Bikram Singh
General Singh was Chief of the Indian Army until 2014. During his eventful and distinguished military career of over 42 years, he held a number of key positions in India and overseas. Before taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General Singh was Chief of Eastern Command and before...
Porter Erisman
Porter Erisman is a former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-08), China’s internet giant. He witnessed it grow from humble beginnings into the world’s largest e-commerce company. Erisman first arrived in China in 1994 and, after a year studying Chinese, he fell into a six-month stint as host of China...
Jared Cohen
Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a nonfiction author. Previously, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen...
Nell Watson
Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker who grew up in Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. Nell has had an unusual career, including teaching post-grad Computer Science at the age...
Inma Martinez
Inma Martinez is recognised worldwide as one of the leading figures in the pioneering of digital technologies and the transformation of industries via machine intelligence. A serial entrepreneur in the 2000s, she was behind the creation and widespread of the mobile internet and emerging digital technologies like music and...
Charlie McCreevy
Charlie McCreevy was the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services from 2004–10. He played a crucial role in overseeing the European financial system, regulations governing the banking system and the development of a single market in financial services throughout the EU. He has a reputation as an experienced,...
Raffaela Rein
Raffaela Rein is the CEO and Co-Founder of CareerFoundry/ The UX School, Europe’s leading online school for tech careers, specifically for User Experience (UX) Design. Raffaela graduated from the University of Durham in Finance before starting her career as an Investment Strategist for BlackRock in London. She went on...
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, a real-time, one-to-many network that is changing the way people communicate around the world. Previously, Biz helped build other popular social media services Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. After launching the journalling service Xanga in 2000, Biz went on to publish two books about...
Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge socio-technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI. She is an active contributor to discourse around responsible technology with bylines in the Atlantic,...
Christian Baudis
Christian Baudis is a renowned digital media and GreenTech entrepreneur, including being the former Managing Director of Google Germany. He has built several European start-ups successfully. Most recently in 2010 he founded his own green-tech venture Vivablu.org, which invests in early stage, innovative, green, and sustainable technology start-ups in...
