We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
Dan Gingiss is an international keynote speaker and customer experience expert with a dynamic and engaging speaking style that has captivated hundreds of audiences around the globe. Believing that a remarkable customer experience is the best competitive advantage, Dan shares insights from his 20-year professional career that included leadership positions at McDonald’s, Discover, and Humana. As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), which fewer than 600 speakers worldwide have achieved, his speaking engagements are enriched by real-world examples, actionable strategies, and a...
David Croft is the acclaimed commentator and presenter for Sky Sports F1 HD channel. He is globally regarded as an outstanding commentating talent famed for the passion and enthusiasm he brings to every event he covers. 2025 marks Crofty’s 20th season commentating on Formula 1. With his “Lights Out And Away We Go” starting commentary, Crofty’s voice is instantly recognised worldwide by F1 fans. Prior to 2012 David was the F1 correspondent and commentator for BBC Radio 5live where he...
A Yorkshire lass - for those in the dark, that’s in the North of England! - now based in Berlin, Annette believes every decade brings new challenges and opportunities for growth. After 10 demanding years in the film industry, she redirected her focus for the next 10 years to communication skills and the event industry. Specialising as a trilingual Master of Ceremonies and pianist for companies worldwide, as well as developing her work as a communication artist with voice work, singing and...
Glen Goodman is the popular, trusted face of investing, well-known for his regular appearances on BBC News, LBC and Bloomberg TV, explaining finance and global economics in a lively, accessible manner. A Business Correspondent for BBC and ITV News for 15 years, Glen went from reporting the headlines to making them, when he famously turned a £3,000 trade into £100,000 - a story he later shared in The Times. He was able to quit his job, while still in his 30s, as...
One of the most celebrated comics of her generation since the early nineties, Eddie Izzard has an equally stellar reputation as a film, television and stage actor. Izzard's world-renowned stand-up shows include Unrepeatable, Definite Article, Glorious and Dress to Kill, which earned her a New York Drama Desk Award and two Emmys. Eddie/Suzy now tours her shows in four languages English, French, German and Spanish in countries all over the world. She completed her most recent global tour, The Remix in...
Richard Ayoade is a multi-award winning comedian, actor, writer, director and television presenter. Richard is best known for his role in the Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, for which he won a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance, and fronting nine series of the popular Channel 4 programme Travel Man. He has directed two feature films – Submarine (2010) and The Double (2013) – as well as various music videos for bands. Richard often appears on comedy panel shows such as Big...
Brian Evergreen is one of the most respected voices on strategy, leadership, and AI as a leading author, advisor, and speaker. Brian is the author of Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, named a Next Big Idea Club "Must-Read" and selected as one of the Thinkers50 Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2024. In 2025, Brian was named one of the Top 50 AI Creators You Need to Know by Edelman, was featured in...
Laura Ellis is a Technologist, Journalist and Keynote Speaker on AI, with a focus on emerging technology, machine learning, disinformation, and data. Laura has worked on news teams in radio, TV, and online and led two regional news and current affairs teams through significant technology change, establishing the BBC’s first end-to-end digital newsroom. In her current role she focuses on ensuring the BBC is best placed to take advantage of emerging technology and takes a particular interest in ethics, personalised and automated...
Mark Little is an entrepreneur and journalist working to understand the impact of technology on media and democracy. Mark is the co-founder of Kinzen, which used AI and human analysis to detect online harms, and the founder of Storyful, the world's first social news agency. Mark has worked on trust and safety issues at Spotify, and developed media partnerships for Twitter. He is a former TV presenter and foreign correspondent for RTE, and was a member of the Future of...
Terry Szuplat is a sought-after speaker and trainer and the author of the national bestseller Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience in which he shares the public speaking lessons he learned as one of President Barack Obama's longest-serving White House speechwriters. From 2009 to 2017, Terry served as a special assistant to the president and as a member of the National Security Council staff, and from 2013 to 2017 he was the deputy director...
A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of 8, Diana Kander had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thirties. Today, she is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities. As a consultant, Diana has helped create multi-billion dollar products, coached boards and executive committees on innovation best-practices, and implemented culture transformations....
Sara Davison is an author and podcaster whose expertise on the issues surrounding divorce, breakup and domestic abuse has made her a global name. Known as The Divorce Coach, Sara empowers people to take back control of their lives post-breakup, while providing a framework for business to support employees suffering personal turmoil. Her training school, The International Divorce Coach Centre of Excellence, has trained over 700 coaches around the world, in five continents. She is a founding member of Tatler...
Russell Beck is a leading expert on the world of work and how businesses and individuals can make themselves future-ready. Drawing on a rich tapestry of experience spanning continents and industries he has worked as an engineering project leader in 25 countries, as European Head of Talent, as Managing Director of a £120 million turnover outsourcing business, and global head of consulting for a £4 billion turnover recruitment and people strategy business. An author, consultant and regular international speaker, Russell...
Dr. Ruth Gotian studies success–extreme success–and teaches people how to achieve it on their own. For her research, she has interviewed some of the most successful people in the world, including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, Olympians, and NBA champions, uncovering the strategies behind their achievements and sharing actionable insights with audiences worldwide. Hailed by Nature, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NBC News, she was named a top 20 mentor worldwide. Thinkers50 ranked her as the #1 emerging...
Weslynne Ashton is a Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she holds a joint appointment at the Stuart School of Business and the Institute of Design, and co-directs the Food Systems Action Lab. A sustainable systems scientist, she has spent more than 25 years exploring how industries, communities, and ecosystems can thrive together through principles of industrial ecology, circular economy, and design-led innovation. Her research and practice focus on helping organisations transition from a circular economy to a circular...
Attika Choudhary is an award-winning journalist, presenter and documentary filmmaker whose career spans nearly two decades of reporting from some of the world’s most challenging environments. With frontline experience in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq, she is known for her incisive storytelling, empathetic approach and ability to bring global attention to underreported and overlooked issues. She began her broadcasting career as a news presenter at Sunrise Radio, before going on to work with both B4U Music and the BBC,...