Speakers.
Announcing this year’s Speakers.
Our 2010 Speakers:
Alasdair HarrisFounder of Blue Ventures
A conservationist and social entrepreneur, Al has spent a decade researching and tackling marine environmental crises in developing countries.
Alex HawArtist & Architect, Director of Atmos
Pioneer? Maverick? Or a bit of both. A multi-disciplinary thinker exploring convergence between art and architecture, space and time.
Bill DrummondArtist, Author, The17
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music had disappeared. Bill Drummond, as choir master of The17, will be leading the performance of three scores and giving a talk.
Brian JohnAuthor of ‘The Bluestone Enigma’
Mystical bluestones lay scattered on the Preseli hills, there is no natural explanation for their presence. Brian John has a theory on how they got there.
Craig ModWriter, Designer, Publisher and Developer
What is the future of the book in the iPad era? We are a unique meeting point for things digital & analog. Right now is a very exciting time to be involved with storytelling.
Daniel SeddiquiAuthor of 50 Jobs in 50 States
After 3 years on the dole, he said 'enough was enough' and left home and travelled across the US, trying out a job peculiar to each state every week.
Darina AllenFounder of Ballymaloe Cookery School, Best Selling Author
'I love this land, how do I stay here.' Her answer was to start a world famous cookery school & become Ireland's best known cook.
David AllenAuthor of International Best Seller ‘Getting Things Done'
Unlike a computer, we can not add more ram to our brains. So we have to free up ram so we can think more. David Allen gives us a system to set us free.
David Lloyd-OwenManaging Director, Envisager
Water is important. We have fought more wars over water than oil. How will ensure we have enough of it in the future? How will deal with our waste? Will it cost more than oil?
David SpiegelhalterProfessor of Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge
How do we live with risk? How do we quantify it? How do we talk about it? Can we understand uncertainty better? David has made this his life's work.
Ed StaffordExplorer & Adventurer
Right now, Ed Stafford is walking the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He will be the first man ever to walk it. It will have taken him well over two years to do it.
Euan SempleOne Man Digital Upgrade Solution for Companies
Our world is changing fast. Euan is a master story teller that turns the complex world of social networking into something we can all understand.
Gerd LeonhardMedia Futurist, Author and CEO of The Futures Agency
In the past, companies worked on their own. But in the future the ego will have to be forgotten. The future for companies is to collaborate.
James LynchFfounder of Fforest Outdoors
Why are we good at somethings and not others. Are we shaped by the things we can't do? Do our inefficiencies make us stronger at the things we are already good at.
Jay RogersCEO and Co-Founder of Local Motors
Can david beat Goliath? Can a car be designed by a community? Can a crowd beat a corporation? Can the time it takes to make a car be halved? Jay thinks they can.
Laura WilliamsFounder of The Aluna Project
Imagine a monumental timepiece for the planet, larger than Stonehenge, a beacon for a sustainable future, reminding people of the the ties between Moon and Tides, Laura did.
Maggie DoyneFounder of the BlinkNow Foundation
Most people on a gap year are content with just seeing the world and not to try and change it. But on her return, Maggie decided to start a school in Nepal.
Mark EarlsWriter/consultant on Human Behaviour
We are ‘a super-social ape’. We exist to converse, to chat, to gossip. Whole social movements can be explained by utilising this core theory.
Markus BrehlerFounder of Enocean
Can our homes and offices be more intelligent. And if they become so, will they save energy? Markus believes they can do both. And his wireless technology can do it.
Matt WebbMD BERG London & Co-Author of Mind Hack
Matt lives in London with a flat with a wonky floor. He explains why wonky thinking is needed by companies and he explains how to get it in a wonky kind of way.
Paula Le DieuDirector of Digital at the British Film Institute
How will her time with BBC, Guardian, Ofcom, FairFax, Creative Commons and iCommons help her to shape the future of Digital film?
Peter SeggerOwner of Blaencamel Farm
Can we listen to the soil? Can we think about its needs as well as our own? Can we learn to feed the soil as well as us? 30 years of farming can teach you how.
Phil ParkerDirector of The Phil Parker Training Institute
How good could you be? Phil, believes you are a genius. And that you have amazing untapped skills. And he knows how to make you believe that too.
Secret SpeakerTo Be Announced on September 16th
Due to this speakers high profile, they would like to remain anonymous until the Do Lectures begin. Believe us, it'll be worth the wait. Shhhh…
Steve EdgeFounder of Edge Design
How dyslexia can help your business rather than hurt it. Steve Edge, the designer, jockey, fisherman and honorary Eagle Dancer of a North American Indian tribe, will tell you why.
Steve GlennFounder & CEO of LivingHomes
As a kid, he built cities out of Lego. Since then he has built LivingHomes with giant non lego pieces. His mission is summed up in one word: possible.
