His extraordinary  18 years with the company, culminated in Richard’s history-making trip to space and saw Virgin Galactic become the first human spaceflight company to be taken public with its $3bn NYSE listing. Today, Stephen remains a part of the Virgin family as a Board member of the Virgin Group’s foundation, Virgin Unite.

Stephen has spoken globally at many of the world’s most prestigious events on topics including:

• Opening access to space for the benefit of humankind; lessons learned from the Virgin Galactic story.

• Making the impossible, possible; forging a brand-new industry and building a purposeful and innovative brand from scratch.

• Keeping wealthy customers on your side and by your side, regardless of the terrain.

• Creating and maintaining an entrepreneurial culture that survived and thrived on the challenging road to space.

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Nick is a groundbreaking theorist and practitioner of transformational and adaptive leadership and the disruptive innovations, high-performing teams, and net-positive strategies that it unlocks. A Cambridge-educated medic who has developed a theory of change based on cutting-edge brain and behavioral science—and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded five purpose-led enterprises—Nick has advised 100,000+ senior leaders in organizations as diverse as Nike, Novartis, and No.10 Downing and has led 100+ breakthrough innovation projects for firms like Microsoft, Unilever, and Diageo (including catalyzing the most successful TV show of all time).

Nick is a dedicated, sought-after, and highly-experienced professional keynote speaker renowned for his enlivening, incisive, and actionable talks at the intersection of technology, transformation, and commercial realities.

In a speaking career spanning over twenty years—in which he has crafted a unique fusion of exhilarating ideas, evocative stories, and an energizing stage presence—he has delivered keynotes for orgs like Google, Pfizer, LEGO, Tesco, Kellogg’s, NHS, Schroder’s, WWF, and CHRO Summit. Nick motivates, inspires, and transforms senior leaders, people managers, and diverse conference audiences—across the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and AsiaPacific—with powerful, moving, and interactive keynotes.

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As the founder of one of the first Artificial Intelligence companies to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, Catriona has truly lived the life of an entrepreneur and CEO in the emerging technologies field. Indeed, Flamingo AI was the second only woman-led (CEO & Chair) business ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Based on her extensive experience in AI and emerging technology Catriona delivers keynote speeches globally on topics including Artificial Intelligence, Web3 and the Metaverse, Digital Transformation, Responsible Technology, the Future of Work and Diversity and Inclusion.

Catriona’s experience as one of the rare women leaders in advanced technology means that she is ideally suited to present on these important and topical subjects and does so in a way that is highly accessible, informative, non-technical, engaging and inclusive.

This unique skill set has also seen Catriona invited to Co-Chair Sir Richard Branson’s B Team’s AI Coalition and is a Director of the Garvan Institute, Gradient Institute and to Chair an AI VC Fund, Boab AI.

Catriona has achieved Advance Australia’s highest award in Technology & Innovation for Australians working abroad and has been recognized by Onalytica as one of the top AI speakers and Metaverse commentators, globally. Catriona was inducted into the Royal Institution of Australia acknowledging her as one of the country’s most pre-eminent scientists.

With a burning passion for and deep knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and emerging tech such as the Metaverse, Catriona believes that sharing knowledge about the responsible use of technology and is her true path and purpose. Catriona is also a Mum of five.

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Focus Areas

Future Readiness, Metaverse, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Future of Work, The Great Resignation, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, The Creator Economy

Philosophy

Ian is a passionate believer in good things. Dedicated to his expertise in helping organizations achieve excellence, he is always hard at work to cut through noise and to find ways to deliver a message of hope.

Inventor

Ian is the creator and inventor of the Future Readiness Score, a management and Future Readiness methodology to help organizations address the impact of Disruption before it occurs.

An advocate of emerging technologies, Ian helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in today’s era of disruption and rapid change. His core speaking topics include technology trends, industry future outlook, and the role of IoT, AI & Blockchain in shaping our future.

