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November 24, 2020
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A Virtual Conference
Programme
Welcome to WIRED Live
We’re delighted to welcome you to WIRED Live. Across three episodes,
we’ll hear compelling stories from some of the most exciting disruptors
changing our world for good, including DeepMind co-founder Demis
Hassabis; the Director General of the National Crime Agency, Lynne
Owens; Hong Kong political activist Joshua Wong; Magic Leap CEO
Peggy Johnson; and Musician, Astrophysicist and Founding Member of
Queen, Brian May CBE – plus, we’ll be kicking off the first session with
an exclusive mini-workout from The Body Coach himself, Joe Wicks.
As part of the day, we also invite you to join in with our Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon workshop, led by British physicist Jessica Wade and
molecular biologist Maryam Zaringhalam. In it, you can learn how
to edit and create entries in Wikipedia to help fight systemic bias in
the open-collaborative encyclopedia.
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Agenda
Episode One: Episode Two: Wikipedia Episode Three:
Start the day with a We open this segment Edit-a-thon Workshop Our final episode begins
quick stretch, led by Joe with a fireside chat Jessica Wade with a talk from Chi
Wicks, The Body Coach, with DeepMind and Maryam Onwurah, Shadow
and continue the session co-founder and CEO, Zaringhalam will cover Minister Digital, Science
exploring the innovation Demis Hassabis, how to edit and & Technology, and
changing creativity, and investigate create entries in Labour MP for Newcastle
climate activism, virtual the innovation in Wikipedia to help fight upon Tyne Central,
worlds and the fight architecture, chiral systemic bias – and continues with a
against organised crime. materials, the future including racial and look at life on other
Featuring Lynne Owens, of 5G and IoT, and gender bias – in planets, technology
Herman Narula, Es the science behind the open-collaborative trends and insights, and
Devlin, Joshua Wong unconscious bias. encyclopedia that is stereoscopic 3D images.
and Vanessa Nakate. Featuring Bjarke Ingels, visited by millions daily. Featuring Clara Sousa-
Pragya Agarwal, Silva, Peggy Johnson,
Jessica Wade and Benedict Evans,
Anne Sheehan. Maria Konnikova and
Brian May CBE.
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Episode one
08.35 GMT 09.45 GMT
Welcome remarks The future of creativity
Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Es Devlin, Artist and Stage Designer
Moderated by Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED
08.40 GMT
Boost your energy for the day ahead – 10.00 GMT
a (short!) physical activity session Creating change through co-operation
Joe Wicks, The Body Coach Joshua Wong, Political Activist and Author of Unfree Speech
Moderated by Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
08.45 GMT
Creating healthy connections during COVID-19 10.15 GMT
Joe Wicks, The Body Coach Building a grassroots climate movement
Moderated by Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan Climate Activist
09.10 GMT 10.30 GMT
Technology and innovation in the fight Closing remarks
against serious and organised crime Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
Lynne Owens, Director General, National Crime Agency
09.25 GMT
The impact of virtual worlds in the real world
Herman Narula, CEO and Co-founder, Improbable
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Episode two
11.10 GMT 12.25 GMT
Welcome remarks Partner keynote
Greg Williams, Editor-in-chief, WIRED The future’s arriving faster: 5G and
IoT accelerating transformation
11.15 GMT
Anne Sheehan, Business Director, Vodafone UK
DeepMind’s epic mission:
breakthrough scientific discoveries 12.35 GMT
Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO, DeepMind Partner panel
How IoT will unlock new opportunities
11.30 GMT
for your business
Back to the future – Reclaiming the streets
Patrick Razavet, Head of IoT Indirect & Vertical Markets, Vodafone
Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
Nico Steyn, Co-Founder and CEO, IoT.nxt
11.50 GMT Moderated by Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED
Unravelling unconscious bias
13.00 GMT
Pragya Agarwal, Behavioural Scientist and author of
Closing remarks
SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias
Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED
Moderated by Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED
13.15 GMT
12.05 GMT
Wikipedia edit-a-thon workshop
Chiral materials and their impact
Join us for this 45-minute workshop to learn how to edit and
on future technologies
create entries in Wikipedia to help fight systemic bias – including
Jessica Wade, Physicist, Department of Physics and
racial and gender bias – in the open-collaborative encyclopedia.
