David Kester
David leads and advises on complex innovation and design projects with industry and national governments. He has worked in the creative industries for 25 years and is a former Chief Executive of the UK Design Council, which he successfully merged with CABE. David is Chairman of the leading retail...
Jack Milner
Jack Milner is one of the most versatile and prolific creators on the London comedy scene. For many years, he has pursued simultaneous careers as a director, writer, comedy actor, facilitator and producer in theatre, television, film and radio. He has participated in over one hundred productions, both on...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Sophie Bialaszewski
Sophie Bialaszewski isn’t your usual digital leader, neither is how she got there. With a background in public policy and communications her differentiator is her ability to combine culture change, innovation and communications to deliver campaigns and programmes that inspire and excite people. Sophie is passionate about helping people...
Simon Woodroffe
Founder, owner and creative driving force behind all things YO!, Simon Woodroffe left school at the age of 16 and spent 30 years in the entertainment business. His production companies in London and Los Angeles designed and staged concerts for many artists during the 70′s and 80′s, including The...
