Leonardo at 500: From Mona Lisa to Mars

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LEONARDO at 500

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s legacy, Codex will be organising a series of special events for a range of audiences.

To launch the Leonardo at 500 series, Codex is particularly proud to partner with Cognizant for this special event, at which we will host young people specially invited by the Social Mobility Foundation. The aim is to instil in these young people the confidence and the courage to think differently and envision how radically their world of work will evolve during their careers.

The audience of sixth formers and undergraduates will be inspired by the wisdom of today’s great thinkers, innovators and educators. This will be done through Codex Talks, which are concise presentations, lasting 15 minutes (or less), in which the speaker addresses a challenging question faced by their technology or industry today and ends with a bold prediction for the future.

Codex Talks are engaging, entertaining and elucidating. They give the audience something they can walk away with: valuable insights, fresh perspectives, and renewed optimism.

Click here to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci’s expansive vision and unparalleled skills in bridging art, science and technology

ACCESS TO THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY

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Cognizant, 1 Kingdom Street, Paddington, London W2 6BD

03 October 2018

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Schedule

6:00 pm 6:30 am Registration and Drinks

6:30 pm 7:30 pm Leonardo at 500: Codex Talks

Dame Helena Morrissey DBE, Head of Personal Investments, Legal & General Investment Management
Diversity and innovation: Does it pay to be different?

Euan Davis, Vice President, Cognizant
What will you do when machines do everything?

Professor David Berman, Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London
How Creative is Science?

Dr. Steven Banham, Imperial College London, NASA Mars Science Mission
How will we find life on Mars and when?

7:30 pm 8:00 pm Panel Discussion and Q & A

8:00 pm 9:00 pm Drinks Reception

Speakers

Dame Helena Morrissey
Head of Personal Investments, Legal & General Investment Management

Helena is well known for her work on gender equality. She founded the 30% Club, a campaign for more gender-balanced boards in 2010. Since then, the representation of women on FTSE100 boards has risen from 12.5% to 28.9% and there are now ten 30% Clubs throughout the world. Helena chairs Business in the Community’s Gender Equality campaign, which has recently canvassed the views of working fathers through its Equal Lives survey.

Helena was CEO of Newton Investment Management for fifteen years, taking its assets under management from £20bn to £50bn. She joined Legal and General Investment Management in 2017, leading a new drive to engage the nation to invest more, with a particular focus on improving women’s financial wellbeing.

Helena has been named one of Fortune magazine’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders and the Financial Times’ 2017 ‘Person of the Year’. She was appointed a Dame in the Queen’s 2017 Birthday Honours list.

Helena is a Philosophy graduate. Her husband Richard is a stay at home father and they have nine children, aged from 9 to 26. Her first book ‘A Good Time to be a Girl, Don’t Lean In, Change the System’ was published by William Collins in February 2018.
Euan Davis
Vice President, Cognizant

Euan Davis is an Associate Vice President at Cognizant Technology Solutions. In this capacity, Euan leads the Center for the Future Work in Europe. The Center’s mandate examines how work is changing in response to the emergence of new technologies, new business practices and new ways of working.

Euan joined Cognizant in 2013 bringing over 20 years experience in the ICT industry. Prior to joining Cognizant, Euan held senior analyst, advisory and leadership positions at Forrester Research, IDC and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB).

A respected speaker and thinker, Euan has guided many Fortune 500 firms into the dynamics surrounding business and technology with his thought provoking research and advisory skills. In his role for Cognizant, Euan ensures that the Center provides original research and analysis into the work trends and dynamics playing out in Europe and collaborates with a wide range of business and technology thinkers to understand how the future of work will look. He graduated from Portsmouth University.
Professor David Berman
School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London

David Berman is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy in Queen Mary, University of London. His main research interests are in M-theory, String Theory and the nature of quantum gravity, combining relativity with quantum theory.

He is also the director for cultural outreach for the physics department and has built up an extensive portfolio of activities around the interface of art and physics, as well as being an active collaborator on various art projects with well known artists.
Dr. Steven Banham
Imperial College London, NASA Mars Science Mission

Steven Banham is a sedimentologist and planetary geologist. Originally trained as a geologist, he spent 6 months working in the deserts of Utah to understand how ancient river systems were preserved in the rock record, and how similar systems could host oil reservoirs in the North Sea. After a period with the British Geological Survey, mapping oil reserves within the UKCS, Steven moved to Imperial College to pursue research in Mars’ ancient sedimentary environments.

As a collaborating scientist on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover mission, he analyses images taken by the roverCuriosity to reconstruct the processes and environments that were present on mars, to determine whether conditions were suitable to support life.

Currently, he is funded by the UK Space Agency as a Research Fellow.

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