19 November 2026 – Johannesburg South Africa
Cross-Continental Leadership Forum: Innovation, Investment, Influence

22 October 2026 – Toronto ON Canada
Leadership for Impact: ESG, Innovation & Inclusive Growth

20 August 2026 – Mumbai India
From Pilots to Production: Scaling AI With Governance & Control

18 June 2026 – Hong Kong
Resilient Leadership: Risk, Capital & Transformation in Volatile Markets

16 April 2026 – Singapore
Leadership Beyond Borders: Global Vision, Local Impact

19 March 2026 – Sunnyvale CA USA
The AI-Driven Enterprise: Agents, Platforms & the Next Operating Model

19 February 2026 – Abu Dhabi UAE
Experience The Future: AI Security, Compliance & Measurable Value

Greg Beer is a Singapore-based global leader in data, digital, and supply chain technology with 25+ years of experience across consumer health and complex operations. He has led end-to-end transformations spanning AI-driven planning, SAP S/4HANA modernization, smart manufacturing, digital twins, and data democratization across global and APAC footprints. Today, he advises organizations on maximizing data value and scaling intelligent automation to thrive in the AI era.

Vicky Abhishek is the Chief Digital & Information Officer for Asia Pacific at Suntory Beverage & Food, leading Digital and IT transformation across end-user experience, AI & automation, data & analytics, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial digitization. Previously, he was VP of Technology Services APAC at Johnson & Johnson and held Group CTO roles at The Coca-Cola Company, shaping cloud, infrastructure, and business technology strategy at multi-billion-dollar scale. He brings ~25 years of global and regional leadership across consumer and healthcare ecosystems, with a strong “perform + transform” operating model and a track record of building high-performing teams.

Suzie Lewis is Founder and Managing Director of Transform for Value, Suzie is a global business leader and executive coach with extensive experience in driving international transformation projects, and in preparing business leaders and employees for change.

Suzie advises and coaches organisations and leaders on the human dimension of transformation, to bridge the gap between human and digital ecosystems and create sustainable change. Her quest is to help organisations and leaders build more inclusive & collaborative environments, placing the onus on how to drive value through people as well as data and processes to drive sustainable change.

Suzie has been coaching Individuals, Managers, Executives and Teams since 2012 and is an experienced and highly regarded facilitator, change ambassador and keynote speaker. Suzie also designs coaching programmes and approaches that support people in both the understanding and the application of change in organisations, as well as the necessary skills for impact on people, culture, processes and strategy to make a difference and drive change in the constantly evolving business landscape.

During 20 years in the aeronautical industry, she has led both flagship projects and teams large and small encompassing leadership, coaching and culture change; digital transformation and innovation;  strategy, governance and deployment; HR, recruitment and assessment; diversity and inclusion; talent management; lean and Agile methodologies; change management and operational deployment.

Suzie is also an Executive fellow of the CFFO (Centre For the Future of Organisation) at Drucker school of management, Claremeont.

Brian Solis is Best-Selling Author, Digital Futurist, Silicon Valley Luminary, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, Former VP, Global Innovation at Salesforce

Futurist: Forbes heralded Brian Solis as “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time.” He was recently named a “top futurist speaker,” by ReadWrite. ZDNet called him “one of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers.”

Brian helps executives understand the evolving, complex landscape of digital trends and how they impact our work, markets, and business over time. Whether it’s generative AI, AR/VR or and spatial computing, web3, the metaverse, IoT, digital twins, or quantum computing, Brian humanizes each wave of emergent disruption to help audiences understand trends and see themselves productively shaping the future. He helps shift people’s mindsets from being overwhelmed, confused, or intimidated to taking control and moving forward with curiosity, excitement, and imagination.

Digital Anthropologist: Brian is also one of the industry’s first digital anthropologists who helped define the practice early in his career. This is key to humanizing trends. He’s able to observe how technology changes people’s behavior, in a variety of important contexts (as leaders, employees, customers) and understand their aspirations, their purpose, what they value, how they make decisions, and how they want to work. These changes in behavior directly impact values, relationships, and loyalty.

