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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 He rips up the outdated mental maps that have served us so poorly in recent years—maps that led us to think that for example Brexit was impossible, that Trump was unelectable, that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 ...
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Stephen Heppell
Professor Stephen Heppell has been a professor since the 1980s, he has an unrivalled track record of success and a string of huge projects in both learning and technology. He is one of the most influential academics in the field of technology and education globally. Stephen Heppell is credited with being the person who put the ...
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Claudia Olsson
Claudia Olsson, appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, is an innovation leader and speaker in the field of digital transformation. She is the founder and CEO of Stellar Capacity, a global education company with the vision of a future where humans become more digital and where digital becomes more human.
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Terence Mauri
Terence Mauri has been described as ‘an outspoken and influential expert on the future of leadership’ by Thinkers50 the global authority of top business thinkers in the world.
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David Hanson
David Hanson develops robots that are widely regarded as the world's most human-like in appearance, in a lifelong quest to create true living, caring machines.
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Ted Souder
Ted Souder is the Head of Industry, Retail at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade. He oversees a team that is tasked with helping some of the world’s largest retailers leverage digital platforms in order to meet the demands of today’s consumer. Prior to his current role, Ted had other sales ...
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Nick Earle
Nick Earle is a sales operation and change management leader with over 30 years of experience spanning large corporations and start-ups in the global IT and transportation sectors. He has co-authored two books; Mesh Collaboration: Creating New Business Value in the Network of Everything and From Dot.com to Dot.profit. Nick is currently Chairman and CEO ...
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Alain Robert
Alain Robert is the world’s leading free climber and is known all over the as the ’French Spiderman’ and the ’Urban Climber’. He is internationally renowned for having ascended over 100 skyscrapers without ropes. Sector, (a sponsor specialising in extreme sports, adventure), offered to make a documentary of his climbing and suggested that he climb ...
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Nadja Swarovski
Nadja Swarovski is an Executive Board member of Swarovski Crystal Business and Chairperson of the Swarovski Foundation. Nadja studied Art History and Foriegn Languages at Southern Methodist University in Texas before going to study at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Gemological Institute of America in New York. She then started her career at the ...
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Luc Julia
Human-machine interaction specialist, Luc Julia, is credited as one of the masterminds behind Apple’s SIRI, a virtual assistant that revolutionised mobile innovation. As an innovation speaker, Luc has the industry experience and technological insight to captivate audiences all over the world. With over two decades of industry experience, Luc comprised a novel titled Artificial Intelligence ...
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Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is a highly successful entrepreneur best known for co-founding Facebook. Having been involved in a number of different startups, entrepreneurial ventures, and directorial positions, Chris is a fantastic speaker for corporate audiences wanting to gain a greater insight into risk and reward, breaking the business mold and innovation in technology. As a young ...
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Shivvy Jervis
What are the seven most unusual jobs of the future? What’s in store for workplace and educational learning, and why is ’augmented commerce’ the next wave for online retail? Which discoveries about our brains could help us ward off toxic stress or even guide how we earn and learn? These are merely few of scores ...
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Andreas Weigend
Andreas S. Weigend is one of the world’s leading innovators, an expert in social and mobile technologies, consumer behaviour and digital marketing. He directs the Social Data Lab, teaches at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and his research centres on how ongoing social data revolution impacts consumers, companies, and society. Andreas is an engaging and ...
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Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield is a world-renowned urbanist, leading “smart cities” sceptic, and passionate advocate for the human-centred design of technological systems. He is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on urban environments. Adam has spoken about his ideas on how big technological shifts affect us psychologically and societally. As a keynote speaker, Adam provides discussion provoking ...
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Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School and Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance. He is an expert in corporate governance, responsible business, investment strategies, behavioural economics, time management, and the use and misuse of data and evidence. Alex has a unique combination of deep academic rigour and practical business ...
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Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt is the most naturally gifted athlete the world has ever seen. The Jamaican sprinter created history at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio when he achieved the 'Triple Triple', three gold medals at three consecutive Olympic Games.
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Nicholas Stern
A former chief economic advisor to the UK government and chief economist of the World Bank, Lord Nicholas Stern made headlines around the world following the publication of the ’Stern Review’. As a keynote speaker, Nicholas discusses the economic impact of climate change, economic development, growth and empowerment, public policy and the role of the ...
