2022 Speakers - Blue Earth Summit

Jonathon Porritt CBE

Jonathon Porritt is a veteran campaigner and co-founder of Forum for the Future

Mike Barry

Mike is a leader in sustainable change, he helped to develop, launch and implement Marks and Spencer’s ground-breaking sustainability programme, Plan A.

Sir Tim Smit – KBE

Co-founder of the Eden Project, Executive Vice Chair of Eden Project Ltd and Executive Chairman of Eden Project International Ltd.

Kresse Wesling CBE

Founder of Elvis & Kresse, multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur and Young Global Leader with a background in venture capital and significant start-up experience.

Kate Rawles

Freelance writer, environmentalist & outdoor philosopher

Richard Walker – Iceland

Managing Director, Iceland Foods Chairman, Bywater Properties

Bianca Pitt

Bianca is the co-founder of SHE Changes Climate, an advisor to the environmental charity sector, an activist and campaigner

David Lindo

David (AKA The Urban Birder) is on a mission is to engage city folk around the world with the plentiful urban nature that surrounds them.

Maxwell Ayamba

Maxwell is a PhD student research whose research interests transcends the trajectories of race, ecology and environmental justice

Fi Macmillan

Adventurer, coach, speaker and entrepreneur. Inviting leaders and changemakers into their own potent intelligence in Nature.

Will Rolph

Co-Founder of Two Fields Olive Oil, a Regenerative Olive Oil Producer and a designer.

Chris Bertish

Chris Bertish is a Professional Speaker; Big Wave Surfing Mavericks champion; Stand Up Paddle Boarding Guinness World Record Holder and Ocean Pioneer.

Naveed Bakhsh

Nav co-founded Boots & Beards after assessing the needs of the local community and lack of outdoor activities.

Ted Simpson

Ted is a self shooting director and editor, working across commercial and documentary. His main interests lie in exploring stories of human connection to wild land and wild spaces

Magnus Wood

Founder | Kindness Advisor | Reimagining business with Kindness to leave people and the planet better.

Poppy Stowell Evans

A 16 year old feminist, climate activist, internationalist who is quite frankly obsessed with all things social justice.

Cath Pendleton

Cath Pendleton, also known as "The Merthyr Mermaid" is an open water and ice swimmer from Wales.

Pip Hare

The 8th women ever in history to complete the Vendee Globe race, a 24,000 mile, single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world.

Kate A Larsen

Kate A Larsen has over 17 years experience in Responsible Sourcing and Supply Chains Environmental and Social issues management.

Sarah Bentley

Sarah is the founder of pioneering plant-based community cookery school and charity Made In Hackney. The cookery school opened it's doors in 2012 and have since collaborated with over 400,000 Londoners inspiring them to grow, cook and eat more plants.

Harrison Ward

After discovering a passion for hiking in 2016 following a drastic life change, it wasn’t long before a lifetime love of cooking was merged with my new vice. These days I can often be found creating delicious, restaurant style meals on minimal camping equipment in the hills.

Melissa Thorpe

Melissa is the head of Spaceport Cornwall

Andrew Bacon

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Space Forge Ltd

Charles Watson

Charles is focussed solely across the areas of environmental campaigning and conservation, sustainable development and impact investment

Dr Ian Hendy

As a professional marine conservation ecologist, the main goal of my research is to understand how human interactions, environmental variation and climate change are responsible for altering biodiversity, biomass and productivity.

Benjamin Casteillo

Transdisciplinary Research & Education to pioneer Global Sustainability with Human Solutions

Mike Weeks

Former professional rock climber, Mike Weeks is now the lead global business development at Laconic Infrastructure Partners

Grace Smith

Grace leads Laconic Infrastructures communication's and business development. She is a passionate and committed climate change and human rights activist.

Huw James – RAB

Huw is a professional science communicator who mixes mountaineering with education on scientific influences in the outdoors.

Hugo Tagholm

Hugo leads campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage and drives government legislation to protect our seas.

Rob Webbon

Rob is founder and CEO of the worlds first climate positive sports apparel company, Presca.

Tom Locke

Tom is the founder of Noughts and Ones helping planet-friendly ecommerce brands sell their products in the right way on Shopify.

Jarvis Smith

Proud hippy, tree-hugger, thought leader, media entrepreneur and online businessman.

Katie Hill

Investigative journalist, entrepreneur, podcaster and anti-greenwash activist.

