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...
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,...
Eliza Filby
Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and consultant who specialises in ‘Generational Intelligence’ helping companies and services understandgenerational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. Her research incorporates everyone from Baby Boomers right through to Generation Alpha (those born after 2010) Eliza helps businesses – whether it is...
Rhea Singhal
Rhea Singhal is Founder and CEO of Ecoware, India’s largest sustainable food packaging company. Prior to which, Rhea was a senior sales executive in the Oncology team at Pfizer UK. She founded Ecoware with the sole aim of fixing India’s plastic menace. Ecoware disrupted the food packing industry by...
Sutapa Sanyal
Sutapa Sanyal is an award-winning speaker and expert on Diversity & Inclusion, Gender Equality and Women’s Leadership. Ms. Sanyal was the first woman to serve as Director General of Police in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh and was awarded the Police Medal for Distinguished Services by the Hon....
Joy Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini is a poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more ethical and inclusive technology. Her TED Featured Talk on algorithmic bias has over 1 million views. Her...
Claire Chiang
Claire is a co-founder of Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts and pioneered the Group’s retail business. Banyan Tree is a global hospitality business with a portfolio of 47 hotels in 23 countries on 4 continents. As Chairperson for China Business Development for Banyan Tree, she focuses on acquiring new...
Melati Wijsen
Melati Wijsen is a 22 year old full time changemaker. She has founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister & has been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013 at the age of 12. She has also started the people movement One Island One Voice and...
Rafidah Aziz
Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz was born in Selama, Perak in 1943. She obtained her BA in Economics and Masters in Economics from the University of Malaya. She taught at the Faculty of Economics from 1966 to 1976, until she began her career as a simultaneously participating in the politics...
Lisa Forte
Lisa Forte is a Cyber Security Expert. Forte started her career in security trying to stop pirates from attacking ships off the coast of Somalia. She then worked in UK Counter Terrorism Intelligence before moving into one of the UK Police Cyber Crime Units. She founded her own company,...
