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16 minPurpose & Impact
How to Build a Career That Saves the Planet
Sian Sutherland
16 minCreative Careers
The Future of Media
James Harding
15 minConfidence & Skills
You're Allowed to Get It Wrong: Why Failure Is Not the Opposite of Progress
Kristen Davies
16 minEntrepreneurship
Being Famous Is Not the Business
Jordan Schwarzenberger
15 minConfidence & Skills
How to Ask for What You Want
Gavin Presman
16 minFuture of Work
When Machines Know Everything, What Should We Learn?
Ben Keene
14 minFuture of Work
Shaping the Future Before It Shapes Us
Baroness Martha Lane Fox
16 minConfidence & Skills
You Are Not Stuck with Who You Are
Beau Lotto
14 minConfidence & Skills
Neurodiversity, AI and Learning: How to Thrive with the Mind You Actually Have
Mahdi Shariff
16 minMoney & Life Skills
Money Is a Tool, Not a Trap
Laura Moore
18 minCreative Careers
What It Really Takes to Be a Creator
Max Fosh
15 minFuture of Work
From Gemini to Google Search: How AI Is Changing Everything
Ali Eslami
16 minPurpose & Impact
How to Turn Climate Anxiety Into Action
Clover Hogan
16 minGetting Hired
Why Curiosity Is the Ultimate Career Skill
Jeremy O’Grady
17 minPurpose & Impact
Change Starts Where You Live
Deputy Mayor Dylan Law
16 minFuture of Work
AI Is Moving Fast. Humans Still Matter Most
Kathryn Parsons MBE
23 minGetting Hired
Myth Busting with the FT
Isabel Berwick & Andrew Jack
15 minConfidence & Skills
The Life You Want Is Outside Your Comfort Zone
Tinuke Oyediran
16 minCreative Careers
How Weird Ideas Become Huge
Francesca Moody MBE
15 minConfidence & Skills
Upgrade your Creativity (get unstuck, generate ideas, think better)
David Chislett
11 minFuture of Work
Agency, AI and Human Connection
Rabin Yaghoubi
17 minEntrepreneurship
The Cheek to Ask
Sam Teale
13 minFuture of Work
Is AI Worth It? depends on What It’s Changing.
Alex Dodd
12 minEntrepreneurship
How Not to Burn Out Before You’ve Even Started
Andrew Salter
15 minEntrepreneurship
Why the Best Careers Aren’t Always Planned
Alana Macfarlane Kempner
11 minFuture of Work
Building AI that Doesn’t Go Rogue
Deni Darenberg
14 minConfidence & Skills
You Don’t Need to Know the Right People to Get Started
Duro Oye
15 minCreative Careers
The Experience Economy
Lorne Armstrong & Charlie Marshall
19 minFuture of Work
Different Minds, New Possibilities
Mahdi Shariff
12 minEntrepreneurship
The Toothbrush That Sold a Million
Mark Rushmore
44 minFuture of Work
The AI Revolution: Skills Every Young Person Needs
Mak Giordano
15 minCreative Careers
Careers Behind the Restaurant Experience
Nicholas Lander & Laura Harper-Hinton
16 minFuture of Work
Where Britain’s Future Jobs Are Being Created
Eva Barboni
41 minFuture of Work
Future Shock or Future Opportunity?
Sophie Hackford
16 minFuture of Work
Gaming to Healthcare: The Future is Immersive
Asha Easton
15 minCareer Journeys
The Future Won’t Fit in One Subject
Ed Fidoe
8 minEntrepreneurship
Starting Young and Taking the First Step
Ben Towers MBE
18 minCareer Journeys
No Degree, No Script: Building a Life on your Own Terms
Clive Burcham
29 minCareer Journeys
Tales from the Front Line: Real Career Journeys
Multiple panel guests (confirm names)
28 minFuture of Work
Tech Trends That Will Shape Your Career
Omid Ashtari
15 minPurpose & Impact
Rats, Tech and Saving Lives
Kristen Davis
15 minConfidence & Skills
The Collision Code: How to Create Your Own Luck
James Eder
13 minMoney & Life Skills
The Money Scripts we Inherit
Natasha Mahtani
18 minCreative Careers
Don’t Follow One Lane
Doc Brown
17 minEntrepreneurship
What I Look for in a Startup
Michael Acton Smith
12 minConfidence & Skills
How to Build a Network (When You Have None)
Pip Jamieson
15 minCareer Journeys
From Somali Piracy to Beauty Tech: Reinventing Yourself as a Founder
Venetia Archer
15 minCreative Careers
Inside Publishing: How Great Books Get Made
Alexandra Pringle
15 minCreative Careers
Getting Started in Documentary and Media
Sydney Lima
18 minCreative Careers
Behind the Lens at Burning Man: Turning Creativity into Career
Gerald Fox
20 minCreative Careers
Start Making Films, Not Just Plans
Maciej Żemojcin
20 minEntrepreneurship
Building Opportunity with 20/20 Levels
20/20 Levels panel (confirm names)
20 minPurpose & Impact
How to Build a Career Protecting the Wild
Ranger Daniel Hill & Julia Galbenu
16 minEntrepreneurship
Turning Teddies into a Business (and Saving the Planet)
Charlotte Liebling
46 minConfidence & Skills
Mind Your Manners (It Might Just Get You That Job)
William Hanson
14 minCreative Careers
Finding Your Voice Through Photography
Laura Pannack
15 minCreative Careers
Confessions of a Cultural Producer
Lucy Bond