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Baroness Luciana Berger served as the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree between 2010 and 2019. During her three parliamentary terms, Luciana was the Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Shadow Minister for Public Health and was the first ever Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health. Luciana has held executive roles with Accenture, the NHS Confederation, Edelman and iNHouse Communications. Luciana joined the House of Lords in March 2025. Today Luciana is a strategic adviser to gs8 - a leading...
Paul Merson started his career at Arsenal, joining the club as an apprentice in 1984. After a stint at Brentford he made his debut for the Gunners in November 1986 and gradually established himself in George Graham’s successful Arsenal side of the late 1980’s. By the 1988-89 season Paul was a regular on the right wing, at the end of Arsenal secured the First Division title. He scored ten times that season, made his debut for the England U21 side, and...
Professional skipper for over twenty years, Christopher Pratt has built a distinctive career in the demanding world of offshore racing. Inspired at a young age by Florence Arthaud’s victory aboard Pierre 1er in the 1990 Route du Rhum, he decided to dedicate his life to sailing at the highest level. French and European champion, and vice world champion in dinghy sailing at just 18, this Franco-British sailor based in Marseille quickly established himself on the international stage as an indispensable...
Shaun is a former England international footballer who played for Manchester City, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, and USA’s New York Red Bulls and Phoenix Rising FC. Now a full time football pundit for Premier League, Shaun has also worked with the likes of BBC Match Of The Day, Sky Sports, ITV, BT Sports, Amazon, and TalkSPORT. His football knowledge within the game is of the highest level and his magnetic personality and professionalism is admired by TV bookers, viewers and fans...
Ex England International Jermain Defoe is one of the greatest strikers in Premier League history, scoring 162 goals in 496 games, he is currently the eighth-highest scorer in PL history. In 2011, he became the 20th player to score a century of PL goals. Jermain has played for Charlton, West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Toronto, Bournemouth, Rangers and Sunderland. During his time at Sunderland, he befriended Bradley Lowery, a terminally-ill six-year-old fan. Defoe supported and protected Bradley in a special way. Lowery...
Lieven Van Linden holds an MBA from Vlerick Business School and built his career in various international organizations. Alongside his corporate experience, he is an ultrarunner and finished as the first Belgian in the 28th edition of the Marathon des Sables, widely regarded as one of the world’s most extreme endurance races. Today, Lieven works with organizations such as ASML and Ahold Delhaize, helping leaders and teams improve sustainable performance through data-driven insights, energy management, and carefully designed out-of-comfort experiences that...
Dr. Luccioni is the Climate Lead at Hugging Face, a global startup in responsible open-source AI, where she spearheads research, consulting and capacity-building to elevate the sustainability of AI systems. She is a world-renowned expert in AI and sustainability and a pioneer of this nascent field. Sasha is dedicated to improving the representation of women working in machine learning, serving as a board member of Women in Machine Learning. She is also a founding member of Climate Change AI (CCAI), where...
Sir Richard Harpin is one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs and a leading voice on how mid-size businesses scale to become big, enduring companies. Born and raised in Yorkshire, Richard showed an entrepreneurial streak early. By the age of six he was already trading, and as a teenager he built and sold a fly-fishing tackle business that paid for his first car and the deposit on his first home. After graduating from the University of York and spending several years at Procter...
Ritch Sibthorpe founded an AI licensing and partnerships consultancy, Muwzo, in 2023 and advises clients from the creative industries on licensing music, text, images, video and art for generative AI training. Ritch’s clients include the UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, Publishers’ Licensing Services, and Design and Artists’ Copyright Society. He previously led international music partnerships at Meta and has held senior leadership roles at both The Walt Disney Company and Warner Music Group. Ritch holds a Master’s degree from...
Hailing from a small, nondescript village in rural Andhra Pradesh, Srikanth Bolla has faced adversities and overcome challenges which few others can imagine. Born blind to poor, uneducated parents, Srikanth has faced immense opposition and struggle early in life, but the challenges made him grow up to be a strong, trailblazing visionary. The very village that Srikanth was born in advised his parents to let him die as a baby. However, his parents were very compassionate and kind and brought him...
Stephanie Case has built a career operating at the sharp end of global crises, where decisions are made under pressure and the margin for error is small. Over the past two decades, she has worked in senior roles with the United Nations and international aid organizations across Afghanistan, South Sudan, Gaza, and the broader Middle East. Her work has included investigating serious human rights violations, negotiating with governments and armed groups to improve civilian protection during conflict, and shaping humanitarian...
Former Team Principal of the Alpine Formula 1 Team and FIA Deputy Race Director, Marcin Budkowski shares insights from a world where performance is measured in milliseconds and a team’s culture is as critical to success as the technologies they develop and deploy. Marcin began his career as an aerodynamicist at Prost Grand Prix in 2001, before joining Ferrari from 2002 to 2007, where he contributed to multiple World Championships under the leadership of Jean Todt and Ross Brawn. In 2007,...
Andy is a keynote speaker, best-selling author and ‘recovering academic’. A regular on radio and TV, he specialises in positive psychology and the science of human flourishing. The reward for grinding out his PhD is that Andy gets to call himself a Dr of Happiness. Described as a ‘wellbeing revolutionary’, Andy’s mission is to change the narrative and re-focus psychology away from what’s wrong with people to what’s right. His messages act as a gentle nudge towards people taking charge of...
Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist, commentator on geopolitics and acclaimed keynote, Anne Applebaum examines the challenges and opportunities of global political and economic change through the lenses of world history and the contemporary political landscape. Informed by her expertise in Europe and her years of international reporting, Applebaum shares perspectives on, and the far-reaching implications of, today’s volatile world events. And as technology allows a new scale of media manipulation to authoritarian governments and changes the tenor of political discourse, she scrutinizes the...
Sol Rashidi is the world's 1st Chief AI Officer appointed in 2016. With 9 patents, a best-selling author on AI, and a former Amazon & C-Suite Exec (5x), she was named FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century” in 2023, and FORBES 'Top 5 People Taking AI To Market' in 2025. Sol has also earned accolades like Top ‘100 AI Thought Leaders’, ‘Top 50 Women in Tech' and LinkedIn’s 2025 AI Influencer. Sol started her AI career in...
Vijay is the Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor of The Economist. He has produced numerous cover stories and won awards for his reporting. He is an accomplished public speaker and his three books have created a stir, with accolades ranging from lengthy reviews in The New Yorker to shortlisting for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize. The Financial Times has declared him to be “a writer to whom it is worth paying attention.” From 2017 to 2021, he...