We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
Dr. Vanessa Carpenter is a speaker, author, design strategist, and femtech expert working at the intersection of women’s health, human-centred design, digital literacy, and meaningful innovation. She holds a PhD in Designing for Meaningfulness in Future Smart Products from Aalborg University and brings together academic depth, design practice, entrepreneurship, and public engagement. Vanessa is the Founder and Designer of Kintsugi Design, Co-Founder of Nordic Women’s Health Hub and Femtech Studios, and Co-Leader of FabLab Ærø. Her work focuses on howproducts, services,...
Dr. Marty Makary is a New York Times bestselling author, surgeon, and health care expert who served as the 27th U.S. Commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, confirmed with a bipartisan vote of the U.S. Senate. At the FDA, Marty led historic reforms including accelerating drug approvals, reducing animal testing, creating a new food pyramid, removing artificial food dyes, and a school lunch program to transition to healthier foods. He was also the first head of a government agency...
Dimitri Chichlo doesn't talk about pressure from a distance. As Vice-Chairman of Ukreximbank (one of Ukraine's largest state banks) he has exercised board-level governance through active wartime, making consequential decisions when the stakes were existential, not theoretical. That experience defines his speaking. Dimitri helps boards, executive committees, and senior leaders across financial services and regulated industries turn cybersecurity, operational resilience, and governance from abstract obligations into strategic priorities they own and act on. His authority is built across two decades at the...
Gavin Patterson served as Chief Executive of BT Group for almost six years from 2013 to 2019, having previously been a Group Board Director for a total of 11 years. BT is a global communications services company that brings together advanced networks and technology with deep expertise, helping businesses to grow, communities to thrive and individuals to get more out of life. As Chief Executive, Gavin Patterson led the completion of BT’s superfast fibre broadband rollout, delivering near-universal coverage in the...
Bill Emmott is a deeply experienced writer, commentator and thinker on geopolitics and geoeconomics, with a particular focus on Asia, globalisation and international security. Over several decades, Bill Emmott has analysed and explained the emerging shape of the world order, characterised by recurrent shocks and crises that demand resilience, adaptability and long-term strategic thinking from governments and businesses alike. From 1993 to 2006, Bill Emmott served as Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, the world’s leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business....
Sir Antony Beevor FRSL, FRHistS is an internationally renowned historian and one of the world’s bestselling writers on military history. After serving as a regular officer and tank commander in the British Army in Germany, Antony Beevor left the Army after five years to focus on writing. His works have since been translated into thirty-seven languages and have sold more than nine million copies worldwide. Antony Beevor’s early publications include Inside the British Army (1990) and Crete: The Battle and the...
LJ Rich plays music to explain technology. An accomplished pianist, event host and broadcaster who presented on BBC Click for more than 15 years, she keynotes and hosts high-profile events on AI, creativity, trust and the future of work, combining practical technology insight with live music and good humour. LJ has used generative AI since 2018 and has co-curated the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit since 2019, where she hosts the centre stage, moderates discussions and creates musical performances. Her...
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...
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...