Theme: "tomorrows World"

Grassroots innovators, disruptive thought leaders, multi-talented entrepreneurs, academics and professionals will showcase new ideas and invoke insights, inspiration and new thinking!

Swansea.com Stadium
Plasmarl
Swansea, Swansea, SA1 2FA
United Kingdom

Amina Mohamed

CEO The Confidence Capsule

She is the Founder and CEO of The Confidence Capsule, a platform created to enhance your feminine magnetism. Amina is mentee to the world’s greatest motivational speaker, the Legendary Mr Les Brown, through which she has discovered her power voice in the December 2020 Summit. Since then, she has empowered thousands of people to reclaim their own power and live in alignment with their divine assignment through her speeches, webinars and elite coaching programmes. Amina has been nominated for awards such as Influncer of the Year by Black Muslim Awards, and nominated by The Sisters in Business Annual Award in the category of High Performing Coaches. She is passionate about holding safe spaces for growth and is a Global Peace Ambassador with the United Peace Federation in the fight for creating true freedom from mental and emotional bondage

Argita Zalli

Scientist

Dr Argita Zalli holds a PhD in Immunology and an MSc in University Learning and Teaching. Over the past 10 years she has conducted medical research in the fields of Immunology, Haematology and Psychobiology where she has collaborated with world leading scientists, including Nobel Prize Winner and published in high impacted research journals. Dr A Zalli has focused on teaching and pedagogical training of university teaching staff in Imperial College, London. Dr A. Zalli is also the founder of We Speak Science, a non-profit institution, the aim of Which, is to increase awareness of science and medicine in the USA and Europe. Through We Speak Science, Dr A. Zalli co-founded the charity called “Aferdita Ime”, whose aim is to help cancer patients through psycho-social support and counselling.

Ceirion Galliers

Student

I am a current UWC Atlantic student, where I study the International Baccalaureate. I am a 16 year old from Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. At UWC, I study 6 subjects alongside the Theory of Knowledge curriculum. My 3 higher level subjects are English Language and Literature, Economics and Social and Cultural Anthropology. I have a passion for sports, particularly rugby. I’ve played since the age of 6 and continue to do so whenever Ican. My UWC journey is one like no other, and I cannot wait to share it with you!

Christiana McEwan

Student

My name is Christiana Mcewen from Sierra Leone. A student of UWC Atlantic College Wales and an individual who is passionate about female empowerment and seeking to make change for a sustainable future, where women from all backgrounds are represented, valued and heard. I personally believe tomorrow is as a result of the effort you put in today. I can’t wait to share my story and initiative of how this world can be a better place for all.

Dawn Lyle

Co- Founder I create

I am co-founder of iCREATE, a company that helps people share their vision for the future using the power of 3D Visualisation. I am also co-founder of #4theREGION, the Centre for Regional Engagement for South West Wales, which is a purpose-driven start-up bringing people together to create a shared vision for our region. At iCREATE... Our clients are visionaries who are striving to make great things happen. We believe that the world needs good people to be successful, so we work with good people, and we help them to achieve great things, by visualising their goals and sharing their ideas. At 4TheREGION... We are on a mission to make change happen for South West Wales, and we recognise that the key to unlocking the potential of the region is a new approach to regional engagement. That means connecting people more effectively, getting more people working together, crowdsourcing intelligence, and empowering the system to create the change.

Derek Redmond

Former Olympian Motivational Speaker

One of Britain’s most famous athletes, Derek Redmond is a British, European , Commonwealth and World Champion athlete. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, representing his country he became part of one of the most inspirational scenes in Olympic history. In the 400m semi-final Derek went into the race amongst the favourites but as he passed the 250m mark he tore his hamstring. Determined to finish the race he hobbled to the finish line with the help of his father as a 65,000-strong crowd cheered him on. This incident has since been voted one of the Olympics’ most inspirational moments by US network NBC and even referenced by Barack Obama in a presidential speech. This injury signalled an end to his athletics career. Derek’s story is truly inspiring and he is now an award winning motivational/inspirational speaker, a business performance coach and a best selling author.

