Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE
Solo percussionist & composer

Theme: Communication

Evelyn is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today she is constantly redefining the goals and expectations of percussion, and creating performances of such vitality that they almost constitute a new type of performance.

Evelyn gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. For the first ten years of her career virtually every performance she gave was in some way a first. Her diversity of collaborations have included performances artists such as Nana Vasconcelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Fred Frith.

Evelyn has commissioned one hundred and fifty new works for solo percussion from many of the world's most eminent composers and also composes and records music for film and television. Her first high quality drama produced a score so original she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards (BAFTA's); the UK equivalent of the Oscars.

Out of the 25 recordings made so far, Evelyn's first CD, Bartok's Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion won her a Grammy in 1988. A further two Grammy nominations followed, one of which she won for a collaboration with Bela Fleck. Evelyn's twelfth solo CD, Shadow Behind the Iron Sun (BMG Records), was based on a radical improvisational concept and has once again questioned people's expectations.

The Evelyn Glennie brand is constantly exploring other areas of creativity. From writing a best selling autobiography, Good Vibrations, to collaborating with the renowned film director Thomas Riedelsheimer on a film called Touch the Sound, to presenting two series of her own television programmes (Soundbites) for the BBC, to regularly appearing on television across the world, which include The David Letterman Show (USA), Sesame Street (USA), The South Bank Show (UK), presenting and performing on Songs of Praise (UK), Commonwealth Games Festival Concert, This is Your Life (UK), 60 minutes (USA), PBS Profile (USA) and many more.

Evelyn's activities also include lobbying the Government on political issues, her consortium with Sir James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber and the late Michael Caman successfuly led to the Government providing £332. million towards music education. Other aspects include Evelyn Glennie Images, which supplies photographs from a vast image library of Evelyn, Evelyn Glennie Jewellery, which is a range of Jewellery designed in conjunction with Ortak is based on her influences as a solo percussionist and Evelyn Glennie Merchandise. Evelyn is also an international motivational speaker to many diverse corporate companies and events. Evelyn also performs with Orchestras on the Great Highland Bagpipes.

After 20 years in the music business she has begun teaching privately, which allows her to explore the art of teaching and to explore the world of sound therapy as a means of communication.

In 1993 Evelyn was awarded the OBE (Officer of the British Empire). This was extended in 2007 to 'Dame Commander' for her services to music, and to date has received over 80 international awards.

Please visit Evelyn's website at www.evelyn.co.uk

Photo - Richard Ecclestone  © Sabian.

Tim Bevan CBE
Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Working Title Films

Theme: Communication

Tim Bevan CBE is Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Working Title Films which he forned in 1984, joining forces with Eric Fellner in 1982. Co-Chaired by them, Working Title has made more than 90 films that have grossed over $4 billion worldwide including Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. The Company's films have won 6 Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo,  Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and The Golden Age and Joe Wright's Atonement, 26 BAFTA Awards and prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals.  Bevan and Fellner have been honoured with two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the Orange British Academy Film Awards (2004) and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have both been honoured with CBEs (Commanders of the British Empire).

Currenrly in production and post-production are a record eight films; Nick Moore's Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts; Beeban Kidron's Hippie Hippie Shake, starring Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Emma Booth and Max Minghella; Kevin Macdonald's State of Play starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Robin Wright Penn; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, adapted by Peter Morgan from his play of the same name starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen; Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich; Joe Wright's The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr and Catherine Keener; and Richard Curtis' The Boat That Rocked starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and Nick Frost.; and Paul Greengrass' Green Zone Thriller starring Matt Damon.

David Thorpe
Senior Partner, Global Director of Innovation, Ogilvy Worldwide

Theme: Communication

David Thorpe joined Ogilvy in 2007 to help the agency and its clients develop an innovation agenda for their business in order to tackle the rapidly shifting marketplaces of today.

Prior to Ogilvy, David served as the Global Lead for Strategy and Insights for Microsoft at Young & Rubicam Brands.  As the Director of Creative Development at The New Yorker, David's mandate was to bring the magazine into the digital age creating new editorial contexts and revenue streams for the magazine's content.  David held a similar position at Random House where he produced the NPR series, Breakfast at Random House.  After Art College in London, David developed an extensive background in motion pictures working across development, production, marketing; his music can be heard in Gus Van Sant's "Finding Forrester".

David serves on the advisory boards of The Rockefeller Foundation's Cultural Innovation Fund and The Institute for State Effectiveness; and the editorial board of the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Press.

Moray MacLennan
IPA President & Chairman, Europe, M&C Saatchi

Theme: Communication

Moray began in advertising as a Graduate Trainee at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1983, having studied law at Christs College Cambridge. Whilst at Saatchi & Saatchi he was a Worldwide Board Account Director across a range of major national and international accounts. He was made Managing Director in 1993. He left the agency with Maurice and Charles in 1995 to help found M&C Saatchi as Chief Executive, UK.

