Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard is the Initiator and President of the Solar Impulse Project, which aims to fly a solar-powered aircraft non-stop around the world. Solar Impulse 2 took off on 9 March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, heading east in it’s record-breaking attempt. After the first ever oceanic crossing by a...
Vuyo Mahlati
Dr Vuyo Mahlati is an entrepreneur as well as public policy and development planning specialist. Having served two terms as International Women”s Forum (IWF) SA Vuyo has now joined the global board as a director. She is serving her second term as member of South Africa’s National Planning Commission...
Sir John Armitt
Sir John Armitt is currently Chairman of the National Express Group and City & Guilds, and is Deputy Chairman of the Berkeley Group. Sir John is also a member of the Board of Transport for London and the Airports Commission; he is Senior Vice President of the Institution of...
Larry Downes
Larry Downes is an internet industry analyst and author on developing business strategies in an age of constant technological disruption. Downes is author of the New York Times and Business Week business blockbuster, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which sold over 200,000 copies and was...
Porter Erisman
Porter Erisman is a former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-08), China’s internet giant. He witnessed it grow from humble beginnings into the world’s largest e-commerce company. Erisman first arrived in China in 1994 and, after a year studying Chinese, he fell into a six-month stint as host of China...
Fredrik Haren
Fredrik Härén is an author and expert on creativity, change and global business. Härén’s speciality is to be the “Global Conference Speaker”. He has delivered 2,000 presentations in over 60 countries on 6 continents. Härén knows how to craft a speech so that, let’s say, an American, a Brazilian,...
Jon Duschinsky
Jon Duschinsky is one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on engagement, leadership and the future of business. As the CEO of The Conversation Farm, Duschinsky leads a global team of creative talent that brings fresh ideas designed to change the way people talk about issues, causes and...
Dr. Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua University, and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He also chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation in China and Indonesia. He is author of Theory U and co-author of Presence and Leading from...
Jonah Reider
Jonah Reider is a student, researcher, entrepreneur, musician, and chef. He studies business organization with respect to macroeconomic phenomena, explaining aspects of national and global inequality by examining the structure and behavior of firms. He has worked for Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, exploring the mixed consequences of globalization and...
Dan Germain
Dan Germain is Group Head of Brand at innocent, the healthy drinks company. He’s worked there since the company started in 1999, and in 2014 was named Designer of the Year in the UK, beating Apple’s Sir Jonathan Ive and Sir Paul Smith among others. These days his duties...
