We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
Joanne Lockwood is The Inclusive Culture Expert, a global CPD-accredited speaker, and the Founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen. She partners with organisations worldwide to build cultures where people genuinely belong, focusing on inclusive leadership, workplace culture, diversity, equity and inclusion, and the human impact of emerging technologies.Drawing on a career that spans technology, business and people consulting, Joanne brings a distinctive blend of strategic insight and lived experience. Before specialising in HR and inclusion, she spent over two...
Norma Garcia works at the seam where Hollywood, emerging technology and international creative industries converge. She recently delivered the closing keynote at CineEurope in Barcelona, speaking to nearly 1,000 cinema executives on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the entertainment business.A media and technology executive with more than 25 years of international experience, Norma Garcia has held senior leadership roles at Lucasfilm, Paramount Pictures, Dolby Laboratories, THX and Kaleidescape. She led global marketing for some of the most iconic franchises in...
Holly Mead is an award-winning financial journalist, broadcaster and event host with more than 15 years’ experience in the media. She specialises in making complex money topics engaging, accessible and relevant for a wide range of audiences.A former Deputy Money Editor at The Times & The Sunday Times, Holly Mead has led coverage on personal finance, investing, pensions and consumer affairs. She is a regular money expert on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Money...
Leader, NeuroLeadership Practitioner, and award-winning magician, Alex Moffat is an award-winning keynote speaker, NeuroLeadership Institute Facilitator, Certified Brain-Based Coach, and experienced corporate leader. Drawing on more than two decades in global organisations across the UK and Australia, including around a decade in senior leadership, Alex has led teams through transformation, growth, and complex organisational change. Alongside his corporate career, he has spent more than 30 years as a professional magician, earning multiple international accolades, including recognition at the British National Close-Up...
Andrew (Andy) Haldane CBE is a leading British economist, currently Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and President of the British Chambers of Commerce. He is Chair of the Glasshouse International Centre for Music and Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, as well as Founder and President of the charity Pro Bono Economics and Chair of the National Numeracy Leadership Council. Andy Haldane is a Contributing Editor at the Financial Times and serves as an Ambassador for the charities National...
Neil Tsui is an international keynote speaker, para-athlete and former corporate leader who specialises in resilience, change and performance under pressure. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in corporate recruitment and business development across Asia, he combines commercial insight with a powerful personal story of overcoming extreme adversity. In 2023, Neil Tsui survived a life-threatening battle with sepsis that resulted in 17 surgeries and the loss of both legs below the knee. His recovery demanded not only physical rehabilitation...
Paul Dickinson is the Founder of Transition Value Partners, where he advises boards and C-suite leaders on maximising shareholder value through transition, with a particular focus on policy advocacy, also called ‘Geo-System Strategy’™. Through Transition Value Partners, Paul Dickinson conducts climate governance reviews for major organisations, including the Group Board of NatWest. Paul Dickinson is also the Founder and Strategic Advisor to CDP, the global climate change reporting system. He founded CDP in 2000 with the ambition of creating a global...
Dr. Mazlan Othman is Malaysia’s first astrophysicist and a pioneering leader in space science, policy, and diplomacy. She earned her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1981 and began her career as a lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). From the outset, Dr. Mazlan Othman combined scientific excellence with institution-building, helping to lay the foundations for Malaysia’s presence in space science and technology.Throughout the 1990s, Dr. Mazlan Othman played a pivotal role in shaping Malaysia’s...
Gianni Giacomelli thinks most organisations are making a category error about artificial intelligence. They treat it as a software programme. What they actually have is a thinking system with two networks inside it — one human, one machine — and they are only upgrading one of them. His argument is that roughly 70% of enterprise AI transformation sits outside software and algorithm management, in the tacit knowledge that runs operations and lives in the interactions between people rather than in any...
After working for 8 years as an employee, Marie Outtier started an Artificial Intelligence startup as a non-technical founder and a first-time founder. It was the early days of recommender systems relying on machine learning and natural language processing (pre Chat GPT days.) She led the company as CEO, built the product with her technical cofounder, and raised over $2m in funding to fuel its expansion worldwide. Three years later, Twitter acquired the software Aiden.ai’s team had developed to turn around their...
Alexandra Shulman CBE was brought up in London. She attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School and gained a BA in Social Anthropology from Sussex University. She started her career working in the music industry and then moved into magazines as a secretary on Over21 magazine. She began working as a journalist on Tatler magazine in 1980, leaving in 1986 to become Women’s Editor on The Sunday Telegraph. She returned to magazines as Features Editor of Vogue in 1988, becoming...
On 3 April 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was abducted at an Iranian airport while returning to London with her 22-month-old daughter after visiting family in Tehran, setting in motion years of captivity and upheaval. She was subjected to months of interrogation, falsely accused of attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime—an allegation she consistently denied—and sentenced to five years in prison. Over the next six years, she was held in a range of conditions, including solitary confinement, the general political ward of Evin...
Lorraine Collins is a psychotherapist who came to the work the long way round. She spent her early career in advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi, then in the music industry working with artists including The Prodigy and James Brown, before retraining and spending formative years in the NHS, where she worked with complex cases including borderline personality disorder and generalised anxiety disorder. It was the pace of those advertising and music years, the long hours and accumulated stress, the slow wearing-down...
Morvarid Sahafi’s life has unfolded across some of the most defining ideological and geopolitical landscapes of the modern world, a journey marked by war, exile, migration, and an unyielding commitment to dignity and truth. She was born in Bandar Abbas, Iran, during the Iran-Iraq War. Her father, a naval officer trained in the United Kingdom, became involved in political activities that, after the 1979 Revolution, placed him at risk under the new regime. When his identity was exposed, he was forced...
James Naughtie is one of the most familiar voices in British broadcasting and a highly respected political commentator. Best known as a long-serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme, he spent over two decades interrogating leading politicians, analysing events in the United States, and revealing the personalities behind the headlines. He now serves as Today’s Special Correspondent. James Naughtie began his career on his local newspaper in Aberdeen before moving to The Scotsman. He was awarded a fellowship at...
Lord Blunkett has served in public life for over 40 years. From Leader of England’s fourth largest city to Home Secretary at the time of 9/11 he has taken on some of the most challenging roles in politics. Few senior politicians have experienced quite so many ups and downs, and none have achieved high office having been blind since birth. Growing up in poverty, David’s circumstances were made even tougher when at the age of twelve he lost his father in...