Compere: Claudia Hammond
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, author and psychology lecturer. Her work focuses on how psychological and medical research can help us in our everyday lives, whether through radio, TV, podcasts, public events or books.
Claudia presents several podcasts and radio shows including All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 which covers psychology, neuroscience & mental health. She also hosts the weekly global health show Health Check on BBC World Service.
She is Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex, and gives talks on psychology around the world and often chairs public events on psychology, medicine and science. She also writes a regular column on medical myths for BBC Future.
Her latest book, The Art of Rest, examines the science behind our struggles to rest and relax. She is also the author of Mind Over Money, Time Warped and Emotional Rollercoaster.
Claudia will compere Conference 2020 as well as opening day one with a special outside recording of All in the Mind!
Keynote: Professor Miranda Wolpert OBE
Professor Miranda Wolpert OBE is committed to understanding how best to support and evaluate effective service delivery to promote resilience and meet children and young people’s mental health needs.
A clinical psychologist by background, her work focuses on improvement and prevention science combined with social entrepreneurship, and includes the development of online, digital and face-to-face tools and training resources for young people, carers and practitioners.
In 2019, she was appointed by the Wellcome Trust as head of their mental health priority area, bringing diverse groups together, such as biological scientists with big data analysts; clinicians with community providers; social scientists with social entrepreneurs to develop a common understanding to create secure foundations for the emerging science of mental health.
Miranda is Founder and Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU) and co-Founder and Director of the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC). She also advises the UK Department of Health and NHS England and is Director of the Innovation, Evaluation and Dissemination Programme at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Keynote: Rohit Talwar
Rohit Talwar is a the CEO of Fast Future, a foresight and futures business advising global corporate, government and NGO leaders on how to prepare and shape the world for the future.
Rohit’s evidence-based approach, provocative content and humour provide a fantastic insight into what the future of humanity will look like.
As CEO of Fast Future, Rohit was selected by the Independent as one of the top ten key future thinkers in the world, speaking to leadership audiences all around the globe: his clients include BBC, Citibank, PwC, Morgan Stanley, Pepsi, Vodafone and many more.
In his book, A Very Human Future – Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World, Rohit addresses the issues business and political leaders face regarding the wake of digitization and artificial intelligence.
In his keynote, Rohit will outline how we will achieve a better understanding of the future through technologies such as AI, blockchain and human enhancement that will reshape our economies and societies.
Keynote: Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development and was one of the founders of the field of theory of mind.
Alison is the author or coauthor of over 100 journal articles and several books, including The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter both of which won the Cognitive Development Society Best Book Prize in 2009 and 2016.
She writes widely about cognitive science and psychology for Science, The New York Times, Scientific American andNew Scientist among others. Her TED talk has been viewed more than 2.9 million times, and she has frequently appeared on TV and radio including The Colbert Report.
In addition, since 2013 she has written the Mind and Matter column for The Wall Street Journal.
After Dinner Speaker: Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts is interested in the structure of humans, how we function, and our place in the wider environment.
She makes programmes and write books about human anatomy, physiology, evolution, archaeology and history. She has been Professor of Public Engagement with Science at the University of Birmingham since 2012 and is President of the British Science Association.
After training as a medical doctor, Alice went on to teach human anatomy to students and doctors, and her PhD looked at human origins and disease in ancient skeletons.
She made her television debut back in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team. Alice then wrote and presented a range of television series for BBC2, including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Ice Age Giants, as well as several Horizon programmes.
She has also written seven popular science books, including The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.