Business and Keynote Speakers

Founder and CEO of Pavegen Systems, an innovative clean technology company. Passionate about entrepreneurship and technology, he is a regular speaker at global events.

Laurence Kemball-Cook

Irra Ariella Khi is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of multiple data security patents in USA and Europe. She is the only female CEO to successfully commercialise blockchain technology for international border management and identity.

Irra Ariella Khi

Founder and CEO of the MOBO Organisation, Kanya is also recognised as a superb keynote speaker, an internationally recognised entrepreneur and innovator in the British music industry.

Kanya King

Former CEO of Sainsburys, his background includes M&S, Asda, Haagen Dazs, Pepsi, and Mars. Now working as a consultant with Guy Hands venture capital business Terra Firma.

Justin King

Is a member of the House of Lords and was head of Diversity at Channel 4 before taking a role at YouTube. She was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister on Equalities and Diversity and was the elected MP for Bethnal Green & Bow. She is a broadcaster, writer and political campaigner.

Oona King

Turi uses genetics in the fields of forensics, history, genealogy, and archaeology, and is best known for ‘cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history’ – the identification of the remains of King Richard III.

Turi King

Adam Kingl has spent decades working in innovation, strategy, culture and leadership. Author of Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent Will Thrive with Your Organisation he talks about the companies best placed to survive and thrive in the new business environment. Adam delivered his keynote How and why business as usual is no longer acceptable in our Speaker Taster Sessions

Adam Kingl

Jacky Klein is an art historian, author and broadcaster. She co-presented ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ for BBC4 with Bendor Grosvenor in 2016, travelling the UK to discover some of the greatest lost paintings in our national collections.

Jacky Klein

Ardi Kolah is Executive Fellow and Director of the GDPR Transition Programme at Henley Business School and the founder of GO DPO®, which is the strategic partner for many multi-national clients in the area of GDPR compliance.

Ardi Kolah

Marc invented the K1 disposable syringe, as a reaction to the spread of HIV via the re-use of needles, especially in the developing world. This invention has saved millions of lives. He also founded SafePoint, to promote awareness of the dangers of unsafe injections, and received the OBE for his contribution to global healthcare.

Marc Koska OBE

Roman has been named by The Observer as one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers. His writings have been widely influential amongst political and ecological campaigners, education reformers, social entrepreneurs and designers. An acclaimed public speaker, his talks and workshops have taken him from a London prison to Google’s headquarters in California.

Roman Krznaric

American inventor, IT guru, entrepreneur, author and futurist with fans including Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. He is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time with a host of computer application developments including the first reading machine for the blind.

Ray Kurzweil

James is Emerging Markets Editor at the Financial Times, the main focus of which is in several areas: economic growth and development trends in emerging markets, connections between emerging markets (particularly China and the outside world), EM demographic themes and social trends.

James Kynge

Louise is the founder of PhygitalTwin, a technology entrepreneur with a positive take on the innovative possibilities of AI to revolutionise businesses, especially in the competitive world of fashion retailing.

Louise Laing

Jamie is a broadcaster, producer and entrepreneur; a pioneer in the world of podcasts.

Jamie Laing