Theme: Innovation

The world is changing rapidly, and innovation shapes our world. The first TEDxYouth@HABS event will focus on the applications of innovation across all subject areas, hoping to inspire the leaders of tomorrow!

Haberdashers Boys School
Butterfly Ln, Elstree
London, Hertfordshire, WD6 3AF
United Kingdom

Anish Philips

Business analyst at S-Cube

Anish is a Petroleum and Mining Engineer working in the Business Development team at S-Cube. In his role, Anish mainly focuses on applications of S-Cube's expertise in creating Algorithmic solutions to aid with the Energy Transition. This has allowed him to work quite closely with another Imperial College spin-out called About:Energy that specialises in the testing and modeling of batteries. Previously he worked in the mining and petroleum industries in Australia, notably with leading service provider Schlumberger who used his expertise to aid in the successful drilling of numerous unconventional gas wells in central Australia. Since moving to the UK in December 2021, Anish has been enjoying all that the UK has to offer with most weekends being taken up by playing touch rugby with the EY London vipers and pick-up football games. Outside of that Anish enjoys camping, fishing, hanging out with friends and going to sporting events.

Che Gannarelli

Senior Tutor (Middle School) & Teacher of Physics

Before moving into teaching, Dr Gannarelli was a postdoctoral research fellow with UCL’s Condensed Matter and Materials Physics research group, and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. In this latter role, he studied the origins of very long lived excitations of magnetic actinide salts, to explore their potential to create a revolutionary new type of quantum computer. He is currently a Teacher of Physics at Haberdashers' Boys' School.

Joshua Plotkin

Teacher of English & Director of Partnerships at Habs

Mr Plotkin is Director of Partnerships at Habs, building long-term, sustainable partnerships with local schools and organisations, which aim to provide educational opportunity for the wider community beyond the Habs gates. He is also an English teacher.

Michael Broadwith

Teacher of Mathematics & Head of the Russells House at Habs

Mr M Broadwith is known as a long-distance specialist, having won the National 24 Hour time trial no less than three times, with distances up to 530 miles. Not only this, but his fantastic record for the “End to End”: Land’s End to John O’Groats was completed on 17th June 2018 in a staggering time of 43 hours, 25 minutes and 13 seconds. In August 2022, Mr Broadwith competed in The Transcontinental Race No. 8, and is an inspiration to us all by persevering in this self-supported bicycle race across Europe.

Nikhil Shah

CEO of S-Cube

Nikhil Shah studied Maths at Cambridge and a PhD at Imperial College. He co-founded Imperial spinout S-Cube in 2019 with his doctorate supervisor (Prof. Mike Warner). He was at Habs from 1992-2003 where his interest in maths, technology and entrepreneurship began.

Paul West

Commercial Lead at S-Cube

Paul has many years of experience in the seismic services sector. Having worked across the globe for industry leading technology companies and innovative smaller enterprises. He is now based in London with S-Cube, working with industry and research partners to solve the most complex sub-surface modelling challenges with cloud-native, advanced formulations of waveform inversion.

Yash Shah

A-Level Student

Yash Shah is an A-Level student at Haberdashers' Boys' School, studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Computer Science. Having a keen interest in the interdisciplinary nature of technology, Yash has developed his passion in exploring the real-life applications of computer science that make a difference in society. Apart from computer science, Yash is interested in cycling, music, cricket and photography! Yash founded and organised the first TEDxYouth@HABS event in 2022, with a hope to spark curiosity and innovation within the school community.