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...
Jonas Ridderstrale
Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestseller Funky Business in 2000, Jonas Ridderstråle has remained at the forefront of the new generation of management gurus. Recently, the Global Top 30 Management Gurus ranking put him at number 23 world-wide and among the top 5 gurus in Europe. ...
Kevin Eyres
Kevin Eyres is an Angel investor within the technology space, on the Board of Advisors for “Tech City UK” with the UK Government, Chairman of Spoonfed Media. Kevin has been responsible for the International operations of three Silicon Valley companies since arriving in Europe in 2000. He was the...
James Harkin
James Harkin is an analyst and forecaster of new ideas and new social, political and technological trends and what they mean for companies, governments and institutions. He is the Director of Flockwatching, a company which uses the information on blogs, social networks and the internet to create understanding of...
Vitaly Golomb
Vitaly Golomb leads global venture investments in 3D Printing, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and other technologies of the 3rd Industrial Revolution at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley’s original startup. Before joining HP, he was a serial entrepreneur who started out as a teenage designer....
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...
Iyad Rahwan
Iyad Rahwan is the AT&T Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Scalable Cooperation group. A native of Aleppo, Syria, Rahwan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is an affiliate faculty...
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...