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Tim Mason
Tim Mason is renowned for launching Tesco’s Clubcard scheme, Tesco Express, Tesco.com, Tesco Personal Finance and Fresh & Easy. He is experienced director who has ton of experience with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Business Planning, E-commerce, Retail, Entrepreneurship, and Sales Management. He is the former ...
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Silvia Garcia
Keynote speaker, consultant and author, Silvia is one of the world-leading experts on applying behavioral science and positive leadership to marketing, communication, employees’ wellbeing and company culture. Former Coca Cola’s global director of happiness, marketing and communication, Silvia Garcia is a positive force of change at any event. Throughout her career, she has studied the ...
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Rachel Whetstone
Rachel Whetstone is the head of communications at Netflix and previously held the position of vice president at Facebook, working with it's WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger products. Prior to these two positions, she has also worked with two giants Uber and Google in similar positions.
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Mike Coupe
As the CEO of Sainsbury plc, Mike Coupe is considered to be an authority on business. Prior to retiring in 2020 to focus fully on his speaking career, he is credited for turning the company around, through top-level trading, marketing and online operations. As a business speaker, Mike Coupe instills in his corporate audiences the ...
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Matthias Schranner
Negotiation expert Matthias Schranner was originally trained by the police and the FBI as a lead negotiator for high-stakes situations. For the past 15 years, he and his team at the Schranner Negotiation Institute have been advising clients including the UN, global corporations and political parties in difficult negotiations. FBI-trained former hostage negotiator, Matthias Schranner ...
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Lars-Johan Jarnheimer
Former CEO of Tele2 AB, Chairman of IKEA group and Chairman of Telia Company since 2019, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, is a European business leader and popular business management speaker. An incredibly inspiring and influential business figure, Lars-Johan is also an expert in delivering dynamic motivational speeches. Lars is able to cover topics from finance and futurism ...
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Jonathan Mildenhall
Jonathan Mildenhall is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Airbnb, and was formerly the Vice President of global advertising strategy and creative excellence at the Coca-Cola Company. Now running his own firm, 21st Century Brand, Jonathan helps high-profile start-ups and venture capital firms in their creative and business strategy initiatives, an area in which he ...
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker is one of the founding fathers of the euro and a pioneer of European unification. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg he was the longest-serving head of government in the European Union – with 18 years in office – as well as the longest-serving democratically elected head of government worldwide. Jean-Claude Juncker studied law ...
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Ian Goldin
Professor Ian Goldin is the world’s leading expert on the systemic risks created by globalisation. He currently holds the position of Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University, the Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. He is also well known ...
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Howard Schultz
Former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz is recognised as one of the most influential, successful, and visionary business leaders in the world today. Howard took Starbucks from a mere 11 retail stores to in excess of 1,300 stores. He is renowned for his successful leadership, business ethics and sense of public responsibility. He was ...
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Chad Hurley
Best known for being the co-founder and former CEO of the leading video-sharing website YouTube, Chad Hurley truly is one of the biggest media moguls of the 21st century. He has worked with and advised some of the biggest and most well known online companies in the world.
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Brian McBride
Brian McBride has been a recognised leader in the digital sector for over 15 years. An established businessman, McBride’s expertise across industries is enviable, having acted in senior roles at the likes of Amazon, ASOS and Trainline. The longstanding chair and non-executive Director now holds a number of advisory positions, enhancing corporations and governing groups ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker, bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger truly is a man of many talents. A hugely inspiring and charismatic speaker. Arnold envisages the goals he wants to achieve then does what ever it takes to make it reality. Arnold is available for speaking engagements, fundraisers and product promotion. He does ...
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Henny Admoni
Henny Admoni is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She leads the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab, where they study how assistive robots can help improve people’s lives. She is mostly interested in human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, and modeling human behavior. Dr Henny Admoni’s research focuses on developing intelligent, ...
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Beth Altringer
Deliberate or not, we're influenced by different desires. It's in our nature to want things. But why is it that we desire some objects or products more than others? Beth Altringer has dedicated her life's work to that question – examining what consumers like and why, so designers and companies can create better products, services and experiences that will improve lives and business.
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Ben Legg
Ben Legg is an engineer of business transformation. As the former COO of Google Europe and a former British Army officer, he has built bridges in war zones and engineered hyper-growth in boardrooms.
