Liverpool

Confirmed Speakers

• Professor Serge Wich
  When you think of drones these days, most of the time we are talking about military drones. Professor Serge Wich is a primate biologist with a different plan. His current research is focussed on developing 'Conservation Drones' to help preserve life; not take it away.
• Graham Thomas
  Chairman of the Radical Company. Formerly Vice Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi. Recognised by winning awards including Ad Age's 'Global Agency of the Year', Campaign Brief's 'Creative Agency of the Year', Media Marketing's 'Regional Agency of the Year', and P&G's Robert V Goldstein Award for global advertising excellence for campaigns including 'Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?'
• Janet Harrison
  Managing Director of COFILMIC Janet Harrison is the Managing Director of COFILMIC, a talent network for comedy across TV, film and live performance. It provides a springboard for new talent through an annual short film festival and awards, talent development programmes and production of comedy content, across all platforms. Making the leap from 22 years in the insurance industry has been quite a journey, but with ambitions to make feature films, she has not quite finished yet.
• Pam Warhurst
  You could say that Pam Warhurst is quite literally facilitating grassroots change.Through the advocacy of community gardening she is showing the power of small actions to change people and places. She was awarded CBE in 2005 for services to the environment.
• Gary Smailes
  Founder and Editor at BubbleCow Gary is the co-founder at BubbleCow, a company providing publishing services to writers. He got his first break into the publishing world thanks to Terry Deary of Horrible Histories fame and is now a published writer with more than 20 book in print.
• Kathleen Beedles
  Producer at Lime Pictures/Channel 4 Kathleen is an International Interactive, Emmy, RTS and Bafta Nominated Drama Producer. To date Kathleen has worked on over 2500 episodes of continuing drama including all of the UK's major soap operas. Kathleen is a phenomenal storyteller and instinctively understands how to drive a narrative.
• Jenny Radcliffe
  Jenny Radcliffe is an expert in non-verbal communications – including body language, micro-facial expressions and stress signals. If you've ever seen Tim Roth in the US TV series, "Lie to Me", then you'll understand Jenny's core talent. Scary but you cannot lie to her! She applies this skill in negotiations, communications, and understanding human behaviour with clients from large corporations to high-worth individuals, law enforcement and the military.
• Peter Hooton
  The Farm. Peter Hooton is the vocalist of Liverpool-based group The Farm, long-time Hillsborough campaigner and lynchpin of the Justice Collective who were behind the Christmas number one single He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.