 LIWSF is a two-week science enrichment programme with plenary lectures from leading scientists invited from across the globe. Many of our scientists are leaders of national or international science organisations and research institutes created by Nobel laureates and leading academics to come and address our students in a wide range of STEM fields. The forum itself gives you the opportunity to take part in that whole change and engage with people. The more we interact and the more global we become the easier it is for us to address global issues. The technology of the future is just going to get more and more like that. You know, buildings, roads, cars, it's all about integrating people's expertise as a team and working as a team to make the technology of the future. My gut feeling is I'm sure there would be better engagement across the sciences with everybody if people realised how much they themselves are part of the scientific world and how much they have to offer. There was a competition in South Africa and the top group from that competition got to come to London sponsored by some of the local companies. And so it was this extraordinary mind-altering, eye-opening experience meeting kids from all over the world who had similar interests, similar backgrounds. Even though we came from such completely different cultures we had this love of science that brought us together. Let's not forget, we talk about going to these alien planets to go to live. Probably there is no Planet B. This is the one we live on and this is the one which young scientists I hope can help us fix because it's pretty broken at the moment and go on to a better future where maybe we can actually go to other planets.