Author

Ian is also the author of over 8 books. Some of these include Cloud Wars, The Internet of Things (IoT) A Concise Introduction, The Internet of Things & the Future of Innovation, Make Me Like You, 21 Steps & Get Ahead, and Meaningful Conversations.

He is also a contributor to After Shock with Ray Kurtzweil, Ray Kurzweil, George Gilder, Martin Rees, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, David Brin, Po Bronson, John Schroeter, Deb Westphal and contributor to multiple industry publications including McGraw Hill, Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, Business.com.

A highly sought after expert, Ian has dedicated the last 20 years evangelizing technologies such as Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and emerging tech. Though his career he Ian has worked with Information Technology startups, SAP EBS Partner Companies, and key Microsoft partner ecosystem providers. Through his two decades of working in the industry, he also gained a complete understanding of where organizations face a maximum challenge as his roles included Sales, Business Development, Management, to managing global marketing teams.

Educator

• Ian is an Adjunct Professor of Technology at the Wroclaw University of Economics & Business, Poland
• Ian is a Linkedin Learning Instructor and a course creator for Metaverse and related topics

Filmmaking

His works are available on Amazon Prime Video, Emirates Airlines, FlyDubai, and broadcast networks worldwide.

• Blockchain – Ian is the director of the documentary Blockchain City.
• Cryptocurrency – Ian is the director of the documentary film “Bitcoin Dilemma”
• Future of Work – Ian is the director of the upcoming documentary “The Future of Work Debunked”.
• AI The Next Frontier – The Overview of Artificial Intelligence
• “The Metaverse Explained” documentary narrator and host

Contributing Author

He is also a frequent contributor to industry publications including Forbes, Business.com, Entrepreneur Magazine,  McGraw Hill Education, AccountingWeb and other publications.

Media Recognition

Ian Khan is a multiple documentary film maker, author and has been featured on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox, CTV, Global TV, Arab News (Saudi Arabia), Gulf News (UAE), Expansion(Spain), Fast Company, and multiple other media outlets.

Community Involvement

Passionate about helping newer generations develop key technology understanding, Ian also works with educational institutions & nonprofit organizations. His recent work includes Chang School (Ryerson University), Schulich School of Business (York University), and others.

Media Host

Ian is also the host of the Ian Khan Show, 4Sight, Unbreakable series of podcasts and video series. Ian interviews Futurists, celebrities, Executives, and thought leaders, helping shape the future of the world through meaningful conversations. He also hosts the official Government of UAE Government Experience (GX) Podcast.

Memberships

Ian is also a member of the Association of Global Futurists, a member of the National Speaking Association, and the World Future Society.

Personal Life

Ian primarily lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two children and has a local presence in Toronto, New York, and Dubai. He enjoys photography, creative arts, music, nature, and trail walking as hobbies.

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With a background in computer engineering and Design Thinking, Ramy has straddled technical, design, and business-oriented roles, for clients including Cadillac Fairview, Apple, Air Canada, Facebook, New Balance, Rogers and CIBC.

Ramy is a regular speaker at international events including World Usability Congress, IxDA, Machine Learning Exchange, AI Business Summit and Mobile World Congress. Ramy teaches Design Thinking at McMaster University as well as guest lectures on a range of topics at Ryerson University and University of Toronto. He has been recognized as a top 40 under 40 award winner.

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Allie Miller is a top artificial intelligence leader, advisor, and investor.

Previously, Allie was the Global Head of Machine Learning Business Development for Startups and Venture Capital at Amazon (AWS), advising the top machine learning researchers, founders, and investors in the world. She was the first hire and ran the business to become a 100-person 10-figure organization inside AWS.

Prior to that, Allie was the youngest-ever woman to build an artificial intelligence product at IBM—spearheading product development across computer vision, conversation, data, and regulation for thousands of companies.

Outside of work, Allie is changing the game of AI. Allie has spoken about AI around the world, advises on global AI public policy, and created over 10 guidebooks to educate businesses on how to successfully build, scale, and outperform with AI.