Charlotte Young

Award-winning marine scientist, expedition leader, presenter and ocean advocate.

Richard J Lilley

RJ is the CEO and a co-founder of Project Seagrass.

Phil Young

A power house advocate for diversity and inclusion in the outdoors.

Dan Macaulay

Pioneering sports marketing consultant, entrepreneur and Blue Earth amabassador

Andy Hawkins

Founder of Business on Purpose and Blue Earth Summit Ambassador

Joss Ford

Founder of sustainability communications consultancy & certified BCorp, Enviral. Blue Earth Summit ambassador.

Marta Torner

Marta is the Sustainability Manager at outdoor accessory brand BUFF®.

Tessa Wernink

Impossible team lead and founder of Fairphone

Dr Gail Bradbrook

Co-Founder XR

Katharina Stolley

Sophie Dembinski

Head of Policy and UK Country Manager, Ecosia

Laura Sanderson

Founder of We Swim Wild, Environmentalist, Activist, Adventurer and Hydro Flask Ambassador

Laura Crane

Athlete and Wellness Advocate

Jax Davey

CEO of Nuevo

Kathrin Dimai

Kathrin is a Design Lead at Impossible, where she has been contributing in shaping the Planet Centric Design methodology and developed the Planet Centric Design Toolkit.

Kwame Ferreira

Kwame Ferreira is an artist, founder and entrepreneur. Kwame founded impossible.com, home of Planet Centric Design.

Steffi Bednarek

Psychologist, Climate Psychology Alliance and Weave

Paul Griffiths

Managing Director of Fenix Outdoor UK and BrandLAB VIP Guest Mentor

Laura Nesbitt

Laura Nesbitt is an open water marathon, ice and winter swimmer from Somerset with a decade of competitive swim coaching experience and seven years of open water coaching experience.

Clare Brook

CEO Blue Marine Foundation A pioneer of ESG investing, Clare Brook ran sustainable funds at Jupiter, NPI and Henderson. In 2000, she set up the sustainable investment division of Aviva. In 2010 she co-founded WHEB Asset Management, an environmental investment specialist. In 2014 she joined Blue Marine Foundation as CFO and became CEO in 2015.

Helena Craig

Helena Craig has been interested in race equality, diversity and inclusion since a teenager. As a partner in a large Bristol law firm, she tackled white elitism, successfully turning her department into an ethnically diverse one. Since retiring, she has been an environmental and race activist.

Duncan Ray

Duncan Ray is the Founder of Remarkable City, which he started because he thinks it’s time to encourage broader ways of approaching regeneration and urban renewal, to take into account challenges such as those posed by climate change.

George Lamb

George Lamb is the co-founder of Wildfarmed and GROW. George spent the first half of his professional career working in the entertainment industry and following a revelatory breakthrough in 2012 George has been figuring out how best to use his position and influence to make a positive, meaningful and lasting impact on society.

Ed Woolner

Ed Woolner, General Manager Feel Good Drinks – trying to make the world feel better one sip at a time by building a brand with a purpose.

Liz Callegari

Liz Callegari is co-founder of Black Sands Communications Ltd, a small consultancy launched earlier this year working on brand, communications and campaign strategy for purpose led organisations. Black Sands’ philosophy is based on the belief that facts alone will not change the world – or we wouldn't be facing a series of global crises right now.

Emmanuel Ameyaw

Emmanuel Ameyaw is a Ghanaian journalist and Communications Specialist with a strong interest in Climate Adaptation. Currently, he works as Communications Officer for Youth Climate Council Ghana.

Simon Hill Norton

Co-Founder, Sweaty Betty.

Rich Philip

Brand & Marketing Director of Stance

Mark Chapman

Founder and CEO, Zero Carbon Forum

Dulma Clark

Impact Investment & Storytelling Lead

Catherine Chong

Ecology, social, governance (ESG) advisor and activist

Sara Mair Bellshaw

Co-founder and Managing Director of Slow Adventure

Joshua Ryan-Saha

Director of Traveltech for Scotland

Chief Dadá Borarí

Chief-General of Maró Indigenous Territory, Brazil

Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge

Independent geographer and (forest) criminologist

Stephen Bashford

Director of Business and Skills, West of England Combined Authority

Akosua Asaa Manu

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Youth Authority-Ghana

Mini Cho

Country Director Mozambique - SNSC and pro surfer.

