Technology / Digitalization

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    James Hewitt
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    James Hewitt

    James Hewitt is a performance scientist, speaker and author. His research focusses on high performance knowledge work, with a particular interest in the impact of technology and working patterns on stress, recovery, wellbeing and cognitive performance.
    Gabor G. Burt
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    Gabor G. Burt

    Gabor G. Burt is the global authority on re-imagining boundaries and author of the book ’Slingshot’. He launched the Slingshot Framework in 2011. The framework shows how to engage creative thinking to systematically re-imagine market boundaries, filling a major global need. Gabor is an authority on a new approach to creating high-growth strategies known as ...
    Garry Kasparov
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    Garry Kasparov

    Garry Kasparov is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived. He is the founder and inspiration behind the Kasparov Chess Foundation whose mission is to introduce chess into the educational system worldwide. He is also a writer and political activist and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. “Chess is mental torture” ...
    Dan Cobley
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    Dan Cobley

    Dan Cobley served as Google’s Vice President of Brand Solutions and as the company’s MD in the UK & Ireland. After almost a decade at Google, Dan started a new venture, a FinTech fund and incubator, aimed at building new, disruptive companies within financial services. “The fantastic thing about the web is that anyone with ...
    Katie King
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    Katie King

    Katie King is a published Author, Keynote Speaker and Management Consultant, recognised in the area of AI and digital business transformation, as well as marketing and STEM. Katie regularly consults CEOs, MDs, as well as HR, sales and marketing teams on adapting to Business 4.0. Over the past 28 years, Katie has coached and advised ...
    Reetta Heiskanen
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    Reetta Heiskanen

    With her roots in the Finnish startup scene and journalism, Reetta Heiskanen (M.Soc.Sc) writes and talks about the future of work, equality and digital solutions. She co-launched programming and robotics courses in Nordic highschools with the Mehackit team in 2015 and truly believes in democratizing technology skills for the future generations. Today, based in Brooklyn, ...
    Christoffer Weiss
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    Christoffer Weiss

    Christoffer Weiss is a dynamic and energetic speaker who has an extensive experience in the event world, spanning over 17 years, as a producer, speaker and as a participant.
    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen
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    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen

    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen is a creative director, author, speaker, TV host, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of four companies including a problem-solving company that creates products and services using human intelligence and AI. Henri speaks regularly about the future, business, leadership and creativity, and about the intersection of human and machine intelligence. Henkka ...
    Paavo Beckman
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    Paavo Beckman

    Mr. Paavo Beckman has been a CEO and Co-Founder at six companies and led teams in San Francisco, New York, London and Finland. He is an expert in startup & corporation collaborations and a visionary in an innovation field who knows what is happening on the market. 
    Henrietta Kekäläinen
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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 ...
    Markku Wilenius
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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 ...
    Antti Merilehto
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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 ...
    Theo Priestley
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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 ...
    David Gram
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    David Gram

    David Gram has worked with radical innovation and lean start-up methods in small businesses and large global corporations for the last 15 years – e.g. as Head of Innovation at Scandinavian Airlines, as Senior Innovation Director in LEGO’s Future Lab, and recently as Venture Partner in LEGO Ventures.
    Randi Zuckerberg
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    Randi Zuckerberg

    Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author and tech media personality.  She is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, developing technology, content and live events all with the mission of putting intelligent, tech-savvy, entrepreneurial women and girls at the centre of pop culture and media. “Emmy Award nomination for her innovative blend of ...
    Alex Hunter
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    Alex Hunter

    Alex Hunter is a company incubator, angel investor, and branding expert. He is also a noted public speaker, appearing at events all over the world such as ad:tech, Future of Web Apps, Thinking Digital, Marketing 2.0, iStrategy, Tech4Africa, MARKA and Internet World. “One of the most sophisticated professionals in today’s Online and Social Media Landscape” ...
    Jonas Ridderstråle
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    Jonas Ridderstråle

    Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle is one of the world’s most influential and respected business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestselling book ’Funky Business’ in 2000, Jonas has remained at the forefront of the new generation of management thinkers. “He is a presenter with a difference who makes a difference” Dr. ...
    Mikko Eerola
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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 ...
    Maria Ritola
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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.
    Sean Pillot de Chenecey
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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.
    Jamie Anderson
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    Jamie Anderson

    Jamie Anderson, professor,  has been named as a "management guru" in the Financial Times, and as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the journal Business Strategy Review. Another industry magazine recently included Jamie as one of the ’top 40 under 40’ most influential young business minds worldwide. “Jamie’s wit and humour have ...
    John Thackara
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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.
    Joshua Klein
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    Joshua Klein

    Joshua Klein is a fervent hacker who will hack anything that moves. His latest project, though charmingly low-tech, has amazing implications for the human-animal interface. Right now, he is working at Frog Design as a Principal Technologist, while developing mobile/social applications, health care-related systems and other tools that improve people’s lives. Joshua Klein has practised, ...
    Pranav Mistry
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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 ...
    Michele Myauo
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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 ...
    Nathalie Nahai
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    Nathalie Nahai

    Nathalie Nahai is one of the foremost experts in web psychology. With a background in psychology, web design and digital strategy, she coined the term ’web psychology’, defining it as ’the empirical study of how our online environments influence our attitudes and behaviours’. Nathalie is the founder of the Institute of Web Psychology, which helps ...
    Daniel Sieberg
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    Daniel Sieberg

