Araceli Camargo (@THECUBELondon) founder of THECUBE
Araceli Camargo is the founder of THECUBE, a start-up incubator based in east London. She is a social entrepreneur with a focus on building healthy and innovative communities. Her current thesis is around how communities innovate and build strong economic systems.
Understanding and building these communities has led Araceli to create unique tools, which are based on her own neurological research. To date her work has been with entrepreneurs, developing communities, NGOs, and corporations.
She has also lectured on innovation and neurology at University of the Arts London, Creative School for Start-Ups, London Metropolitan Accelerator, Kingston University Enterprise Centre, Digital Dumbo NYC, NACUE, City University London, The Science Cafe at Oxford Innovation, & British Library Business & IP Centre.
Brian Durrant, chief executive at London Grid for Learning Trust
Brian leads the London Grid for Learning (LGfL) – a consortium of the 33 Local Authorities which make up the Greater London region.
In 2000, supported by small group of local authority directors, Brian started recruiting authorities to the consortium, launching the concept of a regional broadband infrastructure for education. This brought about the construction of the London Grid network which connects, over fibre, all 2600 London schools, 600 public libraries and 33 local authority headquarters to a purpose made, secure fibre-optic network.
Recently, Brian led the process which awarded a contract to Virgin Media Business for the creation of the new London PSN network to meet the needs of schools and public bodies in London.
Brian started out as a city banker, later becoming a teacher. After teaching maths and economics, he moved on to training teachers, before taking up leadership at a district level.
Brian is now the chief executive of the London Grid for Learning Trust (a not-for-profit charitable body), which employs a specialist team on a growing range of services that are centrally procured for all schools and local authorities in the region.
While maintaining a role in regional procurement, the Trust has moved on to other challenges. These include projects working to transform learning through the effective use of new technologies into the classroom.
Leading in innovation and development, LGfL provides a range of high value support for London's schools. The voluntary consortium of all 33 London councils continues to benefit students and teachers under Brian's leadership.
Richard Noble (@RichardNobleSSC) - Project director to the BLOODHOUND project
Richard Noble is project director to the BLOODHOUND project, an international education initiative focused around a 1,000mph world land speed record attempt. The aim of the project is to inspire young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, by show-casing them in the most exciting way possible.
Richard has along history of spearheading high-tech engineering projects, and a pedigree in racing them. In 1983 he brought the world land speed record back to the UK when he drove Thrust2 to 633mph on the Black Rock desert, Nevada.
Noble then followed this success as Project Director to Thrust SSC, the first car to travel faster than the speed of sound, driven by Andy Green, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, the twin jet engined car reached a speed of 763 mph when it streaked across the Black Rock desert in 1997.
Now, having held the record for over 28 years between them, Richard Noble, Andy Green and a team of world class aerospace and motorsport engineers are building the BLOODHOUND supersonic car, with a target speed of 1,000mph. After 30 years of development using cutting edge computational fluid dynamics to mathematically map the airflow over the vehicle, the team are building the 7.5 tonne car ready for high speed testing late summer 2013.
Mark Heraghty, managing director at Virgin Media Business
Mark Heraghty was appointed as managing director of Virgin Media Business in June 2009. He leads the business division's senior management team, with direct responsibilities for sales, marketing, product management and customer operations in the UK business market. He is one of the most experienced and capable business-to-business telecoms executives in the UK.
Mark has been involved with the telecommunications industry for the last 20 years, previously as CEO UK and Europe for Cable and Wireless and more recently at Reliance Globalcom, where he was president EMEA, with regional responsibility for the former FLAG Telecom and Vanco businesses which Reliance, acquired in 2004 and 2008 respectively.
Mark holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Trinity College Dublin (1985) and an MBA awarded by Warwick University Business School (1992).
Lee Hull, director, public sector, Virgin Media Business
Lee Hull is director, public sector at Virgin Media Business and a member of the business division's senior leadership team, with direct responsibility for all the public sector revenue streams.
Lee started working at the company in a graduate role more than 12 years ago and his previous role was heading up the business sales teams in Scotland, Northern Ireland and north east England.
Lee holds a degree in political economy from Salford University, and has a number of sales and marketing accreditations.
David Brindle, public services editor, Guardian
David Brindle is public services editor of the Guardian. He has been the paper's social affairs correspondent and edited the Society section. He has won awards for his coverage of social care, disability issues and nursing. He is a board member of Richmond Fellowship, a leading mental health service charity, and chairs its 2Care subsidiary. He is also a trustee of the National Development Team for Inclusion. He is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University.
Juliette Garside, telecoms and technology writer, Guardian
Juliette Garside is a telecoms and technology writer for the Guardian. She previously covered telecoms and media for the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Her career has included a stint as news editor of the trade magazine Media Week, forward planning for the Evening Standard home news desk, and two years as arts correspondent for Glasgow's Sunday Herald.
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