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Dr. Shini Somara

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Shini is an award-winning host, reporter, commentator & speaker of live in-person and virtual events.
July 2022 MC at Aerospace Global Forum, Farnborough International Airshow 2022
June 2022 Roving Reporter at HPE Discover 2022 
June 2022 Host of The Africa Prize, Royal Academy of Engineering, 
Virtual Event
AFBEUK 2022 Part of STEM panel
March 2022 Turing Institute Moderator
March 2022 MC at Mobile World Congress for Deutsche Telekom
Dec 2021 Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions, Channel 4
Nov 2021 Filming with Google Innovations
Nov 2021 Famlab Judging
Oct 2021 Filming with Windfall Films, Abandoned Engineering 
Oct 2021 Norwich Literature Festival
Oct 2021 Speaking at Henley Literature Festival
July 2021 Host of The Africa Prize, Royal Academy of Engineering,
Virtual Event
June 2021 Co-Host of European Inventor Award, 2021, Virtual Event
June 2019-21 CGTN Europe, Producer / Reporter, Science /Tech Show, Razor

May 2021 UKTV, Expert Commentator for Smoke & Steel
Feb 2021 TEDxRoyalHolloway Reversing the Stereotypes
Jan 2021 Expert Talking head, Mysteries of the Abandoned, Discovery Channel
Sept 2020 Author of 'An Engineer/Scientist/Coder/Mathematician Like Me'

Winner of Tech Reporter of 2019 - Inclusive Tech Alliance

Oct 2018 RAND, Cybersecurity
Aug 2018 Okay, but How? Show, Sprint Business
July 2018 Farnborough Airshow, Interviewed Tim Peake 
June 2018 VidCon
, Interviewed Ray Kurzweil 
April 2018 Cunk on Britain, BBC2 Expert Engineer
March 2018 Crash Course Engineering, PBS Digital studios, host
Feb 2018 Revolutions, PBS / BBC worldwide
Feb 2018 BBC Radio 4 Morning Papers Panel
Dec 2017 University Challenge Xmas Special (Brunel University) 
Dec 2017 - Institute of Engineering and Technology, Young Women Engineers Awards, Guest Speaker
Nov 2017 - Dyson, (Infomercial, on the Fluid dynamics of a Purifier)
Oct 2017 - BBC1, Cunk on Britain, Engineering
Sept 2017 - Shell, Energy Fest, Digital Media Host
Aug 2017 - BBC World and Visit Britain, London, presenter
June 2017 - BBC 1, Invented in…the South East, presenter.
June 2017 - Gatsby Foundation Online, Meet the Apprentices, host
May 2017 - Lego Masters, Channel 4, Engineering episode, judge
May 2017 - Shell, Make the Future, Digital Media Host on Sustainable Technology and Innovation.
April 2017 - Channel 4, Real, Fake or Unknown, science/technology commentator
April 2017 - Big Bang Fair, Judge of Young Engineer of the Year Awards
Oct 2016 - Dyson Documentary for Tmall, China (1 x 1hour)
July 2016 - BBC2, Operation Orkney with Chris Packham, Neil Oliver, Andy Talbott (airs Autumn 2016) (3 x 60 mins series)
June 2016 - James Dyson Foundation, Engineering Challenge Videos (6 x 5 mins videos) 46 episodes to be filmed. 
May 2016 - BBC2, Battle of Jutland: The Navy's Bloodiest Day co-hosted with historian Dan Snow (1 x 1hour)
Feb 2016 - Young Engineers of the Year Awards – Judge and Co-host with Dallas Campbell
June 2015 - BBC1, Tomorrow’s Food with Dara O’Brien, Chis Bavin and Angela Harnett (3 x 1 hours series)
Nov 2015 - PBS Digital Studios, Crash Course, Physics (48 x Episodes)
June 2014 - Bear Grylls: Extreme Survival Caught on Camera, talking head, Thrill Seekers (1 x 1 hour)
Nov 2013 - Al Jazeera America, TechKnow, (filmed over 50 x 30 min episodes – still film with them freelance)
Sept 2013 - BBC1, Watchdog (short 8min science package on cosmetics)
June 2013 - Discovery UK, Worlds Top 5, Series 2, Engineering Talking Head
June 2012 - Sky One, Make Me a Millionaire Inventor, Co-Host with Jem Stansfield (6 x 1 hour series)
May 2012 - Discovery UK, Worlds Top 5, Series 1, Engineering Expert Talking Head.
Dec 2011 - BBC America, No Kitchen Required (10 x 1 hour Episodes)
June 2011 - BBC World News, The Health Show (26 x 30 min Episodes)
2009 - BBC2, ‘Gadget Girl’, Something for the Weekend (7 x 30 min episodes)
2008 - BBC 1, The One Show. Reporter (6 x 8 min science packages)
2008 - BBC1, Inside Out Reporter (3x Science/Factual 8 min Episodes)
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