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Innovation speakers: keynote and technical event speakers on innovation, disruption, and transformation.
‘Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower’ – Steve Jobs
Mark Adams - Vice President and Head of Innovation at VICE Media, expert voice on digital inclusion and expertise.... [more]
Co-founder of Zopa, the world's oldest peer-to-peer lending service and the largest company of its kind in Europe.... [more]
Kate Ancketill - with enormous shifts in consumer expectations, retail and technology, Kate Ancketill shows businesses how to adapt, innovate and where to best invest resources. ... [more]
Tim Berners-Lee - revolutionised the the world through the creation of the world wide web. He is also a key voice behind the idea of Net Neutrality.... [more]
Tom Bieling - design researcher, author and consultant, developing research and teaching projects in the area of human-computer-interaction.... [more]
Paul Birch - innovation and organisational change guru who helps organisations to solve impossible problems and find profitable solutions.... [more]
Baroness Nicola Blackwood speaker on health policy: served as a Health Minister under two Prime Ministers with responsibilities including life sciences research, medicines regulation, global health security, vaccines, and is Chair of Genomics England.... [more]
Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam is Executive Director of Fifth Season. She develops brand strategies, runs innovation workshops, and has been pioneering new models for insight development for over a decade and has a deep international understanding of industry dynamics and consumer behavior developed with long-term cl... [more]
Mark Borkowski is a renowned PR guru, master media manipulator and publicist. An authority on comms, innovation, brand and the multi channel landscape.... [more]
George Cooper - author of The Origin of Financial Crises and Money, Blood & Revolution. Cooper explains how and why the very 'science of Economics' is wrong.... [more]
Piers Corfield speaks at the intersection of innovation, engineering, and investment.... [more]
Michael Driver is a practitioner in negotiating the sale of equity and businesses. Once a year he gets himself involved in Kilkenomics, the Festival of Comedy and Economics which takes place in Kilkenny in Ireland every autumn.... [more]
Mark Earls - an adman who has run advertising agencies both large and small. A speaker whose award-winning work applies contemporary behavioural and cognitive science to the business of business.... [more]
Joakim Eklund is an award-winning pioneer in gaming, content marketing and digital story telling.... [more]
Jacqueline Gold - CEO of Ann Summers and Knickerbox. Entrepreneur and retail innovator.... [more]
Andrew Grant - co-author of "Who Killed Creativity?" and designer of educational material that has reached over 25 million people worldwide.... [more]
Lars Hamberg - frequent speaker on New Thinking and Innovation in Financial Services, AI and Advanced Analytics in Production, Selection, Marketing and Distribution of Wealth Products... [more]
Ben Hammersley - speaker on the digital world, infosec, cyber-security, cyber-conflict, and cyber-crime. Ben is a contributing editor to Wired magazine.... [more]
Rebecca Harding - leading researcher, economist, co-founder and CEO at Coriolis Technologies. Formerly Chief Economist at the British Bankers Association.... [more]
William Hopkins is a global leader in the field of smart homes and remote technologies. He is a KNX Partner, Member of the British Computer Society and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, with an entire portfolio of automation technology qualifications.... [more]
Dr Lida Huji? speaker, innovation and trends consultant, curator, public speaker, and author.... [more]
Catharina James - trail blazing scientist in the field of the twenty-first century wonder material, graphene. Expert in its development, uses and commercial exploitation.... [more]
Dr Erich Joachimsthaler is one of the world's leading authorities on brand strategy and marketing. He is Founder and CEO, Vivaldi Partners Group and develops brand strategies for global brands ranging from American Express to Xerox and across all sectors.... [more]
Neira Jones: more than 20 years experience in financial services and technology advising and speaking on mobile technologies, payments, cybercrime, information security, regulation, and digital innovation. ... [more]
Martha Lane-Fox speaker - along with Brent Hoberman, Martha founded lastminute.com, and is today a champion of social justice, human rights, and women's rights.... [more]
Charles Leadbeater speaker is an authority on innovation and creativity, advising companies, cities and governments on strategy. His book 'We-think: the power of mass creativity' charts the rise of participative innovation via open source software.... [more]
Christian Majgaard speaker on marketing and brands, and former executive at LEGO.... [more]
Bertalan Mesko speaker, medical futurist, and self confessed geek, Bertalan is passionate about improving healthcare through digital solutions combined with the human touch.... [more]
Gemma Milne - speaking on the cultural impacts of science and technology focusing on innovation in business start-ups, and on the role of women within the world of STEM.... [more]
Stephen Murphy succeeded Founder Sir Richard Branson as Group Chief Executive of Virgin; he re-shaped the group and increased its diversification.... [more]
Andrew Needham - social technology entrepreneur. Founder of Headbox and formerly CEO of Face & Pulsar a global, tech driven insight consultancy with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.... [more]
Ed Newton-Rex - entrepreneur, composer, and speaker on AI and creativity. Product Director for Europe at TikTok.... [more]
Michael Sidgmore - one of the most experienced and respected authorities in the field of FinTech speaking today. ... [more]
Scott Steinberg - amongst the world's best-known strategic innovation, change management and online marketing consultants, he heads TechSavvy Global.... [more]
Melissa Sterry is a board-level design scientist and a world leading authority on emergent digital technology and developer of the Bionic City.... [more]
Jonathan Straight - innovator, master-entrepreneur, brand-builder and philanthropist. Jonathan Straight is an authentic success story and role model to young entrepreneurs.... [more]
Rory Sutherland speaker and writer - brilliant on brand, behaviour, identity, and thought, expert in brand psychology and all things digital and behavioural. Contact Rory Sutherland via Specialist Speakers.... [more]
Ralph Talmont - creative strategist, startup founder, multimedia producer, tech innovator and TEDx Ambassador.... [more]
Hamish Taylor - CEO and now an inspirational speaker and broadcaster on innovation, organisations, customer service.... [more]
Richard Watson - futurist, best-selling author, acclaimed speaker and scenario intellect... [more]
Nicholas J Webb - award-winning innovator, private inventor and thought leader on innovation and the future.... [more]
Greg Williams - Editor of WIRED UK, Greg Williams is a leading authority in the fields of technology futures, business, innovation and media content.... [more]
James Woudhuysen focuses on the need for agility, true risk-taking and progressive social and business thinking. Expert on the future of management and people.... [more]