Announcing our guest speakers for Academic Archers 2020.
DumTeeDum’s hilarious Lucy V Freeman (Lucy has been listed in Huffington Post's 'Funny Women to Watch') joins us as our Saturday night after-dinner speaker; and at our Museum of English Rural Life welcome reception on the Friday, we are joined by Ben Scott-Robinson, of The Small Robot Company, with a lost pitch to the Ambridge Conversation Trust selection committee.
The Friday welcome reception has sold out, but there are still tickets for the ‘formal-ish’ dinner – and if you have heard Lucy’s Ambridge monologues, you know we are in for a treat. We say ‘formal-ish’ as you are welcome to come dressed for The B@Ambridge, to Lower Loxley Orangery, to a plate of oven chips with Johnny -and after dinner speech from Lucy V Freeman.
University of Reading’s Whiteknights campus (which contains the Cedars hotel, the Meadow suite and the Park House bar. Pre-dinner drinks, Park House Bar, from 6 pm, for 7.30 pm seating.
Tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/academicarchers
More on Lucy:
Lucy is co-founder and presenter of DumteeDum, the Archers podcast which has recently been Top Ten in iTunes. She is a comedy writer and actor and writes for the BBC and corporate clients including: Radio 4, BBC Earth, StoryWorks, Shell, Ballou PR, Weber Shandwick, PayPal, BT and Network Rail. Lucy has worked on BBC local radio, written and presented on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service as well as being a freelance journalist on The Times 'Body & Soul' section, The Guardian 'Family' section and Discovery magazine and been a contributor to BBC Woman's Hour, Sky One to Three, BBC 5 Live and BBC Breakfast News.
More on The Small Robot Company:
The Small Robot company is revolutionising farming with an easy, low-cost, leasing service of autonomous, precision agri-robotics for a healthier, more efficient and sustainable future. This ‘Farming as a Service’ end-to-end system is designed to increase crop yields, accelerate food automation, preserve soil condition and provide a step change in productivity, accelerating the pace towards automation in the farming industry. Its team brings together pioneers and leaders in their fields of agriculture, engineering, machine learning and engineering. Gathering over 15 years of academic research in agri-robotics and 20 years of service design experience we will help farmers to continue to feed our population in a sustainable and smart way.