Tanmay Bakshi
Tanmay Bakshi, 15 years old, is a Software/Cognitive Developer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Algorithm-ist, Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor, IBM Champion for Cloud and YouTuber. He lives just outside of Toronto, in Brampton, Canada. Programming since the age of 5, he had his first iOS app, tTables, accepted when he was...
Nicolas Riou
After a long career in advertising in strategic planning and business he created Brain Value in 2004, a research firm specialising in consumer studies. With a team of 20 people, Brain Value produces studies and advises their clients such as Chanel, Colgate Palmolive, L’Oréal, Mondelez, McDonald’s, Lactel, Accor, Campbell,...
Sophie Hackford
Sophie Hackford is a futurist, business builder, and speaker, synthesising explosive and interconnected technology and science breakthroughs from around the world. From satellite swarms to AI demonstrating intuition, we are becoming entangled with machines and will be surprised by the consequences. Sophie’s talks are designed to create enthusiasm and...
Danny Forster
Danny Forster is an Emmy-award-winning producer, educator, and an internationally recognised architectural designer. His wide-ranging career is unified in his singular ability to teach people to find meaning in buildings, and in his passion for opening their eyes to the built world that surrounds them. Danny was the on-screen...
Richard Huntingford
Richard is a highly-respected executive and public speaker with over 25 years experience of the media industry, both as an entrepreneur and a senior Board member, including CEO of Chrysalis plc, the global music and media group, and Executive Chairman of Virgin Radio. He is best known as the...
Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel MBE is the UK’s bestselling author and expert on children’s nutrition. Her books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide and her range of equipment and baby food, available in all major supermarkets, have established her as a household name. Annabel is your classic ‘mumtrepreneur’, someone who...
Gesine Thomson
Gesine Thomson is an internationally recognised Architect, Creative Planner and Life Adventurer specializing in the Creative Process and Sustainable Commercial Growth. She focuses on the Human Element of Design and is known for her deep respect of local cultures. She integrates her projects seamlessly into the surrounding social fabric....
Red Hong Yi
Known as “the artist who paints without a paintbrush”, ‘Red’ Hong Yi is an artist-architect who creates mixed media installations by reinterpreting everyday materials through the accumulation of objects. One day in January 2012, Red dribbled a basketball in red paint into a giant portrait of basketballer Yao Ming,...
Lisa Ma
Combining ethnographic research and speculative design, Lisa Ma creates platforms of engagement from surprising insights and processes, that deeply resonate with the global technological community. Placing herself as a critical explorer, Lisa Ma has built, for the city of Ghent – a political culture of consuming the invasive species...
Norman Abdul Halim
Norman was exposed to the world of business at the early age of 20, after graduating with a Diploma in Accountancy from a renowned college. Armed with a vision, his first foray was in 1992 with a modest capital of RM2,000. Putting to practice the knowledge he had accumulated,...
