Theme: How do we make Guernsey the best place to live on earth?

Event that asks the community of Guernsey how we can make it the best place to live on earth? The 3rd version of the island's most transformative event.

Beau Sejour
Amherst Road
St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 2DL
Guernsey

David Green

David Green has lived in Guernsey for 9 years. He started his career in the City of London in merchant banking and as a Eurobond trader before starting his niche finance business when he was 23 which was sold when he was 42. His stressful life s an entrepreneur changed profoundly after having a spiritual experience in his 30s and after meeting a 91 year old guru from India who taught him how to meditate and that material and spiritual success are inextricably interlinked. He is author of The Invisible Hand: Business, Success & Spirituality and also writes for Huffington Post about Leadership, Meditation, Yoga and Health. He is an experienced Kriya Yoga practitioner and is involved with Hand in Hand a humanitarian charity that also runs an amazing school for disadvantaged children called Balashram in Odisha, India. David has just returned from being in silence for 300 days on a solitary retreat without emails, world news and contact with friends and family.

Ed Fidoe

Ed Fidoe is an education advisor and reformer passionate about creating educational institutions fit for the 21st century. In 2012 he co-founded School 21, an innovative all-through school in Stratford, East London, which aims to give all its students the skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century. Having previously been a Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co. Ed is now the Director of KP FOX, a strategy consultancy firm that specialises in advising leading educational institutions on their most pressing issues. Recent clients include elite universities such as Cambridge and LSE, prestigious independent school Eton College, and renowned educational organisations such as Ark Schools, Teach First and Frontline.

Eric Avner

Eric Avner has built his life building cities, specifically Cincinnati, Ohio. He currently oversees community development investments for the Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, maintaining a focus on strengthening Cincinnati’s distinctive urban neighborhoods, building a talented regional workforce, and encouraging a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Eric also oversees People’s Liberty (peoplesliberty.org), the foundation’s 8,000 square foot philanthropic lab, as an experimental platform for innovative grant making.

Erin Matlock

Erin Matlock is founder of Brain Summit, a mental health advocate and popular blogger. After overcoming a crippling battle with severe depression, she went on to create an online community where she openly shares her search for a better brain. Intimately familiar with the emotional and physical challenges of the community she serves, Erin actively engages a following of 200,000 people each month. For 10 years, she has worked in the brain health and mental health markets helping individuals and organizations reach a wider audience by connecting at an honest and human level. In the Fall of 2015, Erin produced The Sound/Mind Experiment. She became a public case study for The Listening Program, an evidence based sound frequency training that is used to enhance focus, productivity, creativity and emotional resilience. What started as a quest for better brain performance turned into a journey of self awareness, connectedness and a deep sense of inner peace and belonging.

Genevieve Langford

Genevieve Langford is a local creative who likes to apply her skills and ideas to all sorts of projects. Having run a gallery, lived in a shipping container and dived with sharks she has now started a new boutique ‘hotel with a soul’ - Ziggurat - in the heart of St Peter Port, Guernsey. Always wanting to do things differently, and to make a positive difference in whatever corner of the world she is living, the aim is to use Ziggurat as a vehicle to help others. Karma Kitchen was launched in December 2015 and the hope is that it becomes a regular feature on the Guernsey social enterprise calendar.

Jack Kreindler

Jack Kreindler is a physician and tech entrepreneur, specialising in high altitude physiology and the application of elite sport science to help the sickest patients achieve their goals. In 2007 he founded CHHP (Centre for Health and Human Performance) in Harley Street, renowned for its work with athletes, complex cases and celebrity charity challenges. Kreindler founded Sentrian (formerly Jointly Health) in 2012. Based in California, Sentrian is pioneering new methods of machine learning using bio-sensors to better manage millions of patients with complex chronic disease, avoiding preventable hospitalisations.

Justin Sykes

Justin Sykes is an economic development specialist with over 15 years’ experience in structuring, financing and implementation of innovative and large-scale impact investments for international charities, development agencies, foundations and the private sector that have created thousands of businesses and new jobs. Justin is the Managing Director of Innovest Advisory, a boutique consultancy company which works at the nexus between innovation and social impact and seeks to link socially minded investors with impact investment opportunities within Guernsey and internationally.

Mac Macartney

Mac is the founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise located in Devon that seeks to inspire people from all walks of life to contribute their gifts and energy towards a just and sustainable world. Over a period of twenty years Mac was mentored and coached by a group of Native American spiritual teachers. During this training and ever since he has attempted to bring two worlds together – an ancient world view that emphasises relationship, interdependence, and reverence for life with the huge challenges and equally huge opportunities of the 21st Century. Mac is the originator of Embercombe’s powerful and evocative programme ‘The Journey’, leads Embercombe’s work with large corporations, and has sat on the sustainability advisory boards of several large business organisations.

