Timnit Gebru
Dr Timnit Gebru is a researcher in artificial intelligence, working to reduce the potential negative impacts of AI. Until her recent firing from Google which ignited a labor movement resulting in the first union to be formed by tech workers at Google, Timnit co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence research...
Joanna Rowsell
Joanna Rowsell is a cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team. She competed in the London 2012 Olympics winning Gold in the Women’s Team Pursuit, she repeated this feat in 2016 winning Gold again at the Rio Olympics. She is currently the National, European and World Champion, and also...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is a Jamaican track and field sprinter. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser-Pryce ascended to prominence in the 2008 Olympic Games when at 21 years old, the relatively unknown athlete became the first Caribbean woman to win 100 m gold at the Olympics. In 2012, she successfully defended...
Patty McCord
Patty McCord brings the Silicon Valley concepts of fresh ideas and innovation and applies them to rethinking the way we work. As the former chief talent officer of Netflix, Patty spent fourteen years experimenting with new ways to work, and was instrumental in creating the brilliant Netflix Culture Deck....
Susan Santos de Cardenas
A pioneer advocate specializing on sustainable tourism development and stewardship initiatives with community social responsibility at grassroots application. She had been a staunch innovator, resource person in learning and capacity building workshops for sustainable tourism to include Ecotourism, Community-based and Agri-Tourism promotion. Susan specializes in sustainable tourism development with...
Judit Polgár
In 1991 Judit Polgár became the youngest ever Grandmaster at just 15-year-old. She is generally regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time and in 2001 was proclaimed the Female Chess Player of the Century. At the age of 9, Polgár won her first international tournament in...
Ghida Fakhry
Ghida Fakhry started her journalistic career over 25 years ago in London. She is a British/Lebanese national currently based in Washington DC, and the Host and Managing Editor of Inside America, a weekly program about US politics, and Bigger than Five, a global affairs program broadcast on TRT World...
Wei Du
Wei Du is a highly experienced, versatile talent who directs, produces, and presents documentaries and current affairs programs for CNA. She was named Best Factual Presenter at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2024 and was a nominee for Presenter of the Year at the AIB Awards in London....
Henry Rose Lee
Henry Rose Lee is one of very few inter-generational diversity experts helping organisations to improve the contribution and profitable performance of the youngest talent in the workplace today. Author of three books on maximising today’s young talent, (Generation Z and Millennials), Henry Rose Lee busts myths and gives practical...
