Prof. Michael Wooldridge
Professor Michael Wooldridge is a distinguished academic and researcher, serving as the Head of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and the Co-programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute. His outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence have been recognized with the prestigious Lovelace Medal...
Emilie Sydney-Smith
Emilie is CEO of corporate transformation consultancy, E5S. She was previously the Chief Transformation Officer for Aboitiz, the Philippines’ second largest conglomerate. She created new business lines with nation-building scale and doubled or tripled the usual profit potential. She also created programs to transform the existing companies and culture...
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on the ins and outs of machine learning and ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published around 100 papers on natural language generation, assistive technology, computer vision, and AI ethics, and holds multiple patents in the areas of conversation generation and sentiment...
Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), an initiative focused on developing profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. ELIAS links twenty leading global institutions across the three sectors of business, government, and civil society. He...
Priya Lakhani
Priya Lakhani OBE is the Founder CEO of CENTURY Tech, the award-winning education technology company that develops AI-powered learning tools for schools, colleges, universities and employers across the world. In 2008, Priya left her career as a barrister to launch a successful FMCG business, which through its charitable foundation...
David A. Smith
David Smith is Chief Executive and Futurist at Global Futures and Foresight, a futures research firm, based in London, which he has led for the past 13 years. He has over 35 years of marketing, leadership, and strategy experience, in global IT and IT services firms and was responsible...
Andrew Grill
Actionable Futurist and former IBM Global Managing Partner Andrew Grill is a popular and sought-after keynote speaker and trusted board-level technology advisor. With a broad career spanning over 30 years in large corporates such as IBM, British Aerospace and Telstra, as well as 12 years running technology start-ups, Andrew...
Sofie Lindblom
Sofie’s expertise lies in turning complex challenges into concrete plans for organizations to create value and take the lead in their respective industries. During the past ten years she has led over 100 innovation processes in different roles and organizations. Among other things, she was the head of innovation...
Robert Garbett
Robert Garbett is one of the world’s foremost experts in drone technology and Founder and Chief Executive of Drone Major Group Limited, the world’s leading global Drone and Counter Drone consultancy. He is an ex-army entrepreneur who ended his military career in 2007 as the head of airworthiness for...
