Details:

Date: Thursday 16 September, 2021
Location: Embankment Pier, London

Schedule:

18:00: Arrivals & welcome drink
19:00: Interactive art experience
19:30: Booths open and Thames Cruise*
21:00: End of cruise
22:00: After party at the Pier Bar & Lounge (self-funded)

* Please note it will not be possible to disembark until the boat redocks at Embankment Pier.

Deck plan:
View deck plans
Take a 3D tour of the boat

Deck plan:
View deck plans
Take a 3D tour of the boat

Bar:
What’s a trip down the Thames without a glass of bubbly. Go ahead—it’s on us.

Booths

We hosted a dazzling Originals-style selection of interactive booths and activities to jumpstart thinking and engaging in new ways.

EV8 Switch
Booth 1

EV8 Switch is a ground-breaking sustainability app on a mission to simplify going electric. It provides businesses and consumers with the facts they need to make informed decisions on making the transition from petrol/diesel vehicles to EV.

Find out if switching to an electric vehicle is right for you.

Website | Contact: Chris Berry

Softools
Booth 2

Build fit-for-purpose applications—without coding. Learn in hours. Build in minutes. Deploy instantly.

You probably have a business process that’s causing you pain. Whether this process lives in Excel, on paper, or within a legacy system, any problem process can be tamed and turned into a Softools App.

Softools is an advanced web-application platform that replaces thousands of legacy and Excel-based applications with out-of-the-box solutions that are secure, scalable, device agnostic, and interoperable. The platform operates with zero code and enables subject matter experts to deliver business process applications at speed.

Website | Contact: Vipul Lakhani

Craig Black
Booth 3

Craig Black is a Scottish artist and independent designer specializing in typography and lettering.

His work has been celebrated and exhibited across the world from London and New York to Sydney and Dubai. He is also known across the public-speaking circuit, at conferences and creative events around the world, for sharing his inspirational creative journey.

Craig created a striking acrylic fusion mural while talking through hot-topic NFTs (non-fungible tokens) with our guests.

Visit site | Contact: Craig Black

Bees & Refugees
Booth 4

Bees & Refugees was founded in 2020 by Ali Alzein, to support newly settled refugees in London. Bees & Refugees is an environmental conservation organization that introduces beekeeping as a craft and therapy to refugee and local communities in London, while helping the UK’s native black bee population grow and flourish after near extinction.

Attendees got to taste homemade honey in the company of a hard-working bee colony.

Website | Contact: Ali Alzein

Notpla / Ooho
Booth 5

Notpla is a sustainable packaging start-up creating seaweed-based packaging solutions.

Most people don’t know that 50 percent of plastic packaging is used once and then thrown away. Notpla’s revolutionary material biodegrades naturally in 4 to 6 weeks. No micro-plastics, no waste for centuries, and unlike PLA, it’s home compostable and doesn’t contaminate PET recycling

Guests were treated to Ooho cocktail capsules.

Website

VR headset station
Booth 6

VR has taken the world by storm. It’s used in industries like design, healthcare, defense, and gaming. But have you had the opportunity to experience it?

Grab the chance to immerse yourself with some of our VR headsets.

Lego table
Booth 7

"LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination." – Ayah Bdeir

As children, with no worries, boundaries, or deadlines, the sky’s the limit for our creativity. As we grow older, and with more daily pressures, we tend to sideline our imagination.

Re-open that creative box and let your originality fly free.