Date: 29 June 2017
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Venue: Plexal, 14 East Bay Lane, The Press Centre, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London E20 3BS

Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) invites you to an evening of engaging presentations and inspired conversations. This Meetup is aimed at fashion, tech and digital creatives, UAL students, graduates and alumni as well as the wider fashion, tech, investor and media industry. The Meetup gives you a chance to:

• Interact with industry experts

• Network with fellow entrepreneurs
• Learn more about our business support programmes

Our 11th meetup focuses on storytelling and emotions. There will be speakers from different professional backgrounds who are working across storytelling, innovation, branding, marketing and emotional architecture.

The panel will discuss the power of storytelling by tapping into human emotions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND PANEL

Ishwari Thopte (panel chair)
Ishwari Thopte is the Fashion Tech Project Officer at the Centre for Fashion Enterprise and manages CFE's FashTech programmes and events. With 10+ years of experience spanning various aspects within the fashion industry, Ishwari works at the confluence of fashion, technology and digital, by creating a thriving cross-sector community in London and helping CFE lead the fashion tech revolution.

Paul Cash (speaker)
As chief rooster at Rooster Punk, Paul is passionate about helping the leaders of ambitious and visionary companies communicate their ideas and products through the power of story. Paul is an author and leading thinker on creating meaningful brands. He’s also a big believer in business as a ‘force for good’. Prior to founding Rooster Punk, Paul co-founded multi-award winning technology agency, Tidalwave.

Dr Melanie Flory (speaker)
Passionate about optimising engagement with brain plasticity, Melanie founded MindRheo. With an academic, research and clinical background in psychology and neuroscience, she builds and co-creates neuroscience-based education, coaching and consultancy programmes and products for senior executives, focus teams, entrepreneurs, creatives and women who are inspiring change through their lives and work. MindRheo’s recent highlights are the Emo-T: an emotional intelligence tool for all ages; and Storytelling that changes the brain. She hopes that her presentation will inspire you to become a more conscious storyteller.

Dean Johnson (speaker)
As an accomplished design leader, writer, presenter, BBC tech pundit and Head of Innovation at Brandwidth, Dean Johnson is shaping the connected future for Film, TV, Automotive, Publishing, Music, Education and Leisure sectors with the emphasis on user experience and engagement. Dean is a Fellow and former VP of the Chartered Society of Designers and a Mentor for the British Fashion Council and Startup Sesame. Dean is a top VR, IoT, CES, Industry 4.0 and Automotive Design Influencer and writes for numerous publications, his own blog (www.activrightbrain.com) and is the author of international #1 interactive iBook ‘Digital Publishing: The Next Steps’.

Charney Magri (speaker)
Charney Magri is an international award-winning photographer, director and author. With almost 20 years in the industry Charney’s work has seen her travel all over the world working on projects from international advertising campaigns to editorial shoots. Charney’s eureka moment was when she realised her work had more depth and volume than the weekly or monthly shelf-life she was accustomed to and decided it was time to merge her passion projects with her commercial work. Charney’s personal mission is to make ethical fashion and sustainability both aspirational and fun by applying the same techniques she’s used for previous clients such as Ralph Lauren or Louis Vuitton to name but two. Charney also aims to ensure all of her work creates positive change.