Detina Zalli

Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge

Dr. Zall is Director of the Pre-Medical Studies at the University of Cambridge, earned her PhD at the University of Leicester, UK and then moved to Boston, where she carried out her postdoctoral research training at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Zalli acted as the Director of the Advanced Graduate Preclinical and Clinical Research Course and the Director of the Biotech Journal Club at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Zalli joined Harvard Professional Government and chaired multiple important events. Dr Zalli then moved to the University of Oxford. Dr. Zalli is committed to assisting people in need. In 2020, Dr Zalli She is also very passionate about helping students from low socio-economic backgrounds (including students from Ukraine) and has led many STEM events via her non-profit organisation, We Speak Science, in collaboration with faculty from Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, the University of Oxford and scientists from NASA to inspire students pursue STEM careers

Emma Hopkins

Founder Emma J Lifeshaper

I am a Well-being Coach who specialises in stress and burnout. I have 15 years experience of helping people change their lifestyle to become fitter, happier and healthier. I work within businesses and privately with 121 and group coaching programmes available. I help businesses maintain a healthy, happy workforce through workshops, well-being programmes and 121 coaching for those needing more tailored support.I teach people to understand their body more and primarily how stress impacts the mind and body, how we can reduce and manage stress better and ultimately become healthier and happier. My programmes encourage people to make better, healthier choices, to manage stress and it's debilitating effects on the mind and body.And to finally take back control of their lives, health and happiness. Enabling them to finally reach their true potential. My programmes provide tools that help people let go of their past and the obstacles standing in their way of being successful.

Linda Fisk

CEO and Founder of LeadHERship Global

Linda Fisk is a multi-award-winning leader, keynote speaker, author and university professor. She is the CEO and Founder of LeadHERship Global, a community of unstoppable women enhancing their leadership blueprint and embracing their power to be the best version of themselves- in work and life. In LeadHERship Global, Linda supports and guides ambitious, creative women to move in the direction of their purpose, their mission and their dreams with powerful connections, critical support, practical tools and valuable resources to show up, speak up and step up in their careers and personal lives. Prior to her role in LeadHERship Global, Linda was the CEO of Collective 54, and the global head of brand marketing, public relations and communications at Susan G. Komen as well as YPO. Linda has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology and has written extensively on the subjects of social comparison, depression and anxiety.

Melanie Pledger

Executive Coach and Founder/CEO of DNA Light Up

I am Melanie Pledger, my friends call me Mel. I’ve also been called many other not all of them flattering! I’ve never fitted in, which posed a huge problem for me in my earlier years. Today I embrace my full misfit-self with open arms, because I’ve discovered I’m not alone! We’re all misfits in our own way. Each of us different, one-of-a kind, each our own masterpiece as unique to ever one of us as our fingerprint. This is my specialist arena. Working with the core, instinct, intuition, gut, soul – this uniqueness within each of us goes by many names! This is the place where our dreams and inspiration live – it’s where our deepest fears lie hidden, and our biggest breakthroughs are born. Since first birthing this work in 2009, I’ve since worked with adults and children, individuals and businesses, consistently achieving life-changing results in a very short space of time. Today, DNA Light Up is a growing team of professional Activators who deliver this work around the world.

