Speaker Oli Hyatt
Speaker Oli Hyatt

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Oli Hyatt

Owner

Blue Zoo Animation Studio

Oli Hyatt is an Animator, Author, Entrepreneur, lobbyist, Hockey Coach and proud Dyslexic . His Company Blue-Zoo, Is the most prolific TV animation studio in the UK, boasting titles such as Miffy, Go Jetters, Tree Fu Tom, Digby, and Paddington Bear. Clients including Disney, BBC, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and collecting 5 BAFTA's in the process.

He set up and chaired Animation UK, a lobby group promoting the needs of the Animation industry, a voluntary role that eventually led to him receiving a MBE, and turned around the fortunes of the industry, by lobbying successfully for the Tax Credit.

He is a keen hockey player and coach and has set up a new company specialising in coaching preschool children, called little sticks, that he hopes to turn into a global brand. 

He helps to run the hugely successful Education Blocks Brands including Aphablocks and Global smash hit NumberBlocks.

Oli is a passionate believer that his Dyslexia, far from being an issue or a disability for him, is instrumental at the sideways way he sees the world, the way he expresses himself and the stories he tells. He debuted novel Antigua de fortune was published by chicken house in 2021. 

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