John Bruton
John Bruton was the EU Ambassador to the United States from 2004 to 2009, and previously the Irish Prime Minister. As a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), John Bruton helped transform the Irish economy into the “Celtic Tiger”, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. During his...
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...
Guy Kawasaki
Guy was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1954. His family lived in a tough part of Honolulu called Kalihi Valley. They weren’t rich, but he never felt poor because his parents made many sacrifices. His mother was a housewife, and his father was a fireman, real estate broker, state...
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...
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....
Nicklas Bergman
Nicklas Bergman has spent the last 25 years working as an entrepreneur and technology investor, mostly focusing on emerging markets, instrumentation, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art. Bergman is strategic advisor to European Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the European Innovation Council, working on a new innovation strategy...
Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a contributing writer for Fast Company, author of the forthcoming book Engineering Serendipity, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. He is also a senior fellow of the New Cities Foundation — where he leads the...
Marcus East
Marcus East is an international technology and product executive and CDO/CIO/CTO with nearly 30 years experience of working in the Information Technology, specialising in Digital Product, Digital Transformations and Electronic Commerce. Marcus started his career with IBM where he spent six years honing his consulting and strategy skills, before...
Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001-14. He was the face of the German capital for more than 13 years and is credited with giving it a “poor, but sexy” brand internationally. Wowereit was born in Berlin in 1953 and studied law at the Free University...
Tommy Stadlen
Tommy Stadlen is a Founding Partner of Giant Ventures, the global venture capital firm backing purpose-driven technology founders. Giant has offices in London, LA and Copenhagen. Tommy is Co-Founder of the Tailwind SPAC platform, which has launched three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn. He...
