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FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 1 0 a m – 5pm

HMS PRESIDENT, LONDON #TEDxWhitehallWomen @TEDxWhallWomen

BUILDING

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CREATING L I N K S

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TEDx Whitehall Women 2017 now in its fifth year and today’s event is all about bridges.

We’re absolutely thrilled that HMS President our hosting us, with its amazing views of the River Thames and the iconic Tower Bridge, really drives home the importance of our theme: Bridges.

We’ve got an impressive line up of speakers today and we’re really looking forward to seeing how their talks move us and help us create connections.

Among other things, they’ll be talking about building bridges, burning bridges, crossing bridges, and bridging gaps.

We’ll also be creating a virtual bridge to the USA and bringing you some of the sessions from the TED Women event in New Orleans.

I want to say a huge thank you to our supporters, Events 1st and Server PR. It would not be impossible to hold TEDx Whitehall Women without them. I’d also like to thank the enthusiastic, resourceful and dedicated speakers, the project

team and our volunteers. Your efforts have brought us here today and I am truly grateful for all the time and effort you have dedicated to helping make this event what it is.

I’d also like to thank you – our attendee – for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here today. I am sure you’ll enjoy your time exploring a variety of bridges our theme raises and enter into the TED spirit of ideas worth spreading.

We are also delighted to be hosting the Marsh awards at the end of the day and invite you to join the reception and celebration.

Simone Roche Licencee TEDxWhitehallWomen @SimoneRoche Simone Roche is licensee for TEDxWhitehallWomen, founder of Northern Power Women, managing director at event curation company, Events 1st, advisory board member at Gender Networks, World Merit, champion for the Government Equalities Office, and partner of the Northern Powerhouse campaign.

Simone has developed a specialist network of impactful women and men and curated a portfolio of events, including the Women 1st Conference and the Shine Awards. Simone joined the Royal Navy at 17 as a radio operator, scaling the ranks to Lieutenant before moving into civilian life where she has held roles including looking after sponsors for London 2012 as a client services manager.

She has also held events and sales management roles at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Aintree Racecourse before becoming deputy general manager of operations for the build of the new Echo Arena in Liverpool. Simone is passionate about gender diversity and championing female talent.

PROGRAMME 09.30

Arrivals, registration and networking

10.00

Attention on the bridge Welcome Commodore David Elford RN Simone Roche Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (Host)

10.15

Session one: Bridging the gap Claire Eadington Dan Susman Sophie Walker Dr Mari Takayanagi Antonia Romeo Jessica Ingrey (young innovator)

11.40

Networking Break

12.00

Session two: Bridging the divide Kalbir Bains Charlotte Sweeney OBE Kit Collingwood James Taylor Leyla Josephine Noah Dance (young innovator)

13.15

Lunch TED Women Live

14.00

Session three: Bridge that connects us Rocky Etchell (young innovator) Natalie Reynolds Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE Nikita Malik Michelle Partington Dr Nicky Zachariou

15.00

TED Women Live Networking Break

15.15

Session four: Burning bridges Angela Atim Lakor Melanie Eusebe Durotimi Oshin (young innovator) Nazir Afzal OBE Dora Gee and Tomo McSorley

16.15

Reception drinks and presentation of Marsh Award

18.00

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Dr Shola MosShogbamimu PhD, MBA, LLM, MA, LLB, IAQ

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New York attorney & solicitor of England and Wales. Shola is a dual qualified lawyer with corporate and commercial experience in financial services, and author, public speaker and Huffington Post contributor.

Angela Atim Lakor

@TEDxWhallwomen Aged 14, The Lords’ Resistance Army kidnapped Angela and she faced sexual violence in armed conflict for years. On escaping, she set up a charity to support kidnapped women & children.

Antonia Romeo @AntoniaRomeo UK

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Antonia is Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade. and has been Her Majesty’s Consul General in New York, and Director-General Economic and Commercial Affairs USA.

Charlotte Sweeney OBE

Dora Gee and Tomo McSorley

@Charlotte Sweene

@Dora_Geeee @TomoMcSorley

She is in the Top 50 Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Professionals in the world named by The Economist.

She runs a consultancy specialising in it. Co-author of recent Financial Times book ‘Inclusive Leadership’.

Claire Eadington @Marathon Shine Head of CEO’s office, Environment Agency. Claire is passionate about people, productivity and wellbeing, and is also a professional mezzo soprano and an enthusiastic triathlete and CrossFitter.

