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Why organisations work with Collin Croome Thirty years of operator experience spanning the first websites in 1994 through generative AI and Apple Vision Pro rollouts, which lets him pressure test a digital strategy against what actually ships. Direct Apple lineage: over a decade as multimedia evangelist and trainer for Apple Germany, including co-developing the first German multimedia seminar for Apple in 1992. Founder and long-time owner of coma2 e-branding, where he delivered digital projects for premium international brands including Audi, Hugo Boss, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Nespresso and Triumph. Author of two GABAL Verlag titles on the metaverse (Praxisbuch Metaverse, 30 Minuten Metaverse) and a regular on-air digital expert for ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL. Bilingual delivery in English and German with deep DACH market fluency, useful for organisations briefing European leadership audiences. Biography highlights Co-founder and long-time owner of coma2 e-branding, Munich, delivering 800 plus digital projects for international brands over 22 plus years. Multimedia evangelist and trainer for Apple Germany from 1991, co-developer of the first German Apple multimedia seminar in 1992. Author of Praxisbuch Metaverse (GABAL Verlag, 2023) and 30 Minuten Metaverse (GABAL Verlag, 2022). Certified Professional Speaker and Professional Member of the German Speakers Association (GSA). Recurring digital expert on ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL covering AI, metaverse and platform economics. Client list includes Audi, Hugo Boss, Microsoft, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, TUI, Nespresso, KPMG and Triumph. Biography The first wave of corporate digital work in Germany ran through a small group of practitioners who knew both the technology and the brands that had to use it. Collin Croome was one of them. From 1991 he worked inside Apple Germany as multimedia evangelist and trainer, co-developing the country’s first Apple multimedia seminar in 1992 and spending more than a decade translating new hardware into tools that marketing and communications teams could actually run. In 1997 he co-founded coma2 e-branding in Munich and built it into a long-running digital agency for premium international brands. Over 22 plus years the agency delivered work for Audi, Hugo Boss, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Nespresso, Triumph and TUI, covering the full arc from early websites to social platforms, e-commerce and immersive formats. That operator history is the spine of his credibility on stage. Since 2021 his keynote work has concentrated on generative AI, the metaverse and Apple Vision Pro as commercial tools, not as futurology. He has written two GABAL Verlag books on the metaverse, appears regularly as a digital expert on ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL, and holds Certified Professional Speaker status with the German Speakers Association. The consistent thread across three decades is the same question he puts to boards now: which of the digital tools on the table will move revenue, customer experience or brand equity inside the next year, and what has to change in the organisation to make that happen. Key speaking topics Generative AI and ChatGPT in the enterprise Apple Vision Pro and immersive business applications Metaverse and Web3 strategy Digital transformation and megatrends Platform economics and the power of the internet giants Digital marketing and brand in an AI world Ideal for C-suite and board audiences making capital allocation decisions on AI, immersive and digital platform bets. CMOs, brand and customer experience leads translating AI and immersive tools into campaigns and products. DACH-market leadership groups that need a bilingual keynote in English or German. Premium consumer and lifestyle brands looking at AR, VR and platform-native commerce. Audience outcomes A clearer read on which AI and metaverse initiatives are ready for commercial use and which are still hype. A practical view of Apple Vision Pro and adjacent immersive tools as enterprise assets, grounded in early-adopter use. Reference points from named brand work (Audi, Hugo Boss, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom) that leaders can map to their own organisation. Sharper questions to put to internal teams and external agencies on digital and AI roadmaps.

Why organisations work with Cornel Amariei Operator credibility on both sides of the innovation question: ran innovation as Head of Innovation at Continental Automotive with patents adopted across European electric vehicles, then built .lumen from research project to a venture-backed company. Built the first Romanian company to receive EIC Accelerator funding, with a €9.7M blended finance package and a €5M January 2025 round led by Catalyst Romania alongside the EIC Fund. The story is a working playbook on European deep-tech capital formation. Working at the intersection of autonomous driving, robotics and assistive technology, with a defensible patent portfolio. Useful to leadership teams thinking about how to convert AI and sensor capability into a product proposition with a real customer. Recognition from credible institutions, not bureau awards: Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Global Business Hall of Fame. A personal stake that travels well into corporate audiences. Grew up in a family where every member had a disability, and built a company that addresses an underserved global market of 40 million blind people. Authority on social impact ventures without the activist framing. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, .lumen. Pedestrian Autonomous Driving technology, first deployed in glasses for blind users. Former Head of Innovation, Continental Automotive. Patents applied in European electric vehicles. First Romanian inductee, Global Business Hall of Fame, 2021. Innovators category, alongside Canva’s Melanie Perkins. