Paolo Taticchi
Professor Paolo Taticchi is Professor (Education) in Strategy and Sustainability & Deputy Director (MBA and Global Engagement) at UCL School of Management. His expertise lies in sustainability transformation, competitive strategy, consulting and the future of cities. Prior to joining the UCL Paolo was at Imperial College London where he served as Academic Director of the […]
Oscar Farinetti
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 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 […]
Giuseppe Stigliano
Giuseppe Stigliano is a thought leader and inspiring keynote speaker on Leadership, Digital Transformation, Marketing, Communication and Corporate Innovation. He is an entrepreneurial manager, author and adjunct professor with 20 years of international experience in Marketing and Communication services. He is the global CEO at Spring Sudios, an innovative agency creating communication for fashion, beauty, […]
Andrea Farinet
Andrea Farinet deals with social networks, new media and Socialing strategies, a new economic-social discipline that he devised, which follows the evolution of traditional marketing. He is the new President of ‘Pubblicità e Progresso’ a foundation with the aim of carrying out campaigns dedicated to the solution of moral, civil and educational problems. He was […]
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce and intangible assets. He is the Jerry YAng and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human -Centered AI (HAI) and Director of the Standford Digital Economy Lab. He is also the Ralph Landau Senior […]
Marga Hoek
Marga Hoek is a true visionary on sustainable business and capital and a successful, innovative business leader who understands and applies the commercial realities of the business. She has gained recognition over the years as a successful and innovative business leader in various CEO and executive roles. Thinkers50 has incorporated her in their radar 2019 […]
Marco Cappato
Marco Cappato is an activist for the human rights represents the opportunity to break the patterns inherited from the past and change rules that are no longer adequate. In 2017 he undertook a Civic Disobedience to push the national Parliament approve new rules allowing Legal Euthanasia in Italy. He fights the Climate Change through the […]
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 until December 2016. At the age of 39, Matteo Renzi was the youngest person to have served as Italian Prime Minister and was at the time the youngest leader in the G7. Before becoming Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was […]
Kate Ancketill
Kate Ancketill is a business speaker and futurist specialized in retail, brand hospitality and technology. She advises on the future of customer experience, on evolution of marketing and on how technology is adapting to new customer behavior and makes complex societal shifts and emerging technologies relatable for any audience. In the last 20 years […]
Luca Solari
Professor Luca Solari is Full Professor of Business Organization, President of the Unimi Foundation (a start-up accelerator) and Director of the Walter Tobago School of Journalism at the University of Milan. He has taught in France and in the United States and has been in the faculty of the two main MBA programs in […]
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim served as first female and 6thPresident of the Republic of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. She holds a BSc. from the University of Surrey and a PhD (Organic Chemistry). She has been a life-long biodiversity scientist, academician, entrepreneur and an “accidental” President who came to the high office without any political affiliations. In […]
Jenny Shipley
Dame Jenny Shipley was PM from late 1997 to late 1999. She held a number of Senior Ministerial positions in the New Zealand Government during the 90’s including health, social welfare, women’s affairs, transport, state services and State-Owned Enterprises and was a key player in driving much of the New Zealand economic and social reform of that period. Current […]
Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect and a professor at the MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Lab, which explores the “real-time city” by studying the way sensors and electronics relate to the built environment. His projects use data gathered from sensors to actually create dazzling new […]
Benedetta Bruzziches
Benedetta Bruzziches is the designer behind the Maison of Benedetta Bruzziches. Her brand represents her philosophy of recovering territorial identity by involving local artisans and artists in the region of Tuscia and combining art, historical handcraft and new technologies. All the artisans come from different fields, the straw-maker, the upholsterer, the knitter, despite not having […]
Davide Dattoli
Davide Dattoli began his career working in the digital marketing sector. In 2010 he founded Viral Farm, a Digital Company specialising in social media and mobile applications. Later, he became a senior consultant for the Condé Nast group, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale di Brescia, and in December 2011 he founded Talent Garden. Davide Dattoli was named by […]
Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is a global economist who influences key decision markers in strategic investments and public policy. She is an inspiring source of unique perspectives and has the ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas. Her books, articles and public lectures focus on the creation of wealth and the perpetuation of poverty in […]
Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen MacArthur is world known for her efforts to save the planet through her foundation that works to inspire people to re-think, re-design and build a positive future circular economy. She made yachting history in 2005, when at the age of 24 she became the youngest woman ever to sail solo around the world. […]
Bebe Vio
The story of Bebe Vio is a source of inspiration for anyone who gets to know her. At the age of at the age of 11, Vio contracted a fulminant meningitis which resulted in a stay of over 100 days in the hospital. Doctors were able to save her life but only at the cost […]
Alberto Mattiello
Author of “Mind The Change” and ” Marketing Thinking” and curator of the local edition of the MIT Sloan books, he is a technology and business innovation expert. From 2013 Alberto Mattiello leads Future Thinking, an international, innovation-accelerator hub of Wunderman-Thompson that focuses on helping companies to find a “sweet spot” between marketing, technological innovation […]
Arko van Brakel
Arko is a serial entrepreneur and has experienced success, mistakes and failures. Het teaches individuals, teams and organizations to react to a rapid changing world by implementing more autonomy, entrepreneurship, self-direction, courage, resilience and flexibility. On the stage he is an energetic, professional, authentic and empathetic speaker. He is highly involved with his audiences […]