Our Previous Speakers:
Speakers 2009
Adam LowryMethod’s ‘Chief Greens Keeper’
Why can’t a role model come in a bottle? This is what drives Method to make the lowest impact cleaning products you can buy.
Alan MooreFounder of the Engagement Communication Consultancy SMLXL.
Alan Moore is the future guru. He connects the dots of a true networked society. And tells us what all those dots mean.
Alastair HumphreysAdventurer & author
Imagine going on a bike ride that lasts for 4 years. Now he wants to try something really hard.
Alice TaylorChannel 4 education commissioner & blogger
Play is important. Kids learn more while playing. And if kids are playing more digital games these days, then those games need to become their teachers too.
Andrew ReasonInventor & founder of Reason washing machines
Are you happy with your wash? Andrew wasn't. That's why he is changing how washing machines work.
Ben HammersleyDeputy editor of WIRED UK
Clothes that know when you’re in love, doors that know when you’re angry, phones that know when it’s raining. How knowing what we know will help us live our lives.
David RosenbergCEO of Hycrete Inc.
Is it possible to change the construction industry? Is there a better way to make concrete? David has some answers (and some patents) to say that it is possible to make it a greener industry.
Duke StumpPrincipal & Chief Architect of the ‘North Star Manifesto’, a brand consulting studio
These are the times of change. New powerful ideas are being born. A shift is happening. And Duke will be talking about that shift.
Gabriel BranbyCEO of Gränsfors Bruks AB
Gränsfors make one the finest forged axes in the world. It has become more than just an axe. It is an icon for quality and a belief that there is another way of making things.
Geoff McFetridgeGraphic designer & illustrator
There are Graphic designers. And then there’s Geoff McFetridge. Probably the world’s best doodler.
Gerald MilesOrganic farmer & GM activist
What would you do to protest about GM crops being planted in Britain? Just sit there? Or get on your tractor and drive to London in protest.
Gregor MacLennanCampaigner for Amazonian peoples' rights
Over three decades of illegal oil drilling and logging in the Peruvian Amazon, Gregor is working and campaigning to defend and stop these incursions on indigenous communities territory.
Jane DavidsonMinister for the environment, sustainability & housing
Can a small country like Wales lead the way in terms of sustainability? Can an entire country go organic? Why not?
Michael PawlynSustainable architect
Can we work with nature? Use it as a blueprint? Treat it as a partner? There are huge gains to be made by learning from how the natural world works.
Patrick HoldenDirector of the Soil Association
Where does our food come from? Patrick believes an identity of a nation is related to its food. And that we need to reconnect to the story behind the food we eat.
Paul DeeganMountaineer & Everest’s dustman
Climbing Everest is one thing. Bringing everyone’s rubbish back down with you is quite another.
Rolf PottsAuthor of ‘Vagabonding’
His zeitgeist defining book is not just how to travel the world on a shoestring, but, more importantly, the mindset you need to take with you. It is now in its 10th reprint.
Tim BirkheadAuthor of ‘The Wisdom of Birds‘
Tim believes we can learn a lot from birds. Fortunately for us he will be migrating West in early September.
Tom TaylorPost digital designer
He likes to think of the internet as the virtual shed at the bottom of his non-existent garden. From there he tries to delight and disrupt in equal measure.
Tony DavidsonCreative Director of Wieden+Kennedy
To make you feel something is the hardest thing to do in advertising. Tony does this better than almost anyone else.
Uffe ElbækFounder & former principal of The KaosPilots
Founder of the world famous KaosPilots school. It doesn’t want to be the best school in the world. It’s aim is to be the best school for the world.
Speakers 2008
Alastair McIntoshAuthor of ‘Soil and Soul’
A writer, campaigner, doer and believer in the power of a community to change things
Andrew WhitleyAuthor of ‘Bread Matters’
One of the most important books on getting bread back to simple
Andy CumminsSurfers Against Sewage Campaigns Officer
S.A.S’s campaigns officer the grew up surfing in the open sewer of the North Sea
Cary FowlerLooks after all of the world’s seeds
I will be talking about Global Crop Diversity and the seed vault
Dafydd DaviesA trails builder
No one builds mountain bike trails with more respect to the mountain or the adrenalin gland than this guy
Guy WatsonRiverford Organic Veg Box Scheme
He set up the Riverford Organic Veg Box Scheme because of frustration with the wastefulness of conventional vegetable selling
Malcolm CarrollGreenpeace activist and Baptist minister
He believes that citizens can define their own citizenship through nonviolent direct action
Matt JonesDesigner. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger.
A visionary and probably a bit of a mad scientist at heart
Michael BraungartCo-author of the ‘Cradle to Cradle’
One of the most important books on design for a couple of decades
Paul ChattertonHuman Geographer
Academic, author and activist who will show us how to bring about change
