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Frédéric Bordage is well known for being one of the forerunners and top digital experts in Europe. A former developer and software architect, he is the founder and manager of the collaborative project “responsible digital design”. He is the founder of GreenIT.fr, the first French-language source of information promoting the ecodesign of digital services. He is now a speaker, a consultant, a journalist, an author and he hosts a series of podcasts in which he discusses the question of the environmental footprint...
Isabelle Delannoy is a French environmental activist. She co-wrote the film Home directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and is the author of "The Symbiotic Economy" published in 2017. Originally an agricultural engineer, Isabelle Delannoy has become an expert in sustainable development in France and developed the theory of symbiotic economy. After working in research, regulation and lobbying for the organic food and farming industry, she has been involved in the popularisation of environmental issues. She joined Yann Arthus-Bertrand's agency to work on the bestselling...
Having graduated from HEC Paris, Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) and Sorbonne Paris IV (Art History), Alexandre Cadain has since worked on the Hyperloop project in Los Angeles and is an ambassador for the XPRIZE Foundation. He is an entrepreneur exploring ways for radical and inclusive progress through technologies, especially artificial intelligence. Passionate about arts and technology, he believes we live in an “Intelligence Renaissance”, an unprecedented time in which we own the knowledge and technology to solve the greatest challenges but still...
Sam Phillips is a senior EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) professional who loves driving leadership and business change. She specialises in delivering Board and Executive Team level analysis, insights and strategy and achieves results through building leadership confidence to act. Sam is commercially minded, well-networked, creatively confident, a strong communicator and sector-agnostic. Sam’s background is as a CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) and Leadership Exec who took up simultaneous EDI leadership reins (before this was commonplace). She went...
Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela is the granddaughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. She is the daughter of Prince Thumbuzani and Princess Zenani Mandela, currently the Ambassador to South Korea. She has a background in Public Relations and holds a degree in PR and Marketing. After a lengthy career in Public Relations Swati moved to the fashion and retail industry, heading up the press office for House of Busby and managing the business strategy and direction of international brands such as Mango and...
Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 30 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 80,000 customers a week. Tired of meetings, brands and the assumption that greed is our predominant motivation, Guy converted the business to employee ownership in 2018, using the proceeds to buy a small farm and return to growing organic vegetables. In common with many of Riverford’s new co-owners, Guy is an...
David J Harkin inspires organisations in adopting a mindset of relentless innovation and intrapreneurship through a people centric bottoms-up approach for radical in-house innovation and growth. Harkin has had the privilege of speaking globally to audiences for the last 5 years. He is an entrepreneur, proud Tedx speaker and author who dedicates his life to connecting people with their own ideas. He does this through his talks and via his ideas company 7billionideas, which was founded in 2012 and operates in...
Dhiraj is an international keynote speaker on leadership, AI, and adapting to emerging technology. He helped grow Shazam from the original idea to over 100 billion uses, and was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times. Since Shazam’s sale to Apple, he has invested in over 250 leading AI and technology startups, including OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT). Previously he held senior roles in Financial Services, Technology, and media...
Jackie Fast is the Founder of Slingshot Sponsorship. Having started her business from her bedroom with just £2K, she has grown it into an innovative strategic sponsorship sales agency based in Central London with offices worldwide that sold after only 6 years for several million pounds. Launched with the belief that sponsorship has evolved and now has the ability to truly transform businesses, Slingshot has successfully taken their strategic commercial framework and applied it to the world’s leading brands who...
John DeMato is a branded lifestyle portrait, virtual/live event photographer who collaborates with speakers, trainers, consultants and other expert-based business owners to create an emotional connection with their audiences through persuasive visual storytelling. John isn’t simply a photographer - he thinks like a marketer. He sets clients up for success beyond the photo sessions by educating them on how to best leverage their image content for every touchpoint across their online presence. A former television producer, John DeMato has over 20 years...
John Livesay is a sales expert and keynote speaker on sales, marketing, negotiation and persuasion who helps salespeople become magnetic storytellers with the ability to make irresistible offers to their ideal clients. Livesay has captivated audiences in settings ranging from Fortune 500 companies like Honeywell, Coca Cola and Anthem Insurance. He is also the author of Better Selling Through Storytelling: The Essential Roadmap to Becoming a Revenue Rockstar and is the host of “The Successful Pitch” podcast, which is heard in...
Reputations, both organisational and personal are precious commodities, especially in times of pressure and stress. Jon Hammond has been preserving, enhancing, and protecting the reputations of major organisations and leaders for over 30 years. As a speaker he is a recognised specialist in impactful communication, whether it is face to face or, more recently the demand has been to show companies how to be most effective virtually. As an Executive Coach, he advises organisations on communication strategy and supports leaders to deliver...
Kate Ancketill is the CEO and founder of trends, foresight and strategy consultancy GDR. For 25 years she has been the innovation partner to over 30 of the world’s largest brands, P&G, Tesco, Target, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Moet Hennessy, Costa Coffee, The BBC, Clorox and Lego. She uses GDR’s professional research and strategy expertise to distil immensely complex global subjects into visually spectacular, crystal-clear narratives with actional take-outs. From climatic and economic headwinds to demographics and the advance of...
Kirk is an active professional negotiator and former highly experienced police negotiator. He has been deployed as the lead negotiator on a number of occasions where UK nationals have been kidnapped abroad. He has instructed on Hostage and Crisis Negotiation since 2001, within the UK and abroad. As the recent Head of Hostage Negotiation and Armed Policing in Scotland, he has a unique insight into both disciplines, which complement each other in the resolution of conflict. He has spoken at various National...
Trusted to facilitate conversations with political figureheads & business leaders, celebrities, change-makers & activists, renowned Moderator & Host Lovelda Vincenzi is a ‘true professional in a world where many others are mere amateurs.’ She has facilitated conversations with heavyweights including Olympian Tom Daley, Monica Lewinsky, Paul Polman (Former Unilever CEO) and Mike Horn (Professional Explorer). Lovelda is also the consistent face of prominent events including the ChangeNow Summit, the world's largest conference on positive impact. Lovelda Vincenzi excels at creating...
Technology, consumer and employees habits move on, but very few companies are agile enough to keep up and so are left behind, become irrelevant and die. Mark McCulloch is a Senior Brand, Marketing, Digital and Social Media Executive with a career spanning 20 years working for and with brands such as Pret a Manger, lastminute.com, Barclaycard, Costa Coffee, Accor Hotels, The Independent, Viz, NME, Loaded Magazine, YO! Sushi and Peter Gabriel’s trailblazing music streaming site WE7 (now Blinkbox music). Mark is an...