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Oct 13 2010

Jeff Bezos

Founder, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos speakerJeff Bezos is the brains behind Amazon, that now sells more than $10 billion a year of goods, profitably, and its technology will influence the changes to business and media that will come next. Intrigued by the amazing growth in use of the Internet, he created a business model that leveraged the Internet’s unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently. Time magazine named him Man of the Year in 1999.

“If the Internet was the new rock and roll, Jeff Bezos…was its Elvis … [Today he’s] the ultimate dotcom survivor” BBCNews.com


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Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. His bookstore quickly expanded into dozens of product categories, forcing the world’s biggest retailers to rethink their business models, and ultimately changing the way people shop. From 1990 to 1994, Bezos worked for D.E. Shaw & Co where he helped build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street. Outside of his work with Amazon, he recently founded Blue Origin, a space-flight startup.[/expand]


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Selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders in 2008, Jeff Bezos is one of the few early Web CEOs who still runs the company he founded. He didn’t invent online shopping, but he almost single-handedly turned it into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He provides a deep prospective into the importance to accessing all kinds of information. He offers his unique perspective on how he defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce, ushering in a new era in business.[/expand]


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Online commerce pioneer, Jeff Bezos is a warm, informative and entertaining speaker with boundless optimism, whose laugh is like a streak of exclamation points. Irrepressibly casting every challenge as an opportunity, his presentations are memorable both for their content and powerful delivery.[/expand]
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Sep 27 2010

Jochen Zeitz

Director of Kering, Chairman of the Board’s Sustainable Development Committee, Co-Founder & Co-Chair of The B Team, Former Chairman & CEO at Puma

Jochen Zeitz speaker Jochen Zeitz is the Director of Kering, Chairman of the board’s sustainable development committee and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The B Team, a not-for-profit initiative that has been formed by a group of global business leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit. Prior to this, Zeitz served 18 years as Chairman and CEO at PUMA. In 2008, he founded the Zeitz Foundation for Intercultural Ecosphere Safety to support creative and innovative sustainable solutions that balance conservation, community development, culture, and commerce promoting an inclusive, holistic paradigm of conservation.

At the age of 30, Jochen Zeitz became the youngest Chairman in German history to head a company listed on the German Stock Exchange


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Jochen Zeitz graduated from the European Business School of Oestrich-Winkel with a degree in International Marketing and Finance, which he earned studying in Germany, France, and the United States. After beginning his professional career with Colgate-Palmolive in New York and Hamburg, Zeitz joined Puma in 1990. In 1993 he was appointed CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management. He reached the first major milestone within his first year as CEO, when Puma delivered its first profitable performance since 1986.[/expand]


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Jochen Zeitz believes that if each of us were to find new ways to translate our passions into meaningful connections and make a contribution, whether small or large, towards achieving not only personal but larger social and environmental goals, then the world can undoubtedly change for the better. He strives to help his audiences listen to the experiences of others, encourages communication and collaboration, participation and creative expression, and also to protect and preserve the integrity of the ecosystems in our world.[/expand]


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Driven by his passion to find meaning and to create value, Jochen Zeitz is an engaging, energetic and powerful speaker.[/expand]
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Sep 10 2010

Kevin Spacey

American Actor & Director

Kevin Spacey - Celebrity speakerKevin Spacey is an Academy Award winning American actor and director. He has recently made good use of his fame and celebrity by taking time to make public appearances in order to raise awareness of global poverty. Kevin Spacey has won Academy Awards for his performances in The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, which also garnered him a BAFTA Award. Additionally, he has been nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards. Kevin Spacey’s illustrious film credits include LA Confidential, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Negotiator, K-Pax, The Shipping News, Beyond the Sea, Shrink, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Horrible Bosses and Margin Call.

“One of America’s favourite actors”


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Undoubtedly one of America’s best loved actors Kevin Spacey has starred in many internationally renowned films but is most probably best known for his Oscar winning performance in the hugely successful American Beauty. After many years of acting, in 2003 he embarked upon a change in career and left Hollywood to become the artistic director of the Old Vic, one of the London’s oldest theatres. A lifelong artist, Spacey began his acting career in Jr. High School and High School drama classes. He later attended the Juilliard School of Drama and began his professional career on the New York stage, which eventually propelled his career into film.[/expand]


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Kevin talks about his path to success and the philosophy behind his brave change of direction. He inspires audiences with his well prepared presentations and invaluable advice on self-development.[/expand]


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A highly motivating speaker Kevin Spacey demonstrates how you can make opportunity from change.[/expand]
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Aug 13 2010

Wayne Hemingway

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Co-founder of Red or Dead and HemingwayDesign

Wayne Hemingway speakerWayne Hemingway is co-founder of fashion label Red or Dead and HemingwayDesign. After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, he and his wife sold Red or Dead in a multi million cash sale in 1999. He then set up HemingwayDesign, joining forces with building firm Wimpey to work on various housing projects specialising in affordable and social design. Wayne is the Chairman of Building for Life, CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) a funded organisation that promotes excellence in the quality of design of new housing. He is a Professor in the Built Environment department of Northumbria University, a writer for architectural and housing publications as well as a judge of international design competitions including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester.