Through this research, Brian helps audiences empathize with different generations (Gen-Y, Z, Alpha) and understand how technology creates a cross-generational superset of people with similar behaviors, interests, and aspirations. Brian coined these important groups as Generation-Connected and Generation-Novel.

ServiceNow: Currently, Brian serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow. In his role, he sets the strategic direction and programming for ServiceNow’s Innovation and Executive Briefing Centers in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. Additionally, Brian designs and delivers strategic engagements with important customers to advise on digital and business innovation strategies. He also publishes industry thought leadership in leading publications to help executives (and customers) understand technology and market trends and inspire business model innovation.

United Nations: In addition to his day job, Brian serves as a special adviser to the UN global innovation team. He develops workshops and keynotes that explore emergent trends and future scenarios, scenario strategies, skills development, and culture and leadership.

Salesforce: As the leader of Global Innovation at Salesforce, Brian gained a reputation as the “CxO Whisperer” because of his ability to translate shifting technology and market trends into actionable strategies for executives. He also has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing companies and helps leaders think differently about current priorities and investments to future proof their organizations. Brian also partnered with leading brands to develop innovation pilots in service, L&D, and commerce, including applications that featured digital humans, 3D/immersive shopping and e-commerce powered by augmented reality.

Leadership: Added up, Brian helps executives unlock insights and ideas that lead to meaningful change in customer and employee experiences, the future of work, business model innovation, digital transformation, corporate culture, and leadership.

Brian’s personable approachable and engaging style is why he’s consistently ranked as one of the top speakers at the biggest events around the world. And as one event organizer recently put it, “Brian has a special gift to engage people and help everyone believe they can be part of change.” The Conference Board said it this way, “Brian is the futurist we all need now.”

Brian is indeed ‘Mr. Futurist,’ but with a big heart. He has personally influenced and shaped business and technology trends, led countless transformation and innovation programs for Fortune 500 companies. He has advised notable celebrities including Oprah, Shaq, and Ashton Kutcher; and startups including Uber, Airbnb, and Tripit.

He’s an eight-time, best-selling, and award-winning author and has published more than 60 research reports on the future of business, work, digital transformation and innovation across industries such as retail, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and public sector. He’s currently working on his ninth book due out later in 2023.

His blog, BrianSolis.com, is among the world’s leading business online resources to his 800,000 followers. Brian also contributes to FastCompany, Forbes, Techonomy, CIO, and Singularity University.

Sona Saha Das is a strategic and progressive senior executive with a productive record of capturing value through enterprise-wide data strategies and roadmaps. Lead digital, technology and organizational transformations and global program launches. Drive intercontinental company optimization by refactoring data for digital experience, maximizing data security, enhancing organization data maturity, and implementing innovative IT initiatives. Experienced in leading early adoption of innovative technology across manufacturing, banking, automotive, retail, and IT services industries. Champion of the signature concept of Breaking the Fourth wall. A public speaker with a growing influence with Data & AI in this part of the world.

A trusted leader skilled in presenting, collaborating, and synergizing with shareholders, executive business leaders, and team members. Experienced at ensuring effective change management with inclusion, communication, information, education, and buy-ins in complex global environments. Creates an environment for individuals to drive transformations from a business perspective and achieve process adoption.

Gautam Bardoloi is the President of the Forum of Indian Professionals, Hong Kong (www.FIPHK.com).  He has had a long consulting career with Andersen Consulting (Accenture), PwC and IBM, before joining the Hong Kong Jockey Club as their Head of Strategy in 2011, responsible for the HKJC’s US 2.5 billion dollar transformation exercise. Gautam is a passionate cook and took a sabbatical to understand various culinary styles/food traveling around the world and launched his own YouTube channel Bordo’s Kitchen in 2018, all proceeds from the same going to charity.  He is a regular speaker at Ted-X & Corporate events on Lessons from Cooking to the Corporate world as well as Transformation & Strategy.  He has an MBA & EDP from HBS, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a Law degree.