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe; JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World. Author, “Arduino Development Cookbook” (Packt Publishing, 2015). Alumnus, Constructor University (formerly Jacobs University Bremen). Biography A research project inside a Romanian engineering team in 2018 became, by early 2020, a venture called .lumen. By 2025 the company had closed a €5M round led by Catalyst Romania with the European Innovation Council Fund and Tigrim Capital alongside it, the latest tranche in a €9.7M blended finance package that made it the first Romanian startup to take EIC Accelerator capital. The product, Pedestrian Autonomous Driving, was first demonstrated in glasses that replicate and extend the function of a guide dog. The global addressable problem is concrete: roughly 40 million blind people, fewer than 20,000 guide dogs. The biography behind the company matters because it explains the design choice. Cornel Amariei grew up in a family where every member had a disability: parents with locomotor conditions, a sister with cerebral palsy. The motivation is not a brand layer on top of a venture. It is the reason the venture exists. Before .lumen, Amariei was Head of Innovation at Continental Automotive, where his patent work was integrated into European electric vehicles. That experience matters for boards thinking about innovation governance. He has run the discipline inside a multinational tier-one and built it from scratch as a founder, which is rare in a market where most speakers have done only one. The recognition is from named institutions: Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, and induction into the Global Business Hall of Fame in 2021 as the first Romanian laureate, in the innovators category alongside Canva founder Melanie Perkins. He is also a published technical author with Packt and an alumnus of Constructor University in Bremen. Key speaking topics Deep-tech entrepreneurship and scale-up leadership Innovation management inside multinationals Assistive technology and accessibility ventures Autonomous driving and robotics applied to consumer products Patent strategy and IP-led product development European deep-tech capital and the EIC Accelerator route Social impact through technology commercialisation Ideal for Innovation, R&D and CTO leadership inside industrials, automotive and consumer technology Boards and executive committees reviewing how invention is governed and converted to product ESG, accessibility and inclusion programmes seeking a credible technology voice rather than an activist one Entrepreneurship summits, deep-tech investor events and scale-up programmes across Europe Audience outcomes A working view of how a research prototype becomes a regulated, funded, commercial product A founder’s account of building patent value inside both a multinational and a startup A grounded reference point for what European deep-tech capital, including EIC blended finance, actually requires of a company A clearer sense of where assistive and accessibility technology is going as autonomous driving capabilities scale down to wearables A reset on what social impact looks like when it is a product proposition rather than a corporate programme

Why organisations work with Costantino Roselli He treats the avatar economy as an operating model, not a marketing channel. His core argument to boards is that avatar-native businesses need their own P&L, audience strategy, and creative pipeline, separate from the corporate website. He runs NTZNS as a working laboratory for the thesis, so the case studies he brings are commercial rather than conceptual. The Gabby digital fashion case, generating around $25,000 monthly within 18 months, is the worked example he uses to show what a single avatar-native operator can produce. He sits inside the institutional conversation through the Metaverse Fashion Council advisory board and the Metaverse Standards Forum, which gives boards a sense of where industry consensus is forming on interoperability, identity, and IP. He is one of the few speakers in this category who connects transmedia storytelling craft to commercial outcomes, which matters for brands that need narrative depth across owned channels, gaming, and creator platforms. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of NTZNS (NeTiZeNS), an immersive innovation studio building avatar-economy ventures. Advisory board member, Metaverse Fashion Council. Member, Metaverse Standards Forum. Speaker, Delphi Economic Forum IX, on the panel “Beyond the Hype: The Metaverse and its Future Hurdles”. Author of Million Dollar Chest: Pick Yourself and Become Unstoppable (2018). Founder of Weird Authentic People, an early digital branding agency using avatars and AI-led storytelling for client communication. Biography The avatar economy is mostly being run by the wrong people inside large companies. Marketing teams that built corporate websites are being asked to design digital fashion drops, transmedia worlds, and creator-led revenue lines, and the results read as expensive experiments rather than businesses. Roselli’s central argument is that this is structural. Avatar-first commerce demands its own operating unit. NTZNS, the studio he founded and leads, is the working test of that thesis. The company builds avatar-native ventures, mentors digital-only creators, and packages the playbook for brands trying to move past pilots. The reference case Roselli cites publicly, a fifteen-year-old creator in Argentina generating around $25,000 a month through an avatar-led fashion line, is used as a deliberate provocation to boards: a single distributed operator can already produce material revenue from this category. His institutional footprint gives the argument standing. He sits on the advisory board of the Metaverse Fashion Council, holds a seat in the Metaverse Standards Forum, and speaks regularly inside the policy circuit, including the Delphi Economic Forum panel on the metaverse and its hurdles in 2024. The point of those affiliations, in his framing, is to track where interoperability, identity, and IP standards are settling, because those are the variables that determine whether avatar businesses are durable. What separates Roselli from most metaverse commentators is that he treats storytelling as a commercial discipline. Transmedia worldbuilding, in his account, is not creative dressing on top of a technology stack. It is how avatar-native ventures earn audience loyalty across gaming, social, and owned channels at the same time, and it is the variable most brands fail to invest in seriously when they enter the category. Key speaking topics Avatar economy as an operating model Transmedia storytelling for consumer brands Generative AI in worldbuilding and creator economies Digital fashion and luxury in immersive environments Future of work, identity, and digital citizenship Metaverse standards, interoperability, and IP Ideal for CMOs, chief brand officers, and digital strategy leads at consumer brands evaluating digital fashion, gaming, and creator-led commerce. Innovation and venture teams inside fashion, luxury, beauty, entertainment, and media groups. Foresight and strategy teams looking for a substantive, commercially grounded view of the metaverse beyond the 2022 hype cycle. Audience outcomes A clear operating distinction between metaverse marketing, where existing functions can deliver, and avatar-native business, where they cannot. A specific revenue lens on digital fashion, creator commerce, and avatar IP, with named examples of what working models look like. A framework for deciding which categories of audience and revenue justify a dedicated avatar-native unit. A practical view of where standards work on interoperability and identity is heading, and what that means for long-term IP decisions.