“I use technology to work more professionally, but especially to finish work quickly.”


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Wayne started his career at London’s fashionable Camden Market, selling second-hand clothes. An early boost by an order from the New York department store Macy’s, and the company became famous for its footwear, especially its revival of Doc Marten boots. His and his wife’s innovative approach saw their designs and stores spread quickly across the UK, then the world, winning them a host of industry accolades along the way.[/expand]


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Having received an MBE in the Queen’s 2006 Birthday List and being Chairman of the South Coast Design Forum, Wayne Hemingway passionately believes in the supremacy of design, whether in clothes or in buildings. Highly successful and popular Wayne offers audiences insights into entrepreneurship, making it in the fashion and design industry and moving onto new challenges. His designs helped Red or Dead to win the British Fashion Council’s ‘Street Style Designer of the Year’ award three times in a row in the late 90s.[/expand]


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Inspirational and hugely entertaining Wayne’s energizing presence leaves audiences feeling motivated.[/expand]
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Aug 06 2010

Nicholas Carr

Former Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Review

Nicholas Carr speakerA former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker on technology, business, and culture. In addition to writing more than a dozen articles and interviews for HBR, he is also the author of the much-discussed “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the cover article in The Atlantic’s 2008 Ideas issue. He writes regularly for the Financial Times and The Guardian, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Business 2.0, The Banker, and Advertising Age as well as on his blog Rough Type. He is a member of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors. He writes a column on innovation for Strategy & Business, where he’s a contributing editor, and writes a technology column for Business Week Online.

“His argument is simple, powerful and yet also subtle” The Economist


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He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. He was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting. He has also appeared as a business commentator on CNN, CNBC, CNBC-Asia and Tech TV.[/expand]


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In his presentations Nicholas offers great insight as he examines the evolution of information technology in business and shows how it follows a pattern strikingly similar to that of earlier technologies like rail transport and the electricity industry. In 2005, Optimize magazine named him one of the leading thinkers on information technology, and in 2007 eWeek named him one of the 100 most influential people in IT.[/expand]


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A perceptive and balanced speaker, Nicholas’ engaging presentations clarify the role of new technologies and innovation in the way we do business [/expand]
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Jul 14 2010

Prof. Álvaro González-Alorda

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Professor & Director of Innovation ISEM Fashion Business School

Álvaro González-Alorda speakerÁlvaro González-Alorda is professor and Director of the Innovation Department at ISEM Fashion Business School, Associate Professor at Instituto de Empresa and other business schools. In the last five years he has focused his research and his consulting activity on developing a methodology to launch transformation and innovation processes in companies, by adjusting the business model to cope with instability in the market.

“Past success can blind companies to the changes in the market & slow down the strategic decision to review the business model” Álvaro González-Alorda


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Álvaro González-Alorda holds a degree in Communications from University of Navarre and a PDD from IESE Business School. He has also carried out research work at Harvard Business School. He currently works with IESE professor Luis Huete delivering seminars and advising companies on innovation and transformation.[/expand]


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Álvaro González-Alorda offers presentations that draw from his vast experience, having collaborated with over 60 national and international companies. He has collected and consolidated work on innovation and transformation of organizations, based on cases and research produced by the best business schools worldwide, and also on consulting experience with small, medium and large companies from Europe, America and Asia.[/expand]


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Álvaro González-Alorda is a skilled and communicative speaker. His high content presentations are most entertaining, educational and interactive, delivered with humour and charisma.[/expand]
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Jun 28 2010

Frank M Rinderknecht

CEO of Rinspeed and Unconventional Business Visionary

Frank M Rinderknecht speakerSo what kind of car you would like? One that shrinks for easy parking? A four-seater that turns into a pick-up at the touch of a button? Or would you like seats that lean into the curves? Well, they all exist. Swiss inventor Frank Rinderknecht comes up with a different curiosity every year. With his company Rinspeed, Rinderknecht has a habit of unveiling a world’s first and most innovative that is guaranteed not to go unnoticed. The Swiss are among the world’s pioneers in the area of hydropower – his car creations sQuba is a zero emission car.

