ROSS KEMP
TV Personality, Author and Adventurer
ANDY TORBET
TV Personality, Author, Adventurer and Technical Diver
ALEX MUSTARD
UPY Awards 2023
PATRICK WIDMANN
Technical Diver and Adventurer
CRISTINA ZENATO
Shark Conservationist
LIZ PARKINSON
Stunt Performer
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Patrick Widmann (Expeditions around the world)
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
Andy Torbet and Chris Jewell (Cave diving and exploration)
12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
Liz Parkinson (Hollywood stunt performer, freediver and shark wrangler)
1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Ross Kemp (TV presenter, award-winning film-maker, actor)
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm
Cristina Zenato (‘Mother of Sharks’ and cave explorer)
3.30 pm – 5 pm
Alex Mustard (Underwater Photographer of the Year winners presentation)
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Liz Parkinson (Hollywood stunt performer, freediver and shark wrangler)
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
Ross Kemp (TV presenter, award-winning film-maker, actor)
12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
Cristina Zenato (‘Mother of Sharks’ and cave explorer)
1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Patrick Widmann (Expeditions around the world)
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm
Natalie Hewit (Finding Shackleton’s Endurance)
3.30pm-4pm
Dan ‘Wheelsdan’ Metcalfe (Q&A with paralysed three-times world record holder)
10.45 am – 11.30 am
TECHNICAL DIVING
John Kendall (Archaeology in the dark – Digital mapping in
flooded caves)
11.45 am – 12.30 pm
UK DIVING
Tim Clements (What happened to early-season diving in Scotland?)
12.45 pm – 1.30 pm
BRITISH ISLES TECH
Vic Verlinden (Diving the Lusitania)
1.45 pm – 2.30 pm
UK DIVING
Sally Cartwright (DCI denial, why you shouldn’t avoid symptoms)
2.45 pm – 3.30 pm
TECHNICAL DIVING
Lanny Vogel (HMS Bounty – the challenges of remote diving expeditions)
3.45 pm – 4.30 pm
UK DIVING
Clare Dutton (Building a business in the dive industry)
10.45 am – 11.30 am
UK DIVING
Leigh Bishop (Great British wrecks)
11.45 am – 12.30 pm
TECHNICAL DIVING
Rannva Trofrio Jormundsson (Expedition Buteng)
12.45 pm – 1.30 pm
UK DIVING
Oli Van Overbeek (Life after COVID – the changing face of UK diving
1.45 pm – 2.30 pm
TECHNICAL DIVING
Tiffany Norberg (Mine diving in Sweden)
2.45 pm – 3.30 pm
UK DIVING
Roisin Maddison (The challenges of shooting photographs in UK waters)
10.30 am – 11.15 am
PHOTOGRAPHY
Byron Conroy (Underwater photography in Iceland – it’s not just Silfra!)
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Donovan Lewis (The challenges of photographing sharks)
12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Stuart Philpott (Underwater photography in the Maldives)
1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
INSPIRATION
Tiffany Geer (Shipwrecks of Grenada)
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lawson Wood (Starting out – and when should I edit?)
3.30 pm – 4.15 pm
INSPIRATION
Nick Lyon (The Hannah Brookes Lecture – Celebrating the fun in diving)
10.30 am – 11.15 am
INSPIRATION
Paul Toomer (What to look for in a dive centre)
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Anne and Phil Medcalf (The Peaks and Pitfalls of Learning Underwater Photography)
12.30 pm – 1.15 pm
INSPIRATION
Jake Davies (Sharks off the Welsh coast)
1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Stuart Philpott (Shooting wrecks in Cyprus)
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm
INSPIRATION
Grace Westgarth and Rada Pandeva (World Ocean Day)