Allie was named as AIconic’s 2019 “AI Innovator of the Year”, LinkedIn Top Voice for Technology and AI 2019 & 2020 & 2021, Award Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech and Top 100 Global Thought Leaders, Chief in Tech’s Top 100 Women in Tech to Watch in 2022, ReadWrite’s Top 20 AI Speakers in the World, MKAI’s Top 20 AI Mavericks, Data Salon’s Top 25 Data Science influencers in the world, and Neptune’s Top 20 AI Influencers. Allie is also the co-founder of Girls of the Future, a national ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an ambassador for the 10,000-person organization Advancing Women in Product, an angel investor in machine learning startups, and has won the Grand Prize in three national innovation competitions.

Allie holds a double-major MBA from The Wharton School and a BA in Cognitive Science (coding a three-year ML study and studying Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology) from Dartmouth College.

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Michal studies humans in a digital environment using cutting-edge computational methods, AI and Big Data. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Machine Learning, and Psychological Science that have been cited over 11,000 times. His research inspired a cover of The Economist, a 2014 theatre play “Privacy”, multiple TED talks, a video game, and was discussed in thousands of books, press articles, podcasts, and documentaries.

Michal was behind the first press article warning against Cambridge Analytica, a story covered in Steven Levy’s book “Facebook: The Inside Story”.

Michal holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Cambridge and master’s degrees in psychometrics and in social psychology. He was the Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, a researcher at Microsoft Research, and a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford’s Computer Science Department.

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Currently he is a board member of 3 security industry organizations, EICAR, AVAR and LSEC, and is the resident Security Evangelist and Global Security Officer at G DATA CyberDefense. He became a founding member of EICAR in 1991, one of the world’s first security IT organizations.

Over the years he has served in many extra roles in different security industry organizations and security companies. Several CERTs, press agencies, print and online publications and broadcasting media, for example CNN, use his advice regularly. Eddy is Belgian’s internationally most quoted cyber security expert for the past 3 decades.

In October of 2013, he published his first book in Belgium and the Netherlands, entitled ‘Cybergevaar’ (Lannoo). A German translation followed afterwards and an English translation and update, Cyberdanger (Springer), was published in 2019. He is also co-author together with co-author Alain Dierckx of the Dutch SF cyberthriller ‘Het Virus’ published in 2020.

Eddy is a known inspiring speaker and is giving lectures and presentations (including TEDx) worldwide for a very diverse audience from children to experts.

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He is founder of Geolab, an innovation research and leadership development firm focused on coaching, strategy, and design. A former executive director of the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University, Kian has coached the leadership teams of dozens of Fortune 500 companies, unicorns and startups on disruptive innovation, exponential technologies, leadership and the future of work.

Kian has been featured widely in global media, and is a sought-after keynote speaker, emcee and facilitator for marquee events globally, including the World Economic Forum, SXSW, the Tokyo Motor Show, and dozens of global organizations.

He is co-author of the bestselling book “Competing in the New World of Work” with Keith Ferrazzi, which was published in 2022 by Harvard Business Review Press. He is a graduate of Northwestern, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Business School.

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Neil frequently advises a range of corporations, from Fortune 500 companies to innovative start-ups, helping them refine their identities, clarify their objectives, and realize their content strategy in ways that resonate with digitally-native audiences.

He is a member of the prestigious Explorers Club and owner of passport stamps from 122 countries. A 5-time Emmy Winner, Clio Winner, Guinness Book of World Record holder, former opening act for RUN-DMC and currently honored in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Neil’s Hollywood memberships include the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.

Neil has been a pioneer in the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality arenas since 2014 and is a celebrated speaker leader on the protection and monetization of 3D Digital Media Rights management in the Metaverse.

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With an extensive experience from Unicorn Start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries from Internet-based, E-Commerce, Retail, Cars, Pharmaceuticals, Government, Telecom, Bank and finance, Media and more.

