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First Announced Speakers

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Mariya Gabriel

European Commission / European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

Dirk Hoke

Airbus Defence and Space / Chief Executive Officer

Tim Draper

Global venture capitalist / SpaceX, Tesla, TwitchTV, Skype, Baidu and many more

Adam Cheyer

Samsung, Vice President of R&D / Founder of Siri

Thomas Debass

U.S. Department of State / Office of Global Partnerships

Cassie Kozyrkov

Google / Chief Decision Scientist

Natalia Oropeza

Siemens / Chief Cybersecurity Officer

Raja Rajamannar

Mastercard Worldwide / Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President - Healthcare

Prof. Mmantsetsa Marope

IBE-UNESCO / Director of International Bureau of Education

H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa

Republic of South Africa / President

Javier Villamizar

Softbank Investment Advisers / Partner

Chuck Porter

Crispin Porter + Bogusky / Chairman/Partner

Sir Martin Sorrell

S4 Capital / Executive Chairman

Edna Conway

Microsoft / Vice President and General Manager of Global Security, Risk and Compliance

Hon. Fabian Picardo

Gibraltar / Prime minister

Vivek Bapat

SAP / SVP, Marketing and Communications

Huda Buhumaid

Dubai Holding / Chief Marketing Officer

David Hanson

Hanson Robotics / Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Katia Bassi

Lamborghini / CMO

Henrik von Scheel

Industry 4.0 Originator

Ajay Bhalla

Mastercard for CyberTech / President Cyber and Intelligence Solutions

Toby Redshaw

Verizon / SVP, Enterprice Innovation 5G Solutions

Vern Brownell

D-Wave Systems / President

Aaron Rasmussen

MasterClass, Inc / Co-Founder

Sophia the Robot

Hanson Robotics Limited / World’s First Humanoid Robot

Jesus Mantas

IBM Global Business Services / Managing Partner

Mark Thompson

NYTimes Bestselling Author

Jane Wakely

Mars / Chief Marketing Officer

Saskia Steinacker

Bayer / Vice President Digital Transformation

Ulrich Grabenwarter

European Investment Fund (EIF) / Deputy Director Equity Investments

Guile Lindroth

Realbotix / Associate and AI Director

Prof. Shafi Ahmed

Medical Realities / Chief Medical Officer

Pedro Pablo Pérez

Telefónica / CEO Business Security Unit

Dr. Simon Worden

Breakthrough Prize Foundation / Chairman

Barbara Coppola

IKEA / Chief Digital Officer

Dragan Rakovich

DXC Technology / Chief Technology Officer Analytics

Paul Maassen

Open Government Partnership / Chief, Country Support

Heather Mills

VBites / Founder

Michael Peters

Norm Johnston

Unruly / Global CEO

Anna Zhilyaeva

Dream Brush / VR Artist

Rik Ferguson

Trend Micro / Global VP Security Research

Matthias Schranner

Schranner Negotiation Institute / Global Negotiation Expert

Juris Pūce

Republic of Latvia / Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Arup Mukhopadhyay

ADCB / Group Head of Consumer Banking

Dr. Christopher Boone

Pfizer / VP Global Medical Epidemiology & Big Data Analysis

Claudia Vaccarone

European Broadcasting Union / Head of Diversity Programmes

Dr. John Mattison

Kaiser Permanente / Chief Medical Information Officer

Diana Kelley

Microsoft / Cybersecurity CTO

Urmas Paet

Member of the European Parliament - Estonia

Susan Vobejda

The Trade Desk / CMO

Stephen Pattison

ARM / VP Public Affairs

Prof. Rolph Eric van der Hoeven

International Institute of Social Studies / Emeritus Professor of employment and development economics

Honorable Dr. Dipu Moni

Bangladesh / Minister of Education

Prof. Pierre Magistretti

EPFL / Director of the Brain Mind Institute

Dr. Irina Bokova

UNESCO / Former Director-General (2009-2017)

