Henri Hypponen is an author, keynote speaker, creative director, entrepreneur, and host. Throughout his career, Hypponen has founded several different companies which include a production company, an agency, and a research company. Hypponen is best known for challenging conventional thinking and through his work, he is a story teller, thinks creatively, does research scientifically, and uses real life examples in... read full bio
Ricard Huguet is a keynote speaker that is an expert on innovation, creativity and teamwork. Huguet began his career in business innovation working as the Director for the City of Barcelona where he had several management roles in technology companies. Huguet has previously earned his BBA from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as well as his Bachelor in Pharmacy from Universitat... read full bio
Richard Hawk is a keynote speaker who is best known for being the world’s leading authority on improving workplace safety by making safety fun and informative. Hawk has been working on safety cultures for over 30 years and has helped numerous companies be healthier and happier. As a keynote speaker, Hawk has spoken for meetings, conferences, seminars, and even at... read full bio
Samaira Mehta is an American coder, inventor, and CEO of CoderBunnyz, a game that provides instructions on how to learn concepts for AI and for Java. CoderBunnyz also goes through training, back propagation, interference, adaptive learning and autonomous. Since creating the game, CoderBunnyz has gone on to be used in over 106 schools since then. The game has also gone... read full bio
Sam Peltzman is the Professor Emeritus at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Peltzman has previously earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and from there, began his teaching career at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also previously earned his BBA from City College of New York. Through his research,... read full bio
Juan Pablo Neira is a magic marketing speaker who is best known for his presentations for Latin American corporate events. Neira has previously studied at George Washington University where he became a producer of events. He then went on to found LIVE, which has gone on to be one of the most prestigious companies that host special events in all... read full bio
Alan O’Neill is a businessman who is known for working and speaking as The Change Agent. He is also currently Managing Director for Kara.ie where he worked with clients from business to business and business to client who want to refresh their strategy and culture to reach higher business goals. Through his work as the speaker known as The Change... read full bio
Chanelle McCoy is an Irish entrepreneur and is best known for being co-founder of Chanelle Medical, which is part of the company Chanelle Pharmaceutical Group which is based out of Galway. She is also known for being a dragon on the television series “Dragon’s Den” and is married to Sir AP McCoy. Through her work with Chanelle Medical, her company... read full bio
Catherine Barba is a French entrepreneur and businesswoman who specializes in digital retail. She is also known for her own company, Catherine Barba Group, where she works as a consultant for retailing startups that want to enter the digital market. Barba was born in Rueil-Malmaison, France, and she has studied business at the Ecole superieure de commerce de Paris. Barba... read full bio
Paul Sloane is an interactive lateral thinker and innovation guru and expert on leadership. Sloane is a keynote speaker and author who has published nearly 20 books on lateral leadership and problem-solving. Sloane has also published several books on lateral puzzles which has led him to be named the ‘King of Lateral Thinking Puzzles.’ As a keynote speaker, Sloane talks... read full bio
Alex Sion is a businessman who has also had experience in technology, marketing, and financial firms. Sion has earned his BA in Political Science from Yale University before beginning his career working as an investment banking analyst at Prudential Securities. Over the course of his career thus far, Sion has gone on to be director of Sapient Corporation, has been... read full bio
Hermann Simon is an author, management thinker, and has been a chairman of Simon-Kucher and Partners, which is a strategy and marketing consultancy. Simon was born in Hasborn, Germany, and he began his career serving in the German Air Force where he was a fighter bomber squadron 33, and reserve officer. After serving for two years, Simon went on to... read full bio
Mathew Seneviratne is the former Federal Agent in the Australian Federal Police and has also been co-founder and Head of Risk and Compliance for the company Revello. Throughout her career, Seneviratne has been an expert on topics which include counter terrorism, organized crime, smuggling, human trafficking, child protection and cybercrime. Throughout his career, he has gone through several life-threatening situations... read full bio
Ian Scott is a business strategist and authority on leadership, management of strategy, change and knowledge. Over the course of his career, Scott has worked in both the private and public sectors and has been a senior figure for the World Bank for numerous years. Through his time as an adviser, Scott has worked with chief executives, senior management teams,... read full bio
Otto Scharmer is a German specialist on innovation and corporate change who has also been the senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also been co-founder of the Prescencing Institute. Scharmer studied economics at Witten/Herdecke University before going on to earn his Ph.D. as well. Scharmer is also an author who has authored... read full bio
Thomas John Sargent is an American economist who is the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. Through his work in economics, Sargent is a specialist in marcoeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. Sargent was born in Pasadena, California, and he earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkley, before earning his Ph.D. from... read full bio
Sandro Salsano is an Italian entrepreneur, businessman and investor who has been the chairman of Salsano Family Office as well as the president of Salsano Group. Salsano was born in Lecco, Italy, and he earned degree from Bocconi University before going on to earn his MBA from the University of San Diego, California. He has also taken courses at Harvard... read full bio
Janjaap Ruijssenaars is an architect and inventor who is known for his innovative projects which include gravity energy, the floating bed, the landscape house and the square house. Ruijssenaars has studied at the Technical University Delft, the University Barcelona, and at the Western State College of Colorado. After finishing his schooling, Ruijssenaars began working with Universe Architecture Ltd before going... read full bio
Steve Ridgway is a businessman who has been the former CEO of Virgin Atlantic. Ridgway working as the CEO for Virgin for nearly 10 years and during his tenure he helped the company grow from having two 747s to have a 40 long haul aircraft where they would fly over 6 million passengers a year. He also helped the company... read full bio
Jonas Ridderstrale is a Swedish businessman, keynote speaker, thinker, and author, who is best known for his best-selling book, ‘Funky Business – Talent Makes Capital Dance.’ Ridderstrale has also been a visiting professor at schools which include Ashridge Business School and IE Business School. Ridderstrale has previously graduated from Stockholm School of Economics where he earned his MBA and Ph.D.... read full bio
