Speakers
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
David Puttnam spent 30 years as an independent film producer (his many award-winning films include The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero and Chariots of Fire). He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment.
He is Chancellor of the Open University, was the founder (in 1998) and is Chair of Trustees of the National Teaching Awards (until October 2008), and served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council (2000-2002). He was founding Chair of NESTA, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, as well as serving as a Trustee of both the Tate Gallery and the Science Museum.
David was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA from 1994 to 2004, and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. He was appointed President of UNICEF UK in July 2002, and has played a key role in promoting UNICEF's advocacy, awareness and fundraising objectives.
In February 2006 he became Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, and in April 2006 Chairman of Futurelab. In April 2007 he became the Chairman of Profero, and in the same month was also appointed Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Climate Change Bill Scrutiny Committee. His most recent appointment is as Chairman of North Music Trust, The Sage Gateshead. David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997.
Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater is an ideas generator, strategic adviser and one of the most influential creative people in the world.
In 2008, Spectator Magazine described him as "the wizard of the web". In 2003 Accenture, the global management consultancy, ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world, and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK .
Charles has worked extensively as a senior adviser to the governments over the past decade, advising the 10 Downing St policy unit, the Department for Trade and Industry and the European Commission on the rise of the knowledge driven economy and the Internet, as well as the government of Shanghai .
He is an advisor to the Department for Education's Innovation Unit on future strategies for more networked and personalised approaches to learning and education.
Michael Kelly
Professor Michael Kelly is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge since 2002, and a Professorial Fellow at Trinity Hall. He is also Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government, and a non-executive director of the Laird Group plc, both since July 2006.
Michael Kelly studied Mathematics and Physics to MSc level at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand , and completed his PhD in solid state physics at Cambridge in 1974. After a further seven years as post-doc working on the electronic structure of metals and semiconductors, he joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre in 1981. While there he and his team developed two new families of microwave devices that went, and are still, in production with E2V Technologies at Lincoln . From 1992-2002 he was Professor of Physics and Electronics at the University of Surrey , including a term as Head of the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences. During 2003-5, we was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, an £80M project which brings together academics from Cambridge and MIT to work on research, education and industrial outreach for the benefit of the UK economy.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics , Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the USA . He has won prizes for his work from the Institute of Physics , the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
Arlette Anderson
As head of sustainability at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Arlette is respon sible for the organisation’s sustainability projects on the themes of climate change and mitigation and adaptation, waste and materials, water and biodiversity and sustainable communities.
As well as being the head of the RICS Sustainability Working Group, she also leads the outreach programme helping to spread the message of sustainability in land, property and construction with the RICS membership and stakeholders.
She previously worked as director of sustainability and corporate social responsibility at Atisreal, an international property consultancy company, where her role was to identifying commercial opportunities and assisting clients with their sustainability requirements.
Ramon Arratia
Ramon Arratia provides direction and leadership for InterfaceFLOR in the area of sustainability across the EMEA region.
His focus as European Sustainability Director is on continuing to develop the company’s sustainability strategy towards Mission Zero (InterfaceFLOR’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by 2020), at the same time as reviewing offerings and business processes to ensure that they are as sustainable as possible.
Ramon’s responsibilities also include co-ordination of the European activities of the InterfaceRAISE consultancy service (launched in collaboration with Ashridge Business School), with the objective of successful development and implementation of the programme within the marketplace.
Before joining InterfaceFLOR, Ramon spent five years at the Vodafone Group, where he held the position of Senior Group Corporate Responsibility Manager.
Ramon is currently completing an MBA at Warwick Business School. He holds an MSC in Quality Management and a degree in chemistry, which give him an in-depth understanding of some of the more technical aspects of product development in the sustainability sector.
Andrew Gaule
Andrew Gaule leads H-I Network, a global alliance of leaders committed to driving innovation and operational excellence.
Andrew has contributed to a number of reports and articles on Winning Ideas for Strategic Innovation, Rewarding Entrepreneurial Talent and Innovation Performance Measurement and is a frequent conference speaker. The recent publication ‘Open Innovation in Action’ has been well received by executives who are driving change in global organisations.
Prior to joining Corven, Andrew was the entrepreneurial founder of Henley-Incubator and has been a senior executive in an IT services company and a business change and project manager. He was previously an international SAP project manager and commercial manager with Unilever where he managed major divisional reorganisations and IT projects.