Dora is a member of the National Youth Theatre and trains with Stagebox. Tomo trains at the Young Actors Studio at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Both are studying for their A levels.

Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE @LordCHolmes Former athlete, advocate and campaigner, he is Britain’s most successful Paralympic swimmer and was Director of Paralympic Integration, organising the 2012 Paralympics in London.

Dan Susman

James Taylor

@DanSoos

@JamesW Taylor1

Dan works for the Guardian Online and his film about human rights was the Guardian’s most popular film with over 34 million views and won the Gold Lovie Award for Comedy 2016.

As CEO of Healthcare, Sodexo, James’ aims to live passionately & create a standard of excellence in the world. He strives to maximise his leadership style, leading to growth, innovation and joy.

SPEAKERS Kalbir Bains

Dr Mari Tayaganaki

@KalbirBains

@Satisfactory20

Kalbir wrote Not Our Daughter:True Story of a Daughter-in-Law, about issues around ‘honour’-based violence, differences between forced/ arranged marriages, alcohol & dowry abuse, abortion and gender equality.

Kit CollingwoodRichardson @Kitterati Passionate about public services working for everyone & modernising government. She’s co-founder of One Team Government movement, gathering communities to take action for public sector reform.

Mari is joint project manager and co-curator for ‘Voice and Vote’, celebrating 100 years of the vote for some women and all men in 2018.

Her PhD thesis was on parliament & women in the early 20th century.

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Melanie Eusebe @MelanieEusebe

Chair and Founder Black British Business Awards and Executive Producer of WOW Women of the World Festival, Melanie is a management consultant with over 18 years experience.

Leyla Josephine

Michelle Partington

@leylajosephine1

@Mitsanuk

Won numerous accolades including 2014 UK National Poetry Slam and the 2017 Golden Gun Award. Her 5 star fringe show ‘Hopeless’ was long listed for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award.

An athlete & former RAF paramedic, Michelle served on the front line in Afghanistan and faced combat PTSD on her return.

She fought back from the brink of mental illness to compete in the Invictus Games.

Natalie Reynolds

Nikita Malik

@AdvSpringCEO

@NixMalik

Founder of advantageSPRING and recognised in Forbes magazine as ‘a leading expert in effective negotiation’. She provided training in this to corporates over the world and is author of ‘We Have a Deal’.

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Nikita, as counter-terrorism expert, focuses on protection of women & children in conflict. Also author of ‘Children of Islamic State’, described

by The Times as “landmark study on the use of children by terror groups”.

Nazir Afzal OBE

Sophie Walker

@NazirAfzal

@SophieRunning

Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West & Director in London. He prosecuted very high profile cases, leading on legal topics including violence against women & girls, and honour based violence.

Dr Nicky Zachariou @Nickyzachariou

A mathematician by training, she now works as data scientist and co-founder of DataBeers. She has a PhD from Imperial College on complex networks & wants to help government get better at seeing and understanding patterns in data.

Leader of Women’s Equality Party, putting women’s rights at the top of the agenda. She has grown the party via a grassroots movement to thousands of members, with 70 branches in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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YOUNG INNOVATORS

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Noah Dance, 10 years old @WeAre DiaryZapp

Noah is a 10 year old from Dorset who came up with the idea for DiaryZapp after his sister’s school asked her to keep a diary last summer. He thought the task would be more fun if it could be done digitally and DiaryZapp was born.

Jessica Ingrey, 16 years old

Jessica can’t turn down a challenge, especially when it comes to her passion: maths. Attending a course of Liverpool Girl Geeks (which she now blogs for) inspired her to promote girls into the tech industry.

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Durotimi Oshin, 14 years old

Rocky Etchell, 14 years old @RockyEtchell

Durotimi is in Year 10 at Townley Grammar School. She loves reading, singing, and listening to music, and plays the piano and clarinet. She is passionate about human rights and The Global Goals (www.globalgoals.org) and wants to be a doctor.

Rocky lives in Hertfordshire and is a filmmaker and photographer with his own business making promotional videos for brands and entrepreneurs. He is about to launch a crowdfunding programme to raise funds to make a short crime drama.

THANKS TO:

EVENTS 1st

Partners: HMS President Wilton Park Marsh Awards ACG

Professionals: PA Consulting RTS AV

Supporters: Natalie Angel Rob Monks Zita Luiten Ruth Sacks Frances Wood Kathryn Turner

Emma Summerfield Mari Shaw Angie Browne John McCreanney Minhaz Abedin Thomas Jensen George Watkins

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