“We want to set trends–we don’t want to follow” Frank M. Rinderknecht


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In 1979 Frank founded Rinspeed Inc. and appeared for the first time at the Geneva International Motor Show. Today Rinspeed is a successful automotive consulting business which creates special products and conversions and is internationally renowned for extraordinary concept cars. Rinspeed also focuses on the use of new materials and eco-friendly energies and engines. [/expand]


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The pioneering Swiss car designer shows how dreams become reality. Frank analyses the structures of communication and leadership in organisations and employs the model of extraordinary concepts in the corporate life. His presentations also offer insights into his belief that emotions are an important factor of success – they inspire creativity and innovation and generate new ideas. [/expand]


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Through wit and intelligence he will be a thought provoking, out-of-the-box thinking speaker at your event.[/expand]
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Jun 25 2010

Hamish Taylor

Leading Expert on Innovation and Branding

Hamish Taylor speaker Hamish Taylor is a leading Expert on Innovation and Branding. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He chairs the EMEA advisory board for Emory University. He is also a trustee of the Robert T Jones Memorial Scholarship and a non-executive Director of Chartered Brands, the Edinburgh based brand realisation company. In 2004 Hamish established his own company Hamish Taylor Skills Exchange Network.

“One of the best presentations I have ever seen, let alone had the good fortune to Chair” – Chairman, Economist


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Hamish started his career at Procter and Gamble, following this he became a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse, Head of Brands at British Airways, CEO of Eurostar, and CEO of Sainsburys Bank….all before he was 40! In all cases, he left behind a record of significant business growth triggered by a willingness to challenge the normal way of doing things.[/expand]


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Hamish has an award winning record of driving innovation and change in a number of very different environments. He focuses on enabling organisations to achieve breakthroughs by looking outside their current environment. Processes, product and people development are all part of this mix, covering themes such as customer service, leadership and change.[/expand]


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Whether speaking at or hosting conferences (or running one of his master classes), Hamish inspires teams with his rapid fire, enthusiastic stories of innovation. [/expand]
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Jun 14 2010

Pranav Mistry

Inventor of Sixth Sense

Pranav Mistry speakerPranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. He is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab.

“One of the two or three, best inventors in the world right now” Chris Anderson


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Pranav holds a Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He previously worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher. Previous projects from his work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. His research interests also include Gestural and Tangible Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, AI, Machine Vision, Collective Intelligence and Robotics.[/expand]


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In his presentation the genius behind the Sixth Sense technology, Pranav Mistry explains and offers a fascinating perspective into why he believes imagination is the only limit in merging technology with real life.[/expand]


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MIT whiz kid, Pranav is one of those rare people with the ability to charm you the moment you meet him. He radiates an enthusiasm for invention which is thoroughly contagious. He is a fascinating and spontaneous speaker, with a passionate desire to help everyone to be creative and innovative. He is also part of our Top Indian keynote speakers.[/expand]
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Jun 04 2010

Bran Ferren

Co-founder, Co-Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, Inc. & Former President, Walt Disney Imagineering

Bran Ferren speaker Bran Ferren is one of the world’s preeminent artist / designers & scientist / engineers. He is a nationally recognized, award-winning speaker who has worked in theater, film special effects, product design, architecture and the sciences. Bran’s current clients include GM, Lockheed Martin, NASA, the National Security Agency and government agencies that value his unique combination of strengths: equal measures of genius in science and technology, art and design, creative ideas and successful innovation leadership.

“Bran speaks from unique experience on the art & science of the imagination, & how to organize for innovation”


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Bran Ferren is the former president of research and development of Walt Disney Imagineering, as well as the co-founder of Associates and Ferren, a visual effects company who supplied visual effects for Star Trek V. A popular guest lecturer, Bran has addressed over 100 professional groups in the entertainment, business and scientific communities. He serves on several federally funded science, technology and management advisory boards.[/expand]


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Having won many awards, including three Academy Awards for technical achievement, Bran Ferren is a highly inspiring speaker with unparalleled knowledge and insight into the ways invention, creativity and technology interact for business success. He is an incredible resource whose impact on daily operations can be measured by the passage of time. He fills his presentations with ideas gleaned from his vision of design and technology’s future, and he offers concrete ways to redesign innovation processes that come from his experience as one of our finest innovation practitioners.[/expand]


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Bran Ferren is an energetic speaker, at once inspiring and articulate, knowledgeable and insightful. He really makes you think longer and broader.[/expand]
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