Shavone Charles
Shavone Charles Diverse Influencer @Shavone shavonec.com/about/ Biography Shavone Charles is the Head of Global Music & Youth Culture Communications at Instagram. She leads all of Instagram’s music and youth culture communications out of the Facebook office in Los Angeles. Based at a company famous for enabling “influencer marketing”, Shavone has proven to be deeply influential... Bio Details →
Maria Yablonina
Maria Yablonina Robot Innovator https://www.mariayablonina.com/ instagram.com/maria_yablonin Biography A former Autodesk artist in residence, Maria Yablonina is now based at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. At the University, she's part of a multidisciplinary team at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction focussed on the research of computer-aided manufacturing processes in architecture. Maria is not... Bio Details →
Dave Erasmus
Dave Erasmus Enlightened Entrepreneur @daveerasmus Biography ‘Technology is the answer, but what was the question?’ – While Cedric Price famously posed this question back in the 70’s, today it remains as relevant as ever. Dave Erasmus has considered this question many times throughout his career. A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Dave has founded... Bio Details →
Roger Mavity
Roger Mavity Creative Conjurer @roger_mavity http://rogermavity.com/ Biography Roger Mavity is a true British business polymath: he founded and ran his own advertising agency for ten years, and won international clients like Honda and Burberrys. He then sold the business and became a CEO within Granada Group, where he handled the communications for Granada’s £7 billion... Bio Details →
Sabine Hauert
Sabine Hauert Nano-Swarm Engineer @SabineHauert http://hauertlab.com/ https://robohub.org/ Biography In the natural world, we have found multiple examples of what’s called “swarm intelligence” among such diverse species as large flocks of birds, schools of fish, ant colonies or even at a bacterial level to name a few. Sabine Hauert’s work applies the principles of swarm intelligence... Bio Details →
Halvor Vislie
Halvor Vislie Media Disrupter @tfguniverse https://www.futureuniverse.com/ Biography One of the top weather stories of 2018 was category 4 Hurricane Florence which battered the East Coast of the USA in September 2018. The biggest danger to life and property from Florence were the “storm surge” floods. One of the challenges faced by the Weather Channel was... Bio Details →
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett Political Technologist @JamieJBartlett demos.co.uk Biography Prior to 2016, social media was often dismissed as a lightweight playground for millennials to post cat videos or tell us what they had for lunch. We now know social media has real teeth and has already changed the course of modern history. Jamie Bartlett is widely regarded... Bio Details →
Simona Francese
Simona Francese Analytical Chemist @SimonaFrancese shu.ac.uk/simona-francese Biography The humble fingerprint lies at the centre of any serious modern crime scene investigation. Fingerprints are highly detailed, unique, difficult to modify and last a lifetime making them an excellent identifier of individuals. And if fingerprints have often helped solve a large number of crimes, this was made... Bio Details →
