Vineet Nayar
Vineet Nayar is Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation and former CEO of HCL Technologies. He is also author of the highly acclaimed management book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down. With ‘Innovation led large scale social change’ as the central idea, Nayar co-founded Sampark Foundation...
Nicolas Riou
After a long career in advertising in strategic planning and business he created Brain Value in 2004, a research firm specialising in consumer studies. With a team of 20 people, Brain Value produces studies and advises their clients such as Chanel, Colgate Palmolive, L’Oréal, Mondelez, McDonald’s, Lactel, Accor, Campbell,...
Sophie Hackford
Sophie Hackford is a futurist, business builder, and speaker, synthesising explosive and interconnected technology and science breakthroughs from around the world. From satellite swarms to AI demonstrating intuition, we are becoming entangled with machines and will be surprised by the consequences. Sophie’s talks are designed to create enthusiasm and...
Danny Forster
Danny Forster is an Emmy-award-winning producer, educator, and an internationally recognised architectural designer. His wide-ranging career is unified in his singular ability to teach people to find meaning in buildings, and in his passion for opening their eyes to the built world that surrounds them. Danny was the on-screen...
Mary Portas
Retail marketing guru Mary Portas is one of the UK’s leading authorities on retail and brand communication. As Founder of London’s most respected retail branding and communications agency, Portas Agency, which explores the future of shopping and living, Mary is recognised throughout the trade as the “Queen of Shops”...
Ben Hammersley
Ben Hammersley is a journalist, futurist and technologist, specialising in the effects of the internet and the ubiquitous digital network on the world’s political, cultural and social spheres. He enjoys an international career as a trends and digital guru, explaining complex technological and sociological topics to lay audiences, and...
Tanmay Bakshi
Tanmay Bakshi, 15 years old, is a Software/Cognitive Developer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Algorithm-ist, Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor, IBM Champion for Cloud and YouTuber. He lives just outside of Toronto, in Brampton, Canada. Programming since the age of 5, he had his first iOS app, tTables, accepted when he was...
Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel MBE is the UK’s bestselling author and expert on children’s nutrition. Her books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide and her range of equipment and baby food, available in all major supermarkets, have established her as a household name. Annabel is your classic ‘mumtrepreneur’, someone who...
Gesine Thomson
Gesine Thomson is an internationally recognised Architect, Creative Planner and Life Adventurer specializing in the Creative Process and Sustainable Commercial Growth. She focuses on the Human Element of Design and is known for her deep respect of local cultures. She integrates her projects seamlessly into the surrounding social fabric....
Red Hong Yi
Known as “the artist who paints without a paintbrush”, ‘Red’ Hong Yi is an artist-architect who creates mixed media installations by reinterpreting everyday materials through the accumulation of objects. One day in January 2012, Red dribbled a basketball in red paint into a giant portrait of basketballer Yao Ming,...
