Innovation/Futurists

Dr Acaroglu has become a major thought leader in sustainability and design. Her talks and workshops are often described as "mind blowing" as she weaves fascinating examples that equip people with the thinking tools to create their own change in the world, as witnessed by over 1.4m who have watched her TED talk.

Leyla Acaroglu

Michael Acton Smith OBE is a highly successful technology entrepreneur and leader. He is the co-founder and Co CEO of Calm, whose mission is to make the world a happier and less stressed place by bringing meditation and mindfulness to the mainstream.He is also the creator of Moshi Monsters and CEO and Founder of entertainment company, Mind Candy and Co-founder of Firebox.

Michael Acton Smith OBE

Lucy Adams is CEO of ‘Disruptive HR’ and a former BBC HR Director during a turbulent period of change. Gives a fresh perspective on business leadership in times of change in major organisations.

Lucy Adams

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a scientist and broadcaster who people refer to as the BBC’s ‘face of space’. She is the presenter of the astronomical institution The Sky at Night, has fronted a number of space documentaries, and regularly appears on science and non-science programmes.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Co-founder and Head of Design at Kickstarter, the groundbreaking crowdfunding website which has raised over $752m for over 50k projects from computer games and music to technology and feature films. An innovator passionate about the internet.

Charles Adler

Ash is an entrepreneur who found his way into digital entrepreneurship when he sold his first award-winning internet business at the age of just 19. Serial tech master known for his high-speed innovative growth hacking.

Ash Ali

Global thought-leader in business futurism. Renowned for making complex societal shifts and emerging technologies relatable for any audience.

Kate Ancketill

Azeem Azhar is the Founder and author of Exponential View which concentrates primarily on technology, business models, the political economy and society. Azeem is also on the board of the Ada Lovelace Foundation, the leading independent research institute focussed on the ethics of AI. He is a venture partner at Kindred Capital, a generalist early stage VC fund, and an advisor to Fabric Ventures, a blockchain-focused VC fund. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future's Council on the Digital Economy and Society.

Azeem Azhar

Georgie is a technology and consumer presenter, broadcaster and journalist, best known for Channel 5's The Gadget Show and Shop Smart Save Money, specialising in sustainability and echo-tech content.

Georgie Barrat

Author of The Dark Net and Radicals and Director of the Centre for the analysis of social media ,Jamie speaks expertly on important topics such as cyber security, internet cultures and surveillance technology.

Jamie Bartlett

Chris Barton is the Founder and Creator of Shazam, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Tech Investor; a dynamic tech speaker on creativity

Chris Barton

Dave is a much sought - after motivational speaker with an original take on transformation of businesses and mindsets using creativity as the prime driver of change

Dave Birss

Award-winning speaker specialising in the future human, Artificial Intelligence and body responsive technologies. She is the studio expert for BBC World Service Digital Planet (formerly BBC Click) and is a Reader in Digital Immersion at the University of Greenwich.

Ghislaine Boddington

Jason is the former host of The Gadget Show, a charismatic and inventive technology expert whose acclaimed public speaking has been turned into '30 Days of AI'; a machine learning revolution with profound implications for how we live and work

Jason Bradbury

Gavin Brown is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool University. He is also a Co-founder and Director of Blockchain Capital Limited – a London based cryptocurrency & blockchain hedge fund.

Gavin Brown