Business Speakers

Marcell Vollmer
CEO & Start-Up Advisor for MV Procu GMBH, Former Partner & Director of Boston Consulting Group, Former CDO of SAP & Former Chief Innovation Officer of Celonis
Mike Southon
Entrepreneur who has built and sold over 20 businesses, Bestselling Author & Former Visiting Lecturer to Bayes Business School
Michael Hastings
Professor of Leadership at Huntsman Business School, Vice President of UNICEF UK, Former Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for the BBC, Former Global Head of Citizenship for KPMG & Life Peer of the House of Lords
Jaap Haartsen
Inventor of Bluetooth
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Co-inventor of the MP3, Chief Executive Officer at Brandenburg Labs & Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society
Kate Hardcastle
Joint Founding Partner of Insight with Passion, Broadcaster for Rock 'n' Roll Business, Contributor to Forbes, Retail Expert for ITV, Trustee of the Diana Awards & Expert on Consumer Insight
Jay Vijayan
Founder & CEO of Tekion Corp & Former Chief Information Officer at Tesla
Lars Rasmussen
Co-founder of Google Maps & Former Director of Engineering at Facebook
Gordon Smart
Host of Morning Live on BBC One, Founder of Restless Natives & Former Deputy Editor at The Sun
Victoria Scholar
Head of Investment at Interactive Investor, Former Freelance Journalist for ITN & the BBC, Former Associate Producer for Bloomberg & Former Broadcast Journalist for CNBC, Named CITY AM Analyst of the Year 2023
Rosanna Lockwood
Presenter for News UK, Regular Presenter of Talk TV’s First Edition & Former Producer for Bloomberg TV
Karishma Vaswani
Asia Politics Columnist & Commentator for Bloomberg, Former Chief Asia Presenter for BBC News & Former Assistant Producer of CNBC Asia