I’m really excited to get started and to give back to the community that’s already given me so much inspiration.

I hope this will be an opportunity to continuing sharing the ideas I’ve had about using Canva and to learn from others.

18/07/2025

This week, I attended the Teach First ‘AI in Education’ summit.

I had the privilege of joining Teach First, other educators, industry experts, and policy leaders to explore how we can use AI within education.

The highlights for me included:

- Gaining insights into how TeachMateAI is being used in practice and its potential to support teachers, in some wonderful talks and Demo’s by Jon Chippindall.

- An introduction to the ‘AI Safety’ resources as part of the Raspberry Pi Foundations ‘Experience AI’ curriculum, led by Rachel Arthur.

- Hearing Professor Rose Luckin give her thoughts on the evolving AI landscape post release-of-ChatGPT and what it means for schools.

What really struck me was hearing about how the government / DfE are trying to build (or support the building of) tools to help teachers with their workload and within the classroom, during the talks and panels by policy leaders.

However, as with an event like this, the best part was getting to meet more people and widen my network.

Huge thanks to Teach First and all the contributors for creating this event to have these exciting conversations.

09/02/2025

It was a wonderful privilege to get to speak as part of the Global Skills PG Talks series again this year, with my talk "2035 and the Future of AI". A lot his changed for me since I gave my first talk in January 2024, but it has lead to this talk being full of new experiences for me.

These new experiences included the challenges of delivering a talk virtually, the lack of a physical (live audience) and trying to decide what elements to keep and cut as the world of AI and what we can do with it evolves.

I'd like to thank the GRC for inviting me to speak as part of their talk series again, and I would love to make it a 3/3 next year.

16/02/2024

I am really excited to share this. Come check out my latest talk at the CodeHarbour Tech Meetup!!! I'll be giving a talk on using AI to change the way we make presentations. Check out more about the event and the other speakers at https://codeharbour.co.uk/.

23/01/2024

Yesterday, I gave a talk entitled `2035 and the Future of AI` to Postgraduate students as part of the Kent GRC Global Skills series. I combined my love of research, film, poetry, and comedy into this exciting talk.

I designed this talk as an engaging, innovative, and entertaining exploration of the growing presence of AI in our lives. I taught some key concepts about prompt engineering, diffusion models, and the usage of large-language models, culminating in some of my predictions about the future of AI.

I've written and delivered similar talks, such as `Can AI Stand-Up? to students, pub audiences, and corporate conferences.

I am keen to continue sharing my knowledge in this unique 'Tommy-Talk' performance-lecture format, so if you or anyone you know may find this appealing, please DM me

26/10/2023

I'll be at BarCamp 'Unconference' 2023, this Saturday at Templeman Library on the University of Kent Campus. Can't wait to see you all. It's a FREE ticketed event so don't miss out and book your tickets now!

07/06/2023

I had such a great time hosting the 'AI in Academia' Panel for University of Kent's Graduate and Researcher College (GRC) Conference!

Some exciting discussions and exciting questions and I can't wait to see how these conversations develop over the next few years.

02/06/2023

I am honoured to have been awarded a commendation for the Kent Union Above and Beyond Awards 2023 for 'Brilliant Research-Based Education'.

This award celebrates a member of staff who educates students about the latest, cutting-edge knowledge or who enables taught students to create knowledge by conducting their own research. They keep their session content on the cutting edge of research, ensuring that their students are aware of what is going on in their field of interest and that students graduate with a good understanding of the latest developments and issues in their field of study.
(https://kentunion.co.uk/news/article/above-and-beyond-awards-winners)

Thank you so much!

25/05/2023

I had an absolute blast performing at Kent's Pint of Science Festival on Tuesday! 'Can AI's Stand Up?' is becoming an ever more important question as AI continues to advance and I'm in a very fortunate position where I get to share my experiences with AI and Stand-Up Comedy, to help us all try and answer that question.

I am available to perform this talk for schools, colleges, universities and the public. This talk is perfect for computer science experts, people in education or members of the public. DM me if interested.

18/05/2023

I am excited to announce that I will be hosting a panel at the 'Graduate and Researcher College's Annual Postgraduate Conference 2023'.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, everyone seems abuzz with how it will affect different aspects of our work and personal lives.
The panel is on "How does AI affect Academia?".

16/05/2023

A short exert from my recent interview with BBC South East discussing the latest in AI-generated content, humour, and stand-up comedy.

If you want to hear more, I will be performing at the Pint of Science Festival in Canterbury on the 23rd of May. Full details can be found in my previous post.

13/05/2023

I am excited to announce that I will be performing a talk on AI-generated Stand-Up Comedy at the University of Kent's Pint of Science Festival 2023! Alongside some other excellent researchers from other disciplines throughout the university.

Pint of Science is a non-profit organisation in its 10th year of bringing research to the general public. Every year it runs The Pint of Science Festival, which is an international public engagement festival taking place from May 22nd-24th this year. The University of Kent has run 18 events since 2017 (with a hiatus for COVID) amounting to >1000 tickets sold. In 2023, 27 countries and ~500 towns/cities will take part, with 39 in the UK. held over 600 events, increasing to 40 cities/towns in 2020. The venues are usually pubs and bars to give a relaxed, informal setting in the community.

Now the pandemic situation has improved in the UK we at Kent are taking part in the Pint of Science International Festival once again. We are running an event each evening with 3 speakers each night based on different themes:

First 2 nights at the Foundry brewpub in Canterbury
Mon 22nd – ‘Our Body’
Tues 23rd – ‘Our Society'
Wed -24th –‘Beautiful Mind’ - Man of Kent pub, Rochester in Medway.

Each evening will bring the audience cutting-edge research going on their local university campus but presented in an interactive and fun way. Tickets are available online (see Kent events link below) for only £5 for 3hrs entertainment. Grab a drink and enjoy the shows!

More info on the talks and tickets at weblinks below: https://pintofscience.co.uk/about/
https://pintofscience.co.uk/events/kent

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