Faisal Hoque
What sets Faisal apart is the unique position and perspective he has always maintained, which is grounded in a hardcore technology with deep roots in leading-edge management science and mindful entrepreneurship. His intense curiosity has always led him to explore disruptive approaches to solving complex business problems. Over the...
Nadja Swarovski
Nadja Swarovski is a Member of the Swarovski Executive Board, the world’s leading crystal manufacturer founded by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895 in Austria. As a global patron of design for the company, Nadja is committed to building ongoing relationships in the fashion, jewellery, architecture, design, film and...
Sheena Iyengar
Sheena is a blind Indian American professor at the Columbia Business School who has spent her career studying choice – why it matters, how we choose, and how we can choose better. Raised by Sikh immigrants in Queens, New York, Sheena’s family life provided her with a strict cultural...
Jack Milner
Jack Milner shows you how to use humour and fun to help organisations transform their culture, communication and creativity and so improve their business performance. Whether that’s bringing people back into the workplace, making your work culture something people genuinely want to embrace, helping organisations unleash their creative potential...
Paul Papadimitriou
Paul Papadimitriou is the founder of Intelligencr, the global innovation scouting firm. He flies around the planet witnessing what technological disruption actually means for the future of business, culture and society. He architects innovation and marketing strategies shaped around a new augmented, nomadic and tribal consumer—most recently launching a...
Shivvy Jervis
What is the science behind why we give up, or why logic is more about feeling than we might think? What are the most unusual jobs of the future or the skills you’ll need to stay future ready? Why should you know about ‘augmented commerce’, emotionally aware apps or the connectivity...
Mick Cornett
Mick Cornett was the mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, having served in that position since 2004. He was the first mayor in Oklahoma City history to be elected to four terms and was the longest-serving mayor among the 50 largest cities in America. One of Cornett’s most...
Christian Rangen
Christian Rangen is a strategist, author, entrepreneur and business school lecturer. He consults companies around the world on innovation, business models, leadership and change. He helps companies on strategic transformation and corporate entrepreneurship. Most recently, he has been developing and running corporate accelerator programmes on smart cities, energy, digital...
Nayla Al Khaja
Nayla Al Khaja is the first female film Director/Producer in the United Arab Emirates. CEO of Nayla Al Khaja Films (previously D-Seven Motion Pictures), she founded in 2007 The Scene Club, Dubai’s first film club, which now counts over 22,000 registered members. Al Khaja wrote and directed several films,...
Steve Blank
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, having worked in 8 start-ups in two decades (with four IPOs). He currently works as an academic, teaching at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Blank has changed how start-ups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught world-wide; how science is commercialised in the...
