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Daniel Rahman
Daniel Rahman is an experienced serial entrepreneur, innovator and experimental innovator. Rahman has been setting up more than five companies in different roles in different fields and is currently the CEO of Integrify. Integrify trains talented immigrant coders and directs them to work. Social entrepreneurship and innovations seeking real impact are close to Daniel’s heart. ...
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Henrietta Kekäläinen
Henrietta Kekäläinen is the CEO & Co-founder of Carbo Culture, a clean technology company aiming to draw down a million tons of carbon within the next five years. Her company has a novel technology to manufacture a biocarbon product from waste. The product is used as a platform to reinstate health and productivity to destroyed ...
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Markku Wilenius
Markku Wilenius is a professor of Futures Studies in Turku University Business School. He is also an Unesco Chair in Learning Society and Futures of Education. He has worked over 20 years with Futures Studies. In 2015 he co-founded Turku Complex Systems Institute at the University of Turku. His latest research program is the future ...
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Nora Rosendahl
Nora Rosendahl is a startup entrepreneur and researcher specialising in work and stress. Nora is passionate about productive, human-centred ways of working – how can you fulfil your potential without exhausting yourself? Nora has previously worked as a business consultant focusing on transformation in high-tech companies. She became interested in the relationship between the individual ...
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Antti Merilehto
Antti Merilehto is an author on AI, his book (available in English in Feb 2019) is the bestselling business book in Finland. Antti is ex-Googler and currently Country Manager for Finch Finland, having done most of his career in digital B2B. Finnish event organizers awarded Antti Merilehto as the Speaker of the Year 2018. Antti’s ...
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Alf Rehn
Alf Rehn is the professor of innovation, design, and management at the University of Southern Denmark and is, in addition, an internationally noted thought leader and strategic advisor. Alf Rehn has written several bestselling books and given some 1000 keynotes all over the world – including in North Korea. His keynotes have been praised for ...
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Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley is one of the UK’s leading futurists, and is a sought after international keynote and TEDx speaker on emerging technology trends. Theo has published more than 100 articles on topics including Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Fintech, Digital Transformation, and Virtual Reality, for Forbes, the European, WIRED, and Huffington Post. Theo has ...
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Marshall Goldsmith
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behaviour for themselves and their teams. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources – America’s top HR honour. He is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches and he served as ...
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Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. Vijay, a The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Best Selling author, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. “Vijay has been identified as ...
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Lars Sudmann
Lars Sudmann is an advisor, keynote speaker and executive trainer on leadership, strategy, innovation and communication for global corporations and their leaders. Lars is an expert on business leadership and communication, especially for global and virtual businesses and organizations. He is the owner of Sudmann & Company, a consulting and management training network.
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William Higham
William Higham is one of the world’s leading futurists and strategy experts. He helps organizations to understand how tomorrow’s Smart Consumers will think, feel and behave and how they can benefit from this in their business. His expertise comes from 20 years’ consumer experience for companies such as Sony, Virgin and Universal. “Today’s customer is ...
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Saku Tuominen
Saku Tuominen founded Broadcasters, one of the most succesful Finnish independent tv production companies with Juha Tynkkynen in 1989. They sold the company twice, both times to Sweden but to different buyers, first to MTG and then to Zodiak Entertainment.
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Anders Sorman-Nilsson
Anders Sörman-Nilsson is a visionary futurist and a global authority at the intersection of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. As the founder of the avant-garde think tank, Thinque, Anders offers data-driven insights and strategic foresight to global brands, helping them navigate the complexities of the modern world.
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Göran Persson
Göran Persson is the former Prime Minister of Sweden. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, stepping down after the 2006 General Election. Since leaving the political realm, Persson holds the position of Chairman of Sveaskog, a leading Swedish forestry business. “Leading Expert on the Swedish Financial Model” Göran Persson is more widely ...
