Michal Kosinski

Michal Kosinski calculates people’s character based on their Facebook likes. He is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and coordinates the myPersonality Project, in which 200 researchers worldwide analyze more than eight million Facebook profiles.The Standford professor’s research focuses on the digital footprint and what it says about people’s sexual orientation, political views or interests. Computer-aided methods such as big data mining help him to analyze the digital traces. Michal Kosinski gained worldwide fame because Donald Trump – with the help of Cambridge Analytica – is said to have made use of his technology in the election campaign.

Sven Gábor Jánszky

Sven Gábor Jánszky is Germany’s leading trend and future researcher and director of Germany’s most innovative business think tank, which is known above all for its radical debates on the future. In his groundbreaking trend analyses, Jánszky takes a look into the future and scrutinizes trends and their consequences. For ten years, 300 CEOs and heads of innovation from the German economy have been meeting at his invitation at the renowned 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, where they jointly develop future scenarios and strategy recommendations. The ThinkTank’s special method is used to analyze the trends that will shape our lives in the coming years. Sven Gábor Jánszky teaches in the “Leadership Studies” Master’s program at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe. Jörg Gläscher

Paul Mason

Paul Mason is an award-winning British journalist and one of the UK’s leading political and business reporters. From 2001 to 2013 he was Business Editor and Business Correspondent at BBC Newsnight. He was then business editor of Channel 4 News until 2016. He has written a number of highly acclaimed books on economics, globalization and politics, including “Postcapitalism: Outlines of a Coming Economy”. In it, he describes the threat to capitalism posed by the digital revolution and the potential of the digital revolution to redefine our concept of work, production and values. Paul Mason is a regular guest analyst and commentator on TV and radio programs, commenting on Trump, Brexit, the Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon and social justice in the economy.

Julia Shaw

A groundbreaking study made Julia Shaw the shooting star of legal psychology overnight. In her false memory study, she used suggestive questioning methods to implant a false memory in 70% of her test subjects. Since then, she has been known as the Memory Hacker. Internationally, she advises the police, armed forces, lawyers, the judiciary and business and founded a company in Silicon Valley in 2017 that uses artificial intelligence to combat discrimination in business. Dr. Julia Shaw is a bestselling author, speaker and researcher in the Department of Psychology at University College London, where she conducts research in the fields of legal psychology, memory and artificial intelligence. Her non-fiction debut “The Memory Illusion – Das trügerische Gedächtnis” became an international bestseller in 2016 and is published in 14 languages. Boris Breuer

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent is one of the most influential economists of our time and is considered a co-founder of the New Classical Macroeconomics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 and has been the first W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics at New York University since 2002. Tom Sargent has been a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution since 1987. Together with Christopher A. Sims, Thomas J. Sargent was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 for groundbreaking work on macroeconomics and pioneering research on rational expectations. A central part of Thomas J. Sargent’s research focuses on people’s decision-making motives and rational expectations. His thesis of policy ineffectiveness states that politically driven monetary and fiscal policy is predictable and therefore has no real influence on the economy.

Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Anna Rosling Rönnlund has a personal mission: she wants to make the world visually understandable for everyone and thus more tolerant. Anna is co-founder and board member of the Gapminder Foundation and Head of Design & User Experience at Gapminder. Together with Hans and Ola Rosling, she founded Gapminder to counter the devastating global ignorance with the help of a generally understandable, fact-based world view. For example, as part of her Dollar Street project, she uses photos to show the living conditions of different income groups around the world. Before founding Gapminder, Anna developed the user interface for the famous bubble chart tool Trendalyzer, which was bought by Google, where Anna worked as a senior usability designer. © Jann Lipka

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Hiroshi Ishiguro is the most prominent researcher on androids in Japan and is regarded as the “pop star of Japanese robotics research”. He has built an android in his own image, which sometimes doubles him in lectures. He is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University, which is one of the world’s leading research institutions for robots. Ishiguro is regarded as one of the most radical representatives of a future society in which humans and androids are to coexist. His research focuses on creating robots that are as similar to humans as possible. He is convinced that it is possible to create a robot that is indistinguishable from a human being.

Suzanne Grieger-Langer

Suzanne Grieger-Langer is Europe’s undisputed expert in profiling. The business profiler not only helps with recognizing personal potential and personnel development, but also with preventing fraud. The Formula Infiltration® she developed is considered a milestone in fraud detection. In addition, Suzanne Grieger-Langer screens suitable candidates for high-paying positions, reveals the potential of employees and deciphers the motivation and preferences of negotiating partners. For more than 20 years, Suzanne Grieger-Langer has been instructing not only decision-makers in business and science, but also agents. Suzanne Grieger-Langer is a lecturer and lecturer at the most renowned business schools in Europe. © epmedia advertising agency

Raluca Simiuc

Raluca is a marketing professional with over 20 years of experience inbrand management and global marketing. She has thepassion to develop and design innovative concepts, programs and brands withsocial impact. In 2012, Raluca set up the “Social Innovation” department, a new pillar of global marketing at Red Bull. Focused on the idea of “giving people and ideas wings”, both a comprehensive development program and academies for grassroots social entrepreneurs have been developed on 4 continents. Raluca underwent an entrepreneurial transformation and also co-founded Urban Monkey – a brand of central social importance. Raluca wants to further leverage her experience, bring expertise and catalyze the power of the marketing and business world to change the narrative on social impact (CSR 2.0) and contribute to the education and development of a new generation. © epmedia advertising agency

Matthew Griffin

Matthew Griffin is regarded as one of the world’s leadingFuturologists, innovation and strategy experts. It helpsInvestors, international companies, regulatory authoritiesand governments around the world to make the future tangible.and set the right course. In addition to being a member of Centrica’s prestigious Technology and Innovation Committee and a mentor to XPrize-teams, he revises the global training and further education at theG20 and helps the world’s largest organizations to plan and shape the future of their products and services. The award-winning futurist and founder of the 311 Institute takes his audience on a journey into the future and demystifies the countless new technologies. Matthew’s ability to predict the impact of these revolutionary new technologies on global culture, industry and society is unparalleled.