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2023 Key Speakers

Yuval Noah Harari

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21...

Historian & Philosopher

Tom Graham

Tom Graham is CEO and co-founder of Metaphysic, the pioneering Generative AI platform developing immersive, photorealistic content at internet scale. Graham has deep expertise in software, web3 and AI, and...

CEO and Co-Founder - Metaphysic

Tania Bryer

Tania is Host and Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed series ‘CNBC Meets’, where she gets up close and personal with some of the world’s most inspirational figures to find...

CNBC Anchor - CNBC

Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell is a pioneer in the understanding and uses of artificial intelligence (AI), its long-term future, and its relation to humanity. He also is a leading authority on robotics a…

British Computer Scientist

Steven Bartlett

Steven is an accomplished investor in the health and wellness space with notable investments including Huel - UK’s fastest growing e-commerce company internationally, and Zoe - the personalised nutrition...

Entrepreneur & Podcaster, Diary of a CEO

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Notable acting roles include...

Actor, Writer, Presenter -

Reid Hoffman

An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn...

Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Co-Founder of Inflection AI, Partner at Greylock

Rana El Kaliouby

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American scientist, entrepreneur, investor and an AI thought leader on a mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us...

AI Thought Leader, Entrepreneur, Investor, Machine Learning Scientist and Deputy CEO - Smart Eye, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, Investor at BOLD Capital Partners.

Pablos Holman

Pablos is a notorious hacker, inventor and technology futurist who thinks differently to solve the world’s biggest problems by inventing new technology. At The Intellectual Ventures…

GP (Hacker, inventor, futurist) - Deep Future

Ozwald Boateng

Celebrating over 25 years in fashion, Ozwald Boateng conceived a new silhouette and palette for international menswear; creating a concept of style and luxury for men not previously envisaged but...

Founder and Creative Director - Ozwald Boateng

Nina Schick

Nina Schick is an author, entrepreneur and advisor specialising in Generative AI. One of the first GenAI experts, Nina analyses how this nascent field of artificial intelligence...

Author

Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa is co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first consumer software company. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company that...

Co-founder & CEO - Inflection AI

Megan Smith

CEO shift7, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer - shift7

Mathieu Flamini

CEO & Co-founder - GFBiochemicals

Jürgen Schmidhuber

The New York Times headlined: "When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber 'Dad'." He is often called the Father of Modern AI by the media...

Director, AI Initiative, KAUST, KSA; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA; Adj. Prof. of AI, USI; Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE

Jimmy Wales

Recognized as a “Web Celeb” by Forbes, Jimmy Donal Wales is an influential Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and tech visionary. He is the Founder of Wikipedia, the largest free-content online...

Founder of Wikipedia

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey is an entrepreneur and entertainment industry executive who has reshaped the media landscape throughout his career. Today, he is a Founding Partner at WndrCo...

Founding Partner - WndrCo

Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of...

Founder of Eurasia Group - Eurasia Group

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is an active humanitarian committed to promoting tolerance, compassion, and empathy between people of all backgrounds....

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Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett serves as the chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues...

Editor at large, Financial Times

Euro Beinat

Euro is the Global Head for AI and Data Science at Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. He is also a Visiting...

Global Head Data Science and AI - Prosus

2023 Speakers

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani is the co-founder of Novara Media, a UK-based outlet covering everything from capitalism to shifting demographics and climate change. He is the author of the...

Co-founder - Novara Media

Aarti Samani

Aarti is the founder of Shreem Growth Partners, a boutique consultancy and professional services provider, that works with technology enabled businesses to accelerate growth...

Founder - Shreem Growth Partners

Adam Elman

As Head of Sustainability for Google Europe, Middle East and Africa, Adam works at the meeting point of physical, digital and natural worlds. He coordinates with Google's real world...

Head of Sustainability for Google Europe, Middle East and Africa - Google

Adam Leon Smith

Adam Leon Smith is an expert in international AI standardisation, Chair of the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group, and a non-executive director at multiple UK startups...

Consultant - Independent

Adam Warne

Adam is the CIO at fashion high street brand River Island, with 20+ years IT experience across several sectors. Adam moved on from CIO at N Brown in 2021 & prior to that had...

CIO - River Island

Afiya Chohollo

Afiya Chohollo is VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido, a global identity verification and authentication provider. Our technology...

Co-founder of CloudFO and VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido

Aisha Gani

Aisha Gani is a Fintech reporter at Bloomberg News

Fintech reporter - Bloomberg

Alan Greenberg

Previously Director Apple Education EMEA, then Apple AsiaPAC & China. Education Podcasting, iTunesU Europe, China and AsiaPAC. Currently: Trust Architect Digest.AI conversational AI...

Trust Architect - Digest.AI

Aleksandrina Atanasova

Dr Aleksandrina Atanasova is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. She is an expert in consumer behavior and culture...

Assistant Professor of Marketing - Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London

Alessandra La Via

Alessandra La Via is a prominent speaker in the fields of digital wellbeing and culture. She believes in a future where we intentionally design digital workplaces to support human success...

Founder and CEO - Live More Offline

Alex Kendall

Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO Wayve, a British start-up pioneering a next-generation autonomous driving system based on machine learning. Widely recognized as a world expert in this...

Co-Founder & CEO - Wayve

Alex McCracken

Alex has 20+ years experience financing technology companies, and has provided $1bn+ credit and equity finance to tech startups...

MD Innovation Banking - J.P.Morgan

Alexandra Mousavizadeh

Alexandra is the co-founder and CEO of Evident, the AI benchmarking business that specialises in ranking companies on their AI Adoption progress. Alexandra has 20 years...

