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...
Michael Tchong
Throughout his career, Michael Tchong has been at the forefront of the latest waves. Michael’s ability to spot hot trends was refined during a career that began at such ad agency icons as Doyle Dane & Bernbach and Chiat/Day. It was further honed by his extensive experience in publishing,...
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...
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,...
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,...
John Gapper
John Gapper writes an award-winning column on business, with a focus on finance, media and technology, and also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews. He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well...
Lars Thomsen
Lars Thomsen is an influential futurist and trends researcher. He is the founder and CEO of Swiss based think tank, Future Matters. Thomsen has worked on future issues for the past 25 years, consulting with corporations, institutions and government bodies on the development of future strategies and business models. ...
