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Tash Willcocks – Head of School (Hyper Island)

Tash has over 20 years of experience shaping future changemakers in the creative industry. She was previously programme leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University, and now facilitates the learning of worldwide postgraduate students that join the MA Digital Management and MA Digital Experience Design programmes at Hyper Island as…

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Mo Isap – Serial Entrepreneur

Mo is founder & CEO of IN4.0 Plc and Co-founder of INFORM Education.   He’s a serial entrepreneur taking ventures from start up to scale and sale. A Board Member of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership leading on schools and future skills.  He is Chair of the Greater Manchester Careers and Employability Board.  Awarded Enterprise…

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Malcolm Garrett RDI FISTD

Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director at the design consultancy Images&Co, with offices in London and Manchester. Images&Co is a creative partnership with Kasper de Graaf that was first established in 1981, when together they produced the ground-breaking, style magazine ‘New Sounds New Styles’. Malcolm is widely regarded as a key influence on the development of…

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John Robb – Many-faceted Creature

John Robb is a many-faceted creature. Bassist and singer for post-punk mainstays The Membranes, author, journalist, DJ, publisher, vegan behemoth and talking head, he’s all these things and more He grew up in Blackpool before punk rock came along and saved his life. Naively believing that you really could do what you wanted he went…

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Hannah Stewart – Royal College of Art

Hannah Stewart does curiosity driven research and making to explore what futures are possible or probable; using artefacts, speculative design and action research projects.  Hannah is currently a Researcher at the Royal College of Art, managing and producing research for the EPSRC funded Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing Network and also the AHRC funded ‘Ethics into…

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Catarina King – Cofounder (Society 1)

Catarina King cofounded Society 1, a co-working space in Preston, with Brendan King and Christopher Ruppert. Their collective backgrounds range from catering to travel and hospitality. Their varied careers span the UK, France, Germany and Australia. They are a dynamic team and passionate about bringing co-working to Lancashire. They took the family restaurant building, the Alpenhof…

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Jamie Holman – Artist, Writer, Lecturer

Jamie Holman is an artist, writer and lecturer who achieved critical acclaim after exhibiting in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 1996 at Tate Gallery Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre London. Holman worked in moving image and performance before developing a broader multi-disciplinary practice that included photography and sculpture. Holman was a founding member of the music/artist/writers collective…

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