Unknown Origins

Nina Rubesa is an entrepreneur, actress, writer, and self-proclaimed creative scientist. From producing and starring in a sell-out theatre show in London's west end to making 100 monologues for Instagram during the lockdown to crashing Cannes Film Festival during a blogging project, Nina is always on the lookout for that next creative experiment to expand what she believed was possible. Nina has worked in the music industry for CAA, ATC Management, Jaba Music and has co-founded two businesses.

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Alana Clapp is the General Stage Manager for Mystère at Cirque du Soleil and provides perspective about being a creative leader within high-performing multi-disciplinary teams that invoke the imagination, provoke the senses, and evoke people's emotions by facilitating communication across all creative and technical aspects of the performance.

Alana is a Carnegie Mellon University alum where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in BFA Production Technology & Management. In addition to her work with Cirque, she serves as a lecturer at the College of Southern Nevada, instructor for the USITT Elite Stage Management training program, advisory panel member for the Stage Craft Institute of Las Vegas, a mentor with the USITT Stage Management Mentorship Project. Alana has also worked on multiple events for film, television, and comedy specials.

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Roy Sharples  delivers a lecture on creativity to the Product Design Engineering (PDE community at The Glasgow School of Art about what creativity is,  how to blend the art and science of the creative process by unleashing creative power that creates innovative businesses, products, services, and experiences.  Why creative leaders are always outsiders, misfits, and mavericks who have extraordinary confidence, drive, and resilience to bring their ideas to life by seeing around the corners to fearlessly navigate the future. 

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Henry Ford changed how people lived and moved around by making cars affordable and accessible to everyday people and driving the world forward to a greater good.

Ghulam Rasool is a design leader responsible for growing design enablement and talent acquisition within Ford's Enterprise Connectivity and Mobility team and a dedicated champion of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity initiatives. He provides perspective on navigating toward an electric, autonomous, and connected vehicle future. Empathetic to benefiting society with improved safety, less pollution, freeing up time, and customized services and experiences enabled by intelligent technologies.

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Researchers explore issues, solve problems and anticipate trends that can shape new frontiers and future directions. Richard Harper is the author of 14 books, including the IEEE award-winning "The Myth of the Paperless Office"; "Texture" (the A.o.I.R. book of the year 2011); and "Skyping the Family" (2019). He has also published over 200 scientific and has 27 patents. His research looks at how people engage with each other through technology and the implications for engineering and concepts of the individual in the digital age. His research is thus directly pertinent to the topic of digital exclusion. He is Director of the Institute of Social Futures at Lancaster University, which coheres humanities and social science research with natural and physical sciences and engineering. He is a Fellow of the IET, the Royal Society of Arts, and ACM Fellow. The bulk of his career has been spent in commercial research, Xerox and Microsoft in particular.  

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Mia Reyes provides perspective about creativity in shaping public policy and what it means to have an authentic purpose-led mission-driven approach to unleashing your creative power by making people's lives better and advancing society toward a greater good.

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Peter Fisk  provides perspective on his creative approach for helping businesses be innovative, what it takes, pitfalls to avoid, keys to success, and his vision for the future of business.  

Peter is a global thought leader – author, futurist, speaker – whose career was forged in a superconductivity lab, accelerated by managing supersonic brands, shaped by working with some of the world’s best companies in Europe, North America, and Asia, evolved by leading a digital start-up, and formalized as CEO of the world’s largest marketing network.
He works with business leaders to reimagine their markets and strategies for a better future. He brings together the best in strategy and innovation, brand and customer thinking to drive smarter, sustainable growth.

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Youth culture is the canvas onto which our values are imprinted and shaped. Seamlessly woven into this is the responsibility to pass the baton by leaving the world better than we inherited it. 

Bryan MacKay has spent the last 20 years holistically building a sustainable legacy at the vanguard of developing youth culture in the northeast of Scotland through community-centric outreach programs. Allowing people to live self-determined lives, unleash their creative power, and provide learning pathways to advance thousands of young people's knowledge, values, and skills. Helping them recognize and actualize their talents by moving them into education, employment, and training.

Bryan provides perspective on his approach to community leadership, how he has instilled a culture of thinking, learning, and doing. What it takes to lead, pitfalls to avoid, keys to success, and his vision for the future of youth culture.

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Fred Warren is the multi-award-winning Creative Director and founder of Wonder 14, an Immersive Entertainment company.

As a writer, director, and designer, Fred has conceived and brought to life original interactive story worlds all the way through to short-form commercial video work, weaving multiple threads of human interaction into memorable and magical experiences.

While at Microsoft, he successfully balanced building new audiences with pioneering new forms of storytelling underpinned with research, product development, and technological advancement.

Fred is recognized for his expertise and groundbreaking work, underpinned by a human-centered approach. His methods for identifying future frontiers and cultural movements see him sought after by organizations to help explore new possibilities and create new market opportunities.

Fred has written and created successful original work and collaborations with diverse creatives and leading brands like Emma Nolan, Donald Glover, Virgin Atlantic, Disney, John Lewis, Manchester United, L’Oreal, and many more.

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