With a burning interest in the growth of global E-Commerce and retail, Karl started to study customer behaviour and customer psychology to understand more about the difference between a customer and a window shopper. But also, to understand why E-Commerce conversion is around 3% as compared to the retail conversion of around 57%. Which led to the role of a speaker, where Karl is invited to speak all over the world.

He started his first business at age 16, today 25 years later he has helped organizations like H&M, Spotify business, AstraZeneca, 3, Tele2, TUI, Volvo and many more to scale their business, convert bottlenecks into opportunities and build both internal and external success factors. Karl has helped over 1000 ecommerce stores increase their conversion and market growth.

It all started back in 1996 when Karl as a 16-year-old kid started his first IT Consultant company. Just a few years later in 2001 Karl started the first Nordic online interior design store. He developed a unique ecommerce engine and growth model connected to both consumer behaviour and robot behaviour.

Since then, Karl have helped companies worldwide to operate more efficiently and generated over 300% in increased conversion for companies with a global footprint.

In addition, Karl Lillrud is a bestselling author of 6 booksand two times TEDx speaker. He has been honoured as one of the world’s top 50 ecommerce experts and world’s top 30 ecommerce influencers. He is also named as one of the world’s top 50 speakers on online growth and ecommerce, and on the Top 30 list of the best Business coaches.

As a speaker, Karl empower his audience by sharing his passion and experience to empower the audience. He makes sure that the audience have a great deal of new knowledge, methods, and tools that they can apply in their environment to make their companies grow faster than before.

Karl work globally both as an on-stage professional speaker at events but also as a professional virtual speaker, meeting your needs to make the event in the most professional way.

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Adam has been a co-founder or founding member of four successful startups, including Siri (sold to Apple, where he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant), Change.org (the world’s largest petition platform), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, where as VP R&D, Adam led product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant), and Sentient (massively distributed machine learning,
sold to Cognizant).

Currently, Adam is a Venture Partner at Project Voice Venture Partners. He is also an advisor to several companies, including Otter.ai, Riva Health, Evolv Technologies, Disruptel, Brilliant Labs, and Halt Labs. Previously, Adam was VP of Engineering at Verticalnet (enterprise software) and Dejima (mobile software). Adam also spent more than a decade at SRI International, where his most recent role was as Chief Architect of CALO/PAL, the U.S. government’s largest funded AI project.

In addition to his technology work, Adam is an award-winning magician. He has performed in stadiums for thousands, on TV for millions (including on the well-known Penn and Teller Fool Us” show), entertained heads of state and presidents, and fooled some of the top pros in the business.

Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 39 patents and served on numerous advisory boards and committees. He graduated with the highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” award from UCLA’s School of Engineering.

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Preceding Hanssen’s arrest, O’Neill worked with the spy within the information assurance division that protected all classified FBI intelligence. O’Neill gained Hanssen’s trust and used that relationship to slowly draw the traitor out of deep cover.

O’Neill began his career in the FBI as a graduate of the FBI’s Intelligence Program. He spent the first five years of his career as a special surveillance group field operative tasked to surveil and monitor foreign, national, and domestic terrorists and spies. He transitioned from field operative to direct undercover work focusing on Hanssen. Although his prior training had focused on “ghosting” targets from the shadows, he engaged his target in conversation in order to elicit information needed to catch Hanssen in the act of espionage. The singular nature of the assignment, one with little backup or support, required O’Neill to draw from deep reserves of courage and confidence within himself to battle Hanssen’s mind games and aggressive probing and learn to “stop reacting to Hanssen and begin acting.”

Currently, Eric O’Neill runs The Georgetown Group, a premier investigative and security consultancy, where he specializes in counterintelligence operations, investigations into economic espionage, cyber security penetrations, internal investigations, catching the trusted insider and security risk assessment consulting out of Washington, DC. Eric is also the National Security Strategist for Carbon Black, the leader in next generation endpoint protection, where he provides insight and advice on strategic cybersecurity issues and will work to ensure Carbon Black is an active participant in the conversation about the national strategy for cyber security.

