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Brendan Walker

Brendan Walker is often described as "the world's only Thrill Engineer". He originally trained as a military aeronautical engineer, before researching and teaching in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. Brendan now runs Aerial - a design practice specialising in the creation of tailored emotional experience, with clients such as The Science Museum, Merlin Entertainment, and Disneyland Paris. Brendan is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, and a regular contributor and presenter on TV.

Dr. Morgaine Gaye

Dr. Morgaine Gaye looks at food and eating from a social, cultural, economic, trend, branding and geo-political perspective. Her work involves consulting to food companies, developing new products and ideas; writing articles/ trend reports for PR and ad agencies; giving public, university and corporate lectures on specific food trends, developing new ideas for TV and doing research on all elements of the eating experience from mouth-feel to olfactory perceptions. She is currently presenting a series on CH4 called The Home of the Future.