SPEAKERS
- All
- Wed 17 June
- Thu 18 june
- Fri 19 june
- Sat 20 june
- sun 21 june
- mon 22 june
Derek Bardwell
Author of No Win Race, host of the Just Cause podcast exploring the intersections of race, culture, and social justice.
Aracelli Camargo
Improving urban health. health equity & resilience. Cognitive Neuroscientist + Lab Director of The Centric Lab. Indigenous American / Floridian
Hilary Cottam
Designing the 5th Social Revolution. Author of Radical Help on the future of welfare.
Natasha Ruwona
Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher and curator. Investigates racialised spatialisation (in line with Black Feminist Geographies) through writing, digital art and performance.
Josina Caliste
Health professional, landworker, activist & co-founder of Land in Our Names (LION). Environmental justice, land reparations + ancestral farming practices.
Kathy Peach
Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta. Leads collective intelligence and participatory futures programmes.
Devita Davison
Executive Director, FoodLab Detroit. Founding Partner at FoodLab Sydney. Creating a food economy that acknowledges the importance of food justice, community health, local ownership, and sustainability.
Pat Kane
Writer, musician, consultant and activist. Author of The Play Ethic. Co-founder Sunday Herald, The Alternative UK. Curator FutureFest.
Scott Smith
Founder and managing partner of Changeist, a futures research and consulting partnership based in the Netherlands. Author of How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange.
Susan Cox-Smith
Partner of Changeist. Writer, designer, creative director, interactive producer, and researcher, seeking to enrich public engagement with possible futures.
Joy Warmington
CEO of national equalities + human rights charity BRAP. transforming the way we think and do equality.
Anab Jain
CoFounder Superflux, Professor of Design Investigations at University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Catalysing imagination, exploring plural futures, working with uncertainty + complexity.
Roman Krznaric
Public philosopher writing about the power of ideas to change society. His most recent book is The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World.
Cynthia Voza Lusilu
Transdisciplinary designer using human-centered design thinking and participatory practices. Exploring care and repair to support mental health, emotional wellness, and sense of place.
Rachel Coldicutt
Feminist. Responsible technologist. Social impact of new and emerging technologies. Previously CEO of Doteveryone, researching how technology is changing society.
Rob Hopkins
Co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. Director of Totnes Community Development Society. Author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook and most recently From What Is to What If.
Gill Wildman
Business Development Advisor for Watershed in Bristol and the South West Creative Technology Network. Strategic designer. Co-founder of Plot agency.
Dr Pragya Agarwal
Behavioural and data scientist. Journalist. Author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias.
Ella Saltmarshe
Co-founder of The Long Time Project, The Comms Lab, The Point People, RepresentAge, SHEvotes. Working at the intersection of culture, narrative and systems change.
Aliyah Hasinah
Curator, writer and filmmaker focused on decolonial approaches to history and the present day. Partnerships manager at MAIA. Producer Heaux Noire.
Margaret Hefferman
Multi-company CEO, professor, writer for Financial Times & HuffPost, TED speaker. Author of Willful Blindness, A Bigger Prize and most recently Uncharted: How to map the future together.
Andre Anderson
Founder of Freedom & Balance, an art college for the artist in everyone. Published Authors of the Estate, a curriculum asking how we turn council houses into publishing houses.
Pheobe Tickell
Ex-microbiologist, complex systems thinker. Rigorous imagining for moral futures.
Indy Johar
Founding Director of 00 and Dark Matter Laboratories. Co-founder Impact Hub Birmingham and Open Systems Lab. Building the Boring Revolution.
Diane Roussin
Anishinaabe. Skownan 1st Nation. Passionate Community Leader. Project Director at The Winnipeg Boldness Project.
Bea Karol Burks
Director for Explorations at NESTA. Futures, foresight and how we design the worlds we want to live in.
Bianca Wylie
Open government advocate with a dual background in technology and public engagement. Co-founder of Digital Public and Tech Reset Canada. Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Selma Maloumi
MSc Medicinal Natural Products and phytochemistry at UCL. Energy science, traditional medicine, healing and consciousness, rooted in an Islamic perspective.
Odelia Younge
Educator and writer based in Oakland, California. Centers discussions about blackness and resistance. Co-founder of Novalia Collective. Editor and compiler of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University.
Tim Gill
Global advocate for children’s outdoor play and mobility. Author of No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society and Urban
Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities.
Zain Dada
Writer, cultural producer, researcher and film-maker. Co-founder of Khidr Collective. Co-founder of Decolonising Our Minds. Programme Manager at Maslaha.
Farzana Khan
Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice London, creating heart-centred spaces, tools and resources of healing for Black, Brown, working class and LGBTQI communities.
Doriana Diaz
Founder & curator The Diaz Collections, a cultivated network for black artists seeking sanctuary. Explores cultural agency through various healing vessels and archival documentation of multigenerational black narratives.
Alastair Parvin
Systems designer. CEO Open Systems Lab. WikiHouse, Plan✕, #affordableland. Member of 00.