Anders Indset is one of the world’s leading business philosophers and a trusted sparring partner to international CEOs and political leaders. Dubbed “Rock’n’Roll Plato” and “Digital Jesus” by media, he is currently one of the most sought-after keynote speakers with his approach to practical philosophy.

Thinkers50, the premier ranking of global business thinkers, regarded as the “Oscars of Management Thinking” by many, has recognised Anders on the Radar 2018 as one of 30 Global Thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led”. Anders was also named “Thinker of the Month” in July and August 2018. For the 2019 Thinkers50 Gala his work on the “Q Economy” was shortlisted for the Breakthrough Idea Award.

The native Norwegian, based out of Frankfurt, is a guest lecturer at leading international business schools, a founding partner of GILT | Global Institute of Leadership and Technology (www.gilt.global) and is known for his unconventional way of thinking, his provocative theses and his rock star attitude.

Jennifer McCollum is CEO of Linkage, Inc., where she oversees the strategic direction and global operations of the Boston, MA-based leadership development company. With a mission to “Change the Face of Leadership,” Linkage has dedicated 30 years to improving leadership effectiveness and equity in hundreds of organizations globally. Linkage provides assessments, training, coaching, consulting and conferences, with Solutions designed to Accelerate Purposeful Leaders; Advance Women Leaders; and Create Inclusive Organizations.

Jennifer is a highly sought-after consultant and speaker, with a deep expertise in Inclusive Leadership and Advancing Women Leaders. She has delivered workshops, keynotes, webinars and podcasts to thousands of leaders globally on live and virtual stages, including 100 Leaders Live (Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches conference), Chief Learning Officer Exchange, Chester Elton’s “Leading with Gratitude” LinkedIN Live, John Baldoni’s “Grace under Pressure” LinkedIn Live, Candy O’Terry’s “The Story Behind Her Success” podcast, and VoiceAmerica radio broadcast. She is a contributing author to Leadership in a Time of Crisis and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Chief Talent Development Officer, CEO Refresher, and Real Leaders. She is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.

Jennifer has 20 years of experience building and leading businesses in the leadership space. Prior to Linkage, Jennifer spent a decade growing businesses within Korn Ferry and Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now Gartner. At CEB, she led product management within the leadership division, driving innovative solutions that helped organizations select, develop and place leaders at all levels. She also ran CEB’s Leadership Academies business, which developed more than 30,000 professionals in 2,100 companies throughout 50 countries and grew revenue at a 97% combined annual growth rate across five years.

Previously, Jennifer served as CEO of IntraVision, a leadership consultancy she founded and grew over the course of eight years. She worked with public companies, start-ups, associations and nonprofits. Her passion is creating vision, executing strategy and managing cohesive teams toward aspirational goals, with a special focus
on supporting women in leadership roles.

She is an avid tennis player and skier, and lives in Bethesda, MD.

Carol Anne Hilton, MBA is the CEO and Founder of The Indigenomics Institute. Carol Anne is a recognized First Nation’s business leader with an international Masters Degree in Business Management (MBA) from the University of Hertfordshire, England. Carol Anne is of Nuu chah nulth descent from the Hesquiaht Nation on Vancouver Island.

Carol Anne was recently appointed as a senior advisor on the Canadian Federal Economic Growth Council. The Council advises the Federal Finance Minister Morneau on Canadian economic growth. Carol Anne was also recently appointed to the BC Economic Task Force advising the Ministry of Jobs, Trade, and Technology

Carol Anne is currently authoring ‘Indigenomics- a Global Power Shift’ Carol Anne has led the establishment of a line of thought called #indigenomics- building and developing local Indigenous economies.

Carol Anne’s work has been recognized with a BC Aboriginal Outstanding Business Achievement Award, a Creating Wealth Award from the National Indigenous Council of Elders and Business of the Year Award from the Nuu chah nulth Economic Development Corporation.

Carol Anne currently serves as Director on the McGill University Institute of the Study of Canada and the National Canadian Community Economic Development Network and is also serving as a juror on the Smart Cities Challenge. Carol Anne is an instructor at Simon Fraser University’s Community Economic Development
Program and a faculty lead at the Banff Center’s Indigenous Business Program where she was also a Fleck Fellow.

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer. He joined the food & beverage corporation in 2012 and in said role he is infusing design thinking into PepsiCo’s culture and is leading a new approach to innovation by design that impacts the company’s product platforms and brands, which include Pepsi, Lay’s, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Soda stream, Doritos, Lifewtr, bubly, Aquafina, Cheetos, Quaker, 7Up, Mirinda, amongst many others. His focus extends from physical to virtual expressions of the brands, including product, packaging, events, advertising, fashion and art collaborations, retail activation, architecture, and digital media. He leads teams based in multiple countries around the world. He reveals the secret to creating life-changing innovations: putting human needs at the center of any design process in his new book “ABOUT THE HUMAN SIDE OF INNOVATION”
that will be released on 18 October 2022.

Since 2020, he has been a presenter and judge on the TV show “New York by Design” and “America by Design”, airing on CBS and Amazon Prime Video.

In 2021 his first book was published, in Italian: “L’età dell’eccellenza – Come innovazione ecreatività possono costruire un mondo migliore” (Il Saggiatore). His first book in English, “The Human Side of Innovation. The Power of People in Love with People” (Berrett-Koehler), focusing on innovation, design and leadership, is planned to be launched in October 2022.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Porcini served as the first ever Chief Design Officer at 3M, where his mission was to build and nurture a design sensitive culture in a technology driven global corporation. His teams, based in the U.S., Italy, China and Japan, won many of the world’s most prestigious design and innovation awards.

Porcini began his professional career at Philips Design and then created his own design firm, Wisemad Srl, in Italy with the celebrated entertainment producer and music star Claudio Cecchetto.

His work on wearable technologies has been showcased at the Louvre in Paris as well as the Seoul Art Center.

Over the years he has been on the board of directors for several organizations. Currently, he is the President of the Politecnico of Milan Foundation in the United States (Fellows of Politecnico), sits on the board of directors of the Design Management Institute of Boston, and on the advisory council of other design, art, innovation and business institutions.

John Hagel is founder – Chairman of a global (thought leadership) enterprise – Beyond Our Edge, LLC., after having spent over 13 years with Deloitte, where he founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center. The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne.in Silicon Valley.

He is the founder of two technology startups and served as the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Atari, Inc. He spent 16 years at McKinsey & Company, where he helped open their Silicon Valley office and served as a leader of their strategy practice as well as founded their e-commerce practice in 1993. Hagel has also been a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Hagel is also involved with several other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts research on complex adaptive systems, and Independent Institute. Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.

He is credited with inventing the term “infomediary” in his book, NetWorth, co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.

Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has also been awarded two prizes by the Harvard Business Review for Best Article and been called
an industry thought leader by the World Economic Forum and Business Week. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy.

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Thomas Frey Google’s Top-Rated Futurist Speaker, IBM’s Most Award-Winning Engineer Over the past decade, Futurist Thomas Frey has built an enormous following around the world based on his ability to develop accurate visions of the future and describe the opportunities ahead. Having started seventeen businesses himself and assisting on the development of hundreds more, the understanding he brings to his audiences is a rare blend of reality-based thinking coupled with a clear-headed visualization of the world ahead. Predicting the future has little value without understanding the driving forces behind the trends, subtle nuances that can be leveraged, and implications for both the people directly affected in the industry as well as others farther down the technological food chain. Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer. He is also a past member of the Triple Nine Society (High I.Q. society over 99.9 percentile).

Christopher Hodges works with individual leaders and teams to  realize their highest professional potential especially with automation and team performance. He is the author of “Noble Automation Now”, a public speaker and consultant. He brings the best of what he has learned from 30 years as a corporate executive, consulting partner and US Naval Officer to helping organizations thrive.

Today’s challenges require melding the potential of a fully engaged workforce with the wizardry of automation and AI. Chris calls this Noble Automation. To serve clients, Chris has carefully curated a unique combination of principles, tools and techniques that underpin and propel team success. Chris works with brave and committed leaders to serve all their stakeholders, resulting in more innovation, employee enthusiasm and business success.

Previously Chris was Intelligent Automaton leader for Northern Europe (Accenture and Deloitte), Managing director at Accenture USA, GE executive, author and entrepreneur.

He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Annapolis and the London Business School.

Neal Cross is a globally recognised corporate, social and Fintech entrepreneur with a long track record across blue-chip technology, finance and data companies. He is currently co-founder and non-exec chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest growing wealth fintech companies and serves on the advisory board of Razer Fintech. Prior to this, Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the world’s best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 and worlds best bank 3 times across 2018 and 2019.

He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards.

Francesco Venturini serves as Chief Executive Officer – Enel X of the Company. Mr. Venturini graduated cum laude in Economics from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy where he also served as assistant professor of Banking Strategies and Techniques during the academic year 1991-1992. Mr. Venturini is a London Business School alumnus and in 2015 he has been awarded an MBA at the MIT Sloan Business School. At the onset of his career Mr. Venturini served as Financial Controller for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, a Finmeccanica group company, taking part in its listing on the NYSE. He later became Chief Financial Officer for several companies of the Elsag Bailey Process Automation and Hartmann & Braun groups in both the United States and Brazil. He joined the Enel Group in 1997 as Head of Administration and Management Control at Enel S.p.A., contributing to the company listing on the New York and Milan Stock Exchanges. Mr. Venturini later became Head of Internal Audit within Enel’s Distribution and Market Division, and subsequently, Head of Sales Administration within the same division. In 2009, he was appointed Head of Finance in Enel Green Power. Afterwards, he worked at Enel Green Power North America, first taking on the role of Head of Business Development and later, in 2011, as Head of the North America Area. In May 2014, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel Green Power. He was appointed Enel’s Head of Global e-Solutions in May 2017 and CEO of Enel X in November 2017.

Gautam Bardoloi is based in Hong Kong looking after Capgemini’s interest for HK and is a passionate cook.  He took 1.5 years sabbatical to travel the world and launched his YouTube Channel on cooking in June 2018,  recipes of which is getting made into a Book, 100% proceeds going to Charity for Feed the Child.  He started his career in Consulting in 1995, becoming a Partner in PwC/IBM in 2003 and running one of IBM’s service line globally based out of HK.  In Dec 2010, he chose to leave consulting to take up the Position of Head of IT Strategy & Governance at HK Jockey Club, where he oversaw their Multi-Billion US Dollar Transformation Program prior to taking his Sabbatical in May 2017.

Lisa Friedman, Ph.D. is a co-founder and partner in the Enterprise Development Group. She works with leaders and teams globally to facilitate a shared understanding of the trends transforming their industries, to set a clear innovation strategy for the future, to install simple but powerful innovation practices and tools, and to design their organizations for the future. She is a frequent speaker on “Innovation Silicon Valley Style” and future-driven leadership. Lisa is a co-author of The Dynamic Enterprise: Tools for Turning Chaos into Strategy and Strategy into Action, Creating Value with CO-STAR: Perfecting and Pitching Your Brilliant Idea, and several articles and book chapters on innovation leadership. She also coordinates EDG’s Silicon Valley Innovation Immersion Programs, bringing leaders from around the world for visits combined with integration sessions to build learning into their own blueprints for the future.

Herman Gyr, Ph.D. is a founding partner of the Enterprise Development Group and creator of the Innovation Blueprint, a model for engaging leaders and other stakeholders in the transformation of their enterprise. In projects ranging throughout the United States and Europe to Asia, South America and South Africa, Herman has specialized in working with enterprises living through periods of dramatic disruption – many of them underestimating the potential for achieving their highest aspirations during periods of change. He is co-author of The Dynamic Enterprise: Tools for Turning Chaos into Strategy and Strategy into Action and is a frequent invited speaker and workshop leader around the world on strategic thinking and business transformation in the digital era.

Damir Bogdan. Damir consults companies on transformation within the digital age. He is active in Switzerland as well as in Silicon Valley. Through his consultancy work he builds bridges between European and US companies. He is a well-booked keynote-speaker on digital transformation, disruption and start-ups. Prior to this, Damir Bogdan was CIO & Head of Operations of the Raiffeisen Group.

Damir Bogdan holds an Executive MBA of the State University of New York, a Swiss Federal Diploma for Information Management and a Certificate Essentials of Leadership of the London Business School, a Certificate in Disruptive Strategies with Clayton Christensen from Harvard Business School and in an Alumni of Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

Rajeeve Kaul  – With a view towards the needs of the customer, Rajeeve combines deep expertise in Machine learning with an exceptional understanding of business strategy developed through multiple executive leadership roles in developing and implementing strategies and capabilities to transform businesses and drive long term profitable growth. Rajeeve brings broad and diverse experiences in driving success in B2B, B2C, and online digital channels across many industries and experiences leading best in class organizations in areas of go to market and consumer strategy, pricing strategy, market research, profitability management and big data and Machine Learning & AI at McDonalds, GE, Cardinal Health, Officemax, Essendant, G4S and AutoZone

Marcelo Lu – Marcelo puts a spotlight on BASF as a sustainability leader in Canada, driving thought leadership, promoting a circular economy and advocating innovation, digitalization and smart regulation for sustainable solutions in Canadian business. Marcelo spearheads sustainability-focused initiatives including BASF’s environmental partnership with Bullfrog Power, Canada’s leading green energy provider; and the Canadian chapter of the UN Global Compact, actioning BASF’s commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. He fosters relationship building with Indigenous businesses and communities, championing a new solar installation project in the Hiawatha First Nation community in Ontario.

Marcelo leads the focus on faster, more agile operations and driving opportunities to collaborate with startups. He supports engaging and building millennial leadership and BASF Canada’s commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, contributing to the company’s recognition as a Top Employer and Great Place to Work.

Before joining BASF, Marcelo held several consulting positions at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank.

Marcelo currently serves as Chair of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC), steering the association to focus on industry growth. He is a member of the Business Council of Canada and board member to the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Mike Zayonc founded the Plug and Play supply chain and logistics innovation platform, the Sunnyvale, California-based platform has become the world’s largest supply chain business accelerator. The program works with over 30 corporate partners and has helped hundreds of startups build their businesses. and connect with major corporate clients including Schneider Electric, Lufthansa, Prologis, Adidas, Walmart, DHL, FedEx, Shell, DB Schenker. Mike’s innovation platform belongs to the wider network of Plug and Play, which also spans across startups in a few other verticals including FinTech, InsurTech, Mobility, Internet of Things, FMCG, etc.

With over 6,000 start-ups and 280 official corporate partners, the platform has created start-up ecosystems in many industries and their companies have raised over $7 billion in funding, and successful portfolio exits included Dropbox, PayPal and SoundHound.

Nancy Householder Hauge is the Chief HR Officer at Automation Anywhere, one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. She sees herself as Chief People Officer because she believes in putting people first even in the midst of disruption. Nancy has won the Stevie Award for women in hi-tech and is considered one of the most influential women in Silicon Valley.

Nancy is admired for her talent for spotting winners and her sense of humor. Nancy has coached future female leaders and truly understands the challenges that organizations face when they are transforming.

Carsten Primdal is a China Expert, Supply Chain Risk Specialist, CSR & Sustainability Advisor and a Published Author. He has extensive experience in assisting businesses from Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and elsewhere in risk mitigation and compliance regarding their overseas manufacturing and sourcing. Working with major brands and living and working in China and Australia, Carsten’s clients benefit from his professional and personal ties with China and Asia. He freely shares his perspective & understanding of the challenges faced by them in regular blog posts, posted on Huffington Post (US Edition), LinkedIn, and other prominent websites. During approximately 2 decades, while Carsten has been working in Asia in corporate compliance and supply chain risk mitigation services, he has delivered large and small projects for clients such as ALDI, LIDL and Lindt, securing their Supply Chain in China and Asia and mitigated their risks. Always within budget and while achieving the defined targets. Industries which have benefitted from Carsten’s experience and expertise are Automotive, FMCG, Hard goods, Soft line, Shipping, Shoes and Electronics. Projects have been delivered from Japan in North East Asia, over China/Hong Kong S.A.R., to Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia in South East Asia and further on to Bangladesh and India in the South Asia – to name a few. Carsten is driven by a strong and innate desire to see suppliers meet their promises to businesses to ensure that his clients get what they pay for. This is achieved by enabling greater transparency of client supply chains, understanding who the vendor really is, and communicating this to the client, while helping to build crucial relationships, understanding the culture and ensuring that communications is not “lost in translation”.

Working with major brands, he has turned his unique perspective, experience and deep understanding of the challenges faced, along with a knowledge of operating practices and standards into his first book, Red Flag: Your Guide to Risk Management When Buying in China followed by A Roadmap to Modern Slavery Compliance and a Sustainable Supply Chain: The power to bring change, manage risk, improve ESG scores and unlock value.

Brian Cobb is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), a 30-year veteran in aviation, and a graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. From trained pilot to executive leadership roles at the largest, fastest growing US Regional Airline to CVG, one of the fastest growing Airports in the US, Brian has the experience and passion for what is needed next for tomorrow and beyond. He is a persuasive facilitator and speaker for diverse industries and media, frequently sharing a narrative of how visionary leadership through innovation supports a culture of collaboration, navigates through crisis, attains successive and sustainable wins, and builds upon a strategic positioning throughout business life cycles and personal growth. Following a personal motto of, “Let’s go build great things together,” Brian continues to bring CVG Airport to the forefront as an award-winning airport, known for its delivery on brand promises and future-forward actions consistently noted as industry firsts.

Sean Ness is a globally recognised futurist speaker. A self-described nerd growing up, Sean read all he could about science as a kid, and immersed himself in maps for hours at a time. He also set his chemistry set on fire a few times, took junior high computer classes on a TRS-80, and was on his high school ecology team. In college, he switched from mechanical engineering to polymer science when he learned that polymer grads often went on to technical sales. The idea of technical sales piqued his interest, and an entrepreneur was born. Since then, Sean’s career has ping-ponged between scrappy software startups and research organizations. At IFTF,  Sean focuses on the Technology Horizons and Ten-Year Forecast programs. He looks for creative ways to interact with outside organizations and works tirelessly to keep IFTF’s client database accurate and up to date. He also hosts monthly potlucks so that the IFTF crew can get to know each other better.

Marco Moretti, is the Chief Information Officer & Digital Enablement since 2015, of 2A S.p.A. an Italian company, organised as a società per azioni, that generates, distributes, and markets renewable energy, electricity, gas, integrated water supply, and waste management services. The company has significant presence in the North of Italy, energy production facilities in Italy and Greece. The company does over € 7 Bil in Rev. Marco, began his career in 1994, with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture): 13 years of experiences in the energy industry, both in process reengineering and system integration, managing different projects in the top national & international energy operators and in the different energy value chain’s:

• Sales & Energy Trading & Risk management of electricity and gas: unbundling, contact centers and meter to cash
• Power generation: gas fired power plant real time operations and nuclear power plant maintenance system
• Multiservice distribution: gas network maintenance, electricity, water and heating network asset management

