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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...
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...
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...
Former footballer Clarke Carlisle is noted as one of the most eloquent, insightful voices in the modern game. He gained a great deal of acclaim and recognition in his time and his work speaking up against racism, homophobia and other excesses of the game on and off the pitch. Starting his career at Blackpool FC Clarke proved himself a capable central defender and scored in just his second professional appearance. He went on to play for QPR, Leeds United, Watford, and...
BJ Cunningham is the brand consultant and consumer trends expert leading the way in innovative, if not controversial marketing. So much was his desire to disrupt the status quo that BJ took on the might of the European Court of Justice with the launch of DEATH Cigarettes, with its tagline, “the honest smoke”. Before DEATH Cigarettes, BJ built a classic car and Harley Davidson import business. During the height of the financial crisis, he was left with debt from...
Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. He works with firms from a wide range of industries, such as telecommunications, financial services, gaming/entertainment, retailing, and pharmaceuticals. Managerial applications focus on topics such as customer relationship management, lifetime value of the customer, and sales forecasting for new products. Much of his research...
Nicola Sturgeon was Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister, holding office for almost nine years, and the first woman ever to do so. Leading Scotland through Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, she worked with five UK Prime Ministers and became one of the most prominent and influential political figures in the United Kingdom. Nicola Sturgeon joined the Scottish National Party (SNP) as a teenager. She studied law at the University of Glasgow and worked as a solicitor before entering frontline politics. Elected as...
Pascal Coppens is a leading China expert, trend watcher, and authority on innovation, technology, and emerging business trends. Since 1996, he has spent two decades in China and Silicon Valley, building high-tech ventures and working alongside hundreds of Chinese engineers and innovators. Combining the perspective of a sinologist with hands-on entrepreneurial experience, he is today a sought-after keynote speaker and the author of three books on China's innovation and global impact. He delivers close to 100 keynote speeches per year,...