Erik Heinelt
Erik Heinelt is one of the leading startup entrepreneurs. He has started and run internet startups on three continents and “Wirtschaftswoche” rated him one of the leaders of the startup-scene. Heinelt (born 1987) studied at European Business School in Reutlingen and started his career at Rocket Internet AG, where...
Jerry Kaplan
Jerry Kaplan is a Silicon Valley veteran best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry. Kaplan founded several technology companies, two of which became public companies. Kaplan was founder and CEO of GO Corporation, and prior to GO, Kaplan co-founded Teknowledge, one of the first...
Nikesh Arora
He left Google in July 2014 resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer. There Nikesh oversaw all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led...
Andrew Keen
Entrepreneur, author and broadcaster Andrew Keen is among the world’s best known contemporary analysts of digital business and culture, and commentators on the digital revolution. He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show “Keen On”, a Senior Fellow at...
Kevin Eyres
Kevin Eyres is an Angel investor within the technology space, on the Board of Advisors for “Tech City UK” with the UK Government, Chairman of Spoonfed Media. Kevin has been responsible for the International operations of three Silicon Valley companies since arriving in Europe in 2000. He was the...
Richard Scase
Richard Scase is a leading academic, entrepreneur, researcher and forecaster. As an academic, his research interests range from organisational change and entrepreneurship to the impact of internet technologies and the restructuring of work and employment worldwide. He has a geographical breadth of experience ranging from his duties as Emeritus...
James Harkin
James Harkin is an analyst and forecaster of new ideas and new social, political and technological trends and what they mean for companies, governments and institutions. He is the Director of Flockwatching, a company which uses the information on blogs, social networks and the internet to create understanding of...
Vitaly Golomb
Vitaly Golomb leads global venture investments in 3D Printing, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and other technologies of the 3rd Industrial Revolution at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley’s original startup. Before joining HP, he was a serial entrepreneur who started out as a teenage designer....
Jim Noble
Jim Noble is widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost IT thought leaders. In 2013 he was voted #7 “Most Influential Technology Executive” by Forbes Magazine and in 2012 he was Winner of CIO magazine’s 2012 annual award for technology innovation. During his career, Jim has has...
Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee is Co-founder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, which explores the business and social implications of the digital age and was named a...
