The Leading Speakers Bureau

Entrepreneur & Founder of Gravity Industries Ltd

Richard Browning is an English inventor, entrepreneur and speaker. He founded Gravity Industries Ltd in March 2017, the company behind the “Daedalus Mark 1”, a flight suit that uses six miniature jet engines to achieve vertical flight.

“The Real Life Iron Man”

[expand title=”In detail”] Real-life Iron Man, Richard Browning, tests the boundaries of gravity with his jet-powered suit. As the founder of Gravity, Richard’s dream was to reimagine an entirely new form of human flight, leaning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by leading-edge technology.The UK-based inventor has thrown away the rule book with his suit powered by six small jet engines.Richard was an Oil Trader with BP for 16 years. He developed new business in many countries including Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Russia and conducted trade relations with many more. Innovating the corporate structure, he has been a key player in investing in start-up technologies, exploring and scaling up business ideas, Richard has survived the bumpy road of business.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A brilliant speaker and inventor, Richard believes in dreaming the impossible. He is able to share his story of creation, innovation and the latest technology with zeal and wit on the corporate circuit
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[expand title=”How he presents”]A dynamic speaker, Richard captures his audiences with his insightful, memorable and informative presentations. Richard is a popular speaker at events around the globe.[/expand]

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Adjunct Professor of Political Science & Applied Research Fellow, Peace & War Center

Sarwar A Kashmeri is a specialist and commentator on US-European business and political relations and has been publicly cited by the US Commerce Department for his work in assisting American exporters to understand the threats and opportunities presented by the European Union.

“A brilliant policy analyst and thought leader with exceptional credentials”

[expand title=”In detail”] Part of the information technology business for over 30 years, Sarwar founded and ran two technology companies in New York prior to setting up his own communications practice. He also served as the founding chairman of Accounting Systems International, the first global consortium of accounting systems integrators. He has written for several well-known publications including The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report, The Hill, and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He is the host of Global Currents for the Foreign Policy Association, a program of conversations with global leaders to explore the intersection of globalisation, international business, and foreign policy.
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[expand title=”What he offers you”]Sarwarspeaks frequently before business, foreign policy, and military audiences using his geopolitical observations and analysis. He sits on panels and moderates speeches by global and business leaders.

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[expand title=”How he presents”]With a wealth of experience SarwarKashmeri is an eloquent speaker with a great energy whether giving a speech or moderating a discussion instantly engages all audiences.[/expand]

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Co-founder & Product Manager of Gapminder Foundation

Anna Rosling Rônnlund is a Co-Founder and board member of the Gapminder Foundation, whose mission statement is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. After a few years as User Experience Designer at Google, Anna is now the Head of Design & User Experience at Gapminder.

“Her mission is to understand how culture and income collide to affect how we live our domestic lives”

[expand title=”In detail”] Anna holds a Degree in Sociology and Photography.
She designed the user-interface of the famous animating bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, used by millions of students across the world, to understand multidimensional time series.The tool was acquired by Google where Anna worked as Senior Usability Designer, where she designed interactive search results for statistical queries as well as the Motion Chart in Google Spreadsheets. She went back to Gapminder in 2011 to develop new free teaching material. As Product Manager, Art Director & Usability Lead of the Gapminder Foundation she is running the Dollar Street project which makes everyone’s living condition understandable to everyone, by using photos as big data.
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[expand title=”What she offers you”]A user-interface designer, Anna shares with audiences worldwide her personal mission – to make it easy for anyone to understand the world visually. With the Dollar Street project, she uses photos as big data to illustrate the living conditions for families around the globe.
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[expand title=”How she presents”]Anna’s innovative project helps us to understand culture and global income disparity better through visual documentation of domestic life worldwide, in a way that is clear, evidence-based and supported by striking visuals.
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Director of Research at Tulane University

Peter Ricchiuti is the business professor you wishedyou had back in college! His humour and insight have earned him numerous teaching awards at Tulane University where he created and runs the nationally acclaimed Burkenroad Reports student stock research programme.

“If the majority of people were right, the majority of the people would be rich…and they’re not!”

