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,...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
Patrick Bergel
Patrick Bergel is a technology entrepreneur and digital strategy consultant. He was previously Founder and CEO of London’s first mobile search startup, Cluster, and most recently launched mobile data-sharing platform Chirp as CEO and Founder. Chirp was the #1 download on iOS in six countries including the UK and...
Louisa Heinrich
Louisa is a design, strategy and innovation leader. Over the past 20 years, she has been part of the development of many technologies that are now considered commonplace. As design director during the first dotcom boom, Louisa led the design of some of the first digital consumer projects for...
Martin McCourt
Martin McCourt has spent over 40 years working at the heart of British-based manufacturing, design and marketing for quality brands such as Dyson, Mars, Duracell, Toshiba and Pelikan.McCourt was the CEO of Dyson for 15 years. As CEO, he devised and implemented a strategy that transformed the company from...
Richard Needham
Sir Richard Needham has spent over 45 years in business and politics. He has unrivalled access at the highest levels into both public and private sectors in Asia, Europe and the US. Sir Richard originally served as a Conservative MP and Trade Minister. From 1985-1992 Richard was the Minister...
