We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
Anat Baron is a former CEO, tech founder, and keynote speaker who works with leaders navigating a world reshaped by AI, automation, and accelerating change. She is the creator of The Human + AI Equation, a practical decision framework that helps organizations determine what stays human-led, what should be AI-augmented, and what can be fully automated. Her perspective comes from global operating experience, not theory. Across hospitality, entertainment, consumer products, media, and technology, Anat has built businesses, led teams through disruption,...
Dr Steve Ingham is a performance scientist, keynote speaker and author who has spent more than two decades helping individuals, teams and organisations achieve sustained high performance. Best known for his work with Team GB and Paralympics GB, Steve combines scientific expertise with real-world experience to help organisations achieve outstanding performance. Steve began his career at the British Olympic Association before joining the English Institute of Sport, where he became Director of Science and Technical Development. Leading a team of more...
Harriet Beveridge is a performance expert, executive coach, keynote speaker and co-author of the bestselling Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. For more than 20 years, she has helped leaders, teams and organisations achieve high performance by combining evidence-based performance strategies with practical, sustainable approaches to success. Harriet began her career as a management consultant at Ernst & Young, where she worked with organisations on complex strategic and operational challenges. It was there she recognised that the biggest barriers to...
For 20 years, Sorin has done the one thing most marketers like to avoid. He proved the impact of their business decisions. Sorin has spent two decades in senior marketing roles at the biggest names in FMCG: Mars, PepsiCo, BAT. He built the systems that answer marketing’s most uncomfortable question. Did it actually work? At Mars, he built the global Marketing Effectiveness Center of Expertise from a blank page. The measurement systems his team created, AVI and ACE, went on to earn...
Pat Dwyer is a high-energy keynote speaker, award-winning improviser, humorist, and people-driven innovation expert who has spent over two decades inspiring and entertaining audiences around the world. With a unique blend of comedy, insight, and practical leadership takeaways, Pat transforms traditional corporate talks into unforgettable experiences that spark genuine engagement and actionable growth. Pat’s journey into professional speaking grew out of his deep roots in improvisational and sketch comedy. He has worked, performed, and taught with some of the most respected...
Zannah Ryabchuk is a sought-after keynote speaker, CEO of Breakthrough Global, and a 2023 winner of the 35 Women in Leadership Under 35 award. Zannah is known for energising business audiences with interactive talks on culture, transformation and navigating uncertainty in a VUCA world, blending personal stories with simple, powerful ideas that are practical and actionable. Zannah’s work focuses on how organisations unlock growth by shifting the cultural habits that shape everyday decisions, priorities and performance. Through a Breakthrough lens on...
Dr. Michael Time is a Doctor of Medicine, Brown University alumnus, philanthropist, and CEO of TIME TALKS. His work begins with a principle from thermodynamics: energy can’t be created or destroyed, only transformed. That’s what pain is. Not a problem to escape. Energy to redirect. His Pain Is Energy™ keynote seriesis built around that principle, helping individuals and organizationssee pain as energy that can be redirected instead ofresisted. He’s worked with people rebuilding theirlivesfrom nothing and with leaders navigating burnout and...
Dr. Kirstin Ferguson is one of the world’s most recognised leadership experts and has been ranked as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She writes, speaks, and advises major international brands and senior leaders on modern leadership, how to build modern leadership cultures, and how to lead with impact in complex and uncertain environments. Kirstin is also a highly sought-after executive coach. Kirstin spent fifteen years as a board chair and company director, sitting on a...
Will Lovell is the former Head of Future Technology at the Bank of England, a Keynote Speaker, Guest Lecturer, writer and broadcaster. During a 25 year career at the Bank of England Will chaired the Bank's AI taskforce, leading the roll out of Artificial Intelligence across the Bank and creating its AI strategy and policy. His focus was not just upon how AI can be used for automation, but how the technology can be deployed to deliver new insights and organisational...
General Sir Patrick Sanders served as one of the UK’s Joint Chiefs from 2019-2024, initially as Commander of UK Strategic Command (2019-2022) and recently as Chief of the General Staff (2022-2024). His career began in the Cold War in West Germany and he has commanded on operations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan and was decorated for leadership under fire. Away from operations he served in the Pentagon working for the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and...
Neil West helps leaders and teams simplify. Neil spent 16 years at Apple helping lead one of the most transformative periods in the company’s history. He was Apple’s Head of Music in Europe as iTunes grew into the world’s biggest music retailer. He then ran all of Apple’s Services, including App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Fitness+ and Apple Podcasts, in Southern Europe as Services became Apple’s second biggest and fastest growing division. He learned that a disciplined pursuit of simplicity is...
Joe Tidy is the BBC’s first ever Cyber Correspondent and the foremost voice in the corporation on cybercrime and hacking. Over the past six years he has covered all major cyber-attacks for BBC TV, Radio, social media and website. He has made documentaries about cyber security travelling to the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Germany and Ukraine to track down stories and characters. Joe’s most high-profile news feature and documentary saw him travel to Russia in November 2021 in search of...
Captain Izham Ismail, Group Managing Director of Malaysia Aviation Group Berhad (parent company of Malaysia Airlines among others), is a visionary leader whose journey exemplifies resilience, determination, and a commitment to excellence. Captain Izham's transformation story is one marked by his passion for aviation and his relentless pursuit of success. Beginning his career as a pilot, he quickly distinguished himself with his exceptional flying skills and innate leadership abilities. As a pilot, he broke world aviation records when he flew Malaysia...
Dr Lina Khatib is a globally renowned authority on Middle East international and cultural affairs and geopolitics. She has worked at the highest levels of policy research and strategic analysis across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, advising institutions and decision makers on conflict, geopolitics, political transformation, and regional order. Her career has included senior positions at Chatham House (as Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme); the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (as Director of the...
Sir Gareth Southgate, renowned as the former Head Coach of the England men’s senior team, is a master of leadership and a transformative force in sport and beyond. Taking over the national team in 2016 during one of its most challenging periods, he revived England’s fortunes, achieving back-to-back UEFA European Championships finals, as well as reaching the Quarter and Semi Finals of successive FIFA World Cups. In doing so, he holds the record for winning more major tournament games than...
Ken Costa is an international banker, author and adviser who has spent more than four decades at the highest levels of global finance. Having held senior leadership positions at UBS and SG Warburg, and serving as Chairman of Lazard International, he has advised governments, sovereign wealth funds, family businesses and multinational corporations on strategy, capital raising and transformational transactions. Today, Ken advises companies and entrepreneurs through his strategic advisory practice and is a recognised authority on leadership, wealth, capitalism...