The Global Speaker Network

Futurist & Technology Speakers

Ashok Jhunjhunwala Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at IIT-Chennai
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web. The future of the internet.
Peter Cochrane Former Head of Research at BT: authority on future change in corporations
Chris Hughes Co-Founder of Facebook and Founder of My.barackobama.com
Hamish McRae Europe's foremost future speaker, author of What Works
Chris Parry Former head of future scenario planning and forecasting at the Royal Navy
Adjiedj Bakas Inspiring and visionary speaker on future trends
Peter Bazalgette Leading UK TV producer, responsible for programmes such as "Big Brother" and "Deal of No Deal"
Dan Cobley Managing Director of Google in the UK & Ireland
Ian Goldin Director of the 21st Century School at the University of Oxford
Ayesha Khanna Technology & innovation strategy expert & founder of Hybrid Reality Institute
Ray Kurzweil One of the leading inventors of our time, the "Ultimate Thinking Machine"
Ben Legg Former COO of Google Europe
Magnus Lindkvist Futurologist, speaker on future trends, lecturer at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
Greg Lindsay Expert on globalisation, innovation and urbanisation
George Lossius CEO of Publishing Technology plc
Sugata Mitra Professor of Educational Technology
Johnny Ryan Digital thought leader
Josh Spear One of the youngest and most influential marketing strategists in the world
Rohit Talwar Award winning futurist speaker, entrepreneur, specialist advisor and strategic change agent
Lucian Tarnowski Honoured as Europe’s youngest Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
Steve Wozniak Co-founder of Apple Computers
Nikesh Arora President, EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google UK
Stephen Attenborough Leads the commercial team at Virgin Galactic
James Bellini First British member of US futurology think-tank The Hudson Institute
Leonard Brody Digital Media Entrepreneur
Rene Carayol Author of Corporate Voodoo, e-Business Advisor and regular contributor to Sky TV and BBC radio
Robert Cottrell Deputy Editor of Economist.com
Ged Davis Head of the Centre for Strategic Insight at the World Economic Forum
Michael de Kare-Silver FTSE 100 Board Director and author on e-business
Michael Earl The intersection of information management and business strategy
Vince Everts Dutch internet and technology guru
Rowan Gibson Expert on innovation, strategy and change
Roy Greenslade Former editor of the Daily Mirror: speaker on the future of Digital Media
Brent Hoberman Co-founder of lastminute.com
Tim Jackson Founder of QXL and one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow"
Andrew Keen Author of “The Cult of the Amateur"
Anne Lise Kjaer Future Trends Speaker "Creator of Inspirational Futures" - The Times
Gerd Leonhard Digital Content, Media and the Future
Norman Lewis Former Director of Technolgy Research at Orange
Jonathan Margolis FT columnist, humorous speaker on technnolgy and predicting future trends
Inma Martinez One of the world's leading digital media strategists
Julie Meyer Technology Investment expert, founder of "First Tuesday"
Simon Moores Technology commentator and e-advisor to the Conservative Party
Doug Richard One of the "Dragons" from BBC TV's "Dragon's Den"
Jeremy Rifkin Author of the international best-seller, "The End of Work"
David Robertson Professor of IT at IMD in Switzerland
Koni Schafroth Swiss inventor of Smartfish
Frank Schirrmacher Author of The Methuselah Plot. Future demographic trends
Andre Schneider CEO of André Schneider Global Advisory and expert in IT
David Svendsen Former Chairman, Microsoft Uk
Peter Thomson Director of The Future Work Forum at Henley Management College
Michael Vatis Expert on security in the Information Age
Peter Weill IT expert, co-author of "Leveraging the New Infrastructure."
Alan Whitaker Future trend analyst and strategic change facilitator
Graham Whitehead BT's Principal Consultant looking at the future of telecoms and IT
James Woudhuysen Professor of Forecasting and Innovation
Ola Ahlvarsson Named in "Top ten leading European internet entrepreneurs 1999" by Wall Street Journal, Business Week & Financial Times