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On November 1, the WIRED world will once again come to life for a multi-sensory experience curated by the WIRED editorial team at its new venue along London's beautiful Bankside, steps away from the Millennium Bridge and within an iconic building.
Meet the inspiration behind some of WIRED's most favourite features as they take the stage to share their most compelling stories – and in the process, inspire you to change the way you see the world.
Meet the 2018 WIRED Live Speakers
Professor of Physics and Professor of the Public Engagement in Science, University of Surrey
Award-winning theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili breaks down complex scientific ideas – including quantum biology, physics and time travel – in his books, on TV and as a presenter for BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.
Author, Who Can You Trust?
A researcher of the shared economy, Rachel Botsman explores trends and predicts how digital technology is changing the nature of trust – and how that impacts individuals and organisations in a highly-networked world.
CEO and Co-Founder, Hermitage Capital Management
In 2009, Bill Browder helped uncover a $230m fraud committed by Russian government officials; after the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, Bill has spent the last eight years campaigning for human rights – his subsequent work led to a new human rights bill, the "Global Magnitsky Bill", which imposes visa bans and asset freezes on individual human rights abusers around the world.
Founder and Executive Chair, DOTeveryone
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE is a businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant who co-founded Lastminute.com in 1998 and most recently, Doteveryone.org.uk, a charity dedicated to responsible technology.
Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
Lecturer and author Hannah Fry studies patterns in human behaviour, applying her research to a wide range of social problems and questions, including shopping, transport, urban crime, riots and terrorism. Her expertise has lent itself to a number of critically acclaimed BBC documentaries, radio programmes and books.
CEO and Creative Director, Atlantic Productions
Emmy- and Bafta-winning documentary filmmaker Anthony Geffen is a pioneer in multi-platform and immersive storytelling. Projects have included collaborations with David Attenborough and the late Stephen Hawking, as well as immersive projects like the AI Health APP with Harvard Medical School.
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value; Director, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, SPRU University of Sussex
Economist, innovation researcher and UCL professor Mariana Mazzucato challenges misconceptions in economic value and the government's role in innovation. As the Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP), she advises policy makers globally on innovation-led inclusive growth.
Chief Executive, Community Justice Scotland
Karyn McCluskey’s work at Community Justice Scotland improves service delivery and creates better outcomes for individuals and society. The results? A successful reduction in violent crime in Glasgow – effectively changing the city.
Co-founder & Vice President, Gapminder Foundation
UX Designer Anna Rosling Rönnlund co-founded Gapminder as a way to educate the world with easy-to-understand visuals that are based on fact. She recently created Dollar Street using photos as data to understand how people life on different incomes.
Artist and Innovator
Dutch artist Roosegaarde creates social designs that beg to be interacted with, and which explore the relationships between people, technology and space.
Author, Inferior
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, broadcaster and author of the Physics World Book of the Year, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – the book that demonstrates how science doesn’t support age-old beliefs of gender inequality based on biology.
CEO, Oblong Industries
Underkoffler lent his extensive experience in computer graphics, holography and large-scale visualization to sci-fi spectaculars including Minority Report and Iron Man, where he advised on the science of the near future. A specialist in creating beautiful, human-focused UIs, his firm, Oblong Industries is creating new ways for humans to collaborate.
Principal Researcher at Microsoft and Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School
Glen Weyl is a principal researcher at Microsoft, political economist and social technologist. His book Radical Markets with co-author Eric Posner proposes to abolish private property using blockchain.
Chief Design Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
As the Chief design officer for Lloyds Banking Group, Dan Makoski is lending his years of design experience to foster healthy financial behaviours and attitudes for people.
Speakers will be updated regularly - stay tuned for details.
Past WIRED speakers have included:
Tim Berners Lee; Stephen Hawking and Eddie Redmayne during a WIRED Q&A evening; Björk; Zaha Hadid; Andy Serkis; Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London; Matt Brittin, President at Google; Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer of England; Marcus Engman, Head of design at IKEA and Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder and CEO of Bumble.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