Sisonke Ndumndum

Content creator and care worker for SNSC

Siyanda Hewitt

South African and British junior surfer and ambassador for SNSC and The Wave, Bristol

Dan Yates

Partnerships Manager - Protect Our Winters

Adam Hall

Head of Sustainability - Internet Fusion Group and Surfdome

Gillian Rosh

Picture Organic Clothing

Julian Lings

Senior Sustainability Manager, The North Face

Ellen Harrison

Triodos Bank

Charlotte Pearce

CEO & Founder of Inkpact

Dom Winter

Programme Manager - Protect Our Winters

Lauren MacCallum

Author, Broadcaster and General Manager - Protect Our Winters

Dan Yates

Partnership Manager - Protect Our Winters

Tom Hewitt MBE

Founder Surfers not Street Children

Yvette Curtis

Founder, Wave Wahines

Tom McGillycuddy

Founder, CIRCA5000

Inka Cresswell

Filmmaker / Ocean Conservationist

Anna Smoothy

Ski Industry Insider, Circular Business Enthusiast

Rebecca Burgess

Listed in Management Todays 35 Women Under 35 list 2020, the longest-running, most prestigious list of young, female business talent in the UK, Rebecca is an accomplished leader. Rebecca joined The Hunger Project as Country Director in April 2022

Dan Atzori

Cornwall Insight

Izzy Howden

Campaigns and Policy Advisor - Make My Money Matter

Emily Dillon

Sales Director - Snow Peak

Tom Reding

Group Digital Director - Brew Dog

Chloe Dyson

Director of the insight and strategy Lab at TCO London

Stephen King

Vice President, Sustainability Solutions

Oliver Bolton

Co-Founder and CEO of Earthly

Lorenzo Curci

Co-Founder and CCO of Earthly

Nadia Owusu

Youth Advocate

Abraham Bugre

Climate Change Consultant

Matthew Pencharz

Head of Policy for UK, Ireland and the Netherlands for Voi Technology

Caroline Dennett

Culture & Change Consultant, CLOUT LTD

Lizzie Daly

Wildlife biologist, broadcaster, filmmaker and conservationist

Keme Nzerem

News Correspondent & presenter

Jenny Briggs

Associate Director at Greenhouse PR

Gail Gallie

Founder at Project17, Co-Founder Project Everyone

Dan Burgess

Charles Clover

Co-Founder and Executive Director at Blue Marine Foundation

Celena Fernandez

Head of Sustainability at KFC

Tim Grant

Managing Director at Caffeine Collective

Lizzi Testani

Chief Executive Officer at Bristol Green Capital Partnership

Chris Hines

Owner, A Grain of Sand

Xavier Baker

Co-founder of Mermaid Gin ~ Isle of Wight Distillery

Ben Hewitt

Communications and Campaign Strategist and Adviser

Ruth Nortey

Black & Green Ambassador at Ujima Radio CIC & Bristol Green Capital Partnership

Antonio Rodenas

Technical Officer, Business Applications and Space Solutions, European Space Agency

Emma Geen

Projects Coordinator and Community Climate Action Coordinator - Bristol Disability Equality Forum

Gnisha Bevan

Co-Lead and Co-Creator of Black Seeds Network, Educator, Consultant

Steve Potts

Managing Director, Beyond the Bottle

Noel Dickson

Product Director, Beyond the Bottle

Dr Alix Dietzel

Senior Lecturer in Global Ethics at the University of Bristol

Alice Venn

Black and Green Ambassadors

Nick Hounsfield

Founder, The Wave

Dave Turnbull

Head of Access, Conservation & Environmental Sustainability. - The British Mountaineering Council

Hannah Bailey

Photographer, Journalist, Adventure Communications Specialist

Phillip Slade

Brand Strategist

Karla Morales-Lee

Co-founder of Warrior Group Consulting and steering committee She Changes Climate

Corrd

Director of Signifier

Miss Divine

Sheetal Jethwa

Ujima Radio Breakfast Presenter

Olivia Sweeney

Lifetime Environmentalist and Former Black and Green Ambassador

Roy Kareem

Director of Bright Green Future

John Lake

Chief Commercial Officer of Seedrs & Republic EU, NED and Investor.

Amber Nuttall

Environmental and Sustainability Director for Extreme International, Founder of the Extreme Hangout, Advisor and Ambasador Blue Marine Foundation, Board Member at Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF)