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As founder of the Plasticity Forum, first launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit, Douglas Woodring is in touch with many of the innovative solutions and technologies that are now being introduced to help solve plastic pollution on a global level. The Plasticity Forum has been held in 13 cities around the world, where the latest was in collaboration with the UN’s regional headquarters in Bangkok as part of their Sea of Solutions Week in November 2019. Some of Mr. Woodring’s...
Cass Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations. Cass Sunstein was awarded the Holberg Prize for his work...
In 1990, along with family and friends of Anne Frank’s father Otto Frank, Gillian Walnes Perry set up the Anne Frank Trust UK as a partner organisation of the world-famous Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The Trust is a not for profit educational charity which uses Anne Frank’s powerful and tragic story to help young people understand and challenge prejudice and hatred, and embrace positive attitudes, responsibility and respect for others. Gillian Walnes Perry retired from running the charity in 2016...
With over 30 years of journalistic experience, Stefan Grobe is one of Euronews' most familiar faces. Based in Brussels, he produces and presents State of the Union, a weekly roundup of European affairs. From 2012 to 2017, he has worked as Euronews' Washington correspondent, having covered two presidential election and primary campaigns. Grobe reported live from Barack Obama’s Chicago headquarters on Election Day. On his more recent assignments, he covered the Sandy Hooks shooting and the US government shutdown. Grobe has...
Bryan Seely is a world renowned hacker, cybersecurity expert, author and former U.S. Marine. Seely became one of the most famous hackers in 2014 when he became the only person to ever wiretap the United States Secret Service and FBI. He had told the 2 agencies before he was caught, and instead of being sent to maximum security prison, the Secret Service called him praised his courage and integrity. Since then, Bryan Seely has written a book, uncovered 20+ million Social...
Helle Thorning-Schmidt has an extensive background spanning politics, international relations and business. In 2017 she was named as one of the world’s greatest leaders by Fortune magazine. As leader of the Denmark’s Social Democrat party for 10 years and Prime Minister from 2011-2015, she steered the country through a difficult financial crisis while reducing child poverty and increasing spending on education. She was the first woman to hold both positions. Following her term as PM, Helle was the Chief Executive of Save...
Swedish journalist, author and digital futurist Andreas Ekström wrote a bestselling book about Google – and has since been a leading commentator on all things digital around the world. His talks, always custom made to fit the audience, will give you mind-blowing perspectives on who controls the money and the power as society goes digital by the minute. Currently, his most requested keynote is “Organic Intelligence” – a set of ideas, questions and hands-on tools to understand and fulfill human potential in...
Andrej Kiska is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and former president of Slovakia from 2014-19. Kiska was a highly regarded president and before he took office, the polls suggested he was Slovakia’s most trusted politician. He focused on social issues and increasing the standard of living amongst Slovakia while he was in power. Previous to this, Kiska founded several companies, the most successful of which were leasing companies, Triangel and Quatro. The organisations provided financial services to more than 1 million people and...
Nicola Owen was a model child in a model family. At fourteen she was a beautiful, talented young woman with a golden future as a dancer ahead of her. But over the next four years a new Nicola emerged. A compulsive eater, suffering extreme mood swings, she committed innumerable bizarre acts of destruction and self-mutilation. At eighteen, obese and uncontrollable, she was remanded in Holloway Prison for twice setting fire to her family home, the second time with ‘intent to kill’. What...
Andrew Shipilov is a Professor and a John H. Laudon Chair of International Management at INSEAD, a top business school in Europe, Abu Dhabi and Singapore. He is currently a Visiting Professor at London Business School. Andrew is a recognised expert in strategy, innovation and collaboration. His work focuses on how companies engage in digital transformation and integrate technology in their strategies. Given disruptive change and industry convergence, companies cannot digitally transform and effectively innovate on their own. Instead, companies need...
Charlie Burton is the Senior Commissioning Editor of GQ, the leading UK men’s lifestyle magazine, and also its technology columnist. He writes monthly commentary on the technology-driven trends that are changing the world and co-edits the publication’s tech reviews. Charlie Burton was formerly the Associate Editor of Wired magazine, the monthly chronicle of disruptive ideas and innovations, to which he continues to contribute articles. His first book, How To Win At Life, a collection of interviews with world experts about the things they...
Hanli Prinsloo is a multiple South African freediving record holder and Founder of I AM WATER Ocean Conservation. Prinsloo is a highly skilled free diver and 11 times South African free-diving record holder. Growing up on a horse farm in rural South Africa her love of nature and the human need for wilderness were instilled at an early age. With a background in social-political documentary filmmaking, Hanli has travelled the world seeking and telling stories of transformation, hope and inspiration. She...
As chief executive officer of Zillow Group, Spencer Rascoff oversees the company’s portfolio of real estate and home-related brands, including consumer brands Zillow, Trulia, StreetEasy, HotPads, Naked Apartments and RealEstate.com. Rascoff helped start Zillow in 2005, and served various roles including chief operating officer, until his appointment to CEO in 2010. Since becoming CEO, Rascoff has led Zillow through its 2011 IPO and 14 acquisitions. In 2015, Rascoff co-wrote and published his first book, the New York Times’ Best Seller...
Colby Jenkins is a combat veteran who was deployed around the world with his Special Forces A-team, to include Afghanistan and South America (Colombia and Paraguay). Other government business took him to the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Bangladesh, Panama, Argentina and Brazil. Colby's responsibilities as a Green Beret liaison to the U.S. Congress included taking members of Congress and professional staff to see and understand sensitive special operations activities around the world. Colby has worked on Capitol Hill, specifically...
Amy Brann is the founder of Synaptic Potential, a boutique consultancy that helps organisations achieve sustainable high performance by intentionally using the brain’s potential to drive success. Synaptic Potential helps you unlock the power of our incredible brains and offers a clear, insightful, and practical approach to neuroscience and behavioural science, asking questions such as: Is your organisation using its Whole Brain Potential? How consistently do the people in your organisation...
Rita Coburn is a Peabody (2017) and Emmy Award-Winning director, writer and producer with nearly four decades of radio, television and film experience. Coburn has produced for the likes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah Radio, Apollo Live! and Walt Disney Productions. In 2016, Coburn co-directed and co-produced ‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise’, a documentary to celebrate the life of the American poet which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Festival, and went on to win a Peabody Award in 2017....