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...
Fredrik Haren
Fredrik Haren is The Creativity Explorer, a global keynote speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Change. He has delivered over 2,000 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has inspired over a million people from the stage to become more creative and to look...
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...
Jonah Reider
Jonah Reider is a renowned chef who helps leaders turn hospitality into a business advantage, transforming service into loyalty, culture into performance, and experiences into brand. Known for his A-list clientele and high-touch private events in New York City, Jonah translates what great hosts do instinctively into repeatable strategies...
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...
Graham Brown-Martin
An engaging catalyst for powerful conversations and fresh thinking. Graham Brown-Martin draws on his experiences of leading teams, creating startups and scaling up organisations that challenge the status quo. Consistently ahead of the curve; he designed mobile computers in the 80s, interactive and online entertainment networks in the 90s,...
Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, Koolhaas graduated from the Architectural Association in London, and in 1978 published Delirious New York, a Retroactive...