Centre for Plastic Electronics, Blackett Laboratory
Led by: Jessica Wade, Physicist, Department of Physics and Centre
for Plastic Electronics, Blackett Laboratory, and Maryam Zaringhalam,
Molecular biologist, Senior Producer of The Story Collider
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Episode three
14.30 GMT 15.20 GMT
Welcome remarks The future of tech as a regulated industry
Jeremy White, Executive Editor, WIRED Benedict Evans, Independent analyst
14.35 GMT 15.40 GMT
In tech we trust Poker face: The art of mastering
Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister Digital, Science & Technology, human behaviour
Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central Maria Konnikova, Author of The Biggest Bluff:
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
14.50 GMT
The future of augmented reality 16.00 GMT
Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap Cosmic clouds and the future of 3-D
Moderated by Jeremy White, Executive Editor, WIRED Brian May CBE, Musician, Astrophysicist, and Founding Member of Queen
Moderated by Victoria Turk, Features Editor, WIRED
15.05 GMT
Life beyond Earth 16.20 GMT
Clara Sousa-Silva, Molecular Astrophysicist, Research Scientist, Closing remarks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Greg Williams, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
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wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukMeet the 2020
The WIRED editorial team has curated a speaker
faculty comprising innovative leaders,
founders and disruptors who are paving the
way for change and making strides to
improve the way we work, live and behave.
Speaker Faculty
wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukDemis Hassabis Benedict Evans Brian May CBE Chi Onwurah
Co-founder & CEO, Independent analyst Musician, Shadow Minister
DeepMind Evans has spent 20 years Astrophysicist, Digital, Science &
Hassabis is the CEO and analysing mobile, digital Founding Member Technology, Labour
co-founder of DeepMind, media and technology, of Queen MP for Newcastle
the world’s leading AI in investment banking, Founder member of the upon Tyne Central
research company. at Orange and NBC legendary rock band Previous to her current
Best-known for developing Universal, in strategy Queen, Brian holds a PhD role, Onwurah was
AlphaGo, the first program consulting and, most in astrophysics, is Shadow Minister for
to beat a world champion recently, in venture a passionate campaigner Industrial Strategy
at the complex game of Go, capital at Andreessen for animal rights, a Science & Innovation;
DeepMind has published Horowitz in Silicon world-renowned Innovation, Science
over 1,000 research papers Valley. He is now an collector and publisher & Digital Infrastructure,
and achieved break- independent analyst of stereoscopic as well as Culture and
through results in many based in London, photography, and the Digital Economy;
challenging AI domains – and writes an email the author of Queen Shadow Cabinet Office
from epic space-strategy newsletter about what’s in 3-D and eight books Minister, leading on
game StarCraft II to happening in tech on astronomy and cyber security, social
Speaker Faculty
complex protein folding. that actually matters stereo photography. entrepreneurship,
– and what it means. and civil contingency.
wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukClara Sousa-Silva Jessica Wade Joe Wicks Bjarke Ingels
Molecular Astrophysicist, Physicist, Department The Body Coach Founder and Creative
Research Scientist, of Physics and Centre Wicks is on a mission Director, BIG-Bjarke
Massachusetts Institute for Plastic Electronics, to make the world fitter, Ingels Group
of Technology Blackett Laboratory healthier and happier, Ingels defines architecture
Sousa-Silva investigates Wade is a British and is the man behind the as the art and science of
how molecules interact physicist in the Blackett global fitness brand The making sure our cities and
with light so that they Laboratory at Imperial Body Coach. He helped buildings fit with the way
can be detected on College London. Her to keep Britain’s spirits we want to live our lives.
faraway worlds, and research investigates high during lockdown by Through careful analysis of
spends most of her time polymer-based organic becoming the “Nation’s various parameters from
studying molecules that light emitting diodes PE Teacher”, breaking the local culture and climate,
life can produce so that, (OLEDs), and her public Guinness World Record ever-changing patterns
one day, she can detect engagement work covers for the highest number of of contemporary life and
an alien biosphere. science, technology, viewers for a live streamed the ebbs and flows of
Her favourite molecular engineering and workout on YouTube. His the global economy, Ingels
biosignature is that of mathematics (STEM). “PE With Joe” workouts believes in the idea of
phosphine: a terrifying were viewed over 80 information-driven
Speaker Faculty
gas associated with million times, raising over design as the driving force
mostly unpleasant life. £580,000 for charity. for his creative process.
wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukEs Devlin Joshua Wong Lynne Owens Maria Konnikova
Artist and Designer Hong Kong Political Director General, Author of The
Devlin is known for Activist National Crime Agency Biggest Bluff: How
creating large-scale Wong has been named Owens took up post as I Learned to Pay
performative sculptures by TIME, Fortune, the Director General Attention, Master
and environments Prospect and Forbes as of the National Crime Myself, and Win
that fuse muse music, one of the world’s most Agency (NCA) following a Konnikova is the author
language and light. influential leaders. In 27-year career as a police of Mastermind and
She has conceived stage 2018 he was nominated officer, serving in three The Confidence
sculptures for Beyoncé, for the Nobel Peace forces: The Metropolitan Game. She is a regular
Billie Eilish, the WEEKND Prize for his leading Police Service, Kent contributor for the
and U2, and her role in the Umbrella Police and Surrey Police. New Yorker Paris
practice was the Movement. Wong came She is a member of the Review and has written
subject of the Netflix onto the political scene Government’s National for the Atlantic, New
documentary series, in 2011 aged 14, when he Security Council and was York Times, Slate, Wall
AGMTract: The Art of founded Scholarism and awarded the Queen’s Street Journal and
Design. She has been successfully protested Police Medal in 2008. WIRED, among many
named the artistic against the enforcement other publications.
Speaker Faculty
director of the 2021 of Chinese National Her writing has won
London Design Biennale. Education in Hong Kong. numerous awards.
wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukPeggy Johnson Pragya Agarwal Vanessa Nakate Herman Narula
CEO, Magic Leap Behavioural Ugandan Climate CEO and Co-Founder,
Johnson serves as Scientist, Author, Activist Improbable
Chief Executive Officer SWAY: Unravelling Nakate is a 24 year-old Narula is the co-founder
of Magic Leap, a spatial Unconscious Bias climate activist from and CEO of Improbable,
computing company Agarwal is a behavioural Uganda and founder a gaming and distributed
building the next and data scientist and of the Africa-based simulation startup which
computing platform. a freelance journalist. Rise Up Movement. enables developers
She joined Magic She is a winner of the She began striking to make extraordinary
Leap to lead the Diverse Wisdom award for the climate in her multiplayer games.
company into its next from Hay House and was hometown of Kampala Improbable is head-
phase of growth, with named as one of the in January 2019, after quartered in London and
a focus on expanding 100 influential women witnessing droughts and has offices around the
product market fit in social enterprise in flooding devastating world. It has received
for the enterprise. the UK, in addition to communities in Uganda. over $600m in funding
Prior to joining Magic being one of 50 people Nakate campaigns from some of the most
Leap, Johnson was creating change in the internationally to reputable investors in
Microsoft’s Executive UK-India corridor on the highlight the impacts of the world, including the
Speaker Faculty
Vice President of High and Mighty list. climate change already SoftBank Vision Fund,
Business Development. playing out in Africa. Andreessen Horowitz.
wired.uk/wired-live wiredevents@condenast.co.ukMaryam Zaringhalam Anne Sheehan Patrick Razavet Nico Steyn
Workshop Leader Knowledge Partner Head of IoT Indirect Panel Speaker
Molecular biologist, Business Director, & Vertical CEO, IoT.nxt
Senior Producer Vodafone UK Markets, Vodafone Steyn’s entire career
The Story Collider Sheehan leads Razavet is responsible for spanning three
Zaringhalam is a molecular Vodafone’s Business the IoT vertical markets decades has focused on
biologist by training and division, which globally and their the field of technology
now works in science includes overseeing strategies in healthcare and innovation and he,
policy, communication Vodafone’s fixed, and insurance. He also with long-standing
and advocacy. She is a mobile, unified heads up the Indirect partners, established
Senior Producer for The communications, Channels to accelerate different technology
Story Collider, bringing cloud, security and adoption of IoT within companies in SA,
true personal stories Internet of Things (IoT) the SME/SoHo segments. following years at
about science to the services and support. He works closely with large companies,
public, and serves on Sheehan is passionate global leaders to drive including one listed
the leadership team for about partnering digital innovation on the Johannesburg
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