What makes great ideas?

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• Sir John Hegarty

John’s talk tackles one of life’s BIG questions ‘What makes great ideas?’, pulling on examples from the history of art and design, as well as that which guides his own…

How to make an amazing idea

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• Shed Simove

Shed’s talk is a crash course in entrepreneurship (of the most shocking variety). He takes us through some of his finest inventions, including offensive birthday candles, flying swearwords and an…

Adam Kay

Adam Kay is a comedian, writer of scripted comedy for television (with credits from Anna & Katy to Mitchell & Webb, and Mongrels to Up The Women), and strangely –…

Dave Cornthwaite

Dave is an adventurer who has travelled over 16,000 miles as part of the groundbreaking Expedition1000 project: 25 journeys of 1000 miles or more, each using a different form of…

BIG FIGHT LIVE

It is our great pleasure to reveal our newest set of scintillating speakers, ready to take to the ring for our final bout of 2013. As ever, they are an…

BIG FIGHT RE-LIVESTREAM! 7.30PM (GMT) 27th NOV

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• BIG FIGHT LIVE

Creating a monster.

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• Michael Acton-Smith

In this inspiring and entertaining talk, Michael shares his story of Moshi Monsters: a crazy tale that began with a drawing and became a global phenomenon. He tells stories from…

Black Cab Sessions

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• Jono Stevens

Jono discusses the ‘knock on effects of doing something silly’. In this deeply inspiring talk, he tells us about travelling the USA with Jack White in back and Jonhn C…

Makie Lab

Speaker X

To be announced very soon, watch this space!