Larry Downes
Larry Downes is an internet industry analyst and author on developing business strategies in an age of constant technological disruption. Downes is author of the New York Times and Business Week business blockbuster, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which sold over 200,000 copies and was...
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...
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,...
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard is the Initiator and President of the Solar Impulse Project, which aims to fly a solar-powered aircraft non-stop around the world. Solar Impulse 2 took off on 9 March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, heading east in it’s record-breaking attempt. After the first ever oceanic crossing by a...
Jon Duschinsky
Jon Duschinsky is one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on engagement, leadership and the future of business. As the CEO of The Conversation Farm, Duschinsky leads a global team of creative talent that brings fresh ideas designed to change the way people talk about issues, causes and...
Dr. Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua University, and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He also chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation in China and Indonesia. He is author of Theory U and co-author of Presence and Leading from...
Fredrik Haren
Fredrik Härén is an author and expert on creativity, change and global business. Härén’s speciality is to be the “Global Conference Speaker”. He has delivered 2,000 presentations in over 60 countries on 6 continents. Härén knows how to craft a speech so that, let’s say, an American, a Brazilian,...
Dan Germain
Dan Germain is Group Head of Brand at innocent, the healthy drinks company. He’s worked there since the company started in 1999, and in 2014 was named Designer of the Year in the UK, beating Apple’s Sir Jonathan Ive and Sir Paul Smith among others. These days his duties...
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes is Ireland’s leading retail shopper and consumer behaviouralist. Over the past 12 years, as the founding Director of Glacier Consulting, he has pioneered developments in shopper behaviour insight, particularly in the fields of ethnography and biometric shopper research. His expertise in these fields, together with strong knowledge...
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...
