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Gabby Young

Gabby Young & Other Animals are an eclectic eight-piece British Pop Band and the world’s finest purveyors of Circus Swing (a genre that didn’t exist until they came on the…

Daisy Ginsberg is a multi-award-winning artist, designer and leading voice in the field of synthetic biology. Her groundbreaking projects and research around the ‘synthetic aesthetic’ explore new possibilities of design…

Shed Simove

Shed Simove is a British author and entrepreneur. He is known for his non-fiction book ‘Ideas Man’ and for some pretty outrageous publicity stunts and controversies. Shed has forged a…

Ben Reade

Ben Reade is Head of Culinary Research and Development at the Nordic Food Lab, Noma’s mind-boggling research and innovation facility in Copenhagen (Noma, in case you don’t know, was voted…

Dr. Louisa Preston

Dr. Louisa Preston Louisa is an Astrobiologist at the Open University who, funded by the European Space Agency, designs and leads practice missions to Mars. When she’s not out testing…

Jono Stevens

Black Cab Sessions is a simple yet brilliant concept: ‘one song, one take, one cab’. Launched in 2007, it’s an idea that has seen the founders, Jono Stevens and Chris…

Spartacus Chetwynd

Spartacus Chetwynd is a Turner Prize-nominated artist (2012) known for re-enacting iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvised performances. Her art has been described as ‘rumbustious, bonkers,…

Sir John Hegarty

Sir John Hegarty can only be described as a legend of the advertising world. Over several decades he has been at the forefront of the creative advertising industry, founding BBH,…

Peaches

Peaches is an electro artist known for her ravenously raunchy, gender-twisting mix of explosive electro-clash, with tracks like Fuck the Pain Away and Mommy Complex. Music is just one element…

Anke Domscheit-Berg

Anke Domscheit-Berg is an entrepreneur and a campaigner for both open government and better opportunities for women in leadership roles. She’s on the board of Government 2.0 and previously worked…