Why organisations work with Dame Wendy Hall Direct line of sight into where AI rules are heading. Hall sat on the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body that wrote “Governing AI for Humanity”, and co-chaired the UK government’s 2017 AI Review with Jerome Pesenti. A framework for the geopolitics of digital infrastructure. Her book with Kieron O’Hara, “Four Internets”, sets out the competing Silicon Valley, Brussels, Washington and Beijing models that determine where data and AI capability can actually be deployed. Engineering credibility, not commentary. Her team at Southampton built the Microcosm hypermedia system in the mid 1980s, before the Web existed, which gives her arguments about platform design a foundation most policy voices lack. She can explain how AI systems actually produce their outputs to a board with no technical background. That is the subject of her next book, “AI Explained” (Wiley, September 2026), written for exactly that reader. Standing inside the institutions that boards now have to follow. Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, President of the British Science Association from September 2026, former Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, founding co-director of the Web Science Research Initiative with Tim Berners-Lee. Biography highlights Regius Professor of Computer Science, a Crown appointment, and Director of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton; co-founder of the Web Science Research Initiative with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt. Member, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; contributor to “Governing AI for Humanity” (2024). Co-chair of the UK government’s independent AI Review with Jerome Pesenti, “Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK” (2017), and the UK’s first AI Skills Champion. Co-author, with Kieron O’Hara, of “Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace”, Oxford University Press, 2021; co-author, with Pete Rai, of “AI Explained: A Guide for Non-Technical Readers”, Wiley, September 2026. Managing Director of the Web Science Trust; President of the British Science Association for 2026-27; Co-Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science; co-chair of the ACM Publications Board. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, which awarded her its Sir Frank Whittle Medal in 2026; first non-North American President of the Association for Computing Machinery. Biography The teams writing the rules for AI and digital infrastructure are small, and they sit inside a handful of governments and multilateral bodies. Most boards now have to operate within those rules without much access to the people drafting them. Dame Wendy Hall is one of those people. She co-chaired the UK government’s 2017 AI Review with Jerome Pesenti, “Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK”, which set the structure of the country’s AI strategy. She became the UK’s first AI Skills Champion the following year. In 2023 the UN Secretary-General appointed her to the High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, which delivered “Governing AI for Humanity” in 2024. She chaired the Ada Lovelace Institute from 2020 to 2023. The policy work rests on three decades of original computer science. Her team at Southampton built Microcosm, a hypermedia system, in the mid 1980s, before the Web existed. In 2006 she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt. Web Science, the field she helped establish, treats the Internet and AI as social systems shaped by politics, power, and human behaviour as much as by code. She is now Regius Professor of Computer Science at Southampton, a title conferred by the Crown, and directs the university’s Web Science Institute. Her book with Kieron O’Hara, “Four Internets” (Oxford University Press, 2021, with a foreword by Vint Cerf), maps the four competing value systems, Silicon Valley, Brussels, Washington and Beijing, that now determine where data flows, where AI can be trained, and where products can be sold. Senior teams come back to it when they have to make a capital decision about where to put a data centre or a model. Her next book, “AI Explained: A Guide for Non-Technical Readers”, is published by Wiley in September 2026, the same month she takes office as President of the British Science Association. Key speaking topics Artificial intelligence policy and governance The geopolitics of data and digital infrastructure Web Science and sociotechnical systems AI strategy for national and corporate competitiveness Internet governance and platform regulation Women in technology and the AI skills pipeline Ideal for Boards and executive committees making capital allocation decisions on AI, data and digital infrastructure Chief technology, chief data and chief AI officers responsible for defensible deployment Government, regulator and multilateral audiences working on AI and Internet governance University and research leadership shaping national AI strategy and skills Audience outcomes A working map of the four competing models of Internet governance and what each means for cross-border data and AI A sharper read of where UN, EU, UK, US and Chinese AI rules are converging and diverging A view of AI strategy that connects technical reality, regulation and national competitiveness A first-hand account of how independent AI reviews and advisory bodies are drafted and how to influence them

Why organisations work with Daniel Bobroff He has invested retail’s money on retail’s behalf. As co-founder of ASOS Ventures he ran due diligence on the technologies retail boards are now being asked to buy, which is a different vantage point from the consultant or analyst. He built a category from scratch. Pioneering in-game advertising through Microtime gives him a working understanding of how a new commercial medium emerges, scales and is monetised, which transfers directly to current arguments about immersive commerce and gamified retail. He operates inside the engineering layer. His role at HTEC Group means his views on AI in retail are grounded in actual implementation work on customer experience, cloud and supply chain, not in keynote abstraction. He covers the full retail tech stack in one voice. Boards rarely find a speaker who can talk credibly about ad-tech, VR, visual search, ecommerce platforms and corporate venture in the same session, and link them to a single commercial argument. Biography highlights Founder, Coded Futures, retail and consumer technology advisory firm. Special Advisor, HTEC Group, advising on retail digitalisation, AI and customer experience. Co-founder and former Investment Director, ASOS Ventures, the venture capital arm of ASOS. Founder of Microtime, the first digital agency dedicated to in-game advertising, credited with starting a now multi-billion-dollar category. Founder of Deibus Studios, video games developer with combined platform sales reported above 50 million units across PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo. Has delivered keynotes for Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Mastercard and the Retail Institute. Biography Retail has spent two decades arguing about whether technology is a channel, a function or a strategy. The argument is now closed by capital allocation. Personalisation engines, generative AI, gamified loyalty and immersive commerce are all sitting in the operating plan, often without a clear test for which of them pays back and which is a costly experiment in brand theatre. Daniel Bobroff has worked on both sides of that question. At ASOS he co-founded the company’s venture capital arm and was directly responsible for identifying and backing the technologies the retail sector is now being sold. Before that he founded Microtime, the first digital agency dedicated to in-game advertising, and Deibus Studios, an independent games developer whose titles for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo achieved combined platform sales above 50 million units. Today he runs Coded Futures, a retail and consumer technology advisory firm, and sits as Special Advisor to HTEC Group, the global engineering business, where he advises on AI, cloud and customer experience programmes. The combination matters: he sees retail technology from the investor’s underwriting position, the founder’s product position and the engineering partner’s delivery position. That is an unusual sightline for a speaker on this subject. His keynote work, including engagements for Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Mastercard and the Retail Institute, focuses on the same question a board is wrestling with after the third AI vendor presentation of the quarter: which of these bets is real, what does the customer experience actually look like once they land, and how does the commercial model hold up at scale. Key speaking topics AI in retail and consumer-facing operations Gamification of loyalty, engagement and commerce Immersive commerce, VR and the metaverse in retail Hyper-personalisation and predictive analytics Corporate venture capital and retail innovation pipelines Customer experience redesign in fashion and consumer brands Supply chain optimisation through AI and emerging technologies Ideal for Retail and consumer brand boards weighing major AI and digital investment decisions CMOs, Chief Digital Officers and Chief Customer Officers redesigning customer journeys around AI and personalisation Innovation, venture and corporate development teams inside large retailers and consumer goods groups Retail technology vendors and platform partners briefing their senior client audiences Audience outcomes A working sense of which retail AI use cases have shown commercial returns and which are still in the demonstration phase A sharper read on where gamification, immersive commerce and generative AI fit inside an existing retail operating model A vocabulary for discussing personalisation, loyalty and experience investments with credibility at board level A reference set of named retailers, technologies and venture-backed companies to anchor internal strategy debates

Why organisations work with Daniel Burrus He offers a named, tested method for distinguishing Hard Trends (future certainties) from Soft Trends (future possibilities), giving executive teams a shared vocabulary for strategic bets. The Anticipatory Organization model has been implemented inside the Pentagon’s Joint Service Provider, Deloitte, Lockheed Martin and IBM, so the framework has been stress-tested inside institutions where the cost of being wrong is high. He has tracked exponential technology shifts since the early 1980s, which means his AI commentary is grounded in four decades of pattern recognition rather than recent opinion. He sits inside the NSA CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, a credential held by fewer than 300 speakers worldwide, which is a meaningful signal of platform craft alongside the intellectual content. Seven books with two New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers give buyers a body of work to pre-read and align their teams around before the engagement. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Burrus Research Associates, operating since 1983. Author of seven books including Flash Foresight (New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller) and The Anticipatory Organization. Inductee, National Speakers Association CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame. Founding member of the Department of Defense Joint Services Futures Group. Contributor to Harvard Business Review, Wired and Huffington Post; LinkedIn Top Voice with more than 1.2 million followers. Creator of the Hard Trend Methodology, adopted inside Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, IBM and the Pentagon’s Joint Service Provider. Biography Strategy teams spend most of their planning time on things that might happen. The harder question is which parts of the future are already fixed. The Hard Trend Methodology, developed by Daniel Burrus over more than thirty years of research at Burrus Research Associates, is built to answer that question in a way executive teams can actually use. The method separates Hard Trends, which are projections grounded in measurable demographic, technological and regulatory change, from Soft Trends, which are projections that look solid but can be influenced. Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, IBM and the Pentagon’s Joint Service Provider have applied the framework to reshape how they forecast and plan. The Anticipatory Organization, his 2017 book, is the public statement of that model and was an Amazon number one new business release. Burrus started tracking exponential technology shifts in the early 1980s, long before AI became a boardroom topic. That long arc gives his current work on artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation a pattern-recognition quality that newer commentators cannot match. Flash Foresight, his 2011 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, set out the underlying cognitive approach for senior leaders working without a futures team. His platform credentials match the intellectual ones. He is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame inductee, a LinkedIn Top Voice with more than 1.2 million followers, and a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Wired and Huffington Post. He is a founding member of the Department of Defense Joint Services Futures Group, which is how a serious foresight practitioner signals that the work has been tested in environments where the cost of strategic surprise is highest. Key speaking topics Hard Trend Methodology and Anticipatory Organization Artificial intelligence strategy for senior leaders Disruptive innovation and exponential technology Digital transformation Strategic foresight and long-horizon planning Future of business and technology-driven growth Competitive advantage through anticipation Ideal for CEOs, COOs and strategy leaders running multi-year planning cycles under accelerating technology change Board directors and executive committees assessing AI and technology bets Transformation and innovation leads inside regulated or capital-intensive industries Government and defence leadership teams building foresight capability Audience outcomes A working distinction between Hard Trends and Soft Trends they can apply to their own strategic bets A shared vocabulary for anticipating disruption before it lands, rather than reacting after it does A concrete read on the exponential technologies most likely to reshape their industry in the next planning cycle A clearer view of where AI investment produces durable competitive advantage and where it produces noise Practical moves for shifting an organisation from reactive to anticipatory posture

