Speaker

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  Insa Klasing
  

  Insa Klasing

  Insa is a change maker. She loves a challenge and is not afraid of contrasts: In her corner office as CEO of Kentucky Fried Chicken she felt just as much at home as she now does in a Berlin co-working space as Co-Founder of TheNextWe, a startup enabling big companies to achieve mindset change at scale. She began her career in India, building schools in the Himalaya with her own NGO. This was followed by a stint in management consulting in London, before launching the British Smoothie brand innocent in Germany. In any setting, Insa goes for growth, be it personal, business or societal. Her passion is the future of leadership, which she argues is all about letting go, as articulated in her latest book “Der 2-Stunden-Chef”. Insa is a board member of various international companies and was named a Young Global Leader 2017 by the World Economic Forum.

  Twitter: @InsaKlasing | Website: www.2stundenchef.de

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  Alexis Conran
  

  Alexis Conran

  Alexis Conran, TV Presenter and Actor (LAMDA trained) is best known known as the man who identifies, uncovers and helps us to protect our businesses and ourselves against scams. As writer and presenter of the highly acclaimed BBC TV show, The Real Hustle he is in the rare position of being able to advise and educate even the most-foolhardy on issues surrounding security and risk (in the real and virtual world), and identify the human behaviour, communication skills and confidence tricks that the world’s top scammers rely on to achieve their unscrupulous aims.

  
  As a charismatic and engaging keynote and after-dinner speaker, Alexis employs his knowledge of the dark and deceptive world of hustling, pickpockets and con-artists to speak candidly on the risks and security threats constantly faced by businesses, and to deliver important messages on the shrewdest ways to protect against the ever-increasing number of scams. His recent clients include IBM, the RSA Security Conference, Experian, RBS, Halifax, Aviva, Facebook, Porsche, VISA, The Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police Fraud in Action Unit.

  
  Alexis currently hosts his own weekly show, The Radio Hustle on Talk Radio and co-stars in the new Dave show THE JOY OF TECHS, alongside his best friend, comedian, actor and satirist, Marcus Brigstocke. He also contributes to ITV’s This Morning and BBC Radio 4 and 5Live, and was crowned champion of Celebrity MasterChef 2016.

  Twitter: @alexisconran | Facebook: @AlexisConranOfficial | Website: www.alexisconran.com

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  Pia Klemp
  

  Pia Klemp

  Captain Pia Klemp is a vegan natur-lover, animal-rights and human-rights activist. She spent the last seven years onboard various NGO vessels and oceans, fighting against illegal whale hunt and illegal fishing. Since summer 2017 she captained Search & Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean Sea to help refugees and migrants in maritime distress on their dangerous route to safety in Europe.

  Since June 2018 Klemp and nