Formula One teams operate under some of the strictest constraints in engineering - fixed budgets, rigid rules, and razor‑thin margins for failure. But rather than being a handicap, these are a key factor behind F1 driving decades of breakthrough innovation.

Grass‑roots charities work under constraints just as severe, but far less glamorous: Minimal budgets. Tiny teams. Users in crisis, accessing life‑saving services on decade‑old devices over unreliable connections. In this world, the usual assumptions about tooling, risk, and process collapse - and failure doesn’t mean churn or complaints, it means real harm.

When options disappear, creativity stops being optional. Drawing on real charity projects (and lessons from F1), this talk explores the uncomfortable trade‑offs, ugly workarounds, and unexpectedly elegant solutions that emerge when constraints are absolute.

You’ll leave with practical ways to apply constraint‑driven problem-solving to your own work, even when your day job looks nothing like Formula One or solving global poverty.