It’s almost 12 months since COP26, when the world’s leaders pledged to limit global warming to 1.5C.
As we approach COP27, join us for our Conversations Worth Having Virtual Gathering as we explore ‘The Future We Choose’, supported by Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, a year in which stories inspired by and created in Scotland are showcased and celebrated.
Together our experts and our global digital audience, will look at the climate opportunities that are required, in order to shape the future of our society. We want to address climate change and actions, the energy crisis, striking a health and well-being balance, and responsible consumption / production practices throughout the year of 'The Future We Choose'.
Our event will be live digitally and broadcast globally from 6pm-7.30pm on the 1st of November.
Watch below…
Our Conversations Worth Having speakers…
Susie Cormack Bruce
Returning to host the virtual gathering is TEDxGlasgow favourite - Susie Cormack Bruce.
With over 25 years media experience as a television producer, presenter, newspaper executive and magazine editor (Live at 5, GMTV, The BIG Breakfast, Sky News, CBS, Al Jazeera, Sunday Mail, i-on Magazine), Susie Cormack Bruce is one of Scotland’s most trusted commentators and hosts.
As a busy event and awards host and presenter, with clients including Royal Bank of Scotland, Action for Children, John Lewis, The Princes’ Trust, Dakota Hotels and Space NK, and as a TEDxGlasgow regular, the virtual gathering will be in a safe pair of hands.
Professor George Crooks OBE
Professor George Crooks is the Chief Executive of the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Scotland’s national innovation centre for digital health and care.
He leads an organisation that is tasked with delivering innovation in digital health and care that will help Scotland’s people to live longer, healthier lives and create new jobs for the economy.
He was previously the Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare. George was a General Medical Practitioner for 23 years in Aberdeen latterly combining that role as Director of Primary Care for Grampian.
George is on the Board of the European Connected Health Alliance. He is currently a Board member and past president of the European Health Telematics Association. He is also an adjunct Professor of Telehealth at the University of Southern Denmark.
George was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2011 for services to healthcare.
Jo-Anne Chidley
Jo Chidley is a circular economy expert, chemist, herbal botanist, and co-founder of Beauty Kitchen, the highest scoring B Corp in the UK beauty industry. Founded in 2014, Jo has set out to change the face of the beauty industry by creating the most effective, natural, and sustainable beauty products in the world.
Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of sustainable beauty, Jo is championing a Reuse Revolution through sustainable innovation by implementing Cradle to Cradle design into Beauty Kitchen’s circular approach. Among her achievements and award accolades, Jo has been instrumental in developing the world’s first closed-loop solution for beauty packaging and has powered the service behind the ground-breaking Re programme & Refill Stations. Thanks to her leadership, Beauty Kitchen is recognised on the UK’s 50 Most Disruptive Companies list and has won numerous industry awards, including ‘Who’s Who in Natural Beauty’.
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Prof. Kimberly Nicholas
Prof. Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Her work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today. Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.
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This event has been supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. This fund is being delivered in partnership between VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland with support from National Lottery Heritage Fund thanks to National Lottery players.
