Theme: Exploring the Limits

This year we are looking at limits, be that limits of the human mind, human body or the physical world. We are looking for exciting talks on the limits of anything from the limits of engineering, to the limits of medicine. If there is an idea that needs to be shared and it links with our theme then we'd love to hear about it.

The Cramphorn Theatre
Fairfield Road
Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1JG
United Kingdom

Baiju Solanki

Baiju Solanki is award winning entrepreneur, psychologist, speaker, coach, trainer & CEO/Founder of EnSpirit Inc. empowering the entrepreneurial spirit in business & education. Baiju’s mission is to transform the world through teaching entrepreneurial skills to business people, start-ups, students and employees to increase productivity, performance & winning mindsets. Having worked across a number of sectors including academia, corporate and sales, Baiju is uniquely placed to understand the subtle attitude and behaviour’s that impact high performance. Baiju is a social media evangelist and advises on how you can use the different social media platforms to increase your reach and influence. Baiju is also an author of ‘I’m An Entrepreneur – Get Me Out of Here’

Chris Lee

During 40 years in the not-for-private-profit sector ‘pursuing a cause rather than a career’, the line between paid and unpaid work has become increasingly blurred for Chris Lee. After 15 years in international book publishing, his personal and professional life has developed through a series of time-limited projects – stepping stones to, his wife hopes, ‘a proper job’. When not advising charities and social enterprises on working well, he borrows good ideas from other people to share in his home county – Hertfordshire – where he organised the first Repair Cafés and Cash Mobs. Chris lives in no man’s land – the Hertfordshire / Cambridgeshire border – where he can be found running, singing, freecycling, blogging and telling bad jokes

Chris Tuckett

Chris is a Physiotherapist and feels that healthcare should be about empowerment and health promotion. He has a passion for our bodies’ ability to heal and protect itself when it’s provided with the correct conditions and he wants to promote this message widely. He has degrees in both Sport & Exercise Science and Physiotherapy and has a keen interest in fitness and well-being. He’s spent the last 8 years working within the NHS and has had articles printed in national magazines on the topic of healthcare. He believes health is an entitlement we should all enjoy but it is down to us to claim it.

Dr Lynda Shaw

Dr Lynda Shaw is a passionate and engaging speaker with an innovative, practical and immediately applicable approach. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and has conducted research on brain function and impairment, specialising in consciousness, emotion and the effects of ageing. She is also an entrepreneur, lecturer and author of adult and children’s books. Affiliations Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM) Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society (CPsychol) Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA)

Dr Paul Jerram

Paul is the Chief Engineer for Space Image Sensors at e2v. He has been at e2v for nearly 30 years and has been involved in the design and development of new image sensors for space applications for nearly 25 years. He has lead the e2v image sensor design and development team. E2v have designed and provided the image sensors for many of the best known space missions including New Horizons, Rosetta and the Hubble Space Telescope and it all comes from Chelmsford.

Ellen Marshall

I’m a – Game of Thrones watching, pizza eating, weight lifting, mojito drinking, over sleeping, creatively thinking, music loving, degree receiving, selfie snapping, boyfriend hugging, non-stop shopping, charity working, people watching, cake baking, friends laughing, day dreaming, comedian seeing, human being.

Elliot Kay

Elliot is a real mixture of cultures, coming from an Argentinean mother and English father. Making the best of everything, Elliot claims he has the warmth of a South American and the manners of an Englishman. After almost losing everything, Elliot knew he had to change and change big time. From lying in his flat in Acton, west London wondering how he was going to pay his rent, how he was going to overcome this situation and find love again… thats when the next level of the journey began. Now happily married with a baby on the way, he loves tuning into Netflix to unwind when he wants down time while running his Strategy businesses.

Isabella Copeland

Isabella never thought she could compete with her class mates in this year’s TEDx speaking competition because one school friend’™s father had just returned from Antarctica with Andy McNab of BravoTwoZero fame€ but after finding a topic she was truly passionate about she realised it is not always what you are given in life but what you do with it that makes all the difference and that could not be more true for her or the subject of her talk this year.

Jordon Cox

Jordon is an extreme money-saver who has flown via Berlin to save money on trains and bought £600 of groceries for 4p using coupons. He has been teaching people how to save money for 4 years, touring the country giving sessions and now writes for MoneySavingExpert.com. He is a regular media expert appearing on shows such as Rip Off Britain, BBC news and BBC Breakfast.

Joshua Hunt

Josh is a 26 year old chaplain, postgraduate researcher and Kanye West fan in Suffolk. His job sees him working, speaking and writing about the intersection of faith and education, and helping to pioneer partnerships through a charity called Boost. Josh is passionate about young people living their lives to the full and reaching their potential.

Kelvin Marsh

Celebrating with the Man United team in Barcelona’s NouCamp Stadium when they just won the legendary Treble in 1999, which coincidentally was the day of my 30th birthday, was an unforgettable experience, as was celebrating with the British sailing team on the podium at the Sydney Olympics when they won 3 Gold and 2 Silver Medals. I feel truly privileged to have had these and many more great memories. But they come second place to seeing children develop new skills and grow in confidence – I mean that hand on heart! True fulfilment is seeing a shy kid grow in confidence by mastering a skill you taught them”.

Luke Mason

Luke is a media teacher and improviser from Southend. He certainly doesn’t claim to be an expert improviser as to do so would destroy the point and concept of improvisation but has used the skills he has learnt over 5 years of improvising successfully within his teaching practice. He is 6ft 5in, has size 15 feet and recently broke and dislocated his ankle after falling off his pennyboard. He already knows he shouldn’t have been on it. He knows he’s a silly boy. You’re more than welcome to sign his cast.

Matt Dawson

Matthew discovered a passion for endurance events later in life but those who knew him growing up are not surprised he has chosen this path. Giving up is not an option for this man – a quality seen early on by his scout leader who couldn’t stop him from trying to fix a broken tent while everyone else had given up. 4 hours later the 8 year old boy repaired it and gave them shelter for the night. Over the last 2 decades Matthew has completed a host of long distance events including; marathons, triathlons, a 2 day non-stop canoe race and open water swims. Matthew believes that anything is possible with a challenging goal and a heap of determination to reach it.

Suzy Ashworth

Suzy Ashworth is Founder and CEO of The Calm Birth School, the world’s first video based hypnobirthing program and Chief Backside Kicker at Suzy Ashworth Mindset and Marketing where she has mentored close to 100 pre and postnatal specialists find their unique voice and their message. To help them build stand out businesses. With almost three children, Suzy takes pleasure in the small things in life, like being able to go to the bathroom alone….but the thing that lights her up outside of quiet time is the idea of transformation and helping people move from doubt into confidence in both birth and business.