AI Speakers – Page 8

Emma Sinclair

The co-founder of innovative business software company EnterpriseAlumni, Emma was also the founder and Chief Executive of Target Parking. With a background in mergers and acquisitions, she is the youngest person in the UK to have floated her company on the stock exchange. Passionate about the power of entrepreneurship she is a UNICEF Business Mentor, a frequent commentator on TV and radio, and was a regular contributor to the Telegraph’s Wonder Women column.

Chris Skinner

A former strategist with Unisys and NCR, Chris argues that tomorrow’s technology and the pace of change must inform today’s business strategy.

Anders Sorman-Nilsson

In his acclaimed book Digilogue: How to Win the Digital Minds and Analogue Hearts of Tomorrow's Customer Anders examines how consumers interact in both digital and real worlds and how to ‘provide value to digital minds, while connecting with analogue hearts’. Using his parents’ clothing store in Stockholm as an example, Anders looks at how organisations can adapt and prepare for further technological change, and why face-to-face interaction remains an integral part of that.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

‘Professor Risk’ is a distinguished statistician and a natural communicator, as seen in the BBC’s Tails You Win: The Science of Chance. Just as the likes of Daniel Kahneman have explored emotional and analytic decision-making, David focuses on the difference between how we think and how we feel about risk. Numbers don’t speak for themselves; we are influenced by how they’re expressed and their context - in everything from healthy eating to the economy to climate change. David explains how to weigh up the real risk.

Mark Stevenson

'Reluctant futurist' Mark has travelled the world seeking out radical ideas and those attempting to solve the big problems. From inequality to climate change, housing to hunger he's met those thinking differently and considered how they approach problems and what they have to say about the future. He examines the common themes and lessons from his meetings and challenges businesses to prepare for uncertainty and build a better world.

Biz Stone

Christopher ‘Biz’ Stone is a tech entrepreneur who co-founded Twitter. After selling the business he went on to start an innovative social search engine and a blogging platform, and became an angel investor before returning to the company he started to guide its culture. He is the author of Things A Little Bird Told Me - Confessions of a Creative Mind, a sometimes humorous business memoir, and was named as one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Jamie Susskind

Barrister, discrimination lawyer, and author of Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech, Jamie examines what technology has done to society and what the future of power, democracy and justice might look like.

Dr Sally Uren

As the Chief Executive of the Forum for the Future, Sally is an expert in helping organisations transform their practices to have a positive impact socially, environmentally and economically. Working across industries from clothing to agriculture, she helps reshape global supply chains and coordinate industries to work together to create a sustainable future for themselves.

Peter van Manen

The former MD at McLaren, Peter led the innovation of electronics, data and technology to make huge advances in Formula One. He also explores how the precise use of data and analysis from motorsports is used to benefit other industries, including how real-time analysis within ICU units proactively prevents cardiac arrests. 

Matt Watkinson

Matt’s design and website work led him to the realisation that many organisations overlook what should be their main focus: what does our customer actually want from us. In his acclaimed book The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences and in presentations, Matt looks at the simple, practical ways to revolutionise a business.

Amy Webb

Trends, strategy and disruption expert, Amy is the founder of the Future Today Institute and author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and their Thinking Machines Will Change Humanity and The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream. She delivers a clear, accessible and practical look at what a technological, data-driven future holds.

Simon Wheatcroft

Simon was determined not to let his blindness be a barrier to doing things, including distance running. Using a mobile phone and app, he was able to start training on busy open roads without a guide. After just a few months training, a few set-backs and a lot of determination he was running ultramarathons. He now works with technology companies to help him push himself further and achieve even more incredible things.

Jeremy White

Previously responsible for WIRED’s coverage of all new products, Jeremy now looks at design and products pushing boundaries as Innovation Editor. He reflects on what makes a good new product, how innovation happens, and when technology can improve an existing idea. He also covers everything from AI to cybersecurity, wearables to fintech, and considers how rapid advances in technology, user interfaces and design will affect businesses and how they see themselves.

Geoff White

From billion-dollar cyber heists to global money laundering operations and crypto-gangsters, Geoff's investigations have been featured on BBC News, Audible, Sky News, and The Sunday Times, as well as numerous books and podcast series.

Will.i.am

Songwriter, singer, producer, actor, entrepreneur and founder member of The Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am has worked with musicians from U2 to Nicki Minaj. Away from music he has maintained a long-term interest in technology working as creative director at Intel and CCO at a 3D printing and scanning company, and working on projects including apps, iPhone accessories and smart watches. He was even the first artist to stream a song to Mars.

Ira Winkler

Ira is the Director of the Human Security Engineering Consortium and author of the books, You Can Stop Stupid, and Security Awareness for Dummies.  He is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals and was named “The Awareness Crusader” by CSO magazine in receiving their CSO COMPASS Award.

Professor Lord (Robert) Winston

Robert is an expert in fertility, a leading voice in the genetic engineering debate and a natural presenter. In Bad Ideas? he examined how all human progress from farming to medicine to urban living has made us more vulnerable. He’s now working on an app to help new parents care for their babies. Robert takes on big moral and practical questions. Can we look to technology to solve problems it has created? Where does genetics stop? Is it wrong to play God?