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.

Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler is internationally recognized as a catalyst for change and a New Work thought leader. He is an advocate of employee-friendly radical corporate democracy, which he has practiced as CEO of Semco Partners for over 20 years. Under his leadership, the Brazilian company’s turnover rose from four million US dollars in 1982 to 212 million US dollars in 2003. His innovative corporate management has aroused great interest worldwide. The management guru believes that if we ask ourselves the question of why and transfer power to employees, we will be able to build smarter companies – companies that are more productive and whose employees are happier. Ricardo is the author of the management classics Maverick and The Seven-day Weekend. He was Professor of Leadership at MIT Sloan School of Management and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. With the help of the Lumiar School, he now wants to establish radical corporate democracy in education as well. Ricardo Semler was recognized as one of the “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Duncan Wardle

Duncan Wardle is the former Vice President of Innovation & Creativity at The Walt Disney Company and has developed some of Disney’s most innovative ideas and strategies. Duncan founded the Creative Catalyst team, with whom he trained employees across Disney’s businesses to develop their own “thinking toolkit” to enable them to innovate within their teams. After 25 years at Disney and the huge success of his toolkit, Duncan founded his creative consultancy id8 & innov8, which has quickly become one of the leading innovation consultancies in the world. Duncan shares his creative consulting services and innovation workshops with employees and executives from companies such as Ford, McKinsey, Coca-Cola and Apple. For his work, he was honored with the “Outstanding American Citizen Award”, an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University and the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.

Mohammed Ashour

Mohammed Ashour is co-founder and CEO of Aspire Food Group, an agriculture and food company focused on global food sustainability and developing the world’s most advanced insect farming technology.In 2013, Ashour and four fellow McGill University students were awarded the prestigious one million dollar Hult Prize for their business model. In future, they want to combat world hunger by breeding edible beetles. Today, Aspire Food Group is a global industry leader in the movement with 65 full-time employees.A Forbes “30 under 30” award winner, Mohammed is recognized as a leading voice in social enterprise and alternative proteins. He has been featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes.Mohammed holds an MD-MBA dual degree from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Neuroscience from McGill University and a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from the University of Toronto.

Lera Boroditsky

Lera Boroditsky is a celebrated cognitive scientist and professor of language and cognition. She is known for her research in the field of cognitive science and investigates, among other things, how language influences our thinking. One of her main areas of research is how people with different linguistic backgrounds behave or exhibit different behaviors when exposed to certain events.Lera Boroditsky was born in Belarus in 1976, studied cognitive science at Northwestern University and earned her Ph. D. in cognitive psychology at Stanford University. After serving on the faculty at MIT and Stanford, she is now a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).For the US magazine Utne Reader, she is “one of 25 visionaries changing the world”. She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, a National Science Foundation Career Achievement Award recipient, and an American Psychological Association honoree.

John Kay

John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. His work focuses on the relationships between business, finance and the economy. In 2015, he put forward the thesis that the financial industry has been preoccupied with itself for 40 years, mostly trading with itself and contributing nothing to the functioning of the real economy.Kay was the first Dean of the Said Business School at Oxford and has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Born and educated in Edinburgh, he was a member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisers. Following the Brexit referendum result in June 2016, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Council for Scotland and Europe, which was convened by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is an aging researcher and the world’s leading proponent of the provocative view that medical technology will one day enable people to control the aging process. He questions the fundamental assumption that ageing is invincible. Dr. de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, developed the SENS platform and founded the SENS Research Foundation to implement it. SENS is a California-based biomedical research organization whose research is dedicated to combating the aging process. Aubrey de Grey is Vice President of AgeX Therapeutics, which focuses on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for human aging. Dr. de Grey has a BA in Computer Science and his Ph. in Biology from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s premier journal on prevention of aging, a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and serves on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations.

Anders Indset

Anders Indset is regarded as the “rock star among economic philosophers”. He is the founder of the Sa. | shapingwork academy, the first corporate and executive education academy based on practical philosophy. Anders Indset is a guest lecturer at leading international business schools and a board member of the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center as well as an advisor to international CEOs and leading politicians. As one of the world’s leading economic philosophers, he brings together the philosophy of the past with the technology and science of tomorrow.

Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman is a historian and journalist and one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. He became known worldwide in 2019 with his angry speech against the business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Handelsblatt calls him an anti-establishment star. After studying history at the University of Utrecht and the University of California, Bregman worked as a journalist. He writes for the “Washington Post”, the BBC and for Dutch media, produces a successful podcast and his books have become bestsellers. In “Utopia for Realists”, he calls for open borders, an unconditional basic income and a 15-hour working week. In his latest book “Im Grunde gut” (Basically good), he explores the nature of man, who he believes is fundamentally good. Bregman has already been nominated twice for the prestigious European Press Prize. Rutger Bregman’s ideas for improving the world are innovative and courageous and give his readers as well as his listeners hope for the future.

Gabriel Felbermayr

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr is one of the leading trade and foreign trade experts and one of the most sought-after economists when it comes to explaining global economic and trade policy interrelationships. The renowned economist has been President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since March 2019. He has been Head of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna since October 1, 2021. After studying in Linz and completing his doctorate in Florence, his international career initially took him to McKinsey before he became Assistant Professor in Tübingen and Professor in Hohenheim. Before taking office as IfW President, Felbermayr was Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University and Head of the Center for International Economics at the Ifo Institute in Munich. Topics such as the TTIP trade agreement or the UK after Brexit have ensured that Felbermayr has become a much sought-after expert in recent years. Gabriel Felbermayr acts in an advisory capacity in politics and society and regularly takes a stand on important issues such as customs duties, export credits and free trade agreements – and is always an optimist on Europe and free trade. © Alexander Müller