Andrew has an Economics degree from St John’s College, Cambridge, is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and gained his MBA at Henley Management College.
Charles Kennelly
Charles has worked in the GIS industry for over 16 years, starting life as a digitiser and working through the various aspects of the industry. Initially in local government and latterly with ESRI (UK), Charles has been involved in the design, development, deployment and management of a number of successful GI systems.
Now working as the CTO for ESRI (UK) Charles has specialised in finding ways of making GIS accessible to ordinary users in environments ranging from consumer mapping to enterprise and business critical systems.
Glenn Lyons
Professor Glenn Lyons is the founder and Director of the Centre for Transport & Society (CTS) at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
With a team of 20 transport planners and social scientists, Glenn's aim, and that of CTS, is to improve and promote understanding of the inherent links between lifestyles and personal travel in the context of continuing social and technological change. Glenn was formerly Director of the Transport Visions Network and Chairman of the Transport Planning Society; he is Chairman of the UK's Universities Transport Study Group.
In the field of traveller information Glenn is an external advisor to the UK Department for Transport. In 2008 he became a Trustee of London Transport Museum Limited.
Robin Mannings
Foresight and Futurology span a wide area but Robin's main interests are focussed on the future of science and technology and how it will impact on, and interact with, the future of business and society. He is particularly interested in potential future disruptive technologies and has recently written a book, (Ubiquitous Positioning) about the future of knowing where everything and everybody is situated.
Robin's career includes; mobile radio systems (Philips), wireless research (University of Bath) and telematics research, consultancy and research management, (BT, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, UK). Robin has written numerous papers, book chapters, patents, and speaks frequently at conferences, specialist gatherings and with the media.
He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and graduate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cardiff). He is currently studying part-time for a Professional Doctorate in Lancaster University's Computer Dept in the area of computer science concerning ubiquitous computing. He has a strong interest in culture and history and is an amateur artist.
Ian Pearson
From 1991 until 2007, Ian was BT's Futurologist, tracking and predicting new developments throughout information technology, considering both technological and social implications. He now does exactly the same things for Futurizon, a startup futures institute. As a futurologist and consultant, he lectures widely on his futures views.
In between conferences, he writes on topics such as machine consciousness, human evolution, women's issues, ageing, social trends and advanced computing technology. As a result of his work, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Westminster .
He has received many awards for his papers, written several books and has made well over 400 TV and radio appearances. He is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, the World Academy of Art and Science, the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute of Nanotechnology and the World Innovation Foundation.
Ben Reason
Ben is a founding partner at live|work. Ben has been responsible for developing the application of service innovation & design in the public sector and for sustainability. Ben has rich experience with NHS, local government and government agency projects. He also has been key in the development of Service Design methods and processes for live|work and has taught at universities and colleges in the UK and Europe.
Stew McTavish
Stew is the managing director of mo.jo. He and his team work to create platforms and environments where anyone can participate in new venture creation. Currently running the Open Ventures Challenge in aid of Cancer Research UK, mo.jo is working with its community to create new ventures and partnerships that can generate £10m to help beat cancer.
Chris Thorpe
MySpace Consultant and Developer Platform Evangelist
Since he gave up playing with really big computers as a research scientist Chris has been trying to find more and more excuses to play with really big computers powering websites. Amongst many other things, he's been involved in projects as diverse as social worlds for 7-11 year olds, video archives of Nobel Prize winners telling their life stories, a James Bond Premiere Webcast and putting contemporary sculpture on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth.
Chris now works as a consultant with MySpace as the MySpace Developer Platform Evangelist for the UK.
Brendan Tutt
IBM Business Unit Leader, Portal & Social Networking for UK & Ireland, Brendan is responsible for all aspects of IBM's Websphere Portal Business & Social Networking (Lotus Connections). He provides support to the sales and marketing team as a subject matter expert and advises on product strategy in the UK & Ireland marketplace.
Brendan has worked for IBM for 26 years in technical, sales and management roles. Since the formation of the IBM Software Group in 1996 Brendan has worked in Both the Tivoli and Lotus brands and has good knowledge of both Systems Management & Collaboration.
Brendan has spoken at a number of external conferences for Butler, Melcrum Publishing. and ORC.