Moray is currently Chairman (Europe) of M&C Saatchi (offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid)and is responsible for all its group companies including Lida (DM), Talk PR, Sport & Entertainment and Play (Digital).  He was elected IPA President in April 2007.

Hermann Hauser
Co Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners

Theme: Communication

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited and E*Trade UK.

Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory at King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic, and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector' in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the UK Government's Council for Science & Technology.

Eugene Polzik
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Theme: Communication

The aim of his research in teleportation is not to achieve the facility to ’beam up’ a person from one planet to another as it happens in science fiction. It is to develop the quantum communication-network of the future, based on information-teleportation - an entire new form of communication-network that will be able to transport much larger quantities of information in a completely safe way.   Hard to say how far off the technology but in a year it will certainly be closer to (virtual) reality.

J.C. Herz
National Academy of Science's Standing Committee on Technology Insight (TIGER)

Theme: Communication

J.C. Herz is a technologist with a background in biological systems and computer game design. Her specialty is massively multiplayer systems that leverage social network effects, whether on the web, mobile devices, or more exotic high-end or grubby low-end hardware.

J.C. currently serves on the National Academy of Science's Standing Committee on Technology Insight (TIGER) and was a member of the National Research Council's committee on IT and Creative Practice. She served on the National Science Foundation's Federal Advisory Committee for Education, and is currently a Fellow of Columbia University's American Assembly. In 2002, she was designated a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. She is a member of the Global Business Network, and is a founding member of the IEEE Task Force on Game Technologies. J.C. is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Academics: Prior to moving to Washington DC, J.C. taught at the graduate level at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. She has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the Naval Strategic Studies Group, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and has spoken at the Technology Entertainment & Design (TED) conference, PC Forum, SIGGRAPH, and the Aspen Institute. She serves on the advisory board of the University of Southern California's Center for Creative Technologies, a research center funded by the Army to explore technologies of mutual interest to the military and the entertainment industry. She is on the advisory board of Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press. J.C. graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies, magna cum laude, in 1993. She was a coxswain on the Harvard men's rowing team.

Publications: J.C. is the author of two books, Surfing on the Internet (Little Brown, 1994), an ethnography of cyberspace before the web, and Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds (Little Brown, 1997), a history of videogames which traces the cultural and technological evolution of the first medium that was born digital, and how it shaped the minds of a generation weaned on Nintendo. Her books have been translated into seven languages. As a New York Times columnist, J.C. published 100 essays on the grammar and syntax of game design between 1998-2000. She has also contributed to Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, Rolling Stone, Wired, GQ, and the Calgary Philatelist.

Phil Guest
Director, Habbo

Theme: Communication

Phil is Director for Habbo, Europe, one of the world's largest and fastest growing virtual worlds for teenagers with 100 million registered avatars in 32 countries on six continents. 

Habbo, which attracts over 9.5 million unique visitors every month, is the main product of Helsinki based Sulake Corporation whose aim is to build Habbo into a new type of youth brand, which is anchored in the world's largest online youth community. The Habbo brand has already been extended to include mobile games and content, animation as well as merchandising products.

Phil joined Sulake in 2007 from AOL where he headed up the Commercial Development team.  Previously he was Commercial Director (Europe) for Fox Kids TV network, working across TV advertising, online licensing and programming.

Jon Crowcroft
Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Theme: Communication

Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He has worked in the area of Internet support for multimedia communications for over 20 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of deployable end-to-end protocols.

Prior to Computer Laboratory he was professor of networked systems at UCL in the Computer Science Department. He isa member of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IEE and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a senior member of the IEEE. He was a member of the IAB and was General Chair for the ACM SIGCOMM 95-99. He is on the editorial team for the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networks and Computer Communications as well as on the program committee for ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE Infocomm. He has published five books - the latest is' The Linux TCP/IP Implementation', published by Wiley in 2001.

Danny O'Brien
International Outreach Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Theme: Communication

Journalist, IT analyst and broadcaster, Danny O'Brien is a technology columnist for the Sunday Times and Irish Times. Working as a consultant, he has helped formulate online strategies for Intel, the Guardian, and Channel Four, and was responsible for creating Virgin Net's community programming during its startup phase.  Danny's broadcast work production and presenting shows for shows for the BBC, Channel Four, Sky and ITV networks.  He was the founding editor of Need To Know http://www.ntk.net/>, a weekly British industry newsletter which received a special commendation by BAFTA for its contributions to newsgathering. He is a co-founder of the Open Rights Group, a British advocacy organization, and works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as their International Outreach Coordinator. He lives in San Francisco.

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