Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields
Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields) is a technology industry veteran who currently serves as Group CEO for BenevolentAI. BenevolentAI is the market leader in harnessing the power of AI to enhance and accelerate global scientific discovery. She previously served as UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security from 2015-17. An...
Hugh Herr
Hugh directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. His research program seeks to advance technologies that promise to accelerate the merging of body and machine, including device architectures that resemble the body’s musculoskeletal design, actuator technologies that behave like muscle, and control methodologies that exploit principles of...
Julie Meyer
A respected expert in investment in digital, high-growth and early stage businesses, Meyer has driven many important initiatives for creating wealth and growth in the European economy, and backed some of the most explosive growth companies of this era. A business adviser, networking expert, broadcaster and business commentator, she...
Till Behnke
Till Behnke is the founder of betterplace.org, the German online donation platform working since 2007 with non-profit organisations supporting 10,000 projects in over 145 countries and advising companies on corporate responsibility. Till believes in digitalisation as the biggest opportunity for more equal opportunities in this world. Just after high...
Tony Sales
Tony Sales is one of very few people to have ever worked at both the summit of organised crime and the pinnacle of fraud and loss prevention. After a career spanning 30 years, Sales has expertise in a wide range of criminal activities covering the online and offline worlds....
Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali is a leading French economist, author, businessman and government adviser. He was the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Under his leadership it promoted investments which aimed to protect nuclear power plants and the environment, develop infrastructure and reinforce private sector competitiveness....
Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin is arguably the world’s foremost authority on climate change. He is a leading international environmentalist and has been independent environmental advisor to successive UK Prime Ministers. He educates and advises governments, scientists, businesses and universities throughout the world on the importance of sustainable development. Sir Crispin wants...
Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra is the author of six international bestsellers and a founding director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. The Centre advances schooling for sustainability; its most recent book on this growing movement in K-12 schools is Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (2009). Dr. Capra is...
Bruno Marion
Bruno Marion is a futurist, an expert on global trends and innovation. For many years, he has been in constant demand for delivering keynotes, doing masterclasses for executives and providing strategic coaching to CEO’s on future trends, organizational shifts and radical innovation. Over the past 15 years Bruno has...
Larry Downes
Larry Downes is an internet industry analyst and author on developing business strategies in an age of constant technological disruption. Downes is author of the New York Times and Business Week business blockbuster, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which sold over 200,000 copies and was...