Arash Pendari

Vionlabs / Founder and Creative director

Noor Sweid

Global Ventures / Founder, General Partner

Sanjay Poonen

VMware / Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations

Ann Aerts

Novartis International / Head Novartis Foundation

Ernesto Ciorra

Enel / Chief Innovability Officer

Stijn Christiaens

Collibra, Lead Data Office

Ignacio Juliá Vilar

ING / CEO of Model Bank

Rhett Power

Forbes, Inc. Magazine / Columnist

Marjan Delatinne

Ripple / Global Head of Banking

Fabrizio Hochschild

United Nations / Secretary General Special Adviser

Cara Allamano

Udemy / Senior Vice President of People, Places and Learning

Rebecca Fannin

Special correspondent at CNBC / Forbes columnist

Kabir Barday

OneTrust / Founder and CEO

Ahmed Zaky

BBC Global News / Senior Broadcast Journalist

Nabil Malouli

DHL Supply Chain / VP, Global e-Commerce

David Rafalovsky

Sberbank / Executive Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer

Laurence Lee

Al Jazeera / Senior correspondent

Bianca Salonga

Forbes / Correspondent

Lt Col Jennifer “JJ” Snow

Air Force / U.S. Special Operations Command Innovation Officer

Bruce Dell

Euclideon / Chairman Of The Board, Founder, CTO

Yves Leterme

UEFA, Chief Investigator FFP / Former Prime Minister of Belgium

Jekaterina Govina

Bank of Lithuania / Top 100 Women in Fintech

Guido Baumhauer

Deutsche Welle / Managing Director Distribution, Marketing & Technology

Lilyana Pavlova

European Investment Bank / Vice President, IT and Data governance

Alexandru Cosoi

Bitdefender / Chief Security Strategist

Dr. David A. Bray

Atlantic Council / Director GeoTech Center

Prof. Marlies Schijven

Amsterdam University Medical Centers / Full Professor of Surgery

Louise Lucas

Financial Times / Tech correspondent

Mark Vernooij

THNK School of Creative Leadership / Partner

Azran Osman-Rani

Naluri Hidup / Founder, Startup Investor

Oisin Hanrahan

Co-founder & CEO Handy / Chief Product Officer ANGI Homeservices

Eugene Borukhovich

PHS Fund / Entrepreneur in Residence

Sergio Osle Varona

Movistar+ / President

Karen Leland

Sterling Marketing Group / President

Saniye Gülser Corat

UNESCO / Director, Division for Gender Equality, Office of the Director-General

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Ipsos Global Affairs / CEO

Dr. Tommaso Gagliardoni

Kudelski Security / Quantum Security Expert

Balaji Viswanathan

Invento Robotics / CEO

Jon Evans

TechCrunch / Weekly columnist

Hilary Black

Canopy Growth / Chief Advocacy Officer

Nico Gabriel

Sixt SE / President

Matt Lowe

performance-io / CEO and Founder

Angela Antetomaso

Forbes / TV Presenter, Host, Correspondent

Martin Brandenburg

DJI / Chief Development Officer

Maneet Ahuja

Forbes / Senior Editor

Charles Travail

Interbrand / Global CEO

Anoushesh Ansari

XPRIZE Foundation / CEO

Alonso Cebrian

Telefonica / Chief Digital Officer

Ivan Verbesselt

NAGRA / Senior VP Marketing

Leisha Chi-Santorelli

BBC News / Senior journalist & Foreign Correspondent

Elizabeth Rossiello

AZA Finance / CEO and Founder, Co-Chairperson

Gunjan Bhow

Walgreens Boots Alliance / Global Chief Digital Officer

Dr. Jordi Serrano - Pons

UniversalDoctor / Founder and CEO

Yamen Saraiji

Keio University / Project Senior Assistant Professor

Pranav Yadav

Neuro-Insight US / CEO

Dr. Hendrik Brandis

Earlybird Venture Capital / Co-founder & Partner

David Zilberman

Comcast Ventures / Managing Director

Dr. Stefano Bini

Prof. Orthopedic Surgery UCSF / Founder of Digital Orthopaedics Conference

Lucien Engelen

Transform.Health / CEO

Emil Protalinski