    Daniel Sieberg is VP, Technology & Innovation Thought Leadership for Huawei and as a founder and strategic advisor Daniel has focused on developing technologies like AI, AR, blockchain, news aggregation and social media. He continues to serve as an advisor to Good Trust, building the future of how to manage your digital afterlife. Daniel was ...
    Chris Brauer
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    Chris Brauer

    Dr Chris Brauer is Director of IMS at Goldsmiths, University of London and a world leading researcher and public academic in the intersections of human behaviour and emerging technologies. His projects have been featured in over 400 media outlets worldwide including the Financial Times, BBC, CNN and Wall Street Journal. Chris revels in the intersections ...
    Magda Chelly
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    Magda Chelly

    Magda has a strong experience in cyber security as well as international and business co-operations. Throughout her career, she has been working with governments and corporations to advise on how they react to the increasing international cyber threats. Magda also chairs the British Chamber ICT committee and was interacting with the British Trade commission and ...
    Tim Cole
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    Tim Cole

    Tim Cole is an experienced publicist, author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine Net Investor he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. He is also ...
    Guy Kawasaki
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    Guy Kawasaki

    Guy Kawasaki was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). Guy has a B.A. from Stanford University and an ...
    Jonas Kjellberg
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    Jonas Kjellberg

    Jonas Kjellberg, founding creator of Skype is co-founder of Gear Up, a framework to help people to transform ideas into a high-potential venture in real time. He is also the CEO of Gourmetli which disrupts the existing food industry by connecting buyers and sellers of locally produced delights and global gourmet specialties. The academic roots ...
    Stephen Attenborough
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    Stephen Attenborough

    Stephen Attenborough is at the forefront of space tourism. He is the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic, a company wholly owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group which is on track to become the world’s first passenger carrying commercial spaceline. He also is responsible for workstreams that are investigating the non tourism applications for the ...
    Rodney Brooks
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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 ...
    Lindsay Herbert
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    Lindsay Herbert

    Lindsay Herbert is the author of Digital Transformation, a Bloomsbury business book that has received international praise for its practical framework on how to drive major change through innovation at enterprise scale.
    Lars Silberbauer Andersen
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    Lars Silberbauer Andersen

    Lars built Lego’s social media engagement from scratch and led a global team of social media & search marketers that drove real time engagement with consumers worldwide. In 2014 he also launched LEGO® TV in 40 markets. LEGO® TV is a native mobile experience for kids, where they can experience high quality animated LEGO content. ...
    Marc Randolph
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    Marc Randolph

    Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. He was co-founder of the online movie and television streaming service Netflix. Recently, Marc co-founded Looker Data Sciences and currently serves as an advisor, CEO, coach and/or board member to numerous other start-ups. At Netflix, Marc served as their founding CEO, as the executive ...
    Bertrand Piccard
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    Bertrand Piccard

    Bertrand Piccard is a well-known explorer and holder of two world records: flying round-the-world in a balloon and piloting the first ever solar plane, capable of flying perpetually without fuel. He was also the visionary and driving force behind the Solar Impulse Project which created this solar plane. It is in Bertrand’s DNA to go ...
    John Sawers
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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 ...
    Bruce Schneier
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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.
    Martin Roll
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    Martin Roll

    Martin Roll is an experienced global business strategist, senior advisor and mentor to Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms, family-owned businesses and family offices. He advises clients on strategy, transformation, leadership, family business and family office topics. He additionally, works closely with global business families and family offices on strategy, leadership, succession, governance, professionalization, impact and other critical topics for long-term, inter-generational success.
    Julia Shaw
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    Julia Shaw

    Julia is an expert in the areas of memory, criminal psychology, AI and diversity in the workplace. She is committed to building more respectful and inclusive working environments. She is also an expert on legal cases, particularly those with historical allegations. Her expertise is in false memories and how law enforcement can use "tactics that ...
    Noreena Hertz
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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. ...
    Bindi Karia
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    Bindi Karia

    Bindi Karia is passionate about all things start-up in Europe and connecting the dots between Investors, Founders, Corporates and Government. She is the founder of a Boutique Advisory Firm, bindi ventures, focused on advising and connecting across four core Innovation pillars for commercial success. Bindi is deeply embedded in the European startup scene and tech ...
    Dr. Parag Khanna
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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 ...
    Keren Elazari
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    Keren Elazari

    Keren Elazari is an internationally celebrated researcher, author and speaker on all matters related to cybersecurity and hacker culture. Her research and writing about security has been featured in Scientific American, WIRED and CNN. Keren holds a CISSP certification and Masters in Security Studies from the prestigious Security & Technology workshop at Tel Aviv University ...
    Roger Flynn
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    Roger Flynn

    Roger Flynn is a recognised CEO and leader in transformation change having driven change in global organisations including Virgin, British Airways, Prudential and the BBC. He is now Chairman and investor in several media, travel and technology businesses. Roger has a wealth of experience as a driver of transformational change and investor in disruptive businesses. ...
    Lisa Forte
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    Lisa Forte

    Lisa Forte is an expert in the human side of cyber security and social engineering. In 2018 she won the "Top 100 Women In Tech" Awards recognising her achievements and contributions to the cyber security industry. Lisa began her career in counter-terrorism intelligence for a UK Government agency before moving into one of the UK ...