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Introducing…….

The UpRising Reunion

Saturday 13 June 2015 – The UpRising Reunion

The details you need to know This one day event will inspire you to change your world. Come and learn from the best, hear from the inspiring, and develop your UpRising networks for life! Date Saturday 13 June 2015 Time 10.30 – 17.30pm (optional social following the event) Location Queen Mary University, Bancroft Building, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS Transport If you are travelling from outside of London let us know when you sign up on Eventbrite (there’s a box to click). Your local UpRising team will be in touch with details of transport there and back on the day. Coaches or train s will be arranged. How to get there if you are travelling from London Closest tube – Mile End Map of the building location here Tickets You need to sign up via our Eventbrite page to register for this event. Tickets are FREE but you can make a donation if you wish to. No need to bring your ticket on the day, we will have your name on the guestlist. Tickets available here

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The agenda 10.30-11.30 Title ‘Hello again, what are up to nowerdays? Ain’t seen you in ages!’

Detail - Registration. Morning drinks and snacks. Networking

11.30-11.45 Title ‘Introducing The UpRising Reunion’

Detail – Welcome to The UpRising Reunion. What being part of this group of

people means and the potential of the network being a force for change.

Guest speaker – UpRising Chair, Rushanara Ali

11.45-12.05 Title ‘Young leaders stand up! What the UK needs from you now’

Detail – Rohan talks about his own journey to success and different approaches

to innovative leadership.

Guest speaker – Rohan Silva


12.05-12.30 Title ‘UpRising alumni are already changing the world’

All UpRisers know how social action campaigns work. Here you will hear from

one of those campaigns that has gone from strength to strength, positivity

changing the world around them.

12.30-13.25 Lunch

Detail – there will be suggested topics of discussion at the lunch space and an

opportunity to network with fellow UpRisers and guest speakers.

13.25-14.15 Title ‘Introducing THE WORKSHOPS!’

You will be invited to attend the following workshops

Title ‘Talk like TED’ – sharing the skill of sophisticated public speaking. Richard

Newman

Title ‘Walk the talk’ – how to sculpt your personal brand. Nick Morgan

Title ‘Play like an expert’ – using your creativity to innovate. Yesim Kunter

Title ‘How to start your start up’ – taking an idea through to implementation.

Laurie Wiseman


14.15–14.30 Break

Drinks and snacks provided

14.30-14.55 Title ‘Why the corporate world needs diverse talent?’

Detail - Law firm – Mayer Brown (and sponsors of The UpRising Reunion)

introduce the concept of ‘The Blind CV’ and what this means for scouting

diverse talent.

Guest speaker – Stuart Pickford





15.10-16.00 Title ‘Convincing the world to listen to you’

You will be invited to attend the following workshops

Title ‘Professional debating and negotiating’ – how to make the most of your

discussions with others. A selection of politicians from different parties will

share their insight


Title ‘Hogwarts for campaigners’ – learn how to run a success campaign.

Genevieve Watson





16.30-17.00 Title ‘A different type of leadership’

Detail – What does leadership mean outside of the conventional sectors?

Moving with the times.

Guest speaker – (tbc)

17.00-17.20 Title ‘What’s next…..’

UpRising CEO will debate with the group how best to utilise UpRisers past and

present to collectively be a mighty force across the UK.

17.20-17.30 Thank you’s


Introducing our special guests

With more to be announced

Special guest speaker:

Rohan Silva

Rohan Silva is the co-founder of Second Home,

the world's most iconic working environment for

creative companies.

Rohan was previously Senior Policy Adviser to

the British Prime Minister, where he developed

some of the UK's key enterprise policies, such as

the Seed EIS tax break, Entrepreneur Relief and

Entrepreneur Visas. In addition, Rohan created the Government's 'Tech City' initiative to

support the growth of the technology cluster in East London.

