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 […]

Sharon Gai

Sharon Gai has more than ten years of experience in the fields of e-commerce, digital transformation and AI. She was Head of Global Key Accounts at Alibaba and Managing Director of a billion-dollar e-commerce unicorn. During her time at Alibaba, she advised brands and heads of state on their digital strategy using programmatic marketing and […]

Ramón Méndez Galain

Ramón Méndez Galain is a visionary and thought leader in the field of renewable energy. As National Energy Director of his home country Uruguay, he initiated an unprecedented energy transition between 2008 and 2015, which resulted in Uruguay now obtaining 98% of the energy it needs from renewable sources – with a share of up […]

John Strelecky

In his search for the meaning of life, US author John Strelecky landed a global bestseller with his first book “The Café at the Edge of the World”, which has been followed by six more to date. After several years as a strategy consultant for companies, he wrote the story of the “Café on the […]

Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist and pioneer in the field of complexity science – the science of systems and networks. The physicist is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, of which he was president from 2005 to 2009. He is one of only around ten Senior Fellows at the Los Alamos National Library. […]