Marco Mäkinen is the Executive Vice President of Strategy at TBWA\Helsinki, Finland. TBWA\Helsinki is best known for its innovation and smart use of PR and earned media. The agency has won several Cannes Lions, Effies and Agency of the Year awards.
He is a passionate advocate for driving change, always looking for new ways and methods of working and transforming the creative industry. He is the author of the books Brand to the Boardroom, When Corporationand Startups meet, From Bulk to Brand and Nokia Saga.
Before re-joining TBWA in 2012, he founded the first major digital agency in Finland, helped hundreds of startups grow internationally and spearheaded the change of the leading agency in Finland from atraditional ad agency into an industry frontrunner.
Pete Jenkins is an international authority on gamification, a lifelong gamer, successful entrepreneur and a lecturer. As CEO of Gamification+ Ltd he mentors and trains companies world-wide on the use of gamification to solve business challenges.
Pete is Chair of Gamification Europe, the annual conference for Gamification practitioners. The most recent conference was in December 2019 in Berlin. He also founded the Gamification Awards. The Gamification Awards are global awards for the gamification industry.
Pete is an Honorary Ambassador for GamFed (International Gamification Confederation), having previously been the Chair from 2014 to February 2019, whose aim is to spread best practices within and support the gamification industry.
Pete is in his 11th year as a Lecturer at the University of Brighton. He lectures on gamification and entrepreneurship at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
On the artistic life of over 30 years, four albums and thousands of concerts, two books, hundreds of awards, charity concerts, two record-breaking concert (twelve hours) fit Haluk Levent
In 2017 April Ahbap is established by Haluk Levent in Turkey with volunteers from around the member (ahbap.net ) It creates participatory solutions to social, individual and environmental problems with its platform.
She is the co-founder of Human Works, a company that creates learning programs and experiences that facilitate innovation in the fields of conscious learning, technology, sustainability and inclusiveness.
Canay is also the founder of Children First World, a ground-breaking movement pushing for the inclusion of children, a children-first approach to design and innovation, and encouraging people to awaken the inner child within all of us.
She provides leaders and their organizations the chance to adopt a future-proof mindset in their business decision making, starting with human values of her Conscious Business Model Design and Innovation methodology.
In speaking engagements, Canay creates journeys for audiences to envision their roles and define concrete actions, with a pragmatic and multidisciplinary approach to transformation on an individual, organisational and societal level.
Rudy de Waele is a conscious business & life design strategist, futurist, humanist, keynote speaker, content curator and author. He assists global brands, startups and organizations with cutting-edge open innovation strategy, using new methodologies to transform business.
Rudy is well-known as a thought leader in the Mobile 2.0 movement, and the author of “Shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future”. He is an associate of The Futures Agency, a member of the IoT Council, and a Strategic Advisor to Smart Cities World. He is also an active co-founder of HumanWorks, Conscious Learning Tribe and Children First World.
Aresearch fellow with MIT Sloan School’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, Michael Schrage’s research, writing and advisory work focuses on the ‘behavioral economics’ of models, prototypes and metrics as strategic resources for managing ‘innovation risk’ and opportunity.
He is author of award-winning ’TheInnovator’sHypothesis’ ,‘Who Do YouWantYourCustomersToBecome?’ and ‘Serious Play’.
He’s run design workshops and executive education programs on innovation, experimentation and’strategic measument’ for organizations all over the world.
He’s pioneering work in ‘selvesware’ technologies – he coined the word – designed to augment aspects, attributes and talents of productive individuals.
Jamin Hegeman is Head of Experience Strategy at Capital One, where he leads design teams across multiple business units to support end-to-end service experiences and transform business operations to be more customer and design centric.
He supports and mentors designers to develop their craft, while helping businesses articulate service strategy and define experiences that benefit customers, employees, and the business.
As VP of Service Design Network, he has helped the Service Design Network grow and influence thousands of designers and business leaders around the world.
Francesca Bria is leading the DECODE project on data sovereignty in Europe. She is a Senior Adviser to the United Nation on digital cities and digital rights, and she is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London.
She is an adviser for the European Commission on Future Internet and Innovation Policy, and she is the former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation for the City of Barcelona in Spain.
Francesca has led the EU D-CENT project, the biggest European Project on digital democracy and digital currencies. She also led the DSI project on Digital Social Innovation in Europe, advising the EU on digital social innovation policies.
She has been listed in the Top 50 Women in Tech by the Forbes Magazine, and in the World’s top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical.
Chris has been listed in TIME100 Most Influential People in the World, Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Politico’s 50 Most Influential People in Politics and Business Insider’s 100 Coolest People in Tech.
Named as “the millennials’ first great whistleblower,” his revelations exposing the rampant misuse of data rocked Silicon Valley and forced numerous Fortune 500 companies to overhaul cybersecurity and user privacy practices.
Chris is currently the Director of Research for Hennes & Mauritz (‘H&M’), the largest global fashion brand. His work on quantifying fashion style with AI systems is already having a major impact on the fashion sector.
A recognised expert in cultural trend forecasting, Chris also writes for the youth culture and fashion magazine Dazed and has been featured in Vogue, GQ, Esquire and PAPER.
Leading technology futurist and Wikipedia and WT.Social Founder Jimmy Wales is one of the most sought after visionaries in business and technology.
When audiences meet Wales, outspoken and defiant in his protection of transformative ideas, they understand why he is compared to historic greats like Gutenberg.
Hailed as “thoughtful and visionary,” “inspiring,” and “absolutely WONDERFUL”, Wales’ optimism for the future and masterful ability to speak on issues ranging from censorship, Artificial Intelligence, automation, the media, and disruption, as elements that make him a standout speaker.