Why organisations work with Daniel Hulme He runs AI inside a FTSE 100 holding company. When he talks about deployment at scale he is describing decisions he is currently making across WPP’s operating businesses, not modelling them from the outside. He sold the AI consultancy he founded, Satalia, to WPP after building it across clients including Tesco, Unilever, PwC, BT and the BBC. The deployment track record is operational, not slideware. As founder of Conscium, the first commercial research organisation on machine consciousness, he can address AI safety and the frontier governance questions that boards are starting to ask, without retreating into philosophy. His UCL credentials are substantive, an EngD in AI, the former directorship of the Applied AI MSc, and a current Entrepreneur-in-Residence role. The science behind the commercial advice is real. He signed the 2017 open letter to the United Nations on autonomous weapons alongside Musk, Hinton, Russell and Hassabis. He has been in the public AI governance conversation for almost a decade, well before it became fashionable. Biography highlights Chief AI Officer, WPP plc, coordinating AI strategy across the group since the 2021 acquisition of Satalia. Founder and former CEO of Satalia, the UK AI company named to Gartner’s Cool Vendors list for data science in 2016. Founder and CEO, Conscium, a London-based commercial research organisation studying machine consciousness and neuromorphic AI, founded 2024. EngD and Master’s in Artificial Intelligence, University College London. Computer Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCL. Faculty member, Singularity University, on AI, ethics, innovation and organisational design. Founding Fellow, Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (2026). Co-author, Stories from 2045 (Economic Singularity Foundation, 2019). Signatory, 2017 open letter to the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons. Biography WPP acquired Satalia in 2021 and made its founder its Chief AI Officer across the group. That move put one person in charge of AI strategy across a FTSE 100 advertising and marketing holding company, with operating brands that touch most of the world’s largest consumer businesses. The job is what most boards are now wrestling with on a smaller scale. Daniel Hulme founded Satalia in 2008 out of his AI research at University College London, where he earned his EngD and went on to direct the Applied AI MSc programme. Satalia’s work for clients including Tesco, Unilever, PwC, BT and the BBC sat at the unglamorous end of AI, optimisation, decision intelligence and operational decision-making, which is where deployment usually succeeds or fails. In 2024 he co-founded Conscium, a commercial research organisation focused on machine consciousness and neuromorphic AI. The work matters commercially because the next set of AI governance questions, around verification, autonomy and accountability, are not solved by the current generation of large language models. He was a signatory to the 2017 open letter to the United Nations on autonomous weapons, alongside Musk, Hinton, Russell and Hassabis, which placed him in the public AI safety conversation long before it reached boardrooms. He remains UCL’s Computer Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence, holds Singularity University faculty status, and was elected a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences in 2026. The combination matters for one practical reason. When he discusses how AI is being deployed inside a FTSE 100 company, the technical claims are coming from someone with a research apparatus underneath them. Key speaking topics Applied AI in large enterprises AI strategy and the Chief AI Officer role AI ethics, safety and governance Machine consciousness and frontier AI research Decision intelligence and optimisation The future of work under AI Organisational design through technology Ideal for Boards and executive committees making AI investment and governance decisions Chief AI Officers, CTOs, CIOs and Chief Data Officers shaping enterprise AI strategy Risk, audit and compliance leaders working out AI accountability Innovation, transformation and digital leaders moving AI beyond pilots Audience outcomes A clearer view of what AI can realistically deliver inside their own organisation in the next 18 months, separated from vendor narrative. Working language for the governance and safety questions their board will be asked, including where the limits of current AI sit. A more honest read on which AI use cases are commercially defensible and which are not yet. Exposure to frontier research questions, including machine consciousness, that will shape the next wave of AI regulation.

Why organisations work with Trabucchi and Buganza The Platform Thinking Matrix gives strategy and transformation teams a structured instrument for identifying precisely where platform mechanisms can be applied to existing business models, built from a decade of research on established companies, not borrowed from startup literature. The Digital Phoenix Effect draws on analysis of 140 platform initiatives across S&P 500 companies, with detailed cases from Siemens, AXA, Eni, and Domino’s – the organisations their research is built around look like most audiences, not like Silicon Valley startups. With 100+ peer-reviewed publications in journals including the Journal of Product Innovation Management and Technovation, their frameworks can be tested against sustained evidence – not just a practitioner’s conviction codified into a model. As Scientific Directors of the Platform Thinking HUB within Politecnico’s Digital Innovation Observatories, they give organisations access to live, connected research, not a fixed set of frameworks. Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Digital Thinking: the body that the Financial Times has described as producing the Oscars of management thinking. Biography highlights Associate Professor of Platform Thinking (Trabucchi) and Full Professor of Leadership & Innovation (Buganza), School of Management, Politecnico di Milano Co-founders and Scientific Directors of the Platform Thinking HUB within Politecnico’s Digital Innovation Observatories, and of LEADIN’Lab; Buganza chairs the EIASM International Product Development Management Conference Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024; shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award, Digital Thinking category Co-authors of Platform Thinking: Read the Past. Write the Future (Business Expert Press, 2023) – shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2024 and translated into Italian and Chinese – and The Digital Phoenix Effect (Platform Thinking Publishing, 2025) 100+ peer-reviewed articles in journals including the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technovation, and Information Systems Journal Co-founders of Symplatform (2018), the annual international conference on digital platforms connecting researchers and practitioners Biography