Who’s Involved:

ThinkNation Team and Advisors

From rappers to hackers, meet ThinkNation Team and Advisory Board.

Mentors & Participants ThinkNation Team and Advisors

Team

Lizzie Hodgson

ThinkNation Founder & Director

@lizziehodgson01

Seamus Smyth

ThinkNation Director

@seamus2021

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Karolina Brongiel

Operations & Relaionships

@lola_smiling

Lizzie Hodgson

ThinkNation Founder & Director

@lizziehodgson01 LinkedIn https://www.thinknation.co

With a background in tech startups, innovation and comms, Lizzie has extensive experience in connecting diverse audiences. As Director and Founder of ThinkNation, she focuses on how emerging and present technology impacts on young people. While building reach through partnerships, her drive is to ensure the experiences shared by young people through ThinkNation are heard and acted on.

Seamus Smyth

ThinkNation Director

@seamus2021 LinkedIn

Heading up ThinkNation's strategy, Seamus has a background in innovation and a talent for often unconventional, but razor-sharp thinking. He previously led and created the global search and analytic platform for Shell International Oil Company, running their worldwide internet innovation practice.

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Karolina Brongiel

Operations & Relaionships

@lola_smiling LinkedIn

Karolina has an enviable mix of commercial and not-for-profit experience. With a background in marketing and public relations in Arts, business development and account management, she streamlines ThinkNation processes, bringing her project management and relationship building expertise to our growing list of projects and clients.

Advisory Board

Jake Davis

Head of Hacking, SpyScape

@DoubleJake

Tracy Green

Delivering digital in the public sector

@greentrac

Brandon Relph

Leading global youth marketer

@BrandonRelph

Envy

Musician, performer and youth worker

@envysays

Ameenah Begum

Product Design Student

Professor Ruth Blakeley

Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield

@ruthblakeley

Jake Davis

Head of Hacking, SpyScape

@DoubleJake https://spyscape.com/

Jake Davis is Head of Hacking at SpyScape, NYC. Previously a member of Anonymous, Jake is a writer, speaker and global consultant on security, internet culture and privacy. He has consulted across film, television, theatre, radio and the wider security sector.

Tracy Green

Delivering digital in the public sector

@greentrac LinkedIn

With 16+ years delivering digital, Tracy led on the adoption of digital diplomacy in the FCO and was part of the team that established the Parliamentary Digital Service. She set up Accountability Hack, and then Exploring Digital to make Parliament more effective. She also helped launch the Digital Nations Group. In 2016 she was listed in British Interactive Media Association’s (BIMA) Hot 100.

Brandon Relph

Leading global youth marketer

@BrandonRelph http://www.brandonrelph.com/

At just 17, Brandon is one of the world’s leading youth marketers and youngest CEOs and has appeared in Rolling Stone, the LAD Bible and Vogue. Employing over 30 people across the globe, running a marketing company and international Minecraft Design Studio with clients including Tesla and Microsoft, Brandon is also a world-renowned speaker.

Envy

Musician, performer and youth worker

@envysays

Envy is a passionate musician, performer and youth worker helping pioneer Manchester’s grime/hip hop scene. She’s played festivals including BBC’s Big Weekend. Presently host of Manchester’s Unity Radio’s Saturday morning show, her track ‘Normal’ was used on the soundtrack to Adidas "Creating Chaos" global football campaign.

Ameenah Begum

Product Design Student

Undergraduate student studying Product Design at the University of Sussex, Ameenah got her industrial placement year with ENGIE UK in Product Development within the Central Innovation Team after participating in a ThinkNation event.

Professor Ruth Blakeley

Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield

@ruthblakeley https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic/ruth-blakeley/profile

Ruth Blakeley is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on US and UK foreign policy, state violence and human rights. She is director of The Rendition Project, which shed unprecedented light on the CIA’s secret programme for the illegal detention and torture of terror suspects.

“Hackers are guardians of our humanity and our freedoms”

Talks | 29 Mar 2017 | 10:33