Co-Founder of Polaroid Swing, a Silicon Valley technology company
Tommy Stadlen
Tommy Stadlen is the Co-Founder of Polaroid Swing, an app with a mission to reimagine photography. It is a Silicon Valley technology company chaired by Twitter founder Biz Stone. Polaroid Swing has been featured by Apple as the number one recommended app in the App Store and in Apple retail stores internationally.
Artificial Intelligence expert, serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, educator, bestselling author, and futurist
Jerry Kaplan
A renowned Silicon Valley veteran, Jerry Kaplan founded several technology companies over his 35-year career, two of which became public companies. He is an Artificial Intelligence expert, serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, educator, bestselling author, and futurist.
Director GCHQ, the world’s leading cyber security agency
Robert Hannigan
Robert Hannigan has a long history of involvement in cyber security and technology, having drawn up the UK’s first Cyber Security Strategy and outlined the government’s ambition of making the UK ‘the safest place to live and do business online’. Hannigan strongly promoted technical skills in his leadership team and his term as Director saw the biggest internal transformation of GCHQ since the end of the Cold War.
Authority on Future of Cities and Unlocking Public Wealth
Dag Detter
Dag Detter specialises in unlocking public wealth.
He assists governments and public institutions in designing and implementing strategies for restoring balance sheet strength.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Bernard Hogan-Howe
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe is the most senior police officer in the UK. He leads an organisation of nearly 50,000 people with a budget of £3.2 billion.
Celebrity Branding Authority & Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California
Jeetendr Sehdev
Jeetendr Sehdev is Professor of marketing at the University of Southern California and a global authority on celebrity branding. He specialises in marketing to millennials and the disruption of marketing as we know it.
World authority on future of energy and Pulitzer Prize winner
Daniel Yergin
A globally respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, Daniel Yergin is Vice Chairman of IHS and Founder of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
Head of Innovation Culture, Events & FinTech Collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group
Sophie Bialaszewski
Sophie Bialaszewski is a digital leader with a background in public policy and communications. She has spent the last two years building the internal capability and team to bring this to life at Lloyds Banking Group.
Founder & CEO of Travelstart group
Stephan Ekbergh
In 1999, Stephan Ekbergh created Travelstart, an airline company. After some poor decisions and the company nearly coming to an end, he moved to Africa to begin from scratch.
Recent CEO Standard Chartered plc
Peter Sands
Peter Sands served as the Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC from 2006-15. In this time, he doubled the number of staff and steered the company so that by 2009, 90% of its profits came from fast-growing emerging markets mainly in Asia.
New York Times Best-Selling Author & Former Senior Advisor for Innovation at the State Department
Alec Ross
Alec Ross served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, and advised President Obama on the intersection of technology and geopolitics for his first presidential campaign.
Lecturer at the MIT and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors)
Otto Scharmer
Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer is the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), as well as a Senior Lecturer at the MIT. ELIAS is an initiative focused on developing profound system innovations for a more sustainable world.
Innovation and Leadership Strategist
Navi Radjou
Based in Silicon Valley, Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist who draws on his Indian upbringing and was the first (with his co-authors) to capture the phenomenon of jugaad—a Hindi word for improvised solutions born out of ingenuity in resource constrained settings.
Author and historian, devoted to promoting economic globalisation and classical liberal positions
Johan Norberg
Johan Norberg has written 15 books which cover a broad range of topics, including global economics, intellectual history and the science of happiness. He is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker whose focus is entrepreneurship, global trends and globalisation around the world.
Senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Sebastian Mallaby
Journalist, author and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Formerly, Sebastian Mallaby was a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post.
Director Better Value Healthcare
Sir Muir Gray
Sir Muir Gray’s work focuses on increasing value for populations and patients by systems design and culture change. He is currently the Director of Better Value Healthcare and also works as an advisor to Public Health England and the NHS England Right Care programme.
Engineer, entrepreneur, futurist
Nell Watson
Nell Watson has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. She is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker.
Leading Expert on the US and on Transatlantic Relations
Josef Braml
As editor-in-chief of the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Yearbook, Dr. Josef Braml is an expert on transatlantic relations and America views on world order.
Leading expert on the Digital Revolution
Martin Ford
Martin Ford is a leading expert on the Robot Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, Job Automation, and the Impact of Accelerating Technology on Workplaces, the Economy and Society.
Expert on terrorism
Dr Max Abrahms
Dr Max Abrahms is a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, a member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and a fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.
Recent UK Minister for Technology
Ed Vaizey
Ed Vaizey was the UK’s longest-serving Minister for Technology, working for UK Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010-16.