Past Speakers

2019 Programme

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	12th	Alan Costley	Small-scale Nuclear Fusion.
March	12th	Kevlin Henney	When Software Fails and What It Means for the Rest of Us
April	2nd	Robert Plomin	''Blueprint'': How DNA makes us who we are
May	7th	Dmitry Kaminskiy	Longevity
June	4th	Emrah Düzel	Memories are made of this
September	11th	Nessa Carey	Hacking the Genetic Code - How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
October	1st	Sheena Cruickshank	Immunology
November	5th	Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Annabelle Gawer	Big Data - the rise of the the Tech Giants and the consequences of their ownership of our personal data

2018 Programme

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	21st	Dr James Luke	Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence
March	14th	Mr Simon Wright	Gene Editing and Intellectual Property Law
April	25th	Prof David Howey	Energy storage technologies - batteries and beyond
May	23rd	Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli	Patient-Centred Medicine
June	12th	Dr Vinton G Cerf	Google and the Internet
September	18th	Mr Romain Kidd	3D Printing
October	15th	Prof Paul Newman	Mobile Autonomy
October	28th	Dr Gary McLean	Towards a Vaccine for the Common Cold

2017 Programme

Our meetings in 2017 were as follows:

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	15th	Prof Martyn Thomas	Cybersecurity
March	15th	Prof Anil Seth	Machine Consciousness
April	19th	Prof Peter Wilson	Anti-Microbial Resistance.
May	16th,	Dr Giles Yeo	Are your genes to blame if your jeans don't fit?
June	21st	Prof Stephen Devereux	CAR(T)s, BiTes, checkpoints and weaponised antibodies.
September	20th	Dr Paolo Tasca	Bitcoins and the Blockchain
October	18th	Prof J A Madrigal	Stem cell therapies.
November	22nd	Dr Uday Phadke	How to give Tech Businesses Scale

2016 Programme

Our meetings in 2016 were as follows (alphabetical order):

Speaker	Title
Prof Dame Celia Hoyles	Challenges for mathematics teaching & learning in the digital age
Prof David Nutt	Time for science, not nonsense, to drive UK drug and alcohol policies?
Prof Geoff Targett	What will it take to end Malaria?
Prof Graham Rook	The failure of the human-microbe partnership, its consequences, and what we can do about it
Sir Richard Sykes	The impact of Science and Technology on the development of the NHS
Dr Roger Highfield	Cosmonauts: The Birth of the Space Age
Dr Tim Leunig	Thinking scientifically about the school curriculum

Highlights

The following list shows some of the speakers who who have given talks to our group and are better known to the general public:

1. Lord Martin Rees Earth's Final Century? What Chance Change? (2007)
2. Bjørn Lomborg Thoughts from a Sceptical Environmentalist (2007)
3. Steve Jones Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right (2007)
4. Lord (John) Krebs Organic Food: Is it a Con? (2008)
5. Ziauddin Sardar The Relationship between Islam and Science (2008)
6. Michael Marmot Health Inequality and What To Do About It (2008)
7. Chris Rapley Great While It Lasted. What Next? (2009)
8. Karol Sikora Can We Afford Decent Cancer Care For All? (2010)
9. Lord (Robert) May Systemic Risk: from Ecosystems to Banking Systems (2010)
10. Lord Oxburgh A Secure and Affordable Energy Supply: Pipe Dream or Reality? (2011)
11. Hermann Hauser - Microprocessors and All That (2011)
12. Simon Singh Libel Laws and Science (2011)
13. Jocelyn Burnell The World of Radio Astronomy (2012)
14. David King The Sustainability Struggle (2012)
15. Sir Paul Nurse Funding Science Research (2012)
16. Colin Blakemore What's Special about the Human Brain? (2012)
17. Marcus du Sautoy The Importance of Mathematics Education (2012)
18. Anthony Ryan Human Acceleration of the Nitrogen Cycle (2013)
19. David Spiegelhalter Understanding Risk (2014)
20. Uta Frith A Little Bit Autistic? (2015)
21. Sir Richard Sykes, The Impact of Science and Technology on the Development of the NHS (2016)
22. Vint Cerf, The Future of the Internet (2018)

This is the exhaustive list of our speakers.