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....
Anna Bance
Anna Bance is the founder of Europe’s leading online rental website, GirlMeetsDress.com, that gives millions of women the ability to hire designer dresses and accessories for a fraction of the price. Girl Meets Dress started out whilst Anna was working for Hermes as Head of UK PR when she...
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...
Wayne Hemingway
Wayne Hemingway and his wife Geraldine built Red or Dead into a clothes label that received global acclaim, winning the prestigious British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Award for an unprecedented 3 consecutive years in 1996, 1997 and 1998. After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at...
Bob Borchers
Bob Borchers served at Apple as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone. He is currently at Opus Capital where he focused on investments in mobile applications and services as well as adjacent opportunities in both hardware and software. comes to Opus Capital. As part of the original...
Paddy Power
Paddy Power is Director of Communications for Ireland’s largest bookmaking company of the same name. They operate 160 shops in Ireland and 60 in London along with the countries largest online & phone betting operations. Paddy is the latest in a long line of bookmakers carrying the Power name,...
Angelo Vermeulen
With a passion for concepts of interstellar travel, Angelo Vermeulen brings together science and art to rethink our present and future here on Earth. He loves to challenge established ideas on how people live and work together, and how they shape the world. Through concrete experiences and anecdotes he...
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund invests patient capital to identify, strengthen, and scale business models that effectively serve the poor and champions this approach as an...
Leyla Acaroglu
Dr. Leyla Acaroglu is a New York based Australian designer, social scientist, sustainability provocateur and entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Un-School of Disruptive Design, an experimental knowledge lab and two design agencies; New York based Disrupt Design and Melbourne based Eco Innovators. Both are multidisciplinary studios focused...
Allyson Stewart-Allen
Allyson Stewart-Allen is an internationally recognized business advisor, broadcaster, speaker and educator whose expertise in the fields of international marketing and inter-cultural working is sought by international household names growing their markets around the world. A Californian based in Europe for over 25 years, Allyson applies her extensive international...
