Priya Prakash is a designer-inventor and CPTO of D4SC (Design for Social Change), named by the Financial Times as one of the top 3 in UK Tech.

A graduate of NID and RCA, she won an Apple Design Award at 18 and holds patents for BBC iPlayer and Nokia Asha phones. She’s shipped industry firsts for BBC, Samsung, HP, and EE - from repairable phones, smart homes to making Elle UK online and launching London’s first digital lifestyle showroom, Digital Wellbeing Labs.

A cycling accident led to found Changify, a people-powered intelligence platform for cities that won Shanghai’s Open Data award and was recognised in the Queen’s Honours.
At Smartly and HERE Technologies, she defined the categories Intelligent Creative and Location Intelligence, recognised by Forrester. She’s now building - NatureOS, a nature based autopoietic system for climate using LLMs, RAG and agentic AI.

Priya advises PE and VC firms on scaling portfolio companies, is a trustee at D&AD, a judge for Cannes Lions and The One Show, and Creative AI Co-Chair at NeurIPS 2025. 

She plays basketball and forages in nature.