Talks and Performances from our 2015 event!
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Skyler Shah
Do something incredible, live your dream
One of the most frightening things to do is be you, really you. We feel deep down an emptiness that we don’t quite understand, but we know with conviction and certainty, that what we are doing, where we work and how we live isn’t what we really want to do. In fact what we really, really want is simply to be happy. In this exciting talk with Skyler, you will explore how to live a fulfilled and happy life, and create YOUR purpose.
Garry Junkuhn
Why I talk to strangers
From a young age, we're told that talking to strangers is a bad thing. Garry challenges those conventions almost every day. In his talk, he shares why these conversations are important in creating life's opportunities and why speaking to strangers is an essential, inspirational source of ideas.
Garry is a responsive, dynamic, passionate coach, who uses both his gift of perception and his grounded business knowledge to get the best out of you. He is a co-founder of an innovative children’s rainwear company and continues to share his knowledge within his business strategy company and as a speaker, SEIS Seed Mentor review panellist and Young Enterprise Volunteer.
Tsetso Sirakov, Dougal Taylor & JJ Stillwell
Jazz Performace
The three Middlesex University students are going to perform a mixture of jazz, urban genres (neo-soul, r&b), and Balkan music.
Tsetso dedicated his life to music and he currently studies jazz piano at Middlesex University with some of the best players in the UK. He started playing the piano when he was 7, and studied Gadulka for almost 2 years as well. His creative energy has always been balanced between Jazz, contemporary music and Balkan music. Tsetso had the chance to meet some of the best musicians in his native Bulgaria from both genres and benefit from their lessons.
Neri Karra
What keeps you alive? The guide to never giving up
Education can play an important role in creativity, growth, and what it takes to build a successful and global business from complete scratch. Neri will talk about how can you find and cultivate that spark that keeps us going no matter what we face in our lives.
Neri Karra is a fashion entrepreneur, academic director and author. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is the Founder and Creative Director of her own Italian leather accessories brand, prized for its outstanding quality and craftsmanship. She is also the Founder of boutique consultancy firm specialising in providing one-on-one consulting, executive training, and educational seminars in fashion and luxury business.
Kaisa Kangro
Am I an entrepreneur?
As a child, Kaisa found that being entrepreneurial is fun, and fun has taken her to where she is today. A talk on the importance of creativity in childhood and role models; about the ambition and fear the entrepreneurs feel and how to society sees them. A hidden truth is that you have to be a little be mad to survive.
Kaisa graduated from Bournemouth University two years ago and started her own creative company for children’s rainwear straightaway. Her sister designed wellingtons which can be painted and coloured by the children themselves, and Kaisa is the business brain behind it
Tom Bates
Imagination: the power of creativity
A creative mind is a mind full of magic. Imagination is the key to unlocking that magic. In this fascinating and insightful TED talk, Tom Bates; Author and Peak Performance Coach, provides key insights on unlocking the power of creative imagination, and explores how believing in the power of dreams can turn your optimism, energy and inspiration into big success.
Over the past 10 years Tom Bates has become a recognised pioneer in Peak Performance Coaching, creating and applying fast easy and accessible performance enhancing techniques to elite sport based on the science of psychology.
Howard Napper
The art of lifestyle medicine
It seems to be widely assumed that our adult lives are governed by the depressing fact that physical degeneration inevitably kicks in somewhere around our early 30’s, and then inexorably continues until our demise somewhere later in life. So you might be pleasantly surprised to discover that reality is very different.
In his talk, lifestyle practitioner Howard Napper explores the fascinating notion that the human body is less a permanent structure and more a regenerating organism that exists in a constant state of flux, where old cells are constantly being replaced by new cells. And how our lifestyle, and the moment-to-moment choices we make can affect this biological remodelling for better or worse.
Miroslav Lucan
Live art: how to paint the story
Live art has different forms of storytelling, whether at the events (music, poetry), for companies (live visual facilitation at the meetings), or on the street (being able to work with the random crowd of strangers). Mirek will tell his own story of how he got to the point of doing what he’s doing now and will try to challenge the audience.
Mirek is a designer and a photographer specializing in Illustration, Automotive/Marine art, Architecture and Coastline photography. Based in Bournemouth, he has been showcasing in many European countries, as well as here in the UK. Many of his projects have been published in magazines, internet blogs, BBC website to name a few. He works closely with collectors and professional clients. While working on many different projects, Mirek found that his signature style in minimalist, clear composition, with high attention to detail.
Miles Russell
Five skeletons could change archaeology
What are the popular stereotypes about archeologists? Are they all Lara Crofts and Indiana Jones-s? Dr Miles Russell gives some greats insights about the reality of being an archeologists and proves that skeletons are more valuable for society than ancient golden treasures.
Dr Miles Russell is a senior lecturer in prehistoric and Roman archaeology with over 30 years of experience in archaeological fieldwork and publication. He has conducted fieldwork in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Germany, Sicily and Russia. He is director of Regnum and co-director of the Durotriges Project, both investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period across SE and SW Britain. He gained his doctorate, on Neolithic monumental architecture, in 2000 and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006.
Zornitza Yovcheva
On the verge of an augmented tomorrow
Today there is little doubt that Augmented Reality technology has huge potential to enhance our surroundings and make us more perceptive and reactive in a number of different situations. But why aren’t we using AR already in everyday life? This talk will expose and discuss the most widespread myths about the technology and what we should do to go forward and harness its potential.
With a background in Geo-Information Science, Zornitza moved from designing web-based virtual globes to focus on improving the experience with smartphone Augmented Reality, during her PhD at Bournemouth University. This cutting-edge research was awarded 1st Prize at the Designing Mobile Augmented Reality workshop, at the Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) conference in Germany, 2013.
Nuno Almeida
How tech is changing health and social care
For the first time ever, technology can enable the care system to bring the person at the receiving end to the very centre of the whole system. And it’s possible that this will save quite a lot of money, and serve a lot more people with the same resources. But this is only possible if we focus, once and for all, on the fact that technology is all about the people.
Founder CEO of Nourish, Nuno is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building sustainable global technology ventures. Nourish is a product design company, focused on providing innovative, disruptive solutions to support social and health care services in adapting to changes in demographics and policy.
Bryce Dyer
Can technology trump 10,000 hours of training?
Whether it is throwing a ball or running on a prosthetic limb, this talk will highlight the role and importance that technology plays in sport. Bryce will explain some of the many controversies that have occurred in sport such as the use of prosthetic limbs and then argue how letting it run rampant may not be the brightest solution. This talk will argue how maximising the performance of technology can now be the real difference between success and failure for any athlete.
Dr Dyer has lectured within product design education for over 15 years. His current research interest is with the perception, design and development of technology used in sport. As a designer, he has undertaken consultancy roles in design projects ranging from award winning safety signage for the RNLI to designing prostheses used at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.