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Mikko Eerola
Mikko Eerola is one of the authors of the book The Block Chain Roadmap for decision makers (2019). He has worked throughout his career in business digitalization, both as a management consultant and as a business leader in growth and listed companies. Europe and the United States. Mikko has extensive experience in developing business globally ...
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Hamish McRae
Hamish McRae is one of the country’s most respected financial journalists and commentators on future trends in economics, business and society. Author of the acclaimed bestseller “The World in 2020”, Hamish is Associate Editor of The Independent Newspaper, Principal Commentator for the Independent Online and Columnist for the Evening Standard. “A proven visionary of the ...
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Karen Moloney
Conscious of the growing interest from Human Resources in measuring competence at work, Karen Moloney is Founder and Director of Moloney Minds, a company she set up in order to concentrate on thinking, writing, speaking and working with a smaller group of select clients worldwide.
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Maria Ritola
Maria Ritola is a Finnish entrepreneur, a visionary and an experienced speaker. She is a co-founder of Iris.ai, a technology company that she established at Singularity University, Silicon Valley in 2015.
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Sean Pillot de Chenecey
Sean Pillot de Chenecey is a seasoned public speaker with a track record of delivering keynotes in diverse regions such as the US, EU, MENA, and Asia for over a decade. He has spoken at a wide range of venues, including boardrooms, congress halls, stadiums, and festivals.
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Natalia Rincon
Natalia Rincon, an influencer, woman in tech, is the Founder and CEO of CHAOS, a Helsinki-based prop-tech startup. CHAOS is an urban-analytics and forecasting company for real estate investors and developers. We merge urban databases and crowd insights to analyze and predict investment and development opportunities in order to create livable cities. ”Be strong and ...
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John Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India, and was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07 and the French design biennial City Eco Lab.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox OBE is one of the world’s most renowned singer songwriters, formerly with the Eurythmics. She is celebrated as an innovator, an icon and a symbol of enduring excellence. Annie’s music career is peerless with over 80 million record sales to date. In 2007 Annie released her album, Songs of Mass Destruction to critical ...
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Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. He is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions. The genius behind the Sixth Sense technology, Pranav Mistry is a recognised inventor. The success he has achieved by ...
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Michele Myauo
Michele Myauo, Ph.D. is a cybersecurity and IT executive, author, speaker and professor. She holds a doctorate in system engineering and is a director of cybersecurity & secure infrastructure services delivery for the global secure infrastructure practice at Microsoft. Michele has over 17 years’ experience leading cybersecurity, systems engineering, and IT services business execution across ...
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Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Editor of the Information Systems Network. Erik Brynjolfsson earned his A.B., Magna cum laude, and S.M. in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard ...
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Susan Greenfield
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British scientist specialising in the physiology of the brain, Susan researches the impact of 21st century technologies on the mind, how the brain generates consciousness and novel approaches to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Baroness Greenfield took a DPhil in the Oxford University Department of Pharmacology and ...
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Anil Gupta
Dr. Anil K. Gupta is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts on strategy, globalisation and emerging markets. He is the Michael Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.
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Steve Howard
Steve Howard is a leading sustainable business professional and is a recognised authority on sustainability and climate change. Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011-2017. In 2015, Steve co-founded We Mean Business, a leading climate change coalition of organisations which helped support the Paris Agreement ...
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Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks, the former director of MIT’s Computer Science and AI LAB, came to fame when he successfully founded iRobot. He has now cofounded Robust.AI, a robotics start-up which aims to build the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots. Rodney received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. In 1984 he joined MIT and ...
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John Sawers
Sir John Sawers has 36 years’ experience in diplomacy and intelligence, culminating in five years as chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 2009 to 2014. During his tenure, he modernised the Service and led it through major changes in operations, technology, and public accountability. In that role, he took part in the ...
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Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people.
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Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana has become a crucial voice in the field of left-wing academic thought and is listed in the 50 Most Influential People of 2020 by GQ Magazine. In 2019, she was named as one of the ’3 most important thinkers about innovation’ by the New Republic, and was on The Bloomberg 50 list of ’Ones ...
