BEN EVANS
Director, London Design Festival

Ben is the Director of the London Design Festival, which celebrates and promotes London as the creative capital of the world. It is an annual event and involves over 180 partner organisations and has an audience of 350,000. Elsewhere, since 1997 he has been a trustee of Artangel, one of the UK’s leading contemporary arts organisations. He has recently become a governor of the University of the Arts and he was also a trustee of the Roundhouse until 2004.

ES DEVLIN
Designer of Stage, Scenery and Costumes

Es Devlin is one of the most exciting and versatile set-designers working in the world today. Originally known for her award-winning design in the rarified world of Opera (from Don Giovanni in Vienna to Salome at the Royal Opera House), she’s now designing sets for the likes of Kanye West’s US tour, Nitin Sawhney at the IMAX Cinema, Wire and Mika. Es has also made films including Rage starring Jude Law, Kate Moss’ turn with Agent Provocateur (Miss X) and Razorlight’s music video, Hostage of Love.

JAKE DYSON

Jake studied Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 1994. Since then he has worked in the product design industry, gaining experience in engineering and manufacturing, establishing Jake Dyson Limited in 2002. Jake felt that contemporary lighting – and uplights in particular – had been neglected. After two years of development, he has realised his vision that a light can be versatile as well as beautiful, and the result is Motorlight, the world’s first variable angle uplight.

JAMES PARR
Sustainable Innovation and Design

In his 17 years as a designer, James’ career has taken him on a number of paths and occasional wrong turns – from designing products to producing and directing films to developing software. For the last 10 years James has been working on a simple, but surprisingly, elusive problem: how to make society more sustainable. He is currently pursuing this question at Innovation consultants IDEO, ranked 5th on Fast Company’s list of the world’s most innovative companies.

PHIL NUTLEY
Creative Director, JAM

British born Creative Director, Phil Nutley has worked with a diverse range of international clients. His projects have included brand experiences, installations, theatrical performances, sonic branding, furniture, product and lighting environments across several continents. He has multi-disciplinary experience working on a range of sensorial projects for such clients as Diesel, Canon, Evian and Veuve Clicquot. His work has featured in Blueprint, Surface, Nylon, Interni, City and Australian Style magazines. Phil is currently filming a 6 part series for BBC2.

JESS TYRRELL
Regional Director, Cut&Paste Europe

Jess also serves as the Director for Germination in London

LIZZIE OSTROM
Marketing Director, Cut&Paste Europe

Germination

JVAN MORANDI
Technical Director, Europe

POD BLUMAN
Technical Director, Europe