Our Speakers

Amy Jackson

A Voice For The Voiceless

Amy is an actress, advocate, spokesperson and ambassador to charities such as Women's United Nations for Sneha Sargar Orphanage, The Elephant Family, PETA, Cash & Rocket, Being Human and St Jude's Children's hospice. Since the age of 16, Amy has played the lead in over 15 Bollywood movies, making her a household name in South Asia. Amy made her mark in Hollywood when she was cast in Warner Brothers production of Supergirl where she plays 'Saturn Girl' which is the epitome of 'Girl Power' and being a leader.

Chelcee Grimes

Call it What You Want

Chelcee Grimes is a Liverpool born singer, songwriter and footballer with a vibrant career in all three. Chelcee played for Liverpool ladies from the age of 10 before joining Everton, Tottenham, Tranmere and Fulham FC. Her first single ‘Just Like That’ blew up and landed in the Spotify New Music Friday Top 10. She has written for Zara Larsson, Kylie Minogue, Olly Murs, Stanaj, Little Mix, Tom Walker and Jonas Blue, and has just received her first Grammy nomination for her work with Dua Lipa. Having presented during the BBC Women’s World Cup coverage and now being assigned as one of the anchors on MOTDX, Chelcee is becoming a notable name for the BBC’s football coverage.

James Roberts

Motivation Has Had Its Day

James is an athlete, entrepreneur, podcast host and author with over 15 years of experience as a coach. He is a two time Paralympic athlete (Beijing 2008 Paralympics in rowing and London 2012 Paralympics in volleyball). James was born with a congenital disability called femoral dysplasia of the left leg. This is a rare, non-hereditary birth defect that affects the pelvis and the proximal femur. He struggled to come to terms with his disability as a teenager until it dawned on him that the only person this was affecting was himself, and found a way of overcoming these hurdles. It was this mindset that set him up to win in later life. Now, he works with people to challenge their limiting beliefs and achieve their goals.

Jason Bevan

INNERVATION

Jason Bevan is founder of Innervation and led the creativity and innovation process at Warner Bros. Pictures EMEA, to market some of the studios best-known films.

Jason worked with Warner Bros. teams in 37 countries for over 15 years, pushing the boundaries of creativity on many of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, DC movies like Joker, The Dark Knight, Aquaman and Superman films, the Lego movies, the Conjuring and IT Horrorverse, the Christopher Nolan movies and many others.

Jason was VP Marketing EMEA at WB and previously head of consumer PR Europe for Disneyland Paris, where he was responsible for a number of ambitious stunts and large, creative events. Jason worked at Disney in London and Paris for seven years and continues to work with many of the top film studios and entertainment companies as co-founder of Content Creator Studios.

JC Stewart

Collaborations In Creativity - 1+1=2

JC is a singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland with ambitions of being one of the world’s biggest pop stars. He signed with Warner in 2019 and had already established a solid fan base in Northern Ireland. His online following has since exploded, with 115,000 devoted fans who have helped him sell-out multiple shows in Belfast, London, Manchester and Glasgow. He co-wrote ‘Hollywood’ on Lewis Capaldi’s multi-platinum debut album. JC is already making an international impact - his quarantine-themed take on the ‘Friends’ theme song exploded after Jennifer Aniston shared it on Instagram, which resulted in him featuring on ‘Good Morning America’. His first EP debuted in November.

Kate Stewart

Mum of 4, Entrepreneur and So Much More

Kate Stewart is an award-winning businesswoman from Liverpool. Having left school without any qualifications, and falling pregnant at just 17, Kate studied for a Business Management degree, whilst working as a secretary and raising her daughter. Now a successful owner of multiple businesses, she’s keen to inspire people and mentor budding entrepreneurs. Having appeared on Channel 4’s The Secret Teacher, where she worked undercover as a teaching assistant in school, Kate is also focusing on helping the next generation. She's also created Sisterhood HQ, an online platform to inspire, empower and encourage women with her podcast and projects that they can engage with to become the best version of themselves.

Malik Al Nasir

Searching For My Slave Roots

Malik Al Nasir is an author, a performance poet and a filmmaker from Liverpool, whose remarkable life has been the subject of much media attention internationally. Born in Toxteth in the mid '60s, Malik grew up facing a range of hardships that saw him enter the care system in the '70s and following his release back on to the streets of post-riot Toxteth in the '80s, he encountered the legendary poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron. This chance encounter was to be life changing for this traumatised and semi literate street kid, when Gil took Malik under his wing and mentored him from semi-literacy to a masters degree through poetry.

Malik’s body of work from that time entitled 'Ordinary Guy' was published in 2004 under his former name 'Mark T. Watson' and dedicated to Gil, with a foreword by legendary grandfather of rap Jalal Nuriddin (The Last Poets). Jalal introduced him to Islam and named him Malik and as Malik grew to produce music and film, he recorded with both Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets, who feature on his double album 'Rhythms of the Diaspora Vols 1 & 2' by Malik & The O.G's (Mentis Records 2015).

Malik has produced and appeared in several factual documentaries with Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, Public Enemy, and many other luminaries of the spoken word and has been hand-reared by the urban griots and founders of revolutionary RAP. Gil once described Malik as his ‘protege’.

Malik started tracing his roots back through slavery over 15 years ago and has made some remarkable discoveries, which have featured on the BBC, as well as in the Times, The Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal. Malik’s pioneering research has been recognised by Sir Hilary Beckles (Chair CARICOM Comission for slavery reparations), historian David Olusoga, as well as The University of Cambridge. Malik commences a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge with a full scholarship in Oct 2020 in recognition of the significance of his life story.

Malik is writing two books, one about his life in the care system and his remarkable relationship with Gil Scott-Heron and another about his roots quest back to the slave plantations of Demerara.

Twitter / Instagram : @malikandtheogs

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/malikandtheogs/

Blog : http://malikandtheogs.blogspot.com/

Trevor Gibson

How to be Successful and Other Modern Fairytales

Trevor Gibson may be best known for his appearance in the recent film Scream For Me Sarajevo, or for the Grammy he won in 2015 for his work on "I Am Malala", or maybe even for the picture of him picking up the body of a murdered young boy during his time as a humanitarian aid worker in the Bosnian War. He almost certainly isn't known for his doctoral research in international dispute resolution at Oxford University, that he is qualified as both a barrister and a solicitor or that he once drove a truck for a living. Today he works with a number of companies, many of them in the music industry, on a diverse portfolio from Company director to independent record producer. He has recently begun work on the script for his next movie.

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