Most digital transformation advice is written for companies that do not yet exist. Trabucchi and Buganza study the ones that do: established firms with legacy assets, existing customer relationships, and infrastructure they cannot simply abandon. Over more than a decade at Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management, they developed Platform Thinking as a named strategic framework. It is not a description of what Uber or Airbnb do. It is a method for how any established organisation can activate its existing assets to generate the multi-sided value that platform businesses create. The Platform Thinking Matrix formalises this as a practical instrument for strategy and transformation teams. Their 2025 book, The Digital Phoenix Effect, draws on 140 platform initiatives analysed across S&P 500 companies, with cases from Siemens, AXA, Eni, and Domino’s. The argument that incumbent firms cannot compete in the platform economy on their own terms is a common one. Trabucchi and Buganza make the opposite case, and back it with sustained empirical research. Both were included in the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024 and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Digital Thinking. As co-founders of Symplatform and Scientific Directors of the Platform Thinking HUB, they connect rigorous academic research to active practitioner communities. Their frameworks emerge from sustained, peer-reviewed inquiry – over 100 published articles across journals including the Journal of Product Innovation Management and Technovation – not from advisory work alone. Key speaking topics Platform thinking and business model transformation Legacy organisations in the platform economy The Platform Thinking Matrix Data as a platform asset GenAI and internal platform development Platform leadership and innovation management Multi-sided platforms and ecosystem strategy Ideal for Chief Strategy Officers and Chief Digital Officers leading platform transformation in established businesses CEOs and boards of legacy organisations facing disruption from platform competitors Innovation and transformation leads in non-digital-native companies Executive MBA and corporate learning audiences focused on digital business model innovation Audience outcomes A working definition of Platform Thinking and how it differs from conventional digital transformation advice The Platform Thinking Matrix as a practical framework for identifying where platform mechanisms apply to existing business models Real cases from established firms – Siemens, AXA, Eni, Domino’s – showing how legacy assets become platform advantages Clarity on the specific leadership conditions that enable platform-based change within established organisations A starting point for assessing their organisation’s platform potential against a research-backed framework

Why organisations work with Danilo McGarry He has run AI inside two of the largest regulated enterprises on the planet. Buyers get an operator who has defended budgets, cleared risk committees and shipped at scale, not a consultant describing other people’s work. His track record is tied to outcomes in the numbers. His work at Alter Domus is associated with a period of significant valuation growth, and his engagements are framed around measurable cost, revenue and risk impact rather than adoption metrics. He sits at the board-level interface of AI. He teaches on the Financial Times Board Directors Programme and advises the CIPD on AI, which means the language he uses lands with directors, not just technologists. He explains complex AI choices in terms non-technical leaders can act on. That is what earns him repeat invitations from banks, insurers, health systems and consultancies where the decision rests with a chief executive or a chair. Biography highlights Former Head of AI at Citigroup, leading enterprise AI and automation inside one of the world’s largest banks. Former Head of AI at UnitedHealth Group, operator of one of the largest software-robot estates in any healthcare business. Former Global Head of AI and Automation at Alter Domus, the fund services group, from December 2019. Strategic adviser on artificial intelligence to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Faculty contributor to the Financial Times Board Directors Programme. Host of the “It’s All About AI” podcast; TEDx speaker; ranked on Thinkers360 and Onalytica lists of leading AI voices. Biography The hard part of enterprise AI is not the model. It is the decision to commit, the governance to contain the risk, and the operational grip to turn a working pilot into a line on the P&L. Danilo McGarry has spent his career on the inside of that problem. At Citigroup he led artificial intelligence and machine learning, launching automation and AI initiatives across capital markets operations. He then became a senior AI leader at UnitedHealth Group, where his remit included a programme of roughly 3,500 software “digital workers” embedded in one of the largest healthcare businesses in the United States. As Global Head of AI and Automation at Alter Domus from 2019, he built an AI and automation function inside a fund services firm through a period of significant growth. Earlier roles at JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Canada gave him the grounding in regulated operations that now sits under everything he says on stage. That operator track record is why boards listen. He is a faculty contributor to the Financial Times Board Directors Programme and strategic adviser on AI to the CIPD, which puts him in front of chairs, chief executives and people leaders making the governance calls. He is cited and quoted in outlets including the Financial Times, The Times, Bloomberg, Forbes and WIRED, and ranks on Thinkers360 and Onalytica lists of leading voices in AI and intelligent automation. His argument on stage is practical. Treat AI as an operating-model question, not a tooling question. Pick the handful of processes where the economics are real, industrialise them, and build the governance that lets the next wave scale without fresh permission every time. It is a message that lands with leadership teams who are tired of pilot decks and want to know what to do on Monday. Key speaking topics Enterprise AI strategy AI operating models and governance Intelligent automation at scale AI in financial services and healthcare Board-level AI literacy Digital workers and the future of operations Responsible AI adoption Ideal for Boards and chief executives setting enterprise AI policy and investment envelopes. CIOs, CDOs and heads of transformation running AI and automation portfolios. CHROs and people leaders rethinking workforce design around AI and digital workers. Regulated-sector leadership teams in banking, insurance, asset servicing and healthcare. Audience outcomes A clearer view of where AI actually moves the numbers inside their own operating model. A working vocabulary for the governance, risk and workforce questions AI creates at board level. Concrete reference points from AI deployments inside Citigroup, UnitedHealth Group and Alter Domus. A sharper read on which AI investments industrialise and which stay trapped as pilots. Confidence to set the next twelve months of AI priorities with fewer, better bets.