Co-founder and CEO - Evident

Alexandra North

Behind every visible and ambitious startup is a trusted and credible PR practitioner: one just like Alexandra North, a media, PR & communications specialist with 20+ years'...

Managing Partner - Luminous PR

Alexey Strygin

Alexey is a Chief Digital Health Officer of Gero.ai, leading Gerosense.ai, a digital biomarker for measuring biological age and enabling digital trials in humans at a drastically lower cost...

Chief Digital Health Officer - Gero.ai

Alexia Cambon

Alexia leads research for the Future of Work & M365 team as a Senior Director at Microsoft, working to identify emerging research opportunities and delving into customers’ most...

Senior Director, Research - Microsoft UK

Ali Hussein

A senior executive in the Technology, Media and Telecoms businesses for over two decades with CXO and Board of Advisory roles across Eros Now, Discovery YouTube, Viacom and other organizations....

Chief Executive Officer - Immerso

Ali Saad

Ali Saad applies his data science acumen to the world of EV charging at Connected Kerb. His expertise in data science, machine learning and statistics is shaping the future of...

Data Science Lead - Connected Kerb

Alice Bentinck

Alice Bentinck MBE is cofounder and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. Entrepreneur First invests in top technical individuals to help them build world-class deep technology startups from scratch in four...

Co-Founder - Entrepreneur First

Alisa Andrasek

Alisa Andrasek is an award-winning design leader bridging between design, technology and ecology. She is bringing complexity science, AI and robotics to the forefront of design in...

AIARCH Founder / RMIT Professor of Architecture and Urban design -

Amir Banifatemi

Amir Banifatemi is a seasoned business and technology strategist and investor with over 25 years of track record of creating and managing companies and projects that...

Managing Partner - AI Commons

Amit Katwala

Amit Katwala is an editor and writer at WIRED, focussing on longform features, science and culture. He co-hosts All Consuming on BBC Radio 4, and is the author of three books...

Editor and Writer - Wired

Amolak Badesha

Amolak Badesha has been building deep-tech products and businesses for over 20 years in Silicon Valley. His career spans building and leading teams in R&D, strategy / M&A, marketing...

CEO - Orbital Composites

Amy Challen

Amy is the GM Artificial Intelligence at Shell, responsible for driving delivery and adoption of AI technologies, including natural language processing...

GM Artificial Intelligence - Shell

Anders Breitholtz

Anders has devoted his professional career to sourcing, implementing, and designing sustainable, innovative, and advanced materials for Avant-garde Unicorns and Fortune 500...

CEO - Papershell

Andrea Michi

Andrea Michi is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind working on Reinforcement Learning applications. Michi has worked on a range of domains including...

Senior Research Engineer - DeepMind

Andrew Tyrer

Andrew leads the Semiconductor activity at Innovate UK, alongside a portfolio of enabling technologies in Robotics, Electronics, Sensors and Photonics. Since 2018 he was also...

Deputy Director - Electronics, Sensors and Photonics - Innovate UK

André M. König

André is a published author, speaker and expert on DeepTech with 25 years of Fortune 500, investing and startup experience. He is the CEO of Global Quantum Intelligence...

CEO - Global Quantum Intelligence

Anna Bulakh

Anna Bulakh, Head of Ethics and Partnerships at Respeecher, an Emmy-awarded voice cloning technology based in Ukraine. Anna is a former Policy Advisor at...

Head of Ethics and Partnerships - Respeecher

Anna Hirtenstein

Anna Hirtenstein is a journalist at the Wall Street Journal in London, covering global markets and macroeconomics. She was previously a reporter at Bloomberg...

Reporter - Wall Street Journal

Anna Thomas

Anna Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Institute for the Future of Work, and formerly a barrister from Devereux Chambers. She specialised there in employment law and was...

Co-founder & Director - Institute for the Future of Work

Annabel Sowemimo

Dr. Annabel Sowemimo is a doctor, academic, activist, and writer. As well as being a Sexual & Reproductive Health Registrar in the NHS, (she/her) is co-director and founder of...

Dr. - Reproductive Justice Initiative

Annabella Coldrick

Annabella joined the UK’s Music Managers Forum in January 2016. MMF is the world’s largest professional community of music managers with over 1500 members based in the UK with global...

Chief Executive - Music Managers Forum

Anne-Marie Imafidon

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is a keynote speaker, presenter, and co-founder of the award-winning social enterprise, Stemettes. Voted the most influential woman in tech in the UK of 2020 by Computer...

Head Stemette, CEO & Co-founder - Stemettes

Antoine Rostand

Antoine Rostand is the co-founder of Kayrros, the leader in environmental intelligence and asset observation technology. With the largest and most cost- effective database of more than 3 million energy,...

President & Co-Founder - Kayyrros

Anton Christodoulou

Technologist, futurist, founder and Chief Technology Officer, Anton is a passionate business leader and advocate for technology and disruptive innovation, with a...

Group CTO - Imagination

Antonio Pacheco

Trained scientist, with a background in High Energy Physics (HEP) specialising in data engineering and privacy. Interested in how to create business value using data.

Lead Data Engineer - OUTRA

Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma is the Founder of Naaut and Co-founder of the London Space Network. Nush is a connector, and technology generalist and has focused on AI, Web3.0 and deep technology...

Founder - Naaut

Arizona Muse

Arizona is one of the fashion sectors most highly regarded champions for sustainability. She has been a model for the past 13 years, engaging with brands such as Prada, YSL...

Sustainability Consultant, Model & Activist -

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