Speakers.
The amazing Doers.
Here are the speakers at this year's DO Lectures, and those that have spoken in previous years.Our 2009 Speakers:
Adam LowryCo-Founder & Chief Greenskeeper, Method Products Inc.
Adam Lowry believes that business is our greatest vehicle for positive social and environmental change.
Alastair HumphreysA cyclist, Marathorn des Sables runner, rower and a teacher
Aged 8, Alastair completed the 26 mile Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge. At 13 he did the National 3 Peaks in 24 hours. At 14 he cycled off-road across England.
Alice TaylorCommissioning Editor, Education, Channel 4 Television
Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats.
Ben HammersleyA British journalist, broadcaster, photographer, and technologist.
Ben Hammersley (born 3 April 1976 in Leicester, England) is a British journalist, broadcaster, photographer, and technologist, currently based between London, England, and Florence, Italy.
Duke StumpPrincipal & Chief Architect
A spirited and dynamic brand leader, speaker, teacher and blogger with an unbridled passion for creating what could be.
Geoff McFetridgeA graphic artist and director in Los Angeles, California.
Originally from Canada, Geoff moved to California to earn his MFA for Graphic Design at the California Institute of the Arts.
Paul DeeganA climber, explorer and occasional dustman
“It is not often, indeed it is rare, in a man's life that one can say something unequivocally about someone, but you are one. You are rigorous-minded, conscientious, and focused in a way most high achievers can only dream about”. Note to Paul from Pen Hadow, first person to trek solo & unsupported to the North Pole from Canada.
Tom TaylorA post-digital designer
Tom Taylor makes things that try to delight and disrupt, usually involving software and hardware glued to the internet somehow. He likes to think of the internet as the virtual shed at the bottom of his non-existent garden.
Tony DavidsonExecutive Creative Director, Wieden + Kennedy London
As a young child Tony learnt his trade by sitting upside down on the settee and competing with his four siblings to 'Guess the commercial'. He puts much of his creativity down to his late father who was an inventor in the 'Heath Robinson' mould.
Still more to come. List of confirmed speakers will be announced soon - Claire's on the phone to them right now!
Our Previous 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
