Cardiff
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This event occurred on
March 28, 2015
12:00pm - 6:00pm GMT
(UTC +0hrs)
Cardiff, Cardiff
United Kingdom

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Wales Millennium Centre
Bute Place
Cardiff, Cardiff, CF10 5AL
United Kingdom
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Speakers

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Chris Tweed

Architect & Professor of Sustainable Design
Chris Tweed is Professor of Sustainable Design and Head of the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA). His interests and experience span architecture, anthropology, philosophy and technology. After first studying architecture, he has spent his working life researching diverse topics in and around the built environment, beginning with developing energy simulation software at the WSA. He moved to Edinburgh to work on design software and intelligent systems, working alongside researchers in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This has led to an enduring interest in how people interact with the designed world, which first emerged as a graduate programme he taught at Carnegie Mellon University. These interests have surfaced in different guises in projects as diverse as investigating assistive technologies for the elderly, work at BT Labs on the internet of things, and studies of how people perceive built cultural heritage in cities. www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi

Haley Gomez

Professor, Astrophysics
Haley Gomez is an astrophysicist working at Cardiff University’s School of Physics and Astronomy. She works on using the most sensitive infrared cameras in space to reveal the origins of the building blocks of life - cosmic dust grains – and has published over 85 papers in the last 10 years. Her research has been recognized with an award from the Royal Astronomical Society for noteworthy contribution for an early career researcher. In 2015 she was also awarded a prestigious and highly competitive grant worth €1.8 million to measure the dust content of galaxies since the Big Bang. Throughout her career, she has also taken a leading role in bringing research to the public and, in particular, encouraging girls and children from disadvantaged backgrounds. She received an Inspire Wales Award in 2014 for most inspirational person in the Science and Technology Category for this work. haley.gomez.me.uk

Maria Leijerstam

Adventurer and Explorer
On 27 December 2013, Maria became the first person in the world to cycle to the South Pole from the edge of the Antarctic continent. She set the new World Record for the fastest human powered coast to pole traverse, completing her journey in 10 days, 14 hours and 56 minutes. Maria spent 4 years planning, creating, training and preparing for this double world record. She built a winning team, drove the project from concept to delivery, pushed through extreme mental and physical barriers and achieved the unthinkable. In 2012 Maria was the first woman to complete the Siberian Black Ice Race (a 650km cycle across Lake Baikal), coming second overall and in 2007 she was the first Welsh woman to complete the Marathon Des Sables (running six marathons in seven days across the SaharaDesert). She has also raced on the World Series Adventure Racing circuit, representing Great Britain, over the last seven years. @WhiteIceCycle @multisportwales

Mark Brake and Jon Chase

Author & Science Educator/ Performer
Mark Brake is a freelance academic who also writes popular science books. He's undertaken science communication work in film, television, print and radio on 5 continents. Mark is best known for his work communicating the relationship between space, science and culture. Jon Chase is a freelance science communicator and rapper based in South Wales. He was identified by the Guardian in 2008 as education's next big thing after producing a science rap video for NASA about astrobiology.

Neil Monteiro

Science Communicator
Neil Monteiro shows the power of science through unbelievable feats, combining insights into the real knowledge of science and psychology with incredible demonstrations of scientific thinking. Originally trained as at physicist, he's worked in the area of 'science communication' for ten years, sharing some of the greatest ideas, discoveries and mysteries of the world. He performs regularly at many of the most well-known festivals and events around the UK. Neil has gone to some extreme lengths in the name of science, having investigated mysticism in the middle east, travelled to the arctic circle to observe the northern lights and given demonstrations on the top of an active volcano. He's performed for audiences at the UK's most prestigious scientific organisations, including the Royal Society and the Science Museum.

Richard Sambrook

Journalist & Lecturer in Journalism
Richard Sambrook is Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. He began his career as a newspaper reporter in South Wales before joining BBC Radio in 1980. He edited many national news programmes on radio and TV and travelled widely covering major news events before becoming Head of Newsgathering across all BBC services. He subsequently spent a decade on the board of the BBC as Director of Sport, Director of News and finally Director of Global News and the World Service. He speaks and writes frequently on the future of media.

Sam Holt

Environmental Education and Community Development
A long way from where Sam started - dreaming of a career in medicine when he came to Cardiff in 2001 enrolling in Cardiff University as a medical student Sam is now best classed as a social inspiration delivering outdoor education with a passion for growing food, community and chickens. Sam leads a busy life running his own business EggSeeds alongside working for the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, with the dreams of reconnecting the community with food, enhancing the education system to utilise outdoor education to raise core standards and to inspire the community one day at a time to have the confidence to make the difference in their lives and for those around them. Having been recognised over the last few years for his contributions to environmental volunteering, mental health awareness, and inspiration to adult learners and community development Sam has picked up and shared in an array of awards.

Tabitha Sawyer

Mindfulness Educator & Assistant Head Teacher (Primary Education)
Tabitha Sawyer is co-creator of the paws .b primary school (key stage 2) curriculum. She recently completed a Masters dissertation on Mindfulness at Bangor University, researching the impact mindfulness has on children’s academic results and attitudes to learning. Tabitha is an assistant head teacher at Ysgol Pen Y Bryn in North Wales and has a passion to promote well-being in children’s lives and providing them the opportunity to experience mindfulness from an early age to take them through the rest of their lives. Tabitha was inspired to become a teacher when she taught her own children whilst sailing around the world. In her second year of teaching, Tabitha was awarded a national teaching award and has since been a Teaching Award judge.

Tim Exile

Electronic Music Improvisor, Composer and Producer
Tim Exile is an electronic music improvisor, composer and producer alongside being an inventor and maker of electronic musical instruments. He has made critically acclaimed albums for Warp records, toured the stages of every continent and released his own software creations in collaboration with music tech leaders Native Instruments to outstanding commercial success. As a multiple TEDx speaker Tim performed this year at TED Global. With a deep motor-neurone relationship with sound from playing the violin from age 5, at 12 years old he discovered the enthralling sound world of bootleg rave tapes. A quick but frustrating flirtation with DJing germinated his vision of how sound could be touched and shaped into music live and in the moment. Determined to bring spontaneity, vulnerability and interactivity to a genre of music characterised by long-laboured, highly polished studio production, he set up live online venue timexile.tv for streaming live crowd-sourced performances in 2011.

Organizing team

Neil
Cocker

Cardiff, United Kingdom
Organizer

Claire
Scantlebury

Cardiff, United Kingdom
Co-organizer