Luc Julia
Human-machine interaction specialist, Dr Luc Julia, co-created voice assistant Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at HP, and co-founded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. As CTO and VP Innovation for Samsung 2012-17, he led the company’s vision and strategy for the Internet of Things. Now, as...
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick is a famous hacker, bestselling author, and expert on cyber security. Once one of the FBI’s Most Wanted because he hacked into 40 major corporations just for the challenge, Mitnick is now a trusted security consultant to the Fortune 500 and governments worldwide. Mitnick mentors leaders, executives,...
Aubrey De Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating the ageing process. He is also VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup...
Peter Diamandis
Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley...
Rachel Whetstone
Rachel Whetstone is Chief Communications Officer at Netflix, Inc. since August 27, 2018. Prior to joining Netflix, she served as Vice President of communications at Facebook Inc. She served as Senior Vice President of Communications and Public Policy of Google Inc. In February 2013, Whetstone was assessed as one...
Joy Ajlouny
Businesswoman, serial entrepreneur and advisor, Joy Ajlouny is a flash-bang grenade thrown into the Middle East. Born and raised in California to Palestinian refugees, Ajlouny has built a reputation for her success in startups and ventures worldwide, all the while disrupting the status quo of women in business. Belonging...
Denis Rivin
Denis Rivin is a Futurist, art historian and entrepreneur. He is an associate partner at DareDisrupt, Nordic ambassador of EthicsNET, founder of public education platform Of Course Off Course and co-founder of think tank Nordic Bildung. Denis does keynotes on Exponential Mindset, Future of Education, Mass Collaboration and Critical...
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking uses story-telling to help audiences understand and engage with science. Lucy is the creator of the George Greenby books, a series of adventure stories which use dramatic story-telling to explain complex science to young audiences. Lucy has collaborated with several distinguished scientists on the George Greenby series,...
Ian Russell
Ian Russell was CEO of BCX, South Africa’s largest technology company, with a turnover of $2bn, and an employee base of 10,000. Russell’s tenure saw a focused re-engineering of the company, simplifying the core of the business, creating new technology capabilities, and a massive shift of the brand towards...
Mike Massimino
Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut, and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Massimino has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission and was also the first person to tweet from space. He is...