O’Neill’s story is one of patriotism, of decisive action in the face of fear, and of learning to maintain confidence in ability even if it looks like success is impossible. He has told his story in national media, in print, on radio, and on television including 20/20, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Mathews, Fox News Power Player of the Week with Chris Wallace, CNN, CSPAN’s Washington Journal, NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” World News Now, MTV, and Access Hollywood.

A talented motivational speaker who weaves real life experiences into a presentation that is both entertaining and rewarding, Eric O’Neill provides practical insights into real work situations relevant to many industries. In addition to his experience in the Hanssen case, he also addresses the issues of confidence and patriotism, the threat to United States security posed by terrorism, foreign intelligence services, the cyber threat to our national infrastructure and the national conscience in a monitored society.

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His next book, The Conscious Society: Reinventing How We Consume, Work, Relate, and Live, shows how we can expand our awareness and tap into our abundant inner resources — love, ingenuity, wisdom — to consciously direct human evolution towards a healthier and sustainable future.

He is a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Until 2011, he served as Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Prior to that, as Vice President at Forrester Research in Boston and San Francisco, he advised senior leaders worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies. He is on the advisory boards of NEHI’s Global Lab for Health and Africa4Tech.

Navi’s ideas have been shaped by his eclectic cultural background including his Indian roots, his French education, and his Silicon Valley milieu. He studied at Ecole Centrale Paris and the Yale School of Management. His writing appears in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review and 
strategy+business, among other publications. He is a lifelong student of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Buddhist (Vipassana) meditation.

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Andraka’s groundbreaking results have earned him international recognition, most notably the 2018 Truman Scholar Award, the 2014 Jefferson Award, the nation’s most prestigious public service award, the Intel Science Fair Winner for 2012, the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, the Out 100, White House Champion of Change in Open Science, Time Magazines 30 under 30, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper, and Advocate Magazine’s 40 under 40 award.

In addition, Andraka was First Lady Michelle Obama’s personal guest at the 2013 State of the Union Address. He has been featured in several documentaries including Morgan Spurlock’s Sundance Film Festival entry, “You Don’t Know Jack,” Linda Peters’ award winning film, “Just Jack,” and the online version of Ken Burns’ “The Emperor of All Maladies”, as well as 60 Minutes, The Colbert Report, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CNN, BBC, Fox, Rede Record de Televisão, and radio, newspaper, and magazine articles around the world.

Andraka speaks at a wide variety of locations including universities, schools, technology organizations and corporations, hospitals and the education sector in over 40 countries. Notable venues include a mainstage TED talk, 19 TEDx talks, a panelist at the annual Clinton Global Initiative, and a X-Prize Foundation Visioneer. His audiences range from youth—children and teens- to adults interested in using their creativity and curiosity to change the world.

Andraka also runs programs for mentoring disadvantaged LGBT youth in STEM fields. He is a member of both the Junior and U-23 national kayaking teams and placed in the top 20 at the U23 Wildwater Kayaking World Championships.

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Peter is the author of four bestselling business books. ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ is about surviving in times of radical innovation. ‘The Network Always Wins’ explains how and why companies have no choice but to become a network when the outside world has evolved into one. In ‘The New Normal’, Peter writes about how companies should explore the limits of the digital world, and what happens when technology just becomes ‘normal’. ‘Business/IT Fusion’ is a guide about how to solve the conflict between business and IT. Peter is frequently asked to contribute to (international) publications and is a Forbes contributor as well as a LinkedIn Influencer.

Peter has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. He is also a multiple board advisor on subjects related to innovation and technology.