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Sinan Aral
If you want to successfully compete in today’s rapidly changing digital marketplace, organizations must have a deep understanding of business analytics, which is why companies like Microsoft and Facebook tap the expertise of award-winning researcher, data scientist and MIT professor Sinan Aral. Since he is also a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Professor Aral offers ...
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Jeremy Bailenson
We are no longer limited by the confines of our own world. Virtual reality (VR) is now mainstream, and its potential – as well as that of augmented reality (AR) technology, which allows us to integrate simulations with the “real” world – is vast. Jeremy Bailenson is a pioneering expert in the field and one ...
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Matt Beane
Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Matt studies deviance in work involving machine intelligence – and specifically robotics. He asks when, where and how workers, organizations and even AI defy norms and rules in the 21st century. Matt has done extensive field research ...
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Marco Bertini
Many companies have a great brand, product or service but still struggle to convert it into revenue that can fund future innovations, repay investors, and support social and environmental initiatives. This is the type of challenge Esade professor and business strategist Marco Bertini helps companies tackle every day. Marco is a foremost authority on creating ...
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David Blake
David Blake operates at the intersection of the future of work and the future of politics. Blake is a sought-after expert on the topics of the future of work and learning, speaking at companies such as Google, Deloitte and Salesforce, and at conferences globally. David Blake has spent his professional career innovating in formal education ...
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Amy Edmondson
At no other point in our recent history has psychological safety been more important – not only in the workplace, but in every area of society due to the global pandemic. Such an environment is requiring leaders across sectors to reconsider the rules and tools they apply when managing teams. As they work on strategies ...
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Ariel Ekblaw
Ariel Ekblaw is the founder and Director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, a team of over 50 graduate students, staff, and faculty actively prototyping the artifacts of our sci-fi space future. Founded in 2016, the Initiative now includes a portfolio of 40+ research projects focused on life in space (from astrobiology to space habitats), ...
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Zoe Chance
Zoe Chance helps great people become more influential. At Yale School of Management, she teaches a popular elective called Mastering Influence and Persuasion, aka ”Doing Uncomfortable Things That Make You a Better Person.” Through the lens of behavioral economics, she studies and teaches persuasion and decision-making, focusing on simple ways to understand how to help ...
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Tammy Erickson
Harvard MBA Tammy Erickson has been honored three times by the Thinkers50’s list as one the most influential living management thinkers in the world. Her in-depth research and analysis on generations in the workplace is employed to provide essential presentations on preparing for the changing demographics of the workforce. Her career has revolved around building ...
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Nathan Furr
How do leaders successfully grow an organization in times of disruption and uncertainty? As a recognized expert in the fields of technology strategy, digital transformation and disruptive innovation, INSEAD Professor Nathan Furr helps organizations reposition for growth during periods of uncertainty and disruption. In the process, Furr shares customized tools that help leaders rethink and ...
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Andrew Gordon
Stories matter. They spark the imagination, influence perceptions and inspire stakeholders to believe in an organization’s values and brands. How can leaders leverage the power of storytelling to communicate their messages in memorable, actionable ways? Master storyteller, former Pixar animator and recent winner of the Brand Personality Award in Animation from The Asia Pacific Brands ...
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Renee Richardson Gosline
Customer experience: it’s the difference between purchase and loyalty, says Renee Richardson Gosline – Senior Lecturer in the Management Science group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and leading expert in the science of digital marketing and brand strategy. Big data and data analytics are furthering our understanding of the consumer decision-making process. However, ...
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Anna Gullstrand
Anna Gullstrand is the Chief People & Culture Officer (CPCO) at Mentimeter. Mentimeter is a 240+ employee’s values-driven SaaS start-up with offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Toronto, Canada. Their audience engagement platform helps over 200 million users globally to participate in inclusive, interactive and impactful presentations, trainings, lectures and meetings. Since graduating from the internationally ...
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Brittany Kaiser
Brittany Kaiser is the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, after serving as the Director of Business Development and being trained directly under Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix. Kaiser’s experience following her time at Cambridge Analytica is shown in the Netflix Documentary The Great Hack. Brittany Kaiser is the author of Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of How ...
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Kirsten Weiss
Kirsten Weiss is an entertaining Danish speaker and the author of several books about cross-cultural teamwork and Scandinavian leadership and management style.