Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno is a pioneer in the field of intelligent cities and one of the initiators of the Human Smart City, a living city. He is a leading university professor, an internationally recognized expert and a Knight of the French Legion of Honour. He is not only passionate about innovation, creativity and research, but also […]

Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a world-renowned game designer, best-selling author and the leading thought leader in the field of game-based collaboration to improve healthcare and other real-world problems. Jane McGonigal specializes in games that encourage players to tackle real-world problems such as poverty, hunger and climate change through global collaboration. Their mobile app and web-based game […]

Peter Hinssen

Peter Hinssen is one of Europe’s leading technology experts and one of the most sought-after thought leaders in the fields of radical innovation, leadership and the consequences of digital change for society and the economy. As an entrepreneur and consultant, Peter Hinssen focuses on the acceptance of technologies by consumers, the effects of the networked […]

Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay is a futurist, urbanist, author and journalist. He is literally the man on the street and reports from the interface between global trends and local knowledge. Greg Lindsay is an expert on the future of travel, technology and transportation, the design and resilience of cities and the creation of innovative working environments. It […]

Gerhard Mangott

Gerhard Mangott is Professor of Political Science with a special focus on international relations and security in the post-Soviet space. He teaches at the Institute for Political Science in Innsbruck and is a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. Gerhard Mangott’s research focuses on the regime theory of Russia and Ukraine as well as […]

Frederik G. Pferdt

Frederik G. Pferdt was Google’s very first Chief Innovation Evangelist and he is an associate professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (also known as d.school) at Stanford University. Frederik, who is known in the international media as the “creative pope” and “Dr. Innovation”, has made it his mission to awaken an innovative mentality […]

Michelle King

Michelle King is a leading global expert on organizational culture and gender equality in the workplace. She was Director of Inclusion at Netflix, Head of the UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change and has many years of international experience in the private sector. Based on around a decade of research, Michelle is convinced that […]

John-Dylan Haynes

As a neuroscientist, John-Dylan Haynes is on the trail of thoughts. He is a professor at the Bernstein Center of Charité Berlin and director of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging. His research deals with a wide range of questions about the connection between thinking and the brain, such as how thoughts can be read […]

Beau Lotto

Beau Lotto is a neuroscientist and world-renowned expert on perception. He explores the way we experience the world based on our own versions of reality, lifting the curtain to reveal why we see what we see. Beau is a professor at the University of London and a visiting scholar at New York University. He is […]

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett is one of the most renowned British journalists, authors and tech bloggers. He observes how the internet is changing politics and society and regularly writes about it for newspapers such as The Spectator, Guardian and Daily Telegraph. Over the past few years, he has researched everything from online subcultures and hackers to blockchain […]