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Paralympian Dan Powell Interview

An interview with the Paralympic World Judo Champion, Dan Powell as part of the Tech for Good Festival 2025 focussed on issues of accessibility and inclusion.

The Brief

Our Creative Director Tim Bassford was invited to speak at the Tech for Good festival in 2025 around the subject of digital inclusivity and accessibility. The presentation would be delivered to a range of professionals from different sectors and organisations who were looking for practical insights on how they could be more supportive of those with disabilities or groups that are marginalised.

The presentation needed to be grounded in real-world experience and be engaging enough to hold the audience’s attention on a subject that is often relegated to bureaucratic HR policies and box-ticking exercises.

The content also needed to be shared afterwards with festival delegates in a format that would be accessible and multi-platform in order to cater for a broad audience.

Our Solution

Having worked with both ParalympicsGB and the UK Sport Institute on projects around accessibility and inclusion - including the ParalympicsGB Performance Framework campaign - we decided it would be effective to talk about our experience with athletes and sports bodies to illustrate this theme.

We approached Judo star Dan Powell and he was really positive about speaking on this subject. We filmed Dan at his GNR8 Sport Academy in Leicester where we interviewed him and asked about his own personal experiences. We covered his experiences growing up, his time as a professional athlete as well as what accessibility means to him as a successful businessman.

We then edited his interview and enhanced it with motion graphics and animations to illustrate some of his key points on this subject matter.

The presentation also included other insights around best practice, award winning campaigns on this subject as well practical takeaways that were promoted by our own experience as well as some of the insights that came from our interview with Dan.

Capturing Dan’s personal experiences brought real authenticity, character and humour to this sometimes challenging subject matter. The feedback from the audience was extremely positive and Dan's interview provided an excellent talking point for ongoing discussions afterwards.

You can view a summary of the entire presentation in our Journal Section here: https://tinyurl.com/34hc93d5

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