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Sachin Pilot became the youngest Member of Parliament in India when he was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha (Lower House) from Dausa Parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan in May 2004. He was just 26. He has served as a Member of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Home Affairs, Consultative Committee in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and also Budget Estimates Committee of Parliament. In May 2009, he was re-elected and became Minister of State for India’s Ministry of Communications and Technology...
Calum Chace is a soughtafter keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about strong AI and superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the prospect of widespread technological unemployment. He also wrote Pandora’s Brain, a techno-thriller about the first superintelligence. In the last four years, Calum has given over 120 talks in 18 countries...
As a Food Futurologist, Morgaine doesn’t look into crystal balls and predict that the future is filled with tall, dark handsome waiters but she does get to talk about food in all different contexts and capacities (she doesn't make tubes of food for space ships, or invent new substances like edible lycra – although she would quite like to and is open to offers…) She is passionate about what she does because of how food affects us all on a daily...
Dr Hugh Montgomery is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London (UCL), where he also directs the Centre for Human Health and Performance. He is a broadcaster, fiction author, scientist and clinician. He still works clinically, caring for patients in an Intensive Care Unit in North London. Here, he had a frontline role in caring for Covid patients. He is also on the Council of the UK Intensive Care Society, chaired the UK National Emergency Covid Critical care Committee,...
Effy Vayena is a Professor of Bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and renowned expert at the intersection of medicine, data, and ethics. Her work focuses on important societal issues of data and technology as they relate to scientific progress and how it is or should be applied to public and personal health. A keen interest in health policy has led her to work with the World Health Organization on ethical questions around reproductive medicine and research. Upon her...
Through his car design studio Niels van Roij focuses on car design for coachbuilding: the development of exceptional, hand-built cars based on existing chassis. Niels van Roij Design’s work responds to an ever-growing demand for automotive personalization and exclusivity, that comes from all over the world. Niels van Roij Design takes great pride in their reputation as an automotive design style centre of the highest proficiency, among the few able to carry out the entire cycle of creation and construction...
Professor Stephen Heppell has been a professor since the 1980s, he has an unrivalled track record of success and a string of huge projects in both Learning and Technology. He is credited with being the person who put the C into ICT. His support for better Learning is sought by everyone from governments and major corporations, through schools and universities, to elite sports - lately England Rugby, and Team GB's elite Olympic coaches. Everyone needs better learning. A pioneer of multimedia...
Andrea Wong serves on the boards of Liberty Media Corporation, Liberty Interactive Corporation, Hudson's Bay Company, Hudson Pacific Properties and Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings. She is also a Governor of the British Film Institute and a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts. Wong was most recently President, International Production for Sony Pictures Television and President, International for Sony Pictures Entertainment. She oversaw Sony Pictures Television’s 18 overseas production companies, creating nearly 1,300 hours of entertainment around the world each year. Among...
Belinda Parmar OBE is CEO of The Empathy Business, an award-winning consultancy, and a Non-Executive Director for the Ministry of Defence. A trained lawyer and Barrister, she specialises in integrating empathy into AI and the corporate world. A dynamic entrepreneur and speaker, Belinda has a proven track record in delivering change management programs for major corporations and governments. Recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, she has spoken at...
Jacqueline Kassteen has 20 years of marketing experience in international education, student travel, publishing, lead generation, retail, and financial services. Kassteen is known as a “top industry analyst” with extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in international education and marketing. She is a proactive, lateral thinker - able to create synergies across an organisation and craft innovative, multi-channel strategic approaches in marketing (inbound and outbound), communications, and product development. She has worked as an intrapreneur across a variety of organisational sizes...
Nine-times Formula 1 Grand Prix winner and 2015 FIA World Endurance Champion Mark Webber is one of motorsport’s most recognised stars and today remains fully active in the sport as both a brand ambassador and broadcaster. Perhaps best known for his twelve-year Formula 1 career, Mark retired from F1 at the end of 2013. During that time he notched up 215 races, nine victories - most notably becoming a double winner of both the prestigious Monaco and British Grands Prix –...
Against an increasingly polarised backdrop of doomsterism or denial, Leo Johnson’s focus is on unlocking next generation leadership - turbocharging talent not just with direction, but with intent. Leo is a Visiting Business Fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise & Environment, lecturing on the most subscribed Masters programme at Oxford University. He is also the presenter of a number of BBC World and Radio 4 series on megatrends and innovation, including Down to Business, World Challenge, FutureProofing, Hacking...
Adam Marshall is Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) – one of the UK’s leading business organisations, where he represents the interests of over 75,000 businesses, covering every region, size and sector, who collectively employ nearly six million people. Marshall is also involved in the global trade agenda, through the BCC’s network of 55 global British Chambers and as Vice-Chair of the ICC World Chambers Federation. He has strong insights into Westminster and Whitehall, through regular contact with...
George Friedman is an internationally recognized geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs and the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Friedman is also a New York Times bestselling author. His most recent book, THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM: America’s Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond, published February 25, 2020 describes how “the United States periodically reaches a point of crisis in which it appears to be at war with itself, yet after an extended...
Dr. Mansoor Al Awar is the Chancellor of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University. Al Awar was the founder of the first TQM Department Dubai Police Force. He is also the founder of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University which was known as e-TQM College since its inception in 2002 and then Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University since 2009. In 2004, for the first time in the history of the region, he established the Juran Chair at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University. He also established...
Marc Descheemaecker is the former CEO of the SNCB-NMBS (National Society of Belgian Railways) from 2005-13. Since then he has been appointed Chairman of the board of directors of Brussels Airport as well as De Lijn, the national public transport company. Beginning his career at McKinsey in Amsterdam and moving on to Black&Decker in Germany, Vendex and ISS in Copenhagen. In 2002 he was appointed Managing Director of the SNCB freight division going on to be appointed CEO of SNCB in...