VentureBeat / News editor

Cedric Biscay

Shibuya Productions / President and CEO

Dr. Zayna Khayat

SE Health / Future Strategist

Nikolay Nikolov

Mashable / Video journalist

Nicole Hill

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise / Director, Healthcare

Thierry Fautier

Ultra HD Forum / President-Chair

Victor Savevski

Humanitas Healthcare Group / Chief Innovation Officer

Benjamin Sutherland

The Economist / Reporter

Danny Tomsett

Assen Andonov

Assen Aeronautics / Founder & CEO

George Arison

Sabarish Gnanamoorthy

WaypointAR / Founder

Peter Stark

Infinity Media / Speaker of the Board

Oriol Badia Rafart

Malloy Aeronautics / CEO

James Butland

Airwallex / VP of Global Banking

Dr. Rafael Grossmann

RafaelGrossmann.Health / Surgeon, Educator, Futurist, Innovator

Elisabeth Brier

Forbes / Assistant editor and Reporter

João Bocas

The Wearables Expert

Torsten Haux

ESL / VP Global Media Rights

Dr. Zubin Daruwalla

PwC Singapore & PwC South East Asia Consulting / Health Industries Leader

Brian Collins

COLLINS / Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder

Kaydon Stanzione

Jaunt Air Mobility / CEO

Heimo Hammer

kraftwerk / CEO

Prof. Dr. Mathias Goyen

GE Healthcare / Chief Medical Officer

Matthew Holt

Catalyst Health 2.0 / Co- Chair

Dr. Nivedita Lakhera

Physician, writer, artist, speaker

Rich Walker

Shadow Robot Company / Managing Director

Anu Acharya

Mapmygenome / CEO

Dr. Gautam Gulati

FundRx / Venture Partner

Pierre Noel

Lead, Cyber Information Sharing Program for Swiss Finance Industry

Nikki Mendonça

Accenture / Global President – AIO

Dr. Tamaz Georgadze

Raisin / Co-founder & CEO

J. Carl Ganter

Vector Center / President

Lubomir Vassilev

iRise Mechanics / Founder & CEO

Kohei Kurihara

Tokyo Chapter Governent Blockchain Association, President | CollaboGate, Chief Marketing Officer

Limor Shmerling Magazanik

Israel Tech Policy Institute / Managing Director

Vicente Aguilera Díaz

Internet Security Auditors / Co-founder

Maria Rua Aguete

Omdia / Executive Director

Dr. Asif Dhar

Deloitte / Chief Health Informatics Officer and Principal

Roger Ver

François Richard

Lanéva / Co-Founder & CEO

Dobromira Boyadzieva

Arthur D. Little’ TIME practice / Principle MENA

Rajesh Dhuddu

Tech Mahindra / Head of Blockchain Practice

Claus Risager

Blue Ocean Robotics / CEO

Mandy GIlbert

Creative Niche / Founder

Debajani Mohanty

Author of 4 Amazon Bestseller books

Dr. Tolga Kurtoglu

PARC, a Xerox company / President

Jan Goetz

IQM Quantum Computers / CEO and Co-Founder

Dr. Marta-Gaia Zanchi

Nina Capital / Founding managing partner

Naveen Jain

Moon Express / Founder & Executive Chairman

Lorena Boix Alonso

DG CONNECT, European Commission / Acting Director, Policy Strategy and Outreach

Dave Grannan

Poramin Insom

Zcoin / Founder

Dr. Loubna Bouarfa

Okra Technologies / Founder and CEO

Jillian Godsil

Blockleaders.io / Journalist, Broadcaster & Co-Founder

Caesar Oliveira

Uniper Energy / Cyber Defense Manager

Dr. Domenico Veneziano

INTECH / Founder

Raúl Martín

KM ZERO Food Innovation Hub / Director

Evelina Lavrova

DeCrypto PR / Founder & CEO

Prof. Til Wykes

Kings College London / Professor of Clinical Psychology & Rehabilitation

Alberto Porciani

Top Doctors / CEO

Junaid Bajwa

MSD / Global Leader for Strategic Alliances, Digital Accelerator

Christopher Hafner

Grovelands / Executive Director

Aly Madhavji

Blockchain Founders Fund, Managing Partner / United Nations, Consultant

Dr. Aziz Nazha

Cleveland Clinic Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence / Director