[expand title=”In detail”] Peter is a graduate of Babson College and began his career with the investment firm of Kidder Peabody in Boston. He later managed Louisiana’s $3 billion investment portfolio while serving as the Assistant State Treasurer.From Jackson Hole to Jupiter, Peter has addressed more than 1100 groups in 47 states and several countries. He has been featured in BARRON’S, Kiplinger’s, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also hosts a popular weekly business radio show on National Public Radio in New Orleans called “Out To Lunch.”[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Following the herd has rarely produced superior long-term results. Tulane University’s Peter Ricchiuti will share his informative and entertaining perspective on financial markets, the importance of proper diversification and the cyclical nature of both stocks and investment sectors. He will also tell us about the unusual securities research program he heads up with his students.
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[expand title=”How he presents”]Peter Ricchiuti believes that the decision makers need the proper tools to correctly balance survival and opportunism. Making the right calls involves blocking out the noise.[/expand]

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CEO Enterprise Garage Consultancy

Dr. Mario Herger, CEO of Enterprise Garage Consultancy, is a technology and trend researcher who identifies ex-ponential trends. For more than 15 years he has worked with high-tech companies helping them to understand the mindset and latest trends, guiding them through the network of innovators and the importance of entrepreneurship.

“The Silicon Valley is an almost inexhaustible source of innovations which has an immense influence of the economy and society in the world”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mario Herger has a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He held various positions at SAP in Germany and in the US including Head of Development and Innovation Strategy. Since 2011 he is the Cofounder and CEO of Enterprise Garage, a boutique consultancy, whose goal is to breath some of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial and innovative spirit into companies and start-ups. He consults for many Fortune 500 companies, conducts inspirational tours to Silicon Valley and runs workshops on Intrapreneurship, Foresight Thinking, Creativity, Exponential Thinking, Innovation, Gamification, Design Thinking and Gamification.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With his deep knowledge of the mindset of Silicon Valley and what makes it successful, Mario Herger has a unique perspective on the challenges that corporations face in an ever faster changing world where disruptive innovation can come out of nowhere. His insights are highly valuable for business leaders who are looking for solutions on how to improve innovation and foster the entrepreneurial spirit in their organisations. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Mario Herger is a passionate and entertaining speaker. His infectious energy leave the audience highly inspired and ready for change. [/expand]

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World Renowned Consumer and Shopper Behaviouralist

Ken Hughes is one of the world’s leading Consumer and Shopper Behaviouralists. Heblends his vast expertise in consumer psychology, social anthropology, behavioural economics and neuromarketing to answer the question to which he has dedicated most of his career: Why do shoppers buy and how can we make them buy more?

“One of most respected voices on shopper, digital and retail”

[expand title=”In detail”] Ken is acknowledged as one of the most respected thought leaders on Shopper Marketing and Shopper Centricity, Omnichannel& Digital Strategy alongside Retail Futurology. He is a part-time Professor in consumer behaviour and a board member & strategic advisor to many organisations on the future of consumerism and shopper trends.While his boutique consumer insight organisation, Glacier Consulting, began life as a market research agency, he soon identified his key area of interest was people, not markets. How humans express their desires and expectations through how and what we buy has become his sole focus, resulting in his agency advising a global client base of some of the world’s biggest brands – Unilever, 3M, IKEA, Coca-Cola, and Heineken to name a few.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Specialising in consumer psychology and social economics, Ken helps companies find their creative and innovation through a blend of discovery, fun, play, mischief and risk. Ken is a brilliant keynote business speaker who can help organisations positively disrupt.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Voted best speaker at most conferences he has the honour of being invited to attend, Ken is most famous for his international career as a keynote speaker.His keynote speeches deliver thought disrupting and inspiring content in a captivating and highly energetic manner, all served with a generous helping of Irish wit.[/expand]

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Professor of Influence & Persuasion

Zoe Chance wants to get inside your head. More specifically, the Yale School of Management Professor wants to help good people and businesses do well in the world. The more we understand what influences decision-making, the more we can make better decisions.

“A brilliant thinker with a passion for educating the brightest minds”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Zoe enjoyed numerous diverse and successful experiences, including marketing a $200 million segment of Barbie, developing an executive education leadership programme at Harvard University, acting on stage and film, and starting a small business.Her 4Ps Framework for Behaviour Change is the foundation for Google’s global food guidelines, helping 60,000 people make healthier choices every day. She also collaborates with various industry partners through her work at Yale’s Center for Customer Insights. Named to the Thinkers50 2016 Radar list of up-and-coming management thinkers, Zoe is passionate about turning knowledge into practice.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Through the lens of behavioural economics, Zoe studies and teaches persuasion and decision-making, focusing on simple ways to understand how to help others lead richer, healthier, happier lives.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Zoe delivers engaging, interactive presentations and workshops to organisations and conferences worldwide.[/expand]

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Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab

Kate Darling is a leading expert in Robot Ethics. She’s a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where she investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction.

“A pioneer in the field of robot ethics and the intersection of technology and society”

[expand title=”In detail”] Forever interested in how technology intersects with society, Kate has a background in law & economics and intellectual property. She has researched economic incentives in copyright and patent systems and has taken a role as intellectual property expert at multiple academic and private institutions. She currently serves as intellectual property policy advisor to the director of the MIT Media Lab.Her passion for technology and robotshas led her to interdisciplinary fields. Kate is a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a former fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and is also an affiliate at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. 2017, the American Bar Association honoured her legal work with the Mark T. Banner award in Intellectual Property. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Kate explores the emotional connection between people and life-like machines, seeking to influence technology design and policy direction.She shares with her audience the economic issues in intellectual property systems and looks at the near-term effects of robotic technology, with a particular interest in law, social, and ethical issues.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Kate runs experiments, holds workshops, writes, and speaks about some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the future.[/expand]

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Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur and Magician

Vinh Giang is a speaker, entrepreneur and magician who believes that the mere fact that we are alive is a miracle. All the serendipitous events that had to have happened in order for us to exist since the beginning of time is just phenomenal! For this reason Vinh genuinely believes that we should do what we love and are passionate about.

“Adversity is your greatest competitive advantage”

[expand title=”In detail”] Along his journey as an entrepreneur Vinh has learnt so many lessons that have dramatically changed his life and business.In 2011, Vinh and three of hisbest friends decided to leave their professional careers to pursue a dream: to build a successful online business that teaches magic to over 41,000 students from all over the world. He was awarded South Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.In 2016 his online business has just combined forces with 52Kards which is one of Americas leading online magic schools, after combining both schools together and many years of hard work they now teach just over 500,000 students from all over the world.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Vinh helps to create an unforgettable experience at conferences around the world. The combination of the common threads between the world of business and the world of magic makes Vinh a unique speaker. Magic is his method of delivery and source of passion when he is on stage. He believes in “making the medicine taste good!”
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[expand title=”How he presents”]Vinh’s presentations keep audiences highly engaged as he uses magic as his metaphor when he speaks.
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Performance Engineer for Mercedes AMG F`

Jock Clear is a Senior Performance Engineer in the world of F1. In his years as a Race Engineer, Jock has worked closely with the likes of Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher and most recently Lewis Hamilton, a role which has afforded him a unique insight into the workings of a winning team.

“One of the most respected names on the F1 circuit”

[expand title=”In detail”] After reading Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Jock found his first break into motor racing at Lola Cars as a junior design engineer before moving to the Benetton Formula 1 team in 1989 as Head of Composite Design. Jock took his first track side engineers position at the historic Lotus Grand Prix team, subsequently joining Williams. It was at Williams that Jock started his long standing association with Jacques Villeneuve, guiding him to the FIA drivers world championship in 1997 and then helping him set up the fledgling British American Racing team in 1999. Jock’s 17 years with British American Racing saw them change ownership and name a number of times before the arrival of Ross Brawn which saw the team reach its goal of winning the FIA world drivers and constructors championships in 2009, a success which laid the foundations for the current domination of Mercedes AMG Petronas.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jock gives a unique insight into what makes a winning high performance team. He delivers a fascinating insight into the psychology of success and how to get the best out of top tier talent.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Jock Clear is a very strong speaker who’s presentations are supported by fantastic visuals and anecdotes from the world of F1.[/expand]

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