At the 2025 OKRE Summit, ‘Be the Bigger Picture’, we focused on how to create more authentic, impactful worlds on screen, with a particular spotlight on stories developed in collaboration with lived experience or academic research.

Highlights included our keynote, author and screen writer Paris Lees, delivering an honest account of the process of turning her life story into the BBC drama ‘What it Feels Like For a Girl’, and a deep dive into hit ITV show The Assembly, to also showcase how inclusive practices off-screen are fuelling creativity on-screen.

Summit attendees enjoyed a day of insightful keynotes, dynamic panel discussions, and unparalleled networking opportunities with leading figures across the creative, research, and social impact sectors.

Speakers included: Chris Clenshaw (Executive Producer, BBC Studios Drama Productions), Prof. Panayiota Tsatsou, (Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity), Adjani Salmon, (BBC’s 'Dreaming Whilst Black’), Sam Tatlow MBE (Head of Diversity, ITV), Sarah Sternberg (Movember Foundation’s Reimagining Masculinities Initiative) and Ashley Storrie (BBC’s ‘Dinosaur’) and Danny Gray (ustwo games).