2018 Speakers

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  Akiko Kobayashi

  Community in the Built Environment

  

  Akiko Kobayashi

  Community in the Built Environment

  Akiko has worked in architectural and engineering practice in London, Sydney, Tokyo and Edinburgh since 1992 on a variety of projects across sectors, studying at Cambridge, Dundee and Edinburgh in between.
  
  Currently, through Assemble Collective Self Build CIC, she works towards enabling community led development in the built environment which involves early stage strategic planning to help groups establish co-operatives, find land and source finance to build their own homes.
  
  Other recent creative collaborations include the Lothian Birth Centre co-designed with midwives, The People’s Money set of banknotes for RBS, and Woodland Tribe self build adventure playground on the Meadows. She is the chair of Marchmont and Sciennes Development Trust and a co-founder of The Architecture Fringe.

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  Clare Devaney

  The Fourth Way

  

  Clare Devaney

  The Fourth Way

  Yes/no, left/right, in/out, us/them. Hands up who’s tired of the binary bollocks! Clare’s talk will set out the thinking behind ‘A Fourth Way’, a new and holistic growth paradigm which rejects the polarisation of our social, economic and democratic structures to instead respond to and support the current groundswell of movement toward collaborative and collective social action. Specifically looking at the potential for connectivity as a key metric for future growth, Clare will explore the relationship between individual agency, place and global sustainability, drawing on examples from across the world to demonstrate how ‘A Fourth Way’ can work in practice. Productivity is dead! Long live connectivity.
  
  Clare Devaney is founding Director of Citizen-i Ltd, a citizen-led think tank based in Manchester, UK. She is co-founder of Impact Hub Greater Manchester, an open collaborative workspace and social impact incubator, and co-founder of M4, a civic innovation platform which works with people as innovators in driving ‘whole-self’ growth and social change. Clare is a former Research Fellow and Associate at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), where she led its 2014-17 ‘Heritage, Identity and Place’ programme and its ‘Citizens and Inclusive Growth’ project (2017). She is a Research Associate of the MAPS-LED International Research Partnership (University of Salford) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Agirre Centre for Social and Political Studies (University of Basque Country/Columbia University, New York). She is a two-time TEDx speaker, a proud trustee of Manchester Histories and has a lifelong but seemingly unreciprocated love for Everton Football Club.

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  Eamon Fullalove

  Shaping the young leaders of tomorrow

  

  Eamon Fullalove

  Shaping the young leaders of tomorrow

  An educator shaping young leaders by providing the scaffolding for them to succeed on their own terms. As a chef and mentor, Eamon was an integral part of Jamie Oliver's 'Fifteen' restaurants success.

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  Pete Hollins

  Compagnons Cycling Collective

  

  Pete Hollins

  Compagnons Cycling Collective

  Pete is a triathlete, dad to two amazing sons and start-up business owner. He and his wife are on a mission to dispel the myth that being the “wrong side of 50” is a time for pipe, slippers and slowing down and is in fact the moment to bring to bear all the experiences of our early decades to create something wonderful, energetic and useful to the world.
  
  Pete grew up in Chester, attended Queens Park High School and then went onto to University in Nottingham. Developing others had been his ninja skill throughout his 20yrs in advertising and so he qualified as an Executive Coach and set up Libero, a Performance Coaching business in 2003.
  
  The more he helped others to achieve their goals, the more he realized he had an unfulfilled boyhood dream. He wanted to be a world champion athlete.
  
  So at the age of 50 he set about making this happen by beginning the 3rd part of his career...

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  Sam Smit

  Education by stealth

  

  Sam Smit

  Education by stealth

  The Eden Project is a symbol of regeneration and transformation. After 17 years honing its award-winning approaches in Cornwall, it decided that with the backdrop of rising environmental crises, it had a responsibility to take its brand of optimistic public engagement global. They are now developing a network of destinations that will act as catalysts for wider programmes of social, economic and environmental regeneration.
  
  Eden explores the relationship between people and the natural world, and each project is inspired by the communities and landscapes that have welcomed it: in China, New Zealand, US, UAE, and UK; located within salt pans, limestone mines, earthquake zones, or urban warehouses.
  
  After studying International Development and Anthropology, Sam moved to South Asia, where he joined the Red Cross in Sri Lanka working on post-civil war and tsunami reconstruction. In 2009, he moved to Maldives where he led Eden’s partnership with the Maldivian Government in their ambitions to become the world’s first carbon neutral country.
  
  He has subsequently published a novel – The Serendipity Foundation – and re-joined Eden’s creative team.
  
  As Creative Development Manager for Eden International, Sam works within a team that fuse science, storytelling and spectacle, specialising in their own joyful brand of “education by stealth” to engage people with the key challenges and opportunities of our time.

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  Tabitha Clayson

  The Frome Independent

  

  Tabitha Clayson

  The Frome Independent

  Tabitha Clayson is a project manager and creative producer, beginning her career in London as production co-ordinator for commissioning organisation, Artangel, who put extraordinary art in unexpected places.
  
  Having relocated with her family to Frome in Somerset in 2002, she founded Foreground with Simon Morrissey in 2007, a visual art commissioning organisation producing projects for the communities, public spaces and social structures of Frome.
  
  In 2013 Tabitha took on the creative production and management of a monthly Sunday market that was expanding to run throughout the town centre. Since then Tabitha and her two colleagues have created a contemporary destination market that now hosts more than 200 traders a month and attracts over 80,000 visitors a year, drawing an estimated £2.5 million into Frome town centre annually.

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  Ted the Journeyman

  Designer and Maker

  

  Ted the Journeyman

  Designer and Maker

  After studying a five year apprenticeship in Antique Restoration in The Lake District, Edward Carefoot embarked on his “Journeyman” years to see whether this Medival tradition of plying your trade on the road for board and lodgings could still be done today. With his Grandfathers tools packed in his Fathers 1960’s rucksack it would take Edward two years from Scotland to The Isles of Scilly, working for farmers to Royalty, fixing gates to restoring the shipwrecked furniture in Britain’s most Southerly museum.
  
  After these two years away Edward has now returned to Cumbria, with his dog Swift and has opened a workshop where he designs and makes bespoke furniture.

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  Tom Bradley

  Making digital experiences work beautifully

  

  Tom Bradley

  Making digital experiences work beautifully

  Tom is Design Director at Manchester digital agency Code Computerlove, having spent 4 years previously working as a Creative Director and later Executive Product Manager for the BBC.
  
  In all his roles, Tom has focussed on making digital experiences that work beautifully for the people that need them. He spends his days helping teams solve problems or try new things using design thinking, creative facilitation and user research and is interested in how these skills are transferable into leadership contexts.
  
  Alongside working on digital strategy and service design with brands such as the BBC, Amnesty International, Center Parcs, Manchester Airport and Chester Zoo, Tom runs a small design studio, working primarily as a Design Associate for the UK's Design Council.
  
  He lives with his family in Chester and is looking for ways to help the city become a more creative and productive place to live and work.

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