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...
Dr. Xiang Bing
Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean, Professor, and Head of the largest and leading business school in China, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). A noted scholar, public intellectual, well-known management consultant, and leading authority on Chinese business, Xiang has played an important role in developing China’s...
Luc Besson
Luc Besson is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Starting out in 1977 as an assistant director in France and the USA, he gradually emerged as one of very few French directors and producers of international stature. In 1983, Luc Besson directed his first feature, The Last Battle, which...
Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. Lynda is considered one of the world’s authorities on people in organisations. A trained psychologist, she worked for British Airways for several years as an occupational psychologist. Prior to joining London Business School she was director of HR...
James Bannerman
James Bannerman is author of GENIUS!, the best selling book which sets out to increase the number of genius moments in your life. He is also a creative change agent who combines creativity with psychology to help businesses innovate. As an innovation consultant he has worked with many leading...
Claire Rowland
Claire Rowland is an experienced UX (User Experience) and product consultant who has particular expertise in connected products, or what tends to be called the internet of things (IoT). Claire is from a software UX background, mainly for web, mobile and digital service design, but has particular expertise in...
Richard Scase
Richard Scase is a leading academic, entrepreneur, researcher and forecaster. As an academic, his research interests range from organisational change and entrepreneurship to the impact of internet technologies and the restructuring of work and employment worldwide. He has a geographical breadth of experience ranging from his duties as Emeritus...
Reg Athwal
Founder & Chairman, RTS Global Partners and Executive Chairman, TAO Legacy Family Office. Founder & Chief Mentor, Family Business Academy and Fobillion. Best-Selling Author & World Renowned Family Business Advisor. Reg has personally advised 181 family business groups to date from 1st to 12th generation and directly supported $6.2b+...
Carlo Ratti
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and...
