Innovation Speakers – Page 3

Milimo Banji

Award winning entrepreneur, leader and advisor Milimo is the founder and CEO of the Gen Z talent agency TapIn that supports some of the biggest employers in the UK to attract, engage and hire diverse youth talent. He serves as a board member and advisor to FTSE 100 companies, and has in depth of knowledge and insight into the minds of Gen Z.

Chris Barez-Brown

Chris is fascinated by people and what makes them tick. He brings out their potential by teaching them how to manage today’s world, rather than have it manage them. His keynotes cover culture change, leadership, innovation, and mental and emotional wellbeing, and leave people feeling inspired and energised.

Steve Barnett: The Silent Conductor

For nearly thirty years Steve has been engaging and animating audiences through musical interaction, without speaking, and creating unique orchestras. The players are not musicians, there are no rehearsals, and every performance is a one off. He has conducted these ensembles in over fifty countries with organisations from many cultures and languages. The music they create amazes and inspires. Steve says nothing but the experience speaks volumes.

Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is an entrepreneur, investor and best-selling author, as well as being the host of Europe's number one podcast The Diary of a CEO, where he takes listeners on an unfiltered journey behind some of the world’s most influential people's remarkable success stories.

Chris Barton

Chris is the founder and first CEO of Shazam. He’s also a three-time startup founder, pioneer of mobile ecosystems at Google and Dropbox, advisor to startup companies, inventor of twelve patents, including one found within the Google search algorithm, and a former strategy consultant serving many industries.

Jason Bates

As one of the key figures behind two of the most successful digital banks in the UK, Jason has a wealth of lessons in the behaviour of a new generation of banking customers as well as the challenges incumbent businesses face. He also looks at the pitfalls of digital transformation, how to innovate and create new products, and what the future of banks and money looks like.

Jason Bevan

Jason was responsible for the creative development process at Warner Bros. Studios, marketing movies in EMEA from the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts films, the Lego movies, The Hobbit trilogy, Joker, A Star Is Born, the Hangover films, and the Conjuring and IT franchises. He reveals how some of the best-known filmmakers, cast and studios he worked with come up with their iconic film ideas and stories, and how we can use their simple, powerful techniques to rocket-fuel our innovation and creativity.

Grace Beverley

Serial entrepreneur Grace Beverley has achieved remarkable success with her entrepreneurial ventures, including Tala, Shreddy and Retrograde. She shares her insights into entrepreneurship, sustainability, fashion, digital-marketing and business in Q&As.

Daniel Bobroff

Daniel launched in-game advertising and developed bestselling video games before founding the online fashion company’s venture capital division. Scouring the world for innovations, he assembled a network of FashionTech talent and forged partnerships across marketing, production and imagery. In presentations Daniel considers the demand for instant experiences and relationships, how every business is becoming a tech business, and how to find and grow talent.

Leonard Brody

After leading one of the biggest tech IPOs of its time, Leonard founded the pioneering citizen journalism site NowPublic. He sold the business to the sports and live promotions giant Anschutz where he led their digital strategy. He’s since become a partner at talent management giant CAA, working on projects with their A-list talent enabling them to establish brands and businesses beyond their core work. He's also a co-owner of Coventry City FC, has invested in around 20 businesses a year, and created The Great Rewrite project with Forbes and KPMG, an examination of trends ...

Tina Brown

When Tina was Editor of Tatler she transformed it into a modern glossy magazine, commissioning celebrated photographers and writers. She gained further prominence as the Editor of Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and revitalised sales through her understanding of contemporary interests. She also founded The Daily Beast, which twice won the Webby Award for Best News Site, and the Women in the World Summit.

Phil Burt

Working with Dave Brailsford, Steve Peters, Chris Boardman and others in the Marginal Gains group, Phil offers a unique insight into how British Cycling became world-beaters. With examples from the likes of Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy, he considers innovation, elite performance, and leadership culture from one of the few areas that had input in almost every aspect of the team from medical to training to equipment design.

William Butler-Adams

Brimful of passion for engineering, Will is helping to revive UK manufacturing prowess. Brompton design, produce and distribute 50,000+ folding bicycles each year from their London factory – with half the 1200 parts made onsite. Exports account for 80% of sales. With cycle hire stations, Brompton Junction stores and retailers in 44 world markets, they continue to explore new markets and innovations from the addition of electric motors to the connected bike. Riding onto the stage, Will explains his belief in ‘built-out’ obsolescence.

Marita Cheng

Technology entrepreneur, roboticist, non-profit founder and advocate for women in STEM, Marita has created robotics and AI tools that improve lives, from telepresence robots that help those physically separated or otherwise unable to interact with an environment to engage with other people and places, to object-recognition apps for the visually impaired. She explores how technology can change the world for the better, and how to make sure it is human-centred, inclusive, and helps us to realise our potential.

Adam Cheyer

One of the world’s leading AI and machine learning experts, Adam’s work helped created two of the world’s leading intelligent assistants in Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s Bixby before then working on AI platforms that would become parts of Cognizant and Airbnb. With experience in engineering, research, management and consulting he is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and how it can revolutionise business.

Fumbi Chima

Prior to her role at one of America's biggest credit unions, Fumbi was the Chief Information Officer at Adidas, and held CIO roles at Fox Networks, Burberry, and Walmart. She has worked on complex global IT transformation and digitalisation programmes, bringing together stakeholders, and driving changes in strategy and culture. Fumbi’s work has also seen her involved in projects incorporating risk and innovation, culture change, diversity, talent retention, and leadership.

Dan Cobley

Originally an oil exploration engineer and marketer, Dan became head of Google UK – with responsibility for $5bn revenue. He’s now focused on founding and investing in fintech, with the aim of disrupting financial services. In his speeches Dan shows how Google use technology in the search for transformative solutions to major problems whilst also considering the next sector to be disruptive and lessons in rapid growth and innovation.

Manon Dave

Technologist, music producer and songwriter Manon is working at the forefront of AI, creativity and social impact. Developing social, commercial and creative projects with the likes of will.i.am and Idris Elba, he has developed award-winning innovations such as Sound Drive and Akuna Wallet and advised brands from Apple to Disney. He demonstrates how inclusive, intuitive design can turn AI and emerging technologies into tools for creativity, equity and social good.

Peter Diamandis

Engineer, author, entrepreneur, and co-founder and executive chairman of the Singularity University, Peter Diamandis is arguably one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation. He is particularly passionate about space, a subject he’s been involved in since his time at medical school when he co-founded the International Space University. Now involved in a wide range of companies and projects covering biotech to robotics, he also leads the X PRIZE, a $10 million competition aimed at inspiring the next generation of space travel and exploration.

Liz Earle

After starting her eponymous skincare brand, as well as writing over 35 books and being a regular on TV, Liz established Liz Earle Wellbeing, a business ranging from publishing to Fairtrade jewellery. She explores her business journey, the importance of values to a brand, as well as health and wellbeing at home and at work.

Andreas Ekström

Andreas has become one of Europe’s leading digital futurists. He tackles the intersection between building a successful business and striving towards a more equal digital society and considers a new, slower and more greyscale means of thinking and working to create a sustainable digital society.

Professor Martin Elliott

Former Co-Medical Director at The Great Ormond Street Hospital and one of the country’s leading paediatric surgeons, Martin considers his career in this most sensitive and high-pressure of worlds. From working with McLaren F1 to improve interaction between teams to developing stem-cell based transplants; from managing departments to taking the lead in the theatre, he has lessons that apply to any organisation seeking to improve what they do, innovate or understand culture, leadership and teamwork.