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Dambisa Moyo
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas. Dambisa has earned a strong reputation as a top-tier opinion former and trusted ...
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Joseph Stiglitz
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz is a leading economic educator and the former Chair of The Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. A pioneer ...
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Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader and economist with an impressive track record in predicting global trends. In 2017 Noreena launched her own show MegaHertz:London Calling on Sirius XM in the US, providing insights and analysis on what is happening in Europe and also a European take on what is happening in the US. ...
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Dr. Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is a leading Global Strategy Advisor, world traveler, and Best-Selling Author. He is Founder and Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag has been an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program. Dr. Khanna holds a PhD in international relations from the London ...
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Alain de Botton
Acclaimed philosopher, Alain de Botton masterfully combines philosophy with pragmatism. He offers a kinder, gentler philosophy of success, giving us a great lesson on how to relate to ourselves, and how to relax counter-productive emotions. Alain makes a convincing case how to find true pleasure in our work and skilfully raises the big questions we ...
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Marga Hoek
Marga Hoek is one of the world’s most in-demand visionary business speakers, recognized globally for her sharp insights on technology, leadership, and sustainable business innovation. A multiple award-winning CEO turned author, Marga combines boardroom gravitas, future-facing thinking, and real-life innovation cases from across the globe.
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Peter Diamandis
Peter focuses on the importance of innovation and he looks to the future in explaining how exponentially advancing technologies will transform our companies, our industries, our governments and our lives over the next 5 to 10 years. Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. ...
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Jane Young
Jane has a fresh and powerful vision of the future of communications. She helps her audience see past the jargon, hype and worms’ eye view of social media tools, to a bigger picture of how to drive growth in the 21st century; looking at how we can solve age-old business problems using new knowledge and ...
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Galith (Sarah) Nadbornik
“As a company undergoes transformation, it is often tempting to jump straight from ideas to technology. I know how much easier it is to talk about getting a new sales gadget than it is to talk about re-evaluating the global sales process to accommodate the new business models shaping our industry. Still, we will have ...
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Samuel Scott
A former journalist turned passionate genius of marketing, Samuel Scott is an expert of sales and marketing that is sought after around the world as a keynote speaker. A man who most certainly eats, breathes and lives for all things related to marketing, Samuel is a communications expert that is called upon to share his ...
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Inma Martinez
Inma Martinez is a technology pioneer and AI scientist advisor to leaders in business and government on the digital economy as a force for progress and societal welfare.
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Malene Rydahl
Malene Rydahl is a writer, keynote speaker and executive coach. She is specialized in well-being and performance in companies inspired by the Danish leadership model. She was born in Denmark and has lived in Paris for more than 20 years.
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Graham Brown-Martin
An engaging catalyst for powerful conversations and fresh thinking. Graham Brown-Martin draws on his experiences of leading teams, creating startups and scaling up organisations that challenge the status quo. Consistently ahead of the curve; he designed mobile computers in the 80s, interactive and online entertainment networks in the 90s, community-based social networks in the 00s ...
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Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics and former Deputy Dean at London Business School. He is also a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research focuses on longevity, an ageing society and fiscal policy and debt management. Andrew is a compelling speaker who brings to life in ...
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Sophie Hackford
Sophie Hackford is a futurist. She has given 160+ provocative talks to boards and exec teams on novel science and tech. Whether quantum computing, AI, or robots in space, Sophie’s talks animate complex technologies in glorious technicolour. Sophie is an advisor to John Deere & Co, on the future of food, climate, and technology. Sophie ...
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Christopher Kutarna
In a world quickly spinning out of control, Dr. Chris Kutarna is a lone point of balance and clarity. He rips up the outdated mental maps that have served us so poorly in recent years—maps that led us to think that for example Brexit was impossible, that Trump was unelectable, that globalization was irreversible, that ...