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Suzanne Raine is a writer and speaker on terrorism, risk and warning. She is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at KCL and works at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University, for whom she presents the OnGeopolitics podcast. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. Suzanne Raine specialised in counter-terrorism, holding a number of senior domestic...
Brian is an esteemed professional speaker specialising in cloud, technology, and security, with an impressive career spanning over 20 years. He is widely recognised for his captivating speaking style and ability to deliver insightful and impactful presentations that resonate with diverse audiences. Throughout his career, Brian has transformed businesses, industries, and governments by applying a mix of well-established and cutting-edge concepts. As the former Chief Technology Officer at Bulletproof Cyber Security and Defense.com and the Head of Security and Compliance for...
Operating at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry, Sarah Armstrong-Smith is the Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft. She has led a long and impactful career, helping businesses evolve their strategy and capabilities to support digital transformation and cloud adoption. Working with Microsoft’s largest enterprise customers and partners across Europe, Sarah offers valuable advice on the complex and dynamic world of cybersecurity to protect people and data, to deliver effective resilience. Sarah Armstrong-Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society...
British GQ’s feature on Jack Guinness front-cover headline asked… ‘Is he really the coolest man in Britain?’ Model, journalist, author, and creative director Jack Guinness is one of the most influential voices in British fashion and the LGBTQ+ community. Beginning his career as a model, Jack starred in global campaigns for the likes of L’Oreal, Dunhill, and Dolce and Gabbana. Behind the lens, he regularly contributed to The Sunday Times Style, Italian Vogue, The Guardian, and Tatler as a style and...
Shehab Khan is a multi-award-winning Presenter and Political Correspondent for ITV News. He regularly appears presenting and reporting on the ITV national bulletins and has featured on several ITV News special programmes. Primarily based in Westminster, Shehab has also reported from around the world. He has covered the biggest stories in the last few years, from Brexit, Prime Ministers resigning and partygate, to the war in Ukraine and the death of Queen Elizabeth. Shehab has conducted major interviews with several world...
Jonathan MacDonald is the Founder & CEO of SELF, a hyper-personal, AI-powered assistant that learns your personal preferences and simplifies your life, whilst you retain ownership and control of your data. Jonathan has worked in over 100 cities globally and is internationally renowned as a business, technology and social expert. He is an award-winning, bestselling author and one of the most in-demand keynote speakers in the world on the topics of change, digital transformation, mindset, innovation, strategy and the future. With a...
A New York Times Bestselling author, described in the Wall Street Journal as “the premier futurist in the national-security environment” and “all-around smart guy” in the Washington Post, he has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, and as an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. No author, living or dead, has more books on the...
Change defines the present and uncertainty permeates the future. Individually, organizationally, and collectively, we humans are trying to discern what this means. What are the skills, practices, and superpowers that this world in flux demands – and how can you cultivate them with purpose and joy? In 2025, humans’ ability to embrace all kinds of change, uncertainty, and not-knowing isn’t exceptional, but rather table stakes. It’s at the heart of responsible leadership (of both oneself and others), thriving culture, and effective...
María Fernanda Espinosa was the President of the United Nations General Assembly 2018-2019, becoming the fourth woman and the first from Latin America and the Caribbean to hold the position. Maria Fernanda, a distinguished academic, diplomat, politician, poet, and linguist, has also served in high-level government positions, including as Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, and Minister of National Defense. Maria Fernanda's expansive professional portfolio spanning over three decades includes roles in academia, NGOs, international organizations, and the government....
Charles Shima is a Rwandan-Canadian founder and CEO of ZaNiheza, a booking software and Africa's first travel marketplace for immersive experiences that connects travellers with Local Curators in Africa and Latin America. Shima is an inspirational speak who has tremendous and monumental life experiences. An orphan who lost his parents at a vulnerable age, he fled Rwanda in 1994 during the Genocide Against the Tutsi. Charles Shima would return to his motherland after 24 years, gathering up the courage to...
Ivan Bofarull is a permanent student, thinker, advisor and speaker in the field of disruptive innovation. He is the Chief Innovation Officer at Esade Business School, where he also teaches in Executive Education programs. In recent years, he has designed and taught disruptive innovation courses for the senior management of top companies, family businesses and startups in Silicon Valley, Middle East, Latin America and Europe. His book, “Moonshot Thinking” (3rd edition), a journey to transform disruption into opportunity, received the...
James is a multi-award winning presenter, comedian, influencer and DJ. Currently presenting every weekday morning on Hits Radio’s Breakfast Show, alongside Fleur East and Matt Haslam, he picked up the Silver Award for Best Breakfast Show at the prestigious ARIA Awards (formerly the Sony Awards) in 2020. He is also the co-founder and host of the UK’s top LGBT+ podcast, A Gay And A Non Gay, which won Silver for Best Sex & Relationship Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in...
Dr Stephanie Hare is an author, consultant and keynote speaker who focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on business and society. Her book Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics examines the issues surrounding AI and Big Tech as well as its effects on humankind. Stephanie’s expertise sits neatly at the intersection of business, technology, governance and ethics in the current era of surveillance capitalism. Stephanie was selected for the BBC’s Expert Women initiative and now commentates...
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, where she directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. A Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Professor Vallor's research maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI, and she co-leads the UKRI’s Bridging...
At 27 stone with a debt of €85,000 in 2018 Trisha felt like rock bottom had hit but the truth was it was only just the beginning for this Irish Chef, CEO and online influencer. Trisha Lewis currently has over 230k followers on Instagram, a figure that is rising daily. Once she decided to share her own story of trying and succeeding to lose weight, she found that her uplifting message resonated with audiences everywhere and her page quickly became a...
Kyle Scott is an operations executive, former network news journalist, and occasional photographer. He likes to build at the intersection of content and business. After nearly 10 years at NBC News as a producer and journalist in broadcast and digital (TODAY, Nightly News, NBC News Specials, NBC News Politics, NBC News BETTER), he pitched Bravo’s Ryan Serhant an idea: What if I turned your bestselling book Sell It Like Serhant into a course? After nearly a year of nights and weekends writing,...