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Geoff Ramm is the creator of Celebrity Service and OMG Marketing. Ramm has expertise in creating highly successful marketing ideas and designing a customer experience that leaves a lasting impression. Ramm is the creator and author of Celebrity Service, OMG Marketing & OMG Strikes Back. He has worked with entrepreneurs to launch start-up enterprises without a budget, and has created marketing ideas which have become legend. Geoff Ramm has spoken around the world for clients including Honda, British Airways, TATA, SAGE, Tiger Brands,...
Dan Cockerell is a former Disney executive who now shares his insights in order to aid others in improving performance. Cockerell’s first experience working for Disney was as a participant in the Walt Disney World College Program in Orlando in the summer of 1989, when he worked as a front desk host at the Contemporary Resort. Upon graduation from Boston University in 1991, Dan Cockerell moved to Florida and participated in the Disneyland Paris Management Trainee Program. In January of 1992, three...
Lisa Forte is a highly respected Cyber Security Expert with an impressive background in the field. Her career began with her work to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, followed by a role in UK Counter Terrorism Intelligence, and eventually moving on to one of the UK Police Cyber Crime Units. In 2017, she co-founded Red Goat Cyber Security and has since become one of the most prominent voices in the industry. Forte is an internationally recognised speaker, named as...
Bill was once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia until being decalred “a threat to national security” in 2005 for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. In 2008, Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered a massive fraud committed by Russian government officials stealing US $230 million of state taxes and was subsequently arrested, imprisoned without trial and systematically tortured. Sergei Magnitsky died in prison on November 16, 2009. Ever since, Bill Browder has led the Global Magnitsky Campaign for governments around...
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating the ageing process. He is also VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing new therapies in the field of biomedical gerontology. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in ageing. His research interests encompass the characterisation...
Dr. Anthony Atala is a world-renowned innovator in area of biotechnology as it relates to regenerative medicine/stem cells, diagnostics, longevity, and the future of health and medicine. Anthony Atala is the recipient of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award; the Edison Award; the R&D Innovator of the Year Award; the US Congress funded Christopher Columbus Foundation Award, bestowed on a living American who is currently working on a discovery that will significantly affect society; and the World Technology Award in Health and Medicine,...
Heidi Ganahl founded Camp Bow Wow, a $100 million leader in the pet and franchise industry hitting the Inc 500/5000 list 5 years in a row. For this effort, she has received many accolades including Fortune Magazine’s Top 10 Most Promising Entrepreneurs, and the 2016 Colorado Brave Leader Award. After selling Camp Bow Wow a few years ago, Ganahl dedicated herself to “giving back”. She was elected in a heated state-wide race to the Board of Regents of the University of...
Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, a groundbreaking MIT researcher, a model, and an artist. She is the author of the National Bestseller Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines and advises world leaders on preventing AI harms. Her research on facial recognition technologies transformed the field of AI auditing. Her TED talk on algorithmic bias has been viewed over 1.7 million times. Her TED AI talk on...
Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a two-time 'unicorn' builder (Duocorn). He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, 'Waze of public transportation, which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020. Levine also heads the "The Founders Kitchen," a company-builder fund. Levine's new book "Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for...
Rose McGowan worked for years in a strange place called Hollywood and gained recognition as an actress who held lead roles in films such as The Doom Generation, Scream, Jawbreaker, and Planet Terror. She starred on the hit series Charmed, one of the longest-running female-led shows in TV history. Behind the scenes of this famed acting career Rose was honing her skills as a multi-media artist, writer, and thought leader. Rose escaped Hollywood to fight against injustice and to cause,...
Dr. Garrett Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist Astronaut in 1998. His first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2008, which dropped him off for a 95 day mission aboard the International Space Station after which he returned to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. His second mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, in 2010, and returned Dr. Reisman to the Space Station. During these missions, Dr. Reisman performed 3 spacewalks, operated the Space Station...
After reading Archaeology and Ancient History Mark started his career at the John Lewis partnership as a graduate trainee in 1982 progressing to become Branch manager in High Wycombe and Cheadle. In 2005 he joined the John Lewis Partnership Board taking on responsibility for strategy and IT as Development Director. In April 2007 he was appointed as Managing Director of Waitrose. At the time Waitrose had 183 stores but had increased to 346 when he retired in 2016 after 10 fulfilling...
Sheena Iyengar is a blind Indian American professor at the Columbia Business School who has spent her career studying choice – why it matters, how we choose and how we can choose better. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division of the Columbia Business School and has taught on a wide variety of topics for MBA and Executive MBA students, including leadership, decision making, creativity, and globalisation, earning an Innovation in the Teaching Curriculum award...
After more than 20 years of working as an HR manager for multinationals such as General Electric and Robert Bosch, Didier Bille is now a consultant, author and keynote speaker. He is the author of the bestseller DRH: the grinding machine, in which he reveals the dark side of the managerial practices used in large groups. After training in the army, Didier Bille began his career as an officer in Germany, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. After several years in the...
Anders Indset is the world’s leading business philosopher with seven international bestsellers. Having delivered over 1,500 speeches in 60 countries, he inspires executives, politicians, and decision-makers worldwide at the intersection of humanity and technology. His ability to anticipate future scenarios makes him a sought-after speaker at the most relevant conferences around the globe, such as the World Economic Forum, the Global HR Summit, and the Mobile World Congress. He combines Norwegian values and charisma with German clarity of thought and an...
Robert Penn is an author, journalist, presenter and cyclist. In his late-twenties, Penn gave up a career as a lawyer and spent three years cycling 40,000km around the world. His bestselling book It’s All About the Bike: the Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is the story of why we ride bicycles. His latest book is entitled The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees is the story of man’s relationship with the ash tree. He has also made documentaries for the...