Royal Society of Arts

But in the boardroom...

W- um, I, I went to event with the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce locally here yesterday.

In 2004, I did a lot of work with them.

They, they were an organization that was set up in a coffee house in Covent Garden in 1754.

I was listening to the co-founder of DeepMind speak the other day, and he said a couple of things that I think are really interesting.

And you can check out the conversation actually on the Royal Society of Arts website on the YouTube channel in conversation with Hannah Fry, who's absolutely brilliant.

But he said a couple of things.

One, if you are prepared to predict what's happening next, you're either lying or you have a vested interest in what happens next.

If anybody listening wants to know how to connect with you or reach out to you, what's the best way?

Find me on LinkedIn and say hello.

And if you're in the London area, I'm hanging out at the Royal Society of Arts a few days a week.

I'm normally up for an interesting coffee with an interesting beer.

Yeah.

So I ran for four and a half, five years, the Royal Society of Arts, the charity of longstanding, not quite as old as the Bank of England, but still cracking on.

And that did give me, you know, running it at the front line, which means fundraising at the front line.

As you know, a fully absorbing activities is for all charities.

Yeah.

I was at a lecture last week at the Royal Society of Arts that Chris Whitty, the CMO, gave.

It was titled Risk, Uncertainty and Medical Decision Making.

And he was talking about AI and he said there's two sides to this because it's an audience of clinicians.

I knew I wasn't good enough to get there, but I thought that's my target.

So I did a RSA, which is Royal Society of Arts competition, and did this brief, which was design museum.

So I did a science museum, did a logo, and the packaging, and all the packaging were pieces of experiments.

So you had like – boil water in a paper bag paper bag that you can't fold more than seven times because it's impossible yeah it comes like wood yeah the poster tube is a periscope and then uh there was one that's like a hot air balloon and that got some publicity for me yeah and did well so

So you eclipse us in terms of longevity.

But I'm sorry, Cameron, we're both trumped by the Royal Society of Arts, which this building dates back to 1754, which is quite remarkable.

So it's 272 years old.

Founding fellows included Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin.