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Rachel Botsman

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Rachel Botsman is a leading trust expert, author, and a lecturer at Oxford University. She is passionate about teaching people how to think differently about trust and humility in the modern world. She has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, one of the Top 10 most influential […]

Nicola Piovani

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Nicola Piovani is a well-known pianist, composer, conductor and author of soundtracks. He has collaborated with some of the major directors of the Italian cinema, winning the Academy Award in 1999 for the soundtrack “Life is beautiful”. He puts his vision and experience at the disposal of the corporate world underlining the similarities between the […]

Gary Vaynerchuk

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Known as “GaryVee”, Gary Vaynerchuk is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business as he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early and helps others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behaviour. He is a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbir, Venmo, Snapchat, Coinbase […]

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov is a Soviet-born chess master who became world known in 1985 when at 22 years of age became the youngest world chess campion. He ranked world number one repeatedly for 20 years. His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the […]

One Beat

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To celebrate a company anniversary, for team building activities, to engage and motivate your staff, there is nothing better than making music together! The immediacy of rhythmic language creates harmony, emotional contact and participation among team members, promoting awareness of fundamental principles such as empathy, listening, communication, leadership and creativity, even if they speak different […]

Holger Schmidt

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Holger Schmidt is a senior expert in digital economy and the platform economy. He teaches digital transformation at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) and platform economy at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). As a journalist he has spent 20 years writing about the digitalisation of the economy including 15 […]

Richard van Hooijdonk

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As a futurist, international keynote speaker and trend watcher, Richard van Hooijdonk is an authority on the emergence of new technologies. He has several chip implants, because he also wants to experience the future himself. His inspiration sessions have been attended by more than 550,000 people and he is also a regular guest on television […]

Ayesha Khanna

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Ayesha Khanna is a sought after keynote speaker for the world’s largest global companies, governments and industry associations on artificial intelligence (AI), smart cities and innovation. She is Co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, a global artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm headquartered in Singapore and San Francisco. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial […]

Edward Tse

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Widely known as “China’s leading global business strategist”, Dr. Tse specializes in the definition and implementation of corporate transformation, organizational effectiveness, and business strategies. He has consulted to hundreds of companies (headquartered both within and outside China) investors and start-ups, as well as public sector organizations such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank […]

James Kynge

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James Kynge is the Financial Times global China Editor and editor of Tech Asia, a leading newsletter on new Asian tech themes that covers the whole region including China, India, South-East Asia and Japan, and the principal of China Confidential and Renminbi Compass, proprietary research services from the Financial Times. He lives in Hong Kong […]

Mark Gallagher

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Did you know that the world of Formula 1 and the business life have a lot in common? That in Formula 1 high performance, leadership, innovation, safety and risk management are as essential skills as in business live? Mark Gallagher will show you this and you will be astonished. Mark Gallagher is a Formula 1 […]

Winston Ma

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Winston Ma is the link between the Western world and China. He is a great expert in investments and advanced technology and one of the most suitable people to open a window on the future and on the opportunities that China can offer to the West and the West can offer to China. He is […]

David Coulthard

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One of the world’s most widely recognised sports personalities, David Coulthard is a former Formula 1 Grands Prix driver, television broadcaster, author and entrepreneur. 13 Grands Prix won during a stellar career spanning 15 seasons with the Williams, McLaren and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams. David is also extremely popular with corporate audiences. Currently […]

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin is one of the world’s most popular bloggers in the world and the author of twenty bestselling books translated in 35 languages. He has been nominated as one of the top twenty-one speakers for the 21st century by Successful Meetings Magazine for his concepts on effective marketing, leadership, spreading of ideas and radical […]

Checco Bruni

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He is the first non-Anglo-Saxon helmsman to win a regatta of the America’s Cup. In 30 years of sporting career he has earned 7 World, 5 European and 15 National titles in various classes, from the Laser to the high ground, from the Star to the 49er and was first in the ISAF World Match […]

Marco Liorni

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If you are looking for an experienced, professional, enthusiastic host for your events or meetings, both virtual and in-presence, Marco Liorni is a real recommendation! Over the last 20 years Marco has been a constant and recognizable presence of Italian television. His elegant and polite way to conduct a program made of him a very […]

Giada Zhang

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Her story is a story of revenge, of endurance, of overcoming many difficulties and finally of great success.  In Italy everyone talks about her and wants to hear the incredible story of this young woman who arrived in Italy at the age of three, without knowing a word of Italian, and today she is one […]

Sebastiano Barisoni

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Sebastiano is a professional journalist since 1996. After three years of experience in London at Bloomberg Television, in 1999 Sebastiano joins Radio 24 where he initially conducts “Money Box”, a program dealing with finance and savings. His next successful program is “Focus Economia”, made with the contribution of the protagonists of the economic and financial […]

Umberto Pelizzari

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Umberto Pelizzari is an Italian freediver widely considered among the best of all times. Of his era he is the sole to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving. From 1990 to 2001 he conquered all the freediving world records. Umberto is currently working as a journalist and reporter in […]

Mark van Rijmenam

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Dr Mark van Rijmenam is the Digital Speaker. He thinks about how technology changes organizations and society. He is the digital speaker and the author of three management books on big data, blockchain and AI. His latest book, ‘The organization of Tomorrow’ details how AI, blockchain and analytics turn your business into a data organization. […]

Gabriele Albertini

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Gabriele Albertini was the Mayor of Milan from 1999 until 2006. In the nine years he was mayor of Milan, he held his role with a managerial / entrepreneurial style, transforming the city from the Lombard capital into an international cultural, entrepreneurial and tourist centre. During his tenure he put his experience as an industrial […]

Sally Bundock

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Sally Bundock is recognised globally as the presenter of The Briefing on BBC1, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Covering news, business and finance, the one-hour live programme is watched by a daily audience of more than 100 million worldwide. Sally also presentsthe BBC’s flagship business programme, Work Life, covering all the key business stories, getting […]

Simon Wheatcroft

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Tech pioneer and endurance runner, Simon Wheatcroft, refuses to let blindness hold him back. Whether he is competing in ultra-marathons, climbing mountains or going about his day to day life, he combines the use of technology and his fundamental belief and trust in his own abilities and body to overcome what many would consider insurmountable […]

Paul Redmond

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Dr Paul Redmond, author, keynote speaker, employment guru, is one of the UK’s leading experts on generational change and the future of work. As an in-demand speaker, each year Paul presents at numerous conferences and events around the world, helping organisations and professionals acquire the skills and knowledge to thrive in today’s multi-generational workplace. Paul […]

Alberto Alessi

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Alberto Alessi is a very requested public speaker and has been described as the “godfather of Italian product design”. President of Alessi S.p.A., Managing Director of Alessi SPA, head of Marketing Strategy, Communications and Design Management, using his entrepreneurial flair he has successfully explored the frontiers of design and technology. As a result, he has […]

Alastair Campbell

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Alastair Campbell is a sought after public speaker at events around the world and is best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Drawing on his experience of ten years alongside Tony Blair, and his considerable understanding of the modern media, he […]

Nana Dzidziguri

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Her presence on the stage would be ideal for the opening or the closure of glamorous and elegant corporate events, gala’s or dinners. Nana is a very talented Georgian mezzo-soprano with an important curriculum and a vast repertoire. She was the soloist singer at the Braunschweig State Opera, Germany and the soloist singer at Tbilisi […]

Mohsin Zaidi

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Mohsin Zaidi is an award-winning author, commentator and lawyer. His memoir, A Dutiful Boy (Penguin, 2020) was named Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year; providing a personal insight into issues of diversity and inclusion, mental health and justice. An advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility, Mohsin sits on the […]

Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is an expert on international organised crime and cyber security. Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting and is also […]

James Hardy

James Hardy is an authority on retail globalisation, ecommerce and online growth strategies. He specialises in working with brands to future-proof their online expansion across diverse trading platforms (from Amazon and Alibaba to boutique marketplaces and own-brand sites). With a background in legal mergers & acquisitions, James previously served as Head of Europe for Alibaba. […]

Hagai M. Segal

Hagai M. Segal is one of the world’s leading authorities on geo-political and strategic issues and counter-terrorism. For over 20 years he has advised, consulted and briefed a vast array of key institutions and companies including the US Federal Reserve, the Metropolitan Police, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank and Securities, KPMG, Marriott Hotels and Qantas. He […]

Giovanni Soldini

The boat has always been his dimension, a choice of life ever since he revealed to his parents that he would not have continued his studies or the classic professional career as by their expectations, but would have gone across the seas chasing only his passion, sailing. Solo and in a team, taking part to […]

Valeria Portale

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Valeria Portale is a management engineer, director, at the Milan Polytechnic, of the Mobile Payment & Commerce Observatory who studies innovative payment systems for consumers.  Since 2007, with the Mobile Marketing & Service Observatory, she has been dealing with the adoption processes of Mobile Marketing in Italian companies, identifying development prospects such as mobile advertising, […]

Richard Susskind

Professor Susskind OBE is world wide recognised expert on the future of professional service and, in particular, the way in which the IT and the Internet are changing the work of lawyers. He affirms that the legal system “costs too much, takes too long and is unintelligible unless you’re a lawyer.” What needs to change […]