Rohan was named a World Economic Forum 'Young Global Leader' in 2014, and is also

Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


Our Sponsors:

Stuart Pickford: Mayer Brown

Stuart is a partner in the London office of Mayer Brown's

Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. He handles a

variety of contractual and other commercial disputes,

including pension and other trust disputes, professional

negligence claims, shareholder disputes and warranty

claims. Stuart is joint head of the firm's Pensions Litigation

practice in London and has been involved in some of the

largest cases of recent years.

Stuart joined Mayer Brown in 1996 and was made partner in 2008. Consistently ranked as a

key individual by the legal directories, he "is calm, methodical and completely

trustworthy" (Chambers UK 2014); sources are impressed by him being "extremely

efficient". He has been at the "sharp end of litigation and was technically very strong,"

commented one source, while another stated: "He made it easy and straightforward for us

to face the matter and to make decisions." (Chambers UK 2013).


Workshops:

Talk Like Ted - Richard Newman, Director of UK Body Talk Ltd & Body Language

Richard has been working with advanced communication skills since 1995,

as a trainer, presenter and coach. He specialises in advanced presentation

skills, pitch coaching and speech writing

In the past few years Body Talk have helped clients gain an additional £1.6

billion of business, through specialist presentation coaching and sales pitch

writing and rehearsal.

Body Talk have trained over 25,000 people, from 45 countries, across Europe, America,

Australia and the Middle East. They have over 100 corporate clients, including many of the

FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 Companies, along with London Business School, the UK

Parliament and international celebrities.

Richard has recently been featured on SKY TV, BBC Radio, Channel 5 News and in Forbes

Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, regular articles for the Huffington Post and

on radio in Washington DC, California and Ireland. His book, The ‘It’ Factor, has recently

been published.


Walk the Talk - Nick Morgan, Group

CEO: Big Cat

Nick is the co-founder and Group CEO of

Big Cat Group. He has been involved in

the industry for over 16 years, and has

particular experience in producing large

scale events and health and safety

management for events. Beginning with creating some of the Midlands biggest nationally

recognised club nights in the nineties, Nick and co-founder Anthony Tattum then created

Big Cat - which now boasts four departments delivering Events, Marketing, Creative Design

and Public Relations for its UK client base, providing them and their customers with

amazing experiences. Big Cat are currently working with brands such Secret Cinema,

MAMA & Company and Holi One World Festivals

Nick is passionate about brand amplification through the live space and believes it offers an

often overlooked additional revenue stream. His passion, knowledge and experience, as

well as meticulous attention to detail, has firmly placed Nick at the forefront of the industry

bringing him recognition not just among his peers but through winning various awards -

recently including 42 under 42 list, International Entrepreneur of the Year and part of the

Event 100 Club.


Play Like and Expert - Yesim Kunter, Play Expert & Futurist

Yesim Kunterh describes herself as a "Play Expert, Futurist,

Designer.... A Curious Brain and an Explorer...". After growing

up in Turkey, she has travelled the world in her pursuit of

exploring how human behaviour and product design interlink,

how imagination and play can lead to brilliant creations.

Having worked with FIT, Toys R Us and Lego, Yesim moved to London to work as a Futurist,

exploring the unknown, finding new meanings and creating new experiences and

translating that knowledge into concrete ideas. She now works at her consultancy Play to

Innovate, running workshops and speaking at conferences to demonstrate how play can be

a powerful learning tool.

State of the Nation: Social Action - Emily Dyson, Special Projects and Business

Engagement Adviser Step Up to Serve

Emily is an Advisor to the Step Up To Serve. #iwill is a national campaign that aims to make

social action part of life for as many 10 to 20 year-olds as possible by the year 2020.

Through collaboration and partnership it is spreading the word about the benefits of youth

social action, working to embed it in the journey of young people and creating fresh

opportunities for the participation. Emily has also worked as a Briefing Coordinator to the

Deputy Prime Minister and as a Project Manager for the Ministry of Defence.


