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Salah Sharief
Salah Sharief Entrepreneur, Academic, & Drone Warfare Critic linkedin facebook.com/salahshariefpage Wordsmiths Salah Sharief is the founder and director of Wordsmiths, an online proofreading and editing company. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Leeds, where he researched the dehumanisation of drone warfare. Salah is also a community leader in Manchester wherein he...
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Steve Bugeja
Steve Bugeja Comic Observer @SteveBugeja stevebugeja.com Steve Bugeja is one of comedy’s most exciting rising stars. Since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 2013, Steve has gone on to host the BBC Radio 4 series Economics with Subtitles, and has made numerous appearances on TV shows such as Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Russell Howard’s...
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Sarah Carlick
Sarah Carlick Tech for Good Innovator @SarahCarlick www.drsarahcarlick.co.uk Biography While tech and social media have had a lot of negative press recently, Sarah Carlick believes these powerful tools still have huge potential to improve the lives of the most vulnerable young people and children in our society. She is the founder of MeSafe, a social-care...
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Mostafa Nabawy
Mostafa Nabawy Bio-Mimicker @mra_nabawy http://davidnihill.com/ Biography Who said that nature and technology can't help each other? Mostafa, innovative research leader in aerospace engineering at The University of Manchester, is seeking to understand how insects locomotion can help us design the next generation of micro-robots and how advanced engineering techniques can help us better understand insects...
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David Nihill
David Nihill Involuntary Authority @FunnyBizzSF http://davidnihill.com/ Biography What’s the number one fear in the world? It isn’t death, but public speaking. Ironically in trying to overcome his own fears using some unconventional wisdom David (rather reluctantly) became one of the world's leading experts on the topic...even though he hates it. David is also the Founder...
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Ged King
Ged King Barber Humanitarian @Skullfades skullfadesfoundation.co.uk If you were at TEDxManchester 2019, Ged needs no introduction. He is the Mancunian barber on a mission to help make the world a better place one haircut at a time. Growing up in a tough neighbourhood outside of Manchester, Ged found happiness serving in the military. He went...
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Anthony Warner
Anthony Warner Food Science Evangelist @One_Angry_Chef https://angry-chef.com/ Biography Anthony Warner is a professional chef and writer. His first book, The Angry Chef - Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating, was the Guardian Best Food Book of the Year and winner in the Health and Lifestyle category at the inaugural Hearst Big Book Awards....
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Andrew Szydlo
Andrew Szydlo Scientist Biography Chemistry is not an Olympic sport, but if it was, Andrew Szydlo would undoubtedly be our reigning gold medallist. Andrew is an internationally acclaimed chemistry teacher and holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from UCL. He has a particular expertise on the history of alchemy and his...
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Katherine Ormerod
Katherine Ormerod Social Media Maven @katherine_orm workworkwork.co/ Biography Whether you be young or old, single or a parent, many of us today are concerned about the impact of social media on our lives and communities. Katherine Ormerod is the author of the Amazon bestseller, Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life'. Written in 2018, she...
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Jon Carmichael
Jon Carmichael Astronomy Photographer @PhotographerJon http://www.joncarmichael.com/ Biography New York-based photographer Jon Carmichael shot to fame in 2017 when he captured an astounding photo of a total solar eclipse from an airplane at 39,000 feet flying above the Snake River in America. His photo series was launched at the Twitter HQ in San Francisco and went...
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