Early 2007 he joined, as IT Head the Retail Sales JV between GazDeFrance and CAMFIN SpA managing the startup of Italcogim Energie, third italian gas operator with 5b m3 of gas sold, more than 1,000 B2B customers and more than 1,500,000 B2C customers achieved with a rhythm of 2,000 customer per day. Early 2010 he was promoted as CIO in ENGIE Italia & South Europe, that consolidates the Group italian activities of the group in electricity (> 6 GW installed capacity, 19 TWh produced in 2008, more than 7 power stations, gas and wind) in dual fuel sales (see above) and infrastructures (14,000 km of gas distribution network over 470 city areas recently sold, gas storage and GNL projects).

In 2017 he founded A2A Smart City, the NewCo that designs and realize digital sustainable smart cities (www.a2asmartcity.it) based on new emerging IoT technologies (LoRa), that todays employs 140 resources, reached 10M€ of EBITDA and that recently started the roadmap to become Benefits-Corporation certification (SDG sustainability trademark). Marco is also responsible to drive the Group Digital Innovation Transformation Plan.

Chris Sultemeier, former EVP at Walmart Stores, Inc., has over 30 years of experience in leadership and supply chain operations.  During his 28 year career at the world’s largest retailer, Chris established solid relationships with CEOs and top level leaders for partnering transportation, 3rd party warehouse distribution-fulfillment and retail companies; allowing him to bridge those relationships globally into the international market for the supply chain arena.

Chris served as President/CEO of Walmart Transportation LLC and retired as the Executive Vice President of Logistics for Walmart Stores, Inc.. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Sam M. Walton Entrepreneur of the Year Award on Sustainability.  Chris currently serves on the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation Board.

Chris graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Chris was an Army Airborne Ranger and received his professional engineering license in Civil Engineering.

Massimo Sideri is an Italian journalist. He has been working for Corriere della Sera since 2000, he deals with innovation, technology, cybercrime and investigations on crash and financial distress, he also has a regular column in which he addresses the issues of work. He wrote for Sette, Io Donna and Style. He has published How to save oneself from a steady job (Il Filo 2007), Banda narrow. The future of Italy in the face of the digital revolution. How to seize the opportunities and not miss the challenge (Rizzoli 2011), written with Francesco Caio. Together with Simone Scelsa he published the thriller Free Press(Baldini and Castoldi Dalai 2010). He won the award of the province of Milan “I do business” for articles on startups. He is the innovation editor for Marsilio Editore.

Books published in Italy

Srinath Sridharan – Strategic counsel for 26 years, with leading corporates across diverse sectors including automobile, e-commerce, advertising and financial services.

Advises organisations on the intersection of finance, digital, ‘contextual-finance’, consumerism, GEMZ (Gig Economy, Millennials, gen Z) & ESG.

Well-versed with contours of governance, board-level strategic expectations, regulations & nuances across BFSI and startup ecosystem, challenges of organisational redesign and related culture & communication imperatives.

Works with founders & leaders in enabling transformation of organisations which have complexities of rapid-scale-up, talent-legacy culture conflict, generational-change of promoters / key leadership, M&A cultural issues, issues of business scale & size.

Active engagement across industry-growth policy conversations & public policy issues.

Prolific media columnist across topics he works with.

Papa CJ is a world-renowned stand-up comedian, executive coach and published author. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Oxford. As an Executive Coach he has worked with 50+ blue-chip companies across the globe. He has been invited to speak at Harvard Business School and written for Harvard Business Review. He has worked across cultures in over 25 countries. His experience and expertise exist at the intersection of creativity, communication, humour, storytelling, business, leadership development and human interaction. His life’s mission is to uplift others and help them be the best version of themselves.

Papa CJ has won awards for Asia’s and India’s Best Stand-up Comedian and performed over 2000 shows on stages that include full houses on Broadway in New York and the Sydney Opera House. His autobiography titled ’Naked’ was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He undertakes philanthropic initiatives through his Happiness Project, which includes performing for terminally ill patients in their hospital rooms.