Luca Mercalli

Climatologist, researcher and international speaker on the topics of climatology, glaciology, climate change and environmental sustainability, Luca Mercalli is a well-known expert in Italy. He has master in Mountain Sciences at the Université de Savoie-Mont-Blanc, is director of the magazine Nimbus, chairs the Italian Meteorological Society, a national association founded in 1865. He deals with […]

Vijay Govindarajan

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Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author. He the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley incubator […]

Cathy O’Dowd

Cathy O’Dowd is a record breaking mountaineer and an incredible story teller. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and since leaving school she has climbed both rock-climbing and alpinism. She was terminating her Master degree in Journalism, while working at the university as a lecturer, when she saw an advert for a place on […]

Ivan Ortenzi

Ivan Ortenzi is a recognized expert in the fields of Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability, with a career spanning management consulting, academia, content production, and public speaking. Currently, he serves as the Chief Innovation Evangelist at Bip, a multinational consulting firm. Before joining Bip, he led Ars et Inventio, a consulting firm specializing in Innovation & […]

Saskja Sassen

The keynote speaker Saskia Sassen is considered one of the greatest sociologists in the world. She is a researcher and author focused on globalization and transnational processes such as immigration, global cities, terrorism. She is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She […]

Gianni Riotta

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Journalist, writer, director Data Lab and School of Journalism at LUISS Guido Carli University School of Government in Rome, and Pirelli visiting professor of Italian Studies at Princeton University, Gianni Riotta is one of the most prominent Italian journalists. He was a correspondent from New York for various newspapers: La Stampa, l’Espresso and Corriere della Sera […]

Dipak Pant

Dipak Pant

Anthropologist and economist, lectures at Italian and foreign universities. Born in the central Himalayas (Nepal), Professor Pant pursued higher education in India and Europe. He was the founder of the Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy at LIUC University (Castellanza, Varese), the first center for sustainable economic studies in Italy which he coordinated from its beginning […]

Joyce and Raissa de Haas

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If you want motivate, inspire en encourage to be creative, to be entrepreneurial and to achieve a dream, consider to invite Joyce and Raissa for your virtual or in person events. Joyce and Raissa de Haas are the dynamic twin co-founders of award-winning UK premium tonic and mixers brand Double Dutch. Since launching in 2015, […]

Hamish Taylor

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Hamish Taylor is a leading expert on Leadership, Innovation and Branding. He has an award winning record of driving innovation and change in a number of high profile businesses where he held senior positions including Procter & Gamble, Eurostar and British Airways. He currently runs his own management and leadership development company. He began his […]

Duncan Wardle

As Head of Innovation & Creativity at Disney, Duncan helped teams at Disney Parks, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, Imagineering and Animation to innovate, creating magical new storylines and amazing experiences for consumers around the globe. He now brings his Disney experience to audiences around the world, delivering a series of keynotes, master classes, and ideation forums, […]

Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz is a leading economist, public policy analyst and a professor at Columbia University. In 2001 he won the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was Chief Economist to the World Bank and is a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers of former US President Bill Clinton. He is pioneer in […]

Sean Fitzpatrick

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A mythical capitan who led between 1986 and 1997 the greatest and most successful sporting team in the world – the All Blacks. During his masterclasses and keynote speeches Sean offers precious lessons on how to keep winning in business and ends his performances inviting all the participants to perform the Haka with him. With […]

Pierluigi Collina

Pierluigi Collina was a football referee, considered the best of all time. Although he no longer referees matches, he is still present in football as President of the FIFA Referees Committee. He refereed 240 matches in the Italian Serie A and 109 international matches, including the finals of the most important competitions, such as the […]

Oscar Farinetti

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Oscar Farinetti is one of the most representative ambassadors of Made in Italy in the world. He is the founder of the high-end Italian food mall chain Eataly, comprising a variety of restaurants, food and beverage counters, bakery, retail items, and a cooking school. His aim is to make high quality Italian foods available to […]

Marc Randolph

Marc Randolph Keynote Speaker

Marc Randolph is an American tech entrepreneur, advisor, investor, speaker and environmental advocate. He is the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, and has laid much of the groundwork for a company that has grown to 150 million subscribers, and has changed the world of the media. Marc Randolph has served on the Netflix board […]

Kenton Cool

Kenton Cool is one of the world’s leading alpine climbers with 11 Everest Summits under his belt amongst other incredible feats of human achievement. He is Britain’s most successful Everest mountaineer and the second-most successful Western Mountaineer of all-time on Everest. In his latest expedition, May 2013 Ken has summited the three mountains of the […]