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Oxford Town Hall
St. Aldate's
Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3PG
United Kingdom

Anja Meinhardt

Justice in Motion is a physical theatre company which uses performances to address social inequalities. Informed by research and incorporating real stories, their shows have covered topics like the experience of immigrant women, the multidimensional layers of poverty, and forced labour in the construction industry. This talk will be given by founder and spokesperson Anja Meinhardt. Anja is the founder and artistic director of Justice in Motion, a physical theatre company which uses the performing arts to address social inequalities, and impact positive change. Informed by research and incorporating real stories, their shows have covered topics like the experience of immigrant women, the multidimensional layers of poverty, and forced labour in the construction industry.

Ash Dove-Jay

Ash Dove-Jay is founder and CEO of a space technology company that builds and operates satellites. He lays out two starkly different futures for humanity, and poses it is only the coming few generations that will dictate which path we take.

Be Your Best Self

Be Your Best Self is a speaking duo made up of Paralympic gold medallist Danielle Brown and 11-year-old neurodiverse multi-medallist in Jiu-jitsu Nathan Kai. Danielle is a double Paralympic gold medallist, five times World Champion and the first disabled person to represent England at the Commonwealth Games (and win gold) as an able-bodied athlete. Nathan joined MENSA in 2016, is a Grade 5 pianist, and at the age of 7 began writing Be Your Best Self. In 2017, he became the World's Youngest Self-Development Author for his book Be Your Best Self: Life Skills for Unstoppable Kids.

Emily Luo

Emily Luo was born and raised in Denmark, now studying English at Exeter College, Oxford. Her talk is dedicated to her parents who came to Denmark in the 1990s. They each grew up in poverty, her mom during the Chinese cultural revolution and her dad during the Iranian revolution. Emily will speak about the life lessons they have taught her, and how their hardships have changed the way she approaches life for the better.

Jason Bevan

Jason was responsible for the innovation and creativity process at Warner Bros. Studios, marketing legendary movies in EMEA from the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts Films and the Dark Knight trilogy to the Lego Movies. He reveals behind the scenes secrets of how iconic film ideas are created by some of the best known film-makers and studios and how we can all rocketfuel our own innovation and creativity by employing the same simple but powerful techniques.

Ji Hyun Park

Ji Hyun Park is an exiled North Korean living in the UK. A survivor of forced marriage and human trafficking. Jihyun has twice escaped from North Korea, where she endured imprisonment in gulags and many near-death experiences. Today, she raises awareness of the plight of North Korean women and the crimes against community committed in North Korea, a job which brings her into danger every day.

Julia Ebner

Julia Ebner is a researcher and bestselling author specialised in radicalisation and terrorism prevention. Based on her research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and University of Oxford, she regularly advises parliamentary working groups, security agencies and tech companies. She has been a counter-terrorism consultant for the United Nations and writes editorials for The Guardian, The Independent, The Washington Post and other outlets.

Mark Bissell

It's getting harder to innovate. In every field of study, the frontier of knowledge is as far out as it's even been. With the low-hanging fruit already picked, innovators are finding it more and more burdensome to reach this frontier and push it further. In this talk, Mark explores the implications of the expanding knowledge frontier and explains why there is reason to be hopeful: there are many unexploited opportunities for humanity to study and improve our ability to systematically create progress.

Maya Foa

Maya Foa leads a team of lawyers fighting against grave human rights abuses, including the death penalty, torture, rendition, extrajudicial imprisonment and unlawful drone strikes. Her clients include British women who fled ISIS territory and are now held without charge or trial with their children in detention camps in North-East Syria.

Russ Tucker

Russ is the son of a butcher. His family has a long history of rearing animals and selling meat in the UK. Although you won’t find him behind a counter with a cleaver, he still thinks of himself as following in his family’s footsteps with Ivy Farm Technologies, a food tech company creating the future of meat. Russ is an engineer, having studied at Loughborough University before completing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Oxford University.

Shubham Saraff

A Tech Entrepreneur, Researcher and Advisor - Shubham is a founder of Startups in AI based Healthtech, Women Safety , Metaverse and NFTs. He won the IET Global award for his unique research on Mirror Neurons for Speech Therapy . He is a Tech-advisor to CIOs of VC funds and CEOs of leading companies, on Future ready Technologies. He has been a TEDxBocconi speaker on Artificial Intelligence and at TEDxOxford, he speaks about why Industry leaders must increase the quotient of Collective Human Connectedness in all their NxtGen Product designs, while navigating the Hi-Tech maze.

Stephen Venables

Stephen Venables, mountaineer, writer, broadcaster and public speaker, was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen. He has appeared in documentaries for BBC, ITV, and National Geographic, presented for Radio 4, and featured in the IMAX movie Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure. His first book, Painted Mountains, won the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature; his tenth, Ollie, was a Sunday Times bestseller. He is one of the best known mountaineers of his generation.