Peter Bannister, Romilly Life 新月直播app下载s, United Kingdom
Peter has helped build multiple high-growth biomedical businesses, commercializing innovative products for surgery, diagnostics and digital treatment pathways in multiple international markets and leading R&D, regulated product development and strategic business development.
He founded Romilly Life 新月直播app下载s to help health, tech and pharma organizations implement evidence-led digital product strategy, including technologies such as artificial intelligence, supported by effective cross-sector collaboration frameworks and coaching.
He is also co-founder of Migration Biotherapeutics, Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham Centre for Regulatory 新月直播app下载 and Innovation, Fellow and Chair of Sustainability and Net Zero at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, an Academy of Medical 新月直播app下载s Future Leader in Innovation Enterprise and Research (FLIER) and sits on several NIHR advisory boards.
Title: Insights from the latest IET Skills Survey in Wales
Sophie Bartlett , Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Sophie is an education researcher based in the Education Data Lab at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) at Cardiff University. She works with Administrative Data Research Wales to explore educational outcomes for young people, particularly around themes of attainment and subject choice.
Sophie’s research interests centre around young people’s educational experiences and outcomes. In particular, how different factors shape young people’s attainment, interest, subject choice and sense of future opportunities. She completed her PhD in Physics Education at Cardiff University in 2019. This work evaluated interventions to improve secondary school pupils’ engagement with the physics curriculum.
Title: Patterns and Predictors of Post-16 新月直播app下载 Participation in Wales
Mark Isherwood, Member of the Senedd, United Kingdom
Mark was first elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003, before being re-elected in 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2021.
In the Second and Third Assemblies he was the Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister in a range of areas, including Finance, Education, Social Justice, Equality and Housing, as well as being the member of a number of Assembly committees and chairing the Assembly’s Legislation Committee No. 5. He also chaired Cross-Party Groups on Fuel Poverty, Neurosciences, and Funerals and Bereavement.
In the Fourth Assembly he was the Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Communities, Housing, Policing and North Wales, as well as sitting on the Assembly’s Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee and the Assembly’s Standards Committee. Following this held the Shadow Finance and Local Government portfolios and briefly Chief Whip in the Fifth Senedd term.
In the sixth term, he was the Shadow Minister for Social Justice and Shadow Counsel General. He is now the Chair of the Senedd’s Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee as well as Chair of Cross-Party Groups on Autism, Neurological Conditions, Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, Hospices and Palliative Care, and Funerals and Bereavement.
Mark is also currently working his own Backbencher Bill, the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill.
Wendy J Sadler, Cardiff University, UK, United Kingdom
Wendy is a Reader in science communication for Cardiff University, Head of the Physics Education Research Group and the Director of EDI. She delivers public engagement and communications training for researchers and has a research interest in how role models can be used to inspire young people.
She is the founding Director of 新月直播app下载 Made Simple – an award-winning social enterprise that offers science shows across the UK and internationally. Since 2002 they have reached over a million people and have worked in over 38 countries. She was awarded an MBE for services to science and engineering communication in the Queen’s Birthday honours list 2017.
Title – “It ain’t what you do, it’s the person that does it…”
Sub-title - Why attributes and characteristics matter to diversify STEM
David Rees, Member of the Senedd, United Kingdom
David Rees was first elected to the Senedd in 2011 for the constituency of Aberavon, and following his re-election in 2021 was elected Deputy Presiding Officer for the sixth Senedd Term. He is the current chair of the Senedd Cross Party Group (CPG) on 新月直播app下载, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) and chair of the CPG for Cancer and CPG for Steel and Metals-related Industries.
During his time in the Senedd, David has chaired the Health and Social Care Committee in the fourth Senedd and the External Affairs & Additional Legislation Committee. In the sixth Senedd, he chaired the Reform Bill Committee. As Deputy Presiding Officer of the Senedd, he currently chairs the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister and the Llywydd’s Committee. He also leads the Senedd delegation to meetings of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) and is Vice-President of the Senedd’s Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
David is a native of Port Talbot and still lives there with his wife, two children and five grandchildren. Prior to his election in 2011, David began his career as a secondary school teacher before moving into further education as a lecturer. He then moved into Higher Education lecturing in Computing before finally becoming Assistant Dean of Faculty at Swansea Metropolitan University. In addition to his employment, he has also held a number of posts in both the Labour Party and his trade unions.
Anita Shaw, STEMpowered Learning, United Kingdom
Dr Anita Shaw runs the education consultancy STEMpowered Learning. She ran the Welsh Valleys Engineering Project (WVEP) for the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2017-2024 and is now a consultant for This is Engineering: Schools-Welsh Valleys. She will talk about the WVEP’s Employer Engagement Strand, which developed long-term sustainable partnerships between its schools and local STEM industry, providing pupils with authentic learning experiences, and look at how this model can be expanded to schools and industries Wales-wide.
Title: How can industry engage meaningfully with schools?