Nadav Wilf

Nadav has 12 years of experience building, investing in and selling tech startups. Nadav founded Matrix Media Technologies, a leading search engine optimization firm, driving millions of visitors annually in search for Fortune 500 and top tech clients. Matrix was acquired by GearyLSF, the largest interactive agency in San Diego, in 2009. After MatrixMT, Nadav chose to shift his focus on creating impact in the world and founded Enlightened.org, a platform for businesses to integrate philanthropy into everyday life. After Enlightened ran out of cash, Nadav joined Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, as Chief Possibility Officer and partner in HeroX. HeroX is a spinoff of XPRIZE and the leading platform for incentive challenges.

Ollie Guillou

Ollie Guillou works for the BBC as a reporter and presenter in Guernsey.

Orly Wahba

Orly Wahba is an educator, entrepreneur, and community activist passionate about inspiring and motivating people to make the world a kinder place. In 2011, Orly founded Life Vest Inside, a non-profit organization with a mission to empower and unite the world with kindness. Through Life Vest Inside, Orly encourages people to embrace the incredible power of giving and recognize that in times of hardship, kindness, like a life vest, keeps the world afloat. LVI gained international acclaim when Orly’s award-winning film Kindness Boomerang went viral, receiving over 30 million views and counting and eventually landing her a spot to speak at TED2013 on the magic of kindness. Orly began her career in kindness as a Middle School educator empowering children to embrace unity, build their self-value, and use their power to influence the world for good. As her kindness community grows by the thousands, more people are experiencing the addictiveness in the giving of kindness.

Paul Chambers

Paul became the Restorative Justice Co-ordinator for the Bailiwick of Guernsey over 7 years ago and began using restorative approaches in a range of situations; Assaults, bullying, cyber-bullying, workplace conflict, community breakdown and anti-social behaviour with statutory and non-statutory agencies on the Island. He has trained many practitioners from a wide range of organizations and individuals including Teachers, Prison, Police and Probation Officers, Social Workers and Faith and Community Leaders. He continues to develop strategy and Co-ordinate the implementation of that strategy in the Bailiwick and to practice as a facilitator conferencing serious incidents and crimes.

Rupert Oldridge

The UK's most energetic all rounded beatboxer,and official World Champion in 2015 with The Beatbox Collective Has taught over 100,000 people how to beatbox live. Conjuring crowds, building atmospheres, engaging and amazing audiences of all ages and musical genres with each display. With the ability of holding any stage together, Bass6 is known as the glue to any event with his positive and powerful approach to every performance.

Santiago Siri

Founder and president of Democracy Earth, a Y Combinator backed non-profit doing the largest global effort to deliver an open source solution to online voting. Founding peer of Partido de la Red (The Net Party), a political party that aims to improve representation with candidates committed to citizens requests online. An advocate for Bitcoin since 2011 helping startups, e-commerce sites and nonprofits to adopt it and a partner of Bitex.la, the largest Bitcoin exchange in Latin America. In 2007 founded Popego, a pioneering big data research lab acquired by Brazilian boo-box in 2011. Co-founded the Argentine Game Developers Association in 2001. Elected as Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Contributes in radio and television evangelizing about the virtues of technology. His first book 'Hacktivismo' was published in 2015 by Random House.

Scott Thrift

Scott Thrift is an award winning filmmaker, the co-founder of missing pieces & the artist behind The Present. Thrift’s interest in the elasticity of time was born in non-linear editing rooms. He created The Present as a release valve for the pressures of modern time. A self proclaimed 'arm chair philosopher' Thrift's inquiry into time landed on the question, “How can we live in the moment, if the moment changes every second?” The answer is The Present, a work of art that provides access to a larger scale of time; so that our idea of what a 'moment' means expands to new dimensions.

SØREN HERMANSEN

I am going to talk about people and community. How does a community define itself as a community and when are a community capable of making decisions. There is a lack of social capital in local communities today. People are afraid of changes and they fear the future because the social/cultural life the last decade seemed only to decline. To make change and more resilient communities you need a confident and trusting happy community full of engaged and optimistic people who believe in the future and who wants to make it better!

Vanessa King

Vanessa King is a leading expert on the practical application of the science of happiness, resilience and wellbeing in our everyday lives, communities and in organisations. She regularly speaks all around the world on topics such as: Why Happiness Matters, Why Happiness is a Serious Business, How to Build your Resilience, 5 Questions about Happiness, Simple Skills for Psychological Wellbeing, and the 10 Keys to Happier Living. Vanessa is a Board Member and Lead Positive Psychology and Workplace Expert for Action for Happiness