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For two decades, Dr Craig Wing has delivered 500+ keynotes to 5,000 global leaders and executives to understand, create and design their ideal futures through imagineering and futures thinking. His expertise include emergent futures thinking, scenario planning, disruptive technologies, emergent business models, company culture and new world of work. He’s spoken at length on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Africa’s preparedness. He converted his car to electric: creating the future, versus merely talking about it! He rejected the chance...
Farah Pandith is a pioneer in the field of countering violent extremism. A foreign policy strategist, author, and diplomacy entrepreneur, she has served three American presidents. Appointed America’s first-ever special representative to Muslim Communities in 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Farah Pandith travelled to nearly one hundred countries under both Secretaries Clinton and Kerry launching youth-focused initiatives. Meeting with thousands of Muslim youth at the grassroots and designing innovative platforms, initiatives and networks. Pandith is an adjunct Senior Fellow at...
As a technologist, Sophie researches novel technologies and their impact on our lives. From quantum computing to robots in orbit, she takes audiences on a rollercoaster ride through the explosive innovations underpinning our future. Sophie has given more than 300 speeches to boards and exec teams, regularly ranked in the top 3 speakers at conferences. Her familiarity with a wide range of technologies means no two talks are ever the same. Sophie’s content is tailored for wildly different audiences: from Baidu’s tech...
Ness Knight is a record-breaking explorer and endurance adventurer who became the first female in history to swim the Thames River in 2013. Ness has traversed some of the most diverse terrain in all corners of the planet, overcoming huge obstacles and extreme conditions in remote environments. Ness’ career as an adventurer began in 2012 when she quit her 9-5 and set off to stand up paddleboarded over 1000 miles down the Missouri River, completing the longest stand up paddleboard journey...
Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE is an established Chair, former FTSE CEO and a Fellow of the ICAEW. Her current Chair appointments are Mind Gym plc, the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education and the Air Operators Association. She is a non-executive director for the Tideway Tunnel, SNC-Lavalin Inc and Everyman Media Group plc. She is the former President of the British Chambers of Commerce and the current President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Ruby was the Chief Executive of...
Paul Shoemaker is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International—a global network of thousands of social innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business and community leaders that fund and support social change agents in nearly 40 cities and 8 countries. With insights from 17 years of this unique vantage point, he is a leading expert on activating social change agents and a global thought leader on how individuals can be the most effective philanthropists. In 2011 and 2012, Shoemaker was named one of...
Over the past 40 years, Andrew Wallas has guided business leaders and companies, both large and small, to fulfil more of their latent potential. Andrew embodies a rare combination of highly successful businessman and intuitive corporate shaman. He is both recognised in the outer world as a respected businessman with a sharp intellect and acumen, as well as being seen as an inner world guide with a deep insight and mystical intuition. He began his career in business in 1974 in the...
Lorraine Keane is an IFTA-nominated broadcaster and journalist. She is currently working with UTV Ireland and hosts ‘The Interview’, a series of one to one interviews with high profile guests. Her self-curated show ‘Keane On Style’ won her the accolade of ‘Most Influential Figure in Fashion & Beauty in Ireland in 2015’ at the Irish Fashion Awards. The sell-out show is currently touring Ireland. She launched her website and blog www.lorrainekeane.com this year. She is currently Brand Ambassador for Renault and Ultherapy at...
Justin King joined Terra Firma as Vice Chairman and Head of Portfolio Businesses in September 2015. He sits on the boards of the General Partners and is a member of Terra Firma’s Management Committee. He was previously the CEO of Sainsbury’s between 2004 and 2014, where he led the business through a major turnaround which led to nine years of profit growth. Before joining Sainsbury’s, he was Head of Food at Marks & Spencer. He held prior roles at Asda, Haagen-Dazs,...
Jack Vincent has been called a "poet in a business suit,” because whether on the speaking circuit, with corporate clients or in his writing, he makes eye-opening links between the human condition and business performance. Vincent’s second book, A Sale Is A Love Affair - Seduce, Engage & Win Customers’ Hearts was the Number 1 New Release on Amazon in February 2015. His first book, Sales Pitches that Snap, Crackle ’n Pop (2011) was included in Docurated’s “50 Top Sales Pitch...
Charles Hazlewood is a British conductor of international renown. He has conducted some of the greatest classical repertoires with some of the best orchestras in the world. Beyond this, he is a visionary with a mission to break new ground in orchestral music, and to break new ground using music. Charles has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Bath Spa University. Charles Hazlewood is not only well-known for what he has achieved but how he has achieved it. He has...
Ryan Chilcote is an award-winning broadcaster, presenter, and journalist. A special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, Chilcote divides his time between reporting, video production, documentaries, and media training. Prior to setting up his own production company, Ryan served as a business correspondent and presenter at Bloomberg Television and a CNN International Correspondent. Chilcote is also one of the world’s best-known MCs and moderators and has lead dozens of discussions on TV & on-line, at the New York Stock Exchange, the World...
Diane Wei Liang is al best-selling author, China expert and former award-winning professor of business in the USA and the UK. She has toured around the world speaking about the development of modern China. She was the subject of a BBC documentary, Peschardt's People, and a Kalturzeit documentary by TV 3Sat, Germany. Diane was born in Beijing and spent part of her childhood with her parents in a labor camp in a remote region of China. She was educated in China...
JP Landman is a self-employed analyst on political-economic trends. He focuses on trends in politics, economics, demography and social capital. He is a member of the National Planning Commission; a visiting professor at the University of the Free State; and consults to Nedbank Private Wealth, one of SA’s largest private wealth managers. In 2013 he was elected a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington DC and he spent four months there to Feb 2014. In August...
Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and serial entrepreneur, Kevin Slavin has built renowned projects and companies at the intersections of entertainment, games, big data, next-generation technologies, and design. As Co-founder of Area/Code in 2005, Slavin has been a consistent pioneer in rethinking game design and development around new technologies (like GPS and DNA testing) and new platforms (like Facebook and iOS). Working with MTV, Disney, Nokia, Nike, CBS, and many others. In 2013, MIT's Media Lab appointed Slavin to start and...
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker with high-level international policy experience. A senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, he is also the founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN), a think-tank that focuses on international political economy, and a columnist for Project Syndicate and other international media outlets. From 2011 to 2014, Legrain was principal adviser and head of the analysis team at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission,...