Carson McConnell
Carson McConnell A Video Game Storyteller @ubireflections reflections.ubisoft.com/ How Do You Design Narrative for Video Games? “Shipping a video game is like landing a plane. At night. On an aircraft carrier. Also, the plane is on fire. So is the aircraft carrier.” A look behind the scenes of a fictional video game project, from inception... Bio Details →
Lewis Dartnell
Lewis Dartnell A Post-Apocalyptic Scientist @lewis_dartnell lewisdartnell.com/en-gb/ How could you reboot civilisation after an apocalypse? Prof. Lewis Dartnell is best known as one of the UK's most popular science communicators with multiple bestselling books addressing topics as wide as the possibilities of life in the Universe to how humanity could rebuild civilisation after an extinction-level... Bio Details →
Jimmy Soni
Jimmy Soni Innovation Investigator @Jimmyasoni jimmysoni.com Jimmy Soni is the best-selling author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, which featured exclusive interviews with Silicon Valley legends Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman among many others. Steve Jobs biographer Walter Issacson reviewed Jimmy’s book as “deeply reported... Bio Details →
Taha Yasseri
Taha Yasseri Computational Social Scientist @TahaYasseri tahayasseri.com Taha Yasseri is an Associate Professor at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Formerly, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, and a Turing Fellow at... Bio Details →
Francesca Rosella
Francesca Rosella Fashionable Technologist @RosellaGenz cutecircuit.com/ Francesca Rosella founded CuteCircuit in 2004 with her then co-founder and now fiancé Ryan Genz. CuteCircuit is the world’s first wearable-technology fashion brand. CuteCircuit’s co-founders, and Ryan Genz, come from a heritage of couture in fashion design (Valentino), and Interaction Design and Anthropology respectively. After a decade and a... Bio Details →
Nadia Finer
Nadia Finer Shy Warrior @nadiafiner shyandmighty.com According to YouGov, 57% of the UK population self-identify as being ‘shy’ and Nadia Finer is on a softly-spoken mission to understand and help. Nadia is the UK’s leading shyness expert and the author of Shy & Mighty, which went on to be adapted for young people as Shy... Bio Details →
Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby Venture Capital Chronicler @scmallaby cfr.org/ Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author of five books, most recently The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. Sebastian’s previous book, The Man Who Knew: The... Bio Details →
Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra Educational Technologist @Sugatam Sugata is a legendary innovator in education. His 1999 “Hole in the Wall” experiment proved that kids could be taught computers easily without formal training and this method became known as Minimally Invasive Education. The Hole in the Wall Experiment became the inspiration for the novel and movie Slumdog Millionaire.... Bio Details →