Anisha Singh

She Capital / Founding Partner

Claudiu Leverenz

Pei Chen

ConsenSys / Director, Financial Services and Fintech

Laura Urquizu

Red Points / CEO & Partner

Gianluca Sgueo

European Parliament / Policy Analyst

Jaromir Beranek

City of Prague / Chairman of the IT and Smart City Committee

Antonio Grasso

Digital Business Innovation / Founder and CEO

Richie Etwaru

Hu-manity.co / Founder & CEO

Teo Tijerina

Onko Solutions / CEO & Co-founder

Akash Gaurav

Auxesis Group / CEO & co-founder

Dr. Gopichand Katragadda

Myelin Foundry / Founder and CEO

Rana Gujral

Behavioral Signals / CEO

Kamales Lardi

Top 50 Global Thought Leaders

Daniel Avital

Cheq / Chief Strategy Officer

Aviya Arika

AVIYA / Chief of Blockchain

Dr. Adrien Ko

BioKortex / CEO

Miguel Juan

S2 Grupo / Founder and CEO

Stas Tushinskiy

Instreamatic / CEO & Founder

Ghassan Saad

du Telecommunication Company / Director of consumer video services

Husayn Kassai

Onfido / CEO and Co-Founder

Kristen Anderson

Catch / Co-founder & CEO

Devon Krantz

Linum Labs / Managing Director

Elena Sinelnikova

CryptoChicks / Founder

Mark Mulready

Irdeto / Vice President of Cyber Services

Ajay Chander

Fujitsu / Vice President of Research, R&D lab

Erzsébet Fitori

FTTH Council Europe / Director General

Craig Bowman

CybernetIQ USA / CEO

Victoriya Boklag

United Group / CEO

Stijn Christiaen

Collibra / Co-founder & CTO

Magnus Svensson

Eyevinn Technology / VP Sales and Business Development

Stuart Thomson

Digital TV Europe / Editor

Giuseppe Donvito

P101 Ventures / Partner

Michael Cervenka

Vertical Aerospace / CEO

Bassim Haidar

Channel VAS / Founder & Group CEO

Mohammad Davari

InnoBrain / CEO and Co-founder

Marius Robles

Food By Robots / Co-founder

Leander Carell

Nowtilus / Co-founder and Managing Director

Dr. Ing. Julia Hoxha

Zana Technologies / Co-founder and CEO

Milind Kamkolkar

Cellarity / Chief Digital & Data Officer

Francesca Wuttke

Almirall / Chief Digital Officer

Sridhar Gadhi

Quantela / Founder and CEO

Andreas Kunze

KONUX / CEO and Co-Founder

Henk Jan Gerzee

Schiphol / Chief Digital & Innovation Officer

Deepak Bagla

Invest India / Managing Director & CEO

Matt Stagg

BT Sport / Director of Mobile Strategy

Julio Bruno

Time Out Group / CEO

Barış Zavaroglu

Turkcell / Media & Entertainment Director

Spriha Srivastava

Business Insider / Executive Editor

John Koetsier

Forbes / Columnist

Mohammad Alhajeri

KFH / Chief Private Equity & Direct Investment Officer

Tomas Martunas

Iron Wolf Capital / Founding Partner

Francesco Corea

Balderton Capital

Matt Angle

Paradromics / Founder and CEO

Samar Singla

Jugnoo / Founder & CEO

Max Bautin

IQ Capital / Founding partner

Nawal Roy

Holmusk / Founder and CEO

Rob McKenzie

Russia Today / Editor

Lisa Alderson

Genome Medical / CEO & Co-Founder

Habib Hazzan

Ibtikar / Managing General Partner

Dr. Dorit Dor

Check Point Software Technologies / Vice President, Products

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Wuttig

IUBH Internationale Hochschule / Innovation and Law Diversity Officer

Marco Piccaluga

Journalist at Il Sole 24 Ore / National Councilor of the Italian Journalist Order

Ashley Guymer

McLaren Racing / VP of Partnership Development EMEA

Jonathan Broughton

Media Business Insight / Lead analyst

Ignacio Gimenez

BP Ventures / Managing Director

Ru Abbass Kermani

BBC / News Presenter

Afua Adom

CNBC / Broadcast Journalist

Paolo Pio

Joyance Partners / Managing Director

Karina Shevchenko

Nord Sloane Ventures / CEO

Dearbhla Gavin

BBC Radio 4 & BBC Business online / Broadcast journalist

Shalini Khemka

E2E / Founder and Chief Executive

Godfrey Nazareth

X-Biomedical / President and CEO

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr

Cointelegraph / Managing Editor

Salvador Furió

Valenciaport / Innovation and Port Cluster Development Director

Claire Schlemme

Renewal Mill / CEO

Henrik Stamm

Blendhub / Founder and Chief Moonshot officer

Mohammed Almadhoun

Correspondent / Al Jazeera

Yaron Valler

Target Global / Managing General Partner

Rain Takahashi

JAUNTIN / Founder

Michal Olan

Michal Olan / Owner

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