Carlotta Conte
Urban researcher and system designer. Leader of Design Learning & Insight at Dark Matter Labs. Co-founder of Tak Tak Tak.
Jack Minchella
Strategic design lead at Dark Matter Laboratories - combining design-thinking, process management and systems strategy.
Jonathan Lapalme
Working toward more just urban systems with Dark Matter Laboratories. Cities Fellow at the McConnell Foundation. Co-founder of Entremise + Nouveaux Voisins.
Mark Gonzales
Futurist operating at the intersection of technology, human-centered design and theories of change. Inaugural Chair of the Department Of The Future. John F. Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. Founding partner of The New Medina.
Panthea Lee
Social justice, participatory democracy + radical human kindness. Co-founder and Executive Director of Reboot, building and powering coalitions for courageous, structural change.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Educator, poet and writer disrupting narrations of history, race, violence, gender, islamophobia + knowledge. Host of Breaking Binaries podcast.
Tobi Kyeremateng
Cultural producer and social entrepreneur creating rich cultural experiences and sustainable social change through film, live public events and community-led programmes. Creative Civic Producer at Brixton House. Founder of Black Ticket Project.
Sarah Gold
Founder and CEO at IF. Leading expert in emerging issues in privacy, security and technology.
Akil Scafe-Smith
One third of RESOLVE, an interdisciplinary design collective that aims to address multi-scalar social challenges by combining architecture, art, technology and engineering. Researcher for the London School of Economics.
Akil Benjamin
Head of Research and Founder at Comuzi an innovation studio which works on next-generation products and services. Saturday School Director at M&C Saatchi Saturday School.
Suzanne Alleyne
Cultural thinker. Collaborative working and creating equitable spaces for all. Inaugural Arts Council England changemaker. Cultural Animateur for Signifier,
Nonhlanhla Makuyana
Educator, creative and new economics organiser. Co-founder of Decolonising Economics.
Casey Bailey
Writer, performer and educator, born and raised in Nechells, Birmingham, UK. Released Adjusted with Verve Poetry Press. His play GrimeBoy has been commissioned by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley
Artist archiving the Black trans experience. Using technology to imagine Black trans lives in environments that centre our bodies. Creator of the Black Trans Archive.
Sarah Drummond
Chief Digital Officer for Northgate Public Services and CEO of Snook. Co-founder Snook, MyPolice, CycleHack, Dearest Scotland, Alloa Pride and The Matter.
Rebecca Squirrell
Senior Business Analyst at Snook. Redesigning services and developing target operating models.
Muneera Pilgrim
International poet, cultural producer, writer and broadcaster. Co-founder of the Muslim hip-hop duo Poetic Pilgrimage. Associate Artist with The English Touring Theatre.
Indra Adnan
Psycho-social therapist, writer and events producer. Founder and Director of the Soft Power Network. Co-initiator of The Alternative UK political platform.
Kamil Mahmood
Poet, spoken word and visual artist. Explores identity, community, Islam, the British Pakistani diaspora, masculinity and international activism.
Meg Lightheart
Leadership coach supporting leaders in evolving how they deal with complexity and mess. Self-awareness, interdependence, inclusive dynamics, social justice and climate justice.
Suriya Aisha
Activst, artist and cultural producer. Shining a light on the unspoken corners of our society. Founder of LGBT poc network UNMUTED, she believes in community organising as art and protest.
Kuchenga
Black transsexual feminist whose work seeks to cleave souls open with truth and sincerity. Writer and journalist for Vogue, Cosmopolitan, gal-dem, ID, Harper's Bazaar and VICE, plus four major anthologies. Currently writing a novel.
Priyamvada Gopal
University Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English. Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance & British Dissent.
Safiya Robinson
Founder of sisterwoman vegan, a plant-based social enterprise exploring wellness through food. Encouraging healing using plant-based dishes inspired by the Black diaspora.
Penny Hagen
Social Innovation & Place Director at Auckland Co-design Lab. Participatory design and evaluation practices for social outcomes, citizens, systems.
Juno Roche
Writer. Author of a trilogy of books on the trans experience: Queer Sex, Trans Power and most recently Gender Explorers which features interviews with young trans people in their own words.
Dan Hill
Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish government’s innovation agency. Designer and urbanist. Professor at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Mayor of London Design Advocate. Trustee of Participatory City.
Anthony Painter
Chief Research and Impact Officer at the Royal Society of Arts. Author of three books, most recently Left Without a Future? Social Justice in anxious times, and reports such as Creative Citizen, Creative State: the principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income.
Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
Travis Alabanza
Theatre maker, performer and writer. Former artist in residence at The Tate Galleries. Featured in The BBC, Guardian, Gal-Dem, Huck Magazine, The Independent, and Gay Times. Their show Burgerz toured internationally and won the Total Theatre Award at Edinburgh Fringe.
Suzanne Dhaliwal
Climate justice campaigner, queer advocate provocateur,
interdisciplinary artist, lecturer. Environmental justice and anti-oppression. Research fellow at the Centre for Research in Spatial
Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton.
