Chad Hurley
In an era when “game-changer,” “status quo disrupter,” and “new standard,” are tossed around regularly, there are only a small handful of brands and technologies that serve as the indisputable, iconic personifications of those monikers. YouTube is one such entity. Serving as a website, a brand, and a verb,...
Christian Rangen
Christian Rangen is a strategist, author, entrepreneur and business school lecturer. He consults companies around the world on innovation, business models, leadership and change. He helps companies on strategic transformation and corporate entrepreneurship. Most recently, he has been developing and running corporate accelerator programmes on smart cities, energy, digital...
Farland Chang
Farland Chang is an Emmy Award winning international journalist, Executive Producer & Founder of WorldBizWatch — a media strategy & global video production company. In a journalism career spanning more than 20 years, Farland has covered top stories across Asia and North America. And he has reported on and...
Andy McNab
From the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy’s Hospital, Andy McNab has lived an extraordinary life. As a teenage delinquent, he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh....
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...
Shivvy Jervis
What is the science behind why we give up, or why logic is more about feeling than we might think? What are the most unusual jobs of the future or the skills you’ll need to stay future ready? Why should you know about ‘augmented commerce’, emotionally aware apps or the connectivity...
Simon Moores
Dr. Simon Moores is a disruptive technologist and security futurist as well as Vice President of the Conservative Technology Forum and Director of the open market policy think tank, Aediles. A former UK ‘Technology Ambassador’ during the Government of Tony Blair, he co-authored the Conservative ‘Digital Plan for Britain’...
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...
Jerry Kaplan
Jerry Kaplan is a Silicon Valley veteran best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry. Kaplan founded several technology companies, two of which became public companies. Kaplan was founder and CEO of GO Corporation, and prior to GO, Kaplan co-founded Teknowledge, one of the first...
Nikesh Arora
He left Google in July 2014 resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer. There Nikesh oversaw all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led...