Why organisations work with Dave Coplin His central argument – that the «digital deluge» is not a productivity crisis to be managed but a strategic opportunity to be led – gives boards a reframe that most AI and digital transformation programmes never offer: the question is not adoption, but what kind of organisation you are willing to become. He built that argument from the inside: twelve years at Microsoft UK as the executive responsible for imagining the human future of technology, a vantage point that neither pure academics nor management consultants can replicate. His books Business Reimagined (2013) and The Rise of the Humans (2014, Harriman House) give organisations a specific, portable framework – the choice between efficiency and effectiveness – that leadership teams can apply directly to their own AI strategy decisions. NED board experience at Mitchells & Butlers plc, Vianet Group plc, and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association means his perspective on digital strategy carries weight at governance level, not just at conference level. His positioning at the intersection of generative AI adoption and organisational performance means he addresses the question executive teams are now actually asking: how do we become more effective through AI, rather than just faster at what we already do? Biography highlights Founder and CEO of The Envisioners, a digital strategy consultancy established in 2017 after a 12-year career at Microsoft UK Former Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft UK – a role he created, focused on the future of the human-technology relationship Author of Business Reimagined (2013) and The Rise of the Humans (2014, Harriman House) Independent Non-Executive Director at Mitchells & Butlers plc, Vianet Group plc, and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association Regular contributor to BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Channel 4, and CNN on AI, digital transformation, and the future of work Keynote speaker for clients including Microsoft, Barclays, HP, Vodafone, Ernst & Young, Facebook, and Google, as well as the UK and EU Parliaments Biography Technology investment reliably outpaces the organisational willingness to change. That gap – between what digital tools can do and what organisations are willing to become – is where Dave Coplin has built his career, first as Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft UK and now as founder of The Envisioners. His book The Rise of the Humans (Harriman House, 2014) sets out the core argument: the digital deluge of data, tools, and competing demands is not something to survive – it is something to harness. The organisations that succeed are those that stop asking how to automate what they already do and start asking how to reinvent what they do entirely. That argument was relevant when the book was written. With generative AI now reshaping every sector, it has become the defining strategic question for boards and leadership teams. Coplin spent twelve years at Microsoft UK before founding The Envisioners in 2017, advising organisations and governments on what technology-led change actually requires of the people leading it. His clients have included Barclays, Vodafone, Ernst & Young, and the UK and EU Parliaments. He serves as an independent non-executive director at Mitchells & Butlers plc and Vianet Group plc, and has held the same role at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association. He is a regular contributor to the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and CNN. His first book, Business Reimagined (2013), made the case for collaborative and flexible working as a technology-enabled opportunity rather than a cultural preference. Both books frame the same consistent argument: the human decision about how to relate to technology matters more than the technology itself. Key speaking topics Generative AI and organisational effectiveness Digital transformation strategy The future of work Human-technology relationship AI adoption and workforce change Reimagining how organisations create value Ideal for CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders shaping AI and digital strategy CEOs and executive teams navigating generative AI adoption decisions CHROs and transformation leads managing the human impact of digital change Board members and non-executive directors overseeing digital governance and technology investment Audience outcomes A clear framework for distinguishing between technology-led efficiency and technology-led effectiveness, and why that distinction matters commercially A reframe of generative AI from operational risk to strategic lever – and the conditions under which that reframe becomes actionable Practical perspective on why human agency and organisational culture are the deciding factors in whether digital investment delivers A sharper view of where AI strategies are likely to stall, and what leadership teams can address before they do Confidence to engage with AI at a strategic rather than technical level – including in board and senior leadership conversations

Why organisations work with David Hanson He built Sophia. Few speakers on AI can point to a single, globally recognised artefact of their work that has been granted citizenship by a nation state and appointed the UN Development Programme’s first Innovation Champion. His perspective combines sculpture, materials science and AI in a way almost no other robotics founder can credibly claim. RISD-trained, Disney Imagineering-trained, PhD from UT Dallas, peer-reviewed in IEEE and SPIE. He has built and run a robotics company through the commercial reality of hardware, not just the AI software conversation. That grounds his view of where human-facing AI actually works and where it does not. The 2005 AAAI first-place prize for open AI system interaction, Tech Titans Innovator of the Year, and Sophia’s 2018 Edison Award give the innovation claim a named, credible track record rather than a marketing line. He is one of the small group of AI voices who can hold a serious conversation about ethics, emotional design and commercial deployment in the same session. That is what executive audiences increasingly want from the topic. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, Hong Kong Creator of Sophia, the first robot granted honorary citizenship (Saudi Arabia, 2017) and UN Development Programme’s first Innovation Champion Sophia awarded a 2018 Edison Award in robotics Co-recipient of the 2005 AAAI first-place prize for open interaction of an AI system PhD, Interactive Arts and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas; BFA, Rhode Island School of Design Co-author, “The Coming Robot Revolution” (Springer, 2009); author, “Humanizing Robots” Former Walt Disney Imagineer; earlier design and robotics roles at Universal Studios and MTV Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, Popular Science, BBC and CNN Biography Sophia was activated in February 2016 and made her first public appearance weeks later at SXSW. Within eighteen months she had honorary Saudi Arabian citizenship and a UN title, and David Hanson’s company, Hanson Robotics, had become the reference point for what a human-facing robot could look like. The artefact was the argument. The background behind that artefact is unusual. Hanson trained at the Rhode Island School of Design in film, animation and video, then spent years as a sculptor and material researcher inside Disney Imagineering before taking a PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. The skin materials, the expression mechanisms and the facial architecture on his robots come