Andre Reid
Reimagine Walsall. Designing with Communities. Founder of Kiondo, a design research studio weaving deep connections between people and place. Designer at MAIA.
Kristina Hall
Creative practitioner. Creator of Child In Residence. Youth Co-ordinator for The Women & Families Resource Centre. Member of KIONDO and co-producer of Studio Table.
Abby Rose
Co-creator of Farmerama and co-founder of Vidacycle. Supporting the small-to medium-scale farming community with the belief they will be the heroes of a resilient future.
Rhiannon White
Co-founder and theatre maker, Common Wealth. Assistant Director, National Theatre Wales.
Cathy Runciman
Co-founder Atlas of the Future. Partnerships and strategy at openDemocracy. Non-executive Director of Makerversity. Celebrating people dedicating their talents to making the world a better place.
Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley
Broadcast Journalist and Producer at BBC + Ujima Radio. Bristol Black and Green Ambassador, addressing marginalised communities' inclusion in green issues by asking hard questions, researching and taking action.
Kate Fletcher
Professor, design activist, author. Sustainability, Design, Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London.
Mathilda Tham
Professor Design + Change at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Sitting in a feminist, creative, activist space between design, sustainability and futures making.
Zakiya Mckenzie
Journalist, academic, and emerging nature writer. Caribbean Literary Heritage. Bristol Black and Green Ambassador. Forestry England’s Writer in the Forest.
Kimberly Bell
Baker and founder, Small Food Bakery. Proving that small, human scale food manufacturing businesses and direct trade will enable transition to a better kind of food economy
Evie Manning
Co-founder Common Wealth, making site-specific, political theatre.
Nathan Bryon
Writer and actor who has written for BAFTA award-winning children's TV shows, such as Swashbuckle and Apple Tree House and Rastamouse. His animated series, Afro Kid, is currently under option. Look Up! is his debut picture book for children.
Nirvana
Qualified medical herbalist, practicing naturopathic ways of living. One half of Dish Your Herbs, a platform intended to educate people on marrying ancient medicinal traditions with food and cooking.
Hafsa Issa-Salwe
Marketer in the beauty industry, working with Kevyn Aucoin, Molton Brown and Aveda. Passionate about mental health and wellness. One half of Dish Your Herbs sharing recipes fusing herbal traditions with everyday cooking.
Alexandra Sheppard
Social media professional by day, fiction writer by nightShortlisted for the Megaphone writer development scheme. Member of the SCBWI. Oh My Gods is her debut novel.
Nigel Twumasi
Co-founder of mayamada, the UK manga brand featured in NEO Magazine, Mashable, Bleeding Cool and the BBC among others.
Dapo Adeola
Illustrator and character designer creating work that challenges gender norms in a fun and upbeat way. Runs workshops in and out of schools to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to inner-city children.
Hannah Lee
Always loved books, but yearned to see more stories that featured children like her - so now she is writing them! My Hair is her debut picture book, which was Highly Commended in the 2017 FAB Prize for writing.
Jaden Osei-Bonsu
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Grants Manager: 2027 Associate. Worked across London's Youth Development sector with organisations such as Reaching Higher, Leap Confronting Conflict and West Ham Foundation.
John A. Sweeney
Futurist, designer, and author. Director at QRIFS (Qazaq Research Institute for Futures Studies). Foresight Advisor for INTERPOL.
Jose Ramos
Director of Action Foresight. Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies. Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Waithera Sebatindira
Co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power. She was the first Black woman to be elected Women's Officer on the Cambridge University Students' Union.
Sham Murad
Co-founder of A is for Activism. Baghdad born Masters in Law graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Development. In her spare time she teaches English to refugee children in her local centre.
Laurie Smith
Principle Researcher at Nesta, undertakings experimental work in new fields and leading the organisation on futures methods.
Caleb Femi
Poet and Director featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture. Using film, photography and music Caleb pushes the boundaries of poetry both on the page, in performance and on digital mediums.
Jemma Desai
Researcher and writer. Reconsidering her work biography after having spent the last year looking straight into the void of institutional life. Used to have a film programming practice that she hopes to re-imagine in a better future.
Melz Owusu
Post-Binary. Decolonial x Black Feminist Theorist. TEDx & International Speaker. Writer. Imagining alternative worlds. Organiser of Free Black Uni Fund.
Paola Bay
Filmmaker, fashion designer and artist designer based in London. Recent work includes the 2018 installation Reliquaries for the Broken Nature Exhibition in Milano, Italy. Co-created the Flourishing Diversity Summit at UCL
Kate Alderton
Independent dream researcher, artist and performer. Member of The Mycelium theatre company and has trained with The Centre for Social Dreaming, The Processwork Institute and the eco-artistic community of Damanhur: The Path of the Dream.
Kate Genevieve
Artist, director, researcher and educator at creative studio chroma.space. Relational realities & dream research University of Sussex.
Cass HM
Thanatology, death education, artist, student, writer. Craft and creation as resistance, in reclaiming grief beyond mourning.
