Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001-14. He was the face of the German capital for more than 13 years and is credited with giving it a “poor, but sexy” brand internationally. Wowereit was born in Berlin in 1953 and studied law at the Free University...
Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2012 for his work on stem cell research. Originally an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Yamanaka made his breakthrough discovery in 2006 when he succeeded in using already specialised adult cells to generate ‘induced pluripotent stem cells’ or iPS cells with...
Nicklas Bergman
Nicklas Bergman has spent the last 25 years working as an entrepreneur and technology investor, mostly focusing on emerging markets, instrumentation, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art. Bergman is strategic advisor to European Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the European Innovation Council, working on a new innovation strategy...
Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a contributing writer for Fast Company, author of the forthcoming book Engineering Serendipity, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. He is also a senior fellow of the New Cities Foundation — where he leads the...
Marcus East
Marcus East is an international technology and product executive and CDO/CIO/CTO with nearly 30 years experience of working in the Information Technology, specialising in Digital Product, Digital Transformations and Electronic Commerce. Marcus started his career with IBM where he spent six years honing his consulting and strategy skills, before...
Tommy Stadlen
Tommy Stadlen is a Founding Partner of Giant Ventures, the global venture capital firm backing purpose-driven technology founders. Giant has offices in London, LA and Copenhagen. Tommy is Co-Founder of the Tailwind SPAC platform, which has launched three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn. He...
Jordan Casey
Jordan Casey is one of the world’s youngest serial entrepreneurs. Casey became well known when he became one of Europe’s youngest iOS app developers by releasing a mobile game onto the iTunes store. The game called Alien Ball Vs Humans subsequently went to No 1 on iTunes. Casey began...
Simon Dingle
Filling the stage with apps and gadgets, Simon provides an entertaining tour of the latest in business, personal finance and digital trends. He has presented talks at over one hundred events internationally. Simon has also met with the top minds in the industry – including CEOs of IBM, Nokia...
Arnaud Bonzom
Arnaud has been immersed for 10+ years in the startup ecosystem and conducting relevant research since 2013. As the Founder & Managing Director of Black Mangroves, he uses data, analytics, and insights to answer complex entrepreneurship-related questions and to advise Fortune 500 companies and Governments on their startup engagements....