from that rare combination of arts practice and engineering. The research record sits alongside it. Papers in IEEE, SPIE, IROS, AAAI and AI Magazine. A Springer-published co-authored book, “The Coming Robot Revolution”. A 2005 AAAI first-place prize for open AI system interaction. NASA and NSF awards. Tech Titans Innovator of the Year. His own company, founded in 2013 and scaled out of Hong Kong, building robots now deployed in research, therapy and education. For executive audiences, the value is a founder who can speak with authority about where human-facing AI is heading, how ethical and emotional design choices get made inside a real robotics programme, and what changes for industries from healthcare to customer experience when the machine has a face. Sophia is the headline. The argument behind her is why leadership teams book him. Key speaking topics Humanoid robotics and social AI Human-robot coexistence in work and everyday life AI ethics and responsible development The design and engineering behind Sophia Science fiction, storytelling and the shaping of real-world robotics The future of AI in healthcare, education and customer-facing industries Ideal for Executive teams and boards setting strategy for AI-mediated customer, patient or citizen interaction Innovation, R&D and technology leadership in healthcare, education, hospitality and customer experience Corporate conferences, industry summits and innovation festivals seeking a founder-level voice on human-facing AI Audiences exploring AI ethics, emotional design and the societal consequences of humanoid machines Audience outcomes A grounded view of where humanoid AI is today, told by the person who built the most visible example of it A clear read on the commercial sectors most likely to be reshaped by social robotics over the next decade The ethical questions serious robotics programmes are actually wrestling with, not the media version of them A sense of how arts, materials science and engineering combine to produce AI that people trust and engage with Direct exposure to Sophia when the format permits, and an informed discussion of what that interaction implies for their own organisation

Why organisations work with David Mattin Trend-Driven Innovation (Wiley) gives the organisations Mattin works with a named, repeatable method for identifying which emerging trends will reshape customer expectations – built on the counter-intuitive argument that the best signal is not in what customers say they want but in what leading businesses are already doing. His central argument – that human needs are fundamentally stable across decades even as technology accelerates – transforms trend analysis from a speculative exercise into a discipline with clear criteria, and gives leaders a reliable filter for deciding which AI-driven changes will actually matter. As Technology Lead at Global Macro Investor, his analysis of emerging technology is read and acted on by institutional investors including hedge funds, pension funds, and family offices – which subjects his commercial judgements about which technology shifts matter to a level of scrutiny that most trend and foresight work never encounters. The 30,000-subscriber New World Same Humans community – spanning business leaders, academics, and policymakers – means his frameworks are continuously tested against the exact professionals organisations are trying to anticipate and influence. Biography highlights Co-author, Trend-Driven Innovation: Beat Accelerating Customer Expectations (Wiley) – a structured framework for turning emerging trends into innovation strategy Former Global Head of Trends and Insights, TrendWatching Member, World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Consumption Technology Lead, Global Macro Investor; co-founder of The Exponentialist research service with macro investor Raoul Pal Founder, New World Same Humans – weekly newsletter on trends and technology with 30,000+ subscribers across business, academia, and policy Opening keynote at the NEXT Conference (Accenture Song) on multiple occasions; over 150 keynotes across five continents and 40+ countries Writing published in The Times, Quartz, Wired, Fast Company, the Guardian, and Google Think Quarterly; documentary work for BBC Radio 4 Graduate, University of Cambridge; began career at the features desk of The Times Biography Most organisations study their own customers closely. David Mattin’s core argument, developed during a decade leading trends intelligence at TrendWatching, is that the more useful signal lies elsewhere – in the moves leading businesses and disruptive startups are making to redefine what those customers consider normal. That argument found its fullest expression in Trend-Driven Innovation (Wiley), which made a counter-intuitive case: to anticipate what customers will want next, stop looking at customers and start tracking the businesses already reshaping their expectations. The underlying framework rests on a philosophical claim that runs through all of his work: human needs are fundamentally stable across decades, even as technology accelerates. New trends emerge when a technology or business innovation unlocks a new way to serve a need that was always there. Track those needs, observe which innovations are serving them, and the expectation gaps that matter become visible before competitors act. His current work extends that discipline into the era of AI. At Global Macro Investor, one of the world’s leading independent research services for institutional allocators, he serves as Technology Lead; he co-founded The Exponentialist alongside macro investor Raoul Pal. That institutional context means his analysis of emerging technology is regularly tested against the demands of hedge funds, pension funds, and family offices – not just conference audiences. The NEXT Conference (Accenture Song) has invited him to open the event on multiple occasions; he has delivered over 150 keynotes across five continents for clients including Meta, McKinsey, Google, Mastercard, Unilever, and Audi. His writing has appeared in The Times, Quartz, Wired, and Google Think Quarterly, and he has produced documentary work for BBC Radio 4. He read at Cambridge and began his career at the features desk of The Times. Key speaking topics AI and emerging technology strategy Consumer trends and expectation gap analysis Innovation strategy in a technology-driven market Scenario planning and strategic foresight Brand strategy and organisational culture in a transparent world The future of business and society in an era of exponential technology change Ideal for Strategy and innovation leadership teams evaluating medium-to-long-term technology bets CMOs and heads of customer experience navigating AI-driven shifts in consumer behaviour Boards and senior executive teams requiring a disciplined framework for separating technology signal from noise Investment professionals and corporate allocators seeking technology intelligence with commercial rigour Audience outcomes A named, replicable framework for identifying which emerging trends are likely to reshape customer expectations before competitors recognise them Clearer criteria for distinguishing technology-driven shifts that will prove durable from those that will not Industry-specific examples of how leading businesses have used expectation gap analysis to create competitive advantage A working understanding of how AI is changing the landscape of customer expectations – and which human needs remain stable enough to anchor innovation decisions A conceptual map of the technology convergences most likely to generate new commercial opportunities over the next five to ten years