Prof Chris Imfiadon

Multi-Guinness world record holder, Keynote #Speaker, Adviser to Monarchs, Presidents

🇬🇧As multi Guinness world record holders, we mentor you to discover, develop and deploy the genius in you so that you can achieve records in education, entrepreneurship or employment. Chris is a 5X International best selling author. Ex-lead Professor, MBA degree programme. Headed EIE’s collaboration with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin mentoring program in London, UK. Described by SkyNews/ABCNews as “Adviser to Royals, Presidents, Governments and corporate leaders; Professor & mentor to multimillionaire tech entrepreneurs, leading professionals and students. Chair, www.ExcellenceinEducation.org.uk” We are obsessed with bringing out the best in employees and entrepreneurs or youths and women or disadvantaged individuals. Since covid19 #pandemic, Professor Chris Imafidon has inspired workers, managers and leaders on how to thrive in turbulent times via virtual meetings and trainings. Using #Zoom, Microsoft #Teams, #Webex, #StreamYard and others, we help corporate clients globally.

Ryan Smith

Pathway Leader for BA Animation: Game Arts

Ryan has always had an urge to help and inspire people where he can. This has led him down a route within Education for the last 10 years which has allowed him to harness these attributes and develop the next generation. In 2016 his daughter was born, and at a time which should have been joyous, his life took a turn for the worst. Turning trauma into triumph, he became certified as an NLP life coach. As a Mental Health Advocate, Ryan feels that communication is the key to solving many of life’s challenges.

Sally Penni MBE

Practicing Barrister at Law | Bencher at Gray’s Inn| Author

Sally Penni MBE is a practicing barrister at law of 21 years. She is an author and podcast host of the popular talking law podcast with 100,000k listeners. She has written several books on law, diversity and children’s books on kindness. Sally is also the founder of womeninthelawuk.com. She is married with 3 children.

Sian Rees

Head of School of Culture & Communication Swansea University

Head of School of Culture & Communication Swansea University Experienced public relations and branding specialist, currently teaching PR and branding at Swansea University and running the MA Communication, Media Practice and PR. Latest Book: Rees, S. F. (2020) Public Relations, Branding & Authenticity, Abingdon: Routledge Latest Chapter: Rees, S. F. & Williams, I. (2021), 'Sports PR' in Tench, R. & Waddington, S. (Eds) Exploring Public Relations, Harlow: Pearson, exploringpr.com Latest Research: Rees, S. F. (2019) 'Re-imagining Employability: an Ontology of Employability Best Practice in Higher Education Institutions' in Teaching in Higher Education (online).

Tom Crick MBE

Professor and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor Swansea University

Professor and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Mission at Swansea University, leading on the development and implementation of the emerging institutional civic mission strategy. Working with colleagues and stakeholders in the region and nationally. My academic interests sit at the research/policy interface: education and skills, science and innovation policy, digital transformation, public service innovation and skills/infrastructure for the digital economy. Also, identifying data-driven and computationally-intensive problems across a range of domains: data science, big social data, cyber security, intelligent systems, smart cities, software sustainability and computational reproducibility. More generally: open research, digital government/democracy, digital/data infrastructure and governance, and data-driven policymaking.

Tony Holness

Advocate for neurodiversity

Tony Holness is an advocate for neurodiversity and Triathlon coach to his autistic son. After a successful career in IT and Banking Tony left the corporate world to help his son realise his dream of becoming the world’s first Ironman Triathlete with autism to compete and the Ironman World Championships in Kona and to become the world’s first openly autistic Professional Triathlete. Sam was diagnosed with autism at three years old and was non-verbal until he was six years old. The prognosis from the education psychologist and some of his teachers was that he may never speak and that we should set low expectations for his social, communication and academic future. Sam challenged these perceptions and achieved a BSc degree in Sports Science, grade 2.1, from St Mary’s University Tony and Sam want to raise the awareness of autism and change perceptions about what autistic people are capable of through sport.

Tracey Smolinski

Founder of Introbiz, co founder of IWOW,

Tracey Smolinski is a serial entrepreneur, property investor, and founder of award-winning global business network Introbiz, author of Master Networking and creator of networking tool Fortune in the Follow Up. She is also a motivational speaker, mentor & networking coach She is a proud Big Ideas Role Model for the Welsh government empowering students and entrepreneurs of the future. Her goal is to impact and connect 1 million 5 years