Jim Haywood
Jim joined Business in the Community as Director of the environment campaign in April 2003. Immediately prior to this, Jim worked for the Environment Agency as general manager of the Lower Severn area, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Agency's regulatory, advisory and championing roles within the Area. With the Agency, Jim also headed up the National Flood Warning Centre, which he set up as a centre of expertise in flood forecasting, warning and public awareness following the widespread floods which hit eastern and central England and parts of Wales in Easter 1998.
David Wortley
David Wortley is Director of the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at Coventry University. He is responsible for the development of the Institute as an international centre of excellence for the emerging electronic games, virtual world and social networking application areas. Working with academics, regional development agencies and leading computer games companies, David aims to make the SGI a thought leader and focal point for games based learning, simulation and immersive 3D virtual environments.
David is a co-founder of the SHASPA (Intelligent Shared Spaces) initiative. SHASPA is an innovative platform and set of services that emerging technologies such as wireless sensors, Geographical Information Systems, social networks, virtual worlds and electronic games can plug into to create applications which integrate, visualise, monitor and manage the physical and virtual environment.
Paul Markwick
Paul is the Chief Executive of the Vehicle Certification Agency and has led its global expansion, focussing on safety and environmental performance.
In 1997 Paul joined Ricardo PLC to help develop extend their international portfolio into vehicle engineering, initially as Director Vehicle Engineering, subsequently Director Business and Product Planning, responsible for generating new business and delivering complete vehicle projects. Prior to working at Ricardo, Paul held positions at Land Rover, Pirelli and Jaguar.
Paul is a Fellow of The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer.
David Overton
David is an innovation professional currently helping Ordnance Survey with its product strategy and approach to new propositions. His approach is based on creative problem solving with a strong emphasis on networking, eliciting collective wisdom and generating buy-in amongst key stakeholders.
His work at Ordnance Survey has included project management roles in pan-European, UK and internal projects. He has established radical innovations at Ordnance Survey, creating opportunities in Web 2.0 via provision of API's, now realised with the launches of OS Open Space and the outdoor exploration portal explore.
Joe Greenwood
Joe joined Ordnance Survey in 2001 in Research and Innovation where he lead a number of data management and integration projects, data sharing frameworks and helped start research into semantic technologies. With experience in sales and product management and following the release of OS OpenSpace he now heads the national mapping agency’s product development teams where. Among other things, his remit gives him responsibility for research, data management and taking forward innovative prototypes through to realisation.
Joe holds an MSc in GIS from The University of Edinburgh and is currently studying for a MBA with Manchester Business School.
Mark Cavill
Mark is a Law graduate who initially joined the Royal Mail through their Graduate scheme.
Mark was assigned to the Carbon Management Programme 2 years ago after further study and is now engaged in the articulation and pursuit of stringent reduction strategies that cannot be achieved by traditional methodologies.
He is proactively leading the transition to a low-zero carbon future by de-coupling from fossil fuels through utilising hydrogen and fuel cell technology.
John Bessant
Professor John Bessant, BSc., PhD. currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Technology Management at Imperial College Business School, London. He previously worked at Cranfield, Brighton and Sussex Universities. In 2003 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and in 2006 became a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute.
Author of 15 books and many articles, he has acted as advisor to various national governments, international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and OECD and companies including Lego, Novo Nordisk, Mars, Toyota, UBS and Morgan Stanley.
Gobion Rowlands
Gobion Rowlands co-founded Red Redemption in 2000 and was Managing Director of Red Redemption for six years before taking on the role of Chairman. Gobion is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is an Associate Lecturer of Sustainability and Communications for the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University.
He has won a number of awards and grants for Red Redemption including a DTI Smart Innovation Award, 2 Defra Climate Challenge awards, a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer Award. His career has included senior production and project management roles for Lycos-Bertelsmann as Producer, Gameplay PLC as Senior Producer and Project Manager for Wireplay, and Arena Technik as Senior Producer operating the Wireplay Service. He has consulted for the UK Government e-Envoy’s office, the British Council and the Soros Foundation as well as being a games industry consultant for many years for the former UK Department of Trade and Industry.
Stephen Hart - The Technology Strategy Board
The Technology Strategy Board is an arm's length Government body sponsored by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Its vision is for the UK to be a global leader in innovation and a magnet for innovative businesses, where technology is applied rapidly, effectively and sustainably to create wealth and enhance quality of life.
