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Costas Markides
Costas Markides holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. In recent years, Costas has turned his attention to how management ideas can be used to address social issues. In 2011, 2009 and 2007 Thinkers50 placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. “Costas Markides is an expert ...
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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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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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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, ...
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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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Colin MacLachlan
Colin MacLachlan is a former SAS soldier. He has more than 25 years of security and risk related experience. Colin is best known for appearing in Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins and Channel 5's Secrets of the SAS.
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Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley OBE is an English actress, best known for her role as the eternally-inebriated, fashion-obsessed Patsy in the award-winning Absolutely Fabulous which brought her renewed fame, with the series going on to prove itself one of the classic British sitcoms. She is a passionate campaigner for the Gurkhas. Born in Kashmir, India, Joanna Lumley’s ...
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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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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 ...
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Ed Stafford
Ed Stafford became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. His adventure has been described as one of the most dangerous and difficult expeditions ever undertaken encountering venomous snakes, severe floods, electric eels, jaguars and hostile local tribes. After leaving the military in 2002 he led expeditions in Belize and ...
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Karren Brady
Baroness Brady is also a Senior Non-Executive Director of Syco and Arcadia Boards and Small Business Ambassador for the Conservative Party. Additionally she is Chairman of Mentore, a business to help accelerate development of female talent in their organisations to increase diversity at board levels in companies across the UK.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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David Coulthard
David Coulthard is one of the world’s most widely recognized sports personalities, celebrated for his achievements as a Formula 1 Grand Prix driver, television broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur.
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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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Ram Charan
Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. He is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today's fast changing environment to uncover the core business problem.
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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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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.
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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 ...
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Kenton Cool
With 11 Everest Summits under his belt amongst other incredible feats of human achievement, Kenton Cool is Britain’s most successful Everest mountaineer. He is the second most successful Western Mountaineer of all times on Everest and claimed an historic three peaks record for Britain in Everest’s 60th anniversary year. As a high altitude leader, Kenton ...
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Lewis Gordon Pugh
Lewis Gordon Pugh is an ocean advocate, pioneer swimmer and explorer who has put his hard-learned lessons into the context of a corporate environment. He shares the visualisation that enabled him to undertake the first swim across the sub-zero waters of the North Pole. Lewis has received a number of awards including France and South ...
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Kirk Vallis
Kirk Vallis is Google's Head of Creativity Development. He helps Googlers across the world to understand what it is about the approach, but vitally, the behaviours, that teams and individuals exhibit that time and again result in an awesome piece of innovation, a fresh way to solve a problem, or simply positive change.
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Olivier Oullier
Prof. Oullier’s research focuses on decision neuroscience applied to consumer and patient engagement and behaviour change. Olivier currently writes a column on neurotechnologies "This is your brain on business" in Fortune Magazine. Olivier designs, implements and evaluates evidence-informed multi-scale behavior and system change strategies for public and private organizations. He has developed a proprietary methodology ...
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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 ...
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Claus Raasted
Claus Raasted has worked with designing extraordinary experiences for almost a quarter of a century. Today, he serves as the Director for The College of Extraordinary Experiences, is a Coach at McKinsey & Company, and hosts the podcast ”The Business of Extraordinary Experiences”. He is also a prolific author, with 30 books to his name, ...
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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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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.
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Serena Williams
Serena Williams sits at the top of the tennis world; she's won 23 career Grand Slams, which is the most Grand Slam singles titles in history. Her remarkable tennis achievements combined with her off-court success in film, television, fashion and philanthropy makes her one of the most recognisable global icons in the world.
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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 ...
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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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Barry Gibbons
Barry’s aim is to show audiences how to stay ahead in fast changing and unpredictable markets by keeping yourself, your products and your company fresh. With his Anglo-Irish charm he shows how to lead (not manage), and how to energize people who work for you, with you and above you. Above all, he offers ideas ...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jochen Zeitz
Jochen Zeitz believes that if each of us were to find new ways to translate our passions into meaningful connections and make a contribution, whether small or large, towards achieving not only personal but larger social and environmental goals, then the world can undoubtedly change for the better. He strives to help his audiences listen ...
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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. ...
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Michael Foale
Michael Foale a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut, has one of the most impressive careers in the space and technology industry. He is passionate about space travel and exploring the possibilities of getting more and more people into space.
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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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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 ...