David Rowan
David Rowan is Editor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine’s UK edition, Condé Nast’s award-winning technology-and-innovations magazine that stays ahead of the trends transforming our world. Rowan has travelled the world investigating the companies and entrepreneurs changing our world, spending time with the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Nest, Xiaomi and...
Russell Davies
Russell Davies is a writer and strategist. He’s spent twenty-five years working with organisations like Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Honda and LOCOG (London 2012) figuring out what happens when organisations and services meet the internet. His most well-known work is probably the strategy development that led to Honda’s ‘Power Of...
Claudia Kemfert
Claudia Kemfert is currently Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin since 2009 and Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004. Prior to this, from 2004 – 2009 Claudia was...
Stephen Attenborough
Stephen Attenborough is the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic, a company mainly owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group which is on track to become the world’s first passenger carrying commercial spaceline. Stephen joined Virgin Galactic as the company’s first full time employee in 2004 to put in place...
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology and cyber specialist. He is best known for his role until 2010 as a spokesperson for whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks in Germany. A network security expert by trade, Domscheit-Berg is a passionate advocate for transparency and freedom...
Kinvara Balfour
Kinvara is a director, producer, writer and speaker. Her work spans the worlds of fashion, tech, theatre and film. Kinvara has advised and directed the launch of several major tech start-ups in UK and USA. She hosts conversations with global game changers on stage and directs them on film....
Larissa Tan
Being one of the few female leaders in the technology and automotive industry, Larissa Tan heads up Singapore’s first electric vehicle company, Vanda Electrics. Under her leadership, Vanda Electrics recently launched the Dendrobium, Singapore’s first hyper car and also the world’s first fully electric hyper car with the technical...
Stephan Sigrist
Stephan Sigrist has spent more than ten years analysing interdisciplinary developments in business and society, focusing on trends in the healthcare system and life sciences as well as such topics as digitisation in the banking sector for media or the industry. He is the publisher of the ABSTRAKT book...
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. He hails from Pakistani’s Swat Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept open his own school. He also inspired his daughter, Malala Yousafzai,...
Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez is one of those unique individuals who lives in the future and works on the cutting edge of discovery. He is an active investor in early-stage private companies in the life sciences sector, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on the uses and benefits of...