For more than fifteen years, Peter led a life of technology start-ups. His first company e-COM was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent, his second, Streamcase, by Belgacom, and Across Technology by Delaware Consulting. His third venture (Porthus) was quoted on the stock exchange and acquired by Descartes. Between start-ups, he has been an Entrepreneur in Residence with McKinsey & Company, with a focus on digital and technology strategy. Peter’s current company nexxworks helps organisations become fluid, innovate and thrive in The Day After Tomorrow.

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The internet has changed and will continue to change how audiences do that voodoo that they do so often, and tracking those changes is a big part of what he do here on this site and in talks I give all over the world.

Brad Berens spends his professional time as a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, where he leads a handful of exciting projects, and as a Principal at Big Digital Idea Consulting.

You can get details about his career at his LinkedIn profile, and in what follows.

Brad Berens enjoyed a long tenure as the Global Chief Content Officer for ad:tech, the iMedia Summits, the CMO Executive Summits and the MLX Event series– all part of the dmg :: events Digital Marketing Sector. He came to iMedia in 2004 to become editorial head of their daily media property, iMedia Connection, and was later promoted to his current role when what was then called dmg world media acquired iMedia Communications.

Before iMedia, he spent four years as the editor of all things digital at EarthLink, the ISP. There, he led the charge on redesigning the company’s main corporate website (everything from the information architecture to the copy on every page) and later was tasked with transmogrifying the company’s bLink Magazine into eLink, an online newsletter and primary customer touchpoint with a circulation of roughly seven million.

He came to EarthLink from Lineup Technologies, a path-breaking but sadly-ahead-of-its-time dot-com that suffered the fate of so many such companies in the big 2000 bubble pop. Six years later, a lot of what Lineup was trying to do companies like YouTube, Google, Yahoo! and many others are actually doing. Prior to Lineup, he spent a few years as a story analyst in Hollywood, working for companies like DreamWorks, CAA and New Regency, as well as for directors like Ridley Scott and Sydney Pollack. He also wrote a regular “Script Doctor” column for a company called ScriptShark.

It surprises some people to learn that he got his start thinking about media, culture and what audiences do with them as a bona fide Shakespearean scholar and stage historian. Brad Berens have a Ph.D. in English from U.C. Berkeley, and spent years as a teacher and scholar, giving talks about Shakespeare all over the world. From Shakespeare to the internet can seem like a crazy transition, but when you learn that much of his academic work concerns how Shakespeare invented the modern audience — how he created the way we watch movies, TV and other forms of mass culture today — his weird career trajectory starts to make a bit more sense. You can see his TEDx talk about Shakespeare as a business genius to get a sense of how his first career and subsequent work slam into each other.

But who is Brad Berens as a person?

Brad Berens was born in Los Angeles and have lived here for most of his life, although he took a long excursion away when he went to college at Brown University and then grad school (for — yikes! — most of the 1990s) up at Berkeley. Brad Berens is a family man living with his wife, daughter and son in Portland, Oregon, having relocated from Southern California, where he was born, raised and still spend a lot of time.

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Nick holds a degree in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas, and holds 10 patents related to natural language processing. Nick’s charitable work includes board membership for /dev/color: a non-profit whose mission is to maximize the impact of Black software engineers, and founding Color Code: a scholarship fund dedicated to future leaders of color in technology fields.

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Her book, “Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere,” provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. Her award-winning book, “The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations” chronicles the behind-the-scenes globalization process of a company over the course of five years. She has also published extensively in leading scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review, and her work has been widely covered in media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist.

Her HBS case, Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, is one of the most used cases worldwide on the subject of virtual work.

Tsedal co-chairs the executive offering, Leading Global Businesses, which helps top leaders develop emerging and mature market strategies in a global and increasingly digital economy. She also teaches extensively in executive programs such as the Harvard Business Analytics Program. She has previously been the course head for the first-year required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course in the MBA program that focuses on how to lead effectively; the curriculum addresses group behavior and performance, organization design, change and how to align people behind a common vision.

Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent ten years working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including strategies for global customer experience, 360-degree performance software management systems, sales force/sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures. A sought-after speaker with extensive international experience, she is fluent in four languages. She holds a patent for her software simulation on global collaboration and is a member of Rakuten People & Culture Lab Advisory Board.

Tsedal is a recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education and the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School (two-time recipient). She serves on the Board of Directors of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Harvard Business Publishing and the Partnership Inc.

Tsedal received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology and Organizations. Tsedal was named as the Top Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 for making lasting contributions to management, honored as a Stanford Distinguished Alumnus Scholar and was a Stanford University School of Engineering Lieberman award recipient for excellence in teaching and research.

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Khanna is the leading forecaster of how our complex global system is rapidly evolving. He delivers data-rich visualizations that distill geopolitical, economic, and technological megatrends, and gives tailored and detailed presentations embodying his deep expertise and firsthand experiences in more than 150 countries. His engagements deliver strategically insightful and actionable value, including from FutureMap’s proprietary software Climate Alpha, the leading platform for forecasting asset values under diverse scenarios.

Khanna has provided his foresight to over thirty governments, including serving as an advisor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council and on the Singapore government’s Committee on the Future Economy. He has also served on the boards of numerous financial firms and technology companies.

Parag’s analyses are regularly featured in influential media such as CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, National Geographic, TIME, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. Khanna was a featured speaker at TED in 2016 and TED Global in 2009, with his talks garnering more than three million views online.

Khanna’s newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was named one of the best books of 2021 by Financial Times and endorsed by famed experts Nouriel Roubini, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alec Ross, Balaji Srinivasan, and others. His book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century (2019) earned high praise from Larry Summers, Jim Rogers, and many other luminaries. It was called “dazzling” by Kirkus Reviews and hailed as “authoritative… a standard reference,” by the Financial Times.

Khanna is also the author of an authoritative trilogy on the future of world order beginning with the bestseller The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). These books garnered accolades from leading figures such as Eric Schmidt, Chuck Hagel, Fareed Zakaria, Mark Mobius, Robert Kaplan, Kevin Kelly, Martin Sorrell, and Klaus Schwab. The New York Times Book Review hailed Khanna as “a foreign policy whiz kid.”

Khanna also authored two other books, Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2011) (co-authored with his wife Ayesha Khanna). The former was strongly endorsed by notable intellectuals such as Tyler Cowen and Lawrence Lessig, and the latter was celebrated by Alvin Toffler, Peter Diamandis, Peter Schwartz, and others. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and received feature coverage in leading publications across the world.

Before founding FutureMap, Khanna was a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the National University of Singapore, as well as a senior fellow at New America and the Brookings Institution. In 2007, he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical advisor to U.S. Special Operations Forces. He also worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Dr. Khanna holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. and M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish, and basic Arabic. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

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Founder & Chief Scientist of Jibo, Inc.
Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab. She is also founder and Chief Scientist of Jibo, Inc.

She is a pioneer of Social Robotics and Human Robot Interaction. She authored the book Designing Sociable Robots, and she has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals and conferences on the topics of Autonomous Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Human Robot Interaction, and Robot Learning. She serves on several editorial boards in the areas of autonomous robots, affective computing, entertainment technology and multi-agent systems. She is also an Overseer at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Her research focuses on developing the principles, techniques, and technologies for personal robots that are socially intelligent, interact and communicate with people in human-centric terms, work with humans as peers, and learn from people as an apprentice. She has developed some of the world’s most famous robotic creatures ranging from small hexapod robots, to embedding robotic technologies into familiar everyday artifacts, to creating highly expressive humanoid robots and robot characters. Her recent work investigates the impact of social robots on helping people of all ages to achieve personal goals that contribute to quality of life in domains such as physical performance, learning/education, health, and family communication + play over distance.

