Speakers

Indy Johar

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Co-Founder 00:/ and Young Foundation Senior Innovation Associate,
 Indy is an architect, and institutional innovator. He, on behalf of 00:/, has co-founded multiple social ventures from HubWestminster.net to the up coming HubLaunchpad.net [A £4m Open Venture Accelerator] and has also co-led research projects such as The Compendium for the Civic Economy, whilst supporting several 00:/ explorations/experiments including the wikihouse.cc, opendesk.cc.


Indy is a Director of Data Science London and an Advisor to the Earth Security Initiative.

Indy was Director of the Impact Hub Association and Impact Hub Islington [the original Hub in the Hub Network] and worked Jonathan Robinson to design the protocols and modes of the network scaling. Indy is a Director of DataScienceLondon and an Advisor to the Earth Security Initiative.

Indy in collaboration with the Young Foundation is co-founding a new Applied Research, Design and Prototyping Centre focused on the development of new 21st Institutions and information architectures. The centre is currently working on the series of institutional start ups and research networks from the Polytechnic of the future to Next Gen Corporate organisation for Social Innovation.

Indy has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; Architectural Association, University College London, Princeton. He has given lectures and led discussions on various issues, including how strategic design meets policy and a new economy in various forums from Demos, Centre of Social Justice, Helsinki Design Lab, European Parliament, LSE, Royal Academy, Royal Society of the Arts and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He has written for many national and international journals on the future of design, social systems and venturing. 

Indy is a Fellow of the RSA, Demos Associate, Respublica Fellow, JRF Anti-Poverty Strategy Programme Advisory Group member and a member of the Mayor of London’s SME Working Group.