Russell Davies
Russell Davies is a writer and strategist. He’s spent twenty-five years working with organisations like Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Honda and LOCOG (London 2012) figuring out what happens when organisations and services meet the internet. His most well-known work is probably the strategy development that led to Honda’s ‘Power Of...
Jeremy White
Jeremy White is a public speaker and executive editor of Wired, the influential technology and trends magazine that covers the innovations and businesses building the future. In charge of analysing and identifying emerging trends and technological shifts that will affect both consumers and businesses, Jeremy is an expert speaker in a...
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes is a leading neuroscientist. He has been Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain signals at the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin since 2006, and Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig since 2005. His research focuses on...
Tamara Lohan
Tamara Heber-Percy is an entrepreneur and technology strategist with a background in marketing. In 2002, she co-founded Mr & Mrs Smith – the global boutique hotel travel specialists – with husband James Lohan, and has been responsible for evolving the company’s digital infrastructure ever since. Today, Smith operates from...
Brent Hoberman
Brent was among the first to seize the potential of doing business online, steering lastminute.com from the drawing board into a multiple market operator matching subscribers to suppliers. When the dotcom bubble burst he learned the value of outsourcing as well as smaller, smarter teams. He’s since established Founders...
Jonas Kjellberg
Jonas Kjellberg, one of the co-creators of Skype, is a respected lecturer, author, and venture investor. Jonas is currently part of BCG Digital Ventures, a corporate investment and incubation firm. The company is dedicated to inventing, building, investing in and launching category-changing businesses at start-up speed for the world’s...
Stephen Attenborough
Stephen Attenborough is the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic, a company mainly owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group which is on track to become the world’s first passenger carrying commercial spaceline. Stephen joined Virgin Galactic as the company’s first full time employee in 2004 to put in place...
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology and cyber specialist. He is best known for his role until 2010 as a spokesperson for whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks in Germany. A network security expert by trade, Domscheit-Berg is a passionate advocate for transparency and freedom...
Claudia Kemfert
Claudia Kemfert is currently Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin since 2009 and Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004. Prior to this, from 2004 – 2009 Claudia was...
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. He hails from Pakistani’s Swat Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept open his own school. He also inspired his daughter, Malala Yousafzai,...