Start Up Session - Laurie Wiseman, CEO East London Small Business

Centre

Laurie is responsible for the overall management and strategy at East

London Small Business Centre. Having joined ELSBC in 2014, he

oversees all the major functions at the Centre and focuses on both

contract winning and delivery. An entrepreneur himself, Laurie set up

both a TV production company and a world-leading digital publishing business, Primal

Pictures, from scratch – selling the latter in 2012 to Informa plc. His interest is in start-ups –

the pitfalls and the joys – and brings direct experience of initiating business ideas, especially

in the creative sector, and building long term profitable enterprises.

Hogwarts for Campaigners - Genevieve Dawson, Programme

Manager Campaign Bootcamp

Genevieve is the programme manager at Campaign Bootcamp. Prior

to joining the Bootcamp team she designed the Great

Men project which aims to empower boys and men to challenge

negative gender stereotypes. She campaigns with feminist, anti-

austerity and climate groups in London. When she's not talking to Bootcampers about their

troublemaking plans she's to be found singer-songwritering around Brixton.

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The UpRising Team:

Rushanara Ali MP – UpRising Chair of

Trustees

Rushanara Ali is the Labour Member of

Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow and

the UpRising Chair of Trustees. She grew up in

her constituency attending Mulberry school

and Tower Hamlets College. She was the first

in her family to go to University and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford

University. Until her resignation from Labour’s front bench in September 2014 over her

decision to abstain on the vote on airstrikes in Iraq, Rushanara served as Shadow Minister

for Education and Young People, and between October 2010 and October 2013, as Shadow

Minister for International Development. From November 2014 until the 2015 General

Election, Rushanara served as a member of the Treasury Select Committee.

Prior to her election in May 2010, she was Associate Director of the Young Foundation,

where she co-founded UpRising a national leadership development and employability

charity which has helped thousands of young people develop their campaigning and

leadership skills; she also co-founded the Social Innovation Exchange social which works to

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connect innovators and social entrepreneurs around the world to collaborate to tackle

major social problems. Rushanara also worked at the Communities Directorate of the

Home Office leading a programme of work to support local areas following the 2001 riots in

Bradford, Burnley and Oldham; at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where she helped

establish what became the Forced Marriage Unit; as a Research Fellow at the Institute for

Public Policy Research (1999-2002) working on anti-discrimination issues, and as

Parliamentary Assistant for Oona King, former MP for Bethnal Green & Bow (1997-1999).

She has also worked as the Research Assistant to Lord Young of Dartington (author of the

1945 Labour Party manifesto), helping him to set up Language Line, a national telephone

interpreting company and Futureversity, a youth charity which has helped over a 100,000

young people – raising aspirations, cutting youth crime and getting them into work. She

has previously served as a Commissioner on the London Child Poverty Commission; a board

member of Tower Hamlets College; a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation; a member of

the Tate Britain Council and a member of the Home Office Working Group on Preventing

Extremism established after the 7/7 London bombings.

Alice Memminger – CEO UpRising

Alice Memminger is the Chief Executive of UpRising, a UK wide youth leadership development organisation. Alice has been working in the third sector as a consultant and senior manager for the past nine years with a wide variety of charities across the country. She joined UpRising from Sue Ryder, where she worked

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as Head of Strategic Planning and Programme Delivery. Other recent roles include Head of Planning and Performance for Parkinson's UK, Managing Director of Hammersmith and Fulham Circle and Head of Trading and Social Enterprise for Age UK Barking and Dagenham.

Alice has developed extensive experience and expertise whilst working with Boards and Senior Leadership Teams, gaining a strong reputation for transformative strategic plans and driving through ambitious change programmes. Known for achieving successful outcomes through effectively facilitating authentic strategic dialogue and challenging discussions, she has a proven track record of approaching her work with tenacity while inspiring and energising those involved in the process.

She is a Trustee for Age UK Islington and Reach Volunteering as well as a Director for Creative Lifestyles CIC in East London.

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors. This event has been made possible by

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