Jibo, Inc. brings the technologies, design insights, and user experience of social robots to the home as the world’s first family robot. Jibo is designed to help busy families to communicate, coordinate and connect with loved ones with greater ease, efficacy, and delight. As an open platform, Jibo enables third party developers to bring the humanized engagement and emotional lift of social robots to their apps, content and services.

Dr. Breazeal is recognized as a prominent global innovator. She is a recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Gilbreth Lecture Award and an ONR Young Investigator Award. She has received Technology Review’s TR100/35 Award, TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008, and has been honored as finalist in the National Design Awards in Communication. Her work has also won numerous best paper awards at top academic conferences. In 2014 she was recognized as an entrepreneur as Fortune Magazine’s Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs, and she was also a recipient of the L’Oreal USA Women in Digital NEXT Generation Award. The same year, she received the 2014 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award for seminal contributions to the development of Social Robotics and Human Robot Interaction.

She received her B.S. (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She did her graduate work at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and received her M.S. (1993) and Sc.D. (2000) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the “for Dummies” series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles.

David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He’s won two Emmy awards, two Webby awards, a Loeb award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music. He’s been profiled on “48 Hours” and “60 Minutes.” He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

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Tom has written or co-authored fourteen books, including several firsts in the areas of big data and analytics, business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems. His concept of big data and analytics as a competitive differentiator, initially introduced in a Harvard Business Review article, Competing on Analytics, has been recognized by HBR editors as one the most important management ideas of the past decade and remains one of HBR’s ten must-read articles in that magazine’s 90-year history. Together with two highly acclaimed books, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results and Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, cited by CIO Magazine as one of the all-time “Top 15 Most Groundbreaking Management Books,” his work in this area is credited with spawning “a new breed of organization.

His most recent book is Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got Them Right. It was recently named one of the top ten business books of 2012 by Publishers Weekly. He is currently working on a new book on analytical thinking, tentatively titled Numbers Talk.

The author of hundreds of articles, columns and blogs for such publications as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, CIO, and The Financial Times, he is quoted frequently in media such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Recognized as one of the top 25 consultants in the world and one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry, he has also directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC.

Tom earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in social science and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin.

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In the mid-1970s, she appeared on the television soap opera Somerset. Weaver’s major film debut came in 1977, when she appeared as Woody Allen’s movie date in Annie Hall, for a total of six seconds. Just two years later, her career took off with her portrayal of the extraterrestrial-slaying heroine, Ellen Ripley (a role originally slated for a man), in Ridley Scott’s chilling sci-fi thriller, Alien. Weaver brought to the role an intelligence unusual for action films, thus broadening the film’s appeal and making it an instant classic of the genre. She reprised the role of Ripley in 1986 with Aliens, the sequel, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination, and went on to make Alien3 in 1992, and Alien Resurrection in 1997.

With the high salaries she commanded from the popular Alien series as well as her leading roles in the hit Ghostbuster films, opposite Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd, Weaver was free to explore roles in smaller, low-budget productions. She appeared in independent films like Jeffrey and Death and the Maiden, and on the stage in Hurly Burly (1984), and Durang’s Sex and Longing (1996). In 1988, she earned twin Oscar nominations for two very different performances—for her supporting role in the comedy Working Girl, co-starring Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford, and as scientist Diane Fossey in the Fossey biopic Gorillas in the Mist. In the 1993 comedy Dave, Weaver played the first lady to Kevin Kline′s U.S. president/presidential imposter. She again starred with Kline in 1997′s The Ice Storm (directed by Ang Lee) in a memorable performance as a disillusioned, adulterous suburban wife and mother in 1970s Connecticut.

Called ′The Sci-Fi Queen′ on account of her many science fiction and fantasy films, her recent work includes the role of Dr. Grace Augustine in James Cameron′s mega-hit Avatar as well as playing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the romantic comedy, You Again. Weaver is also active in environmentalism, narrating for the Discovery presentation Planet Earth and speaking out against harmful fishing methods in front of the United Nations

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