Speakers.
Announcing this year’s Speakers.
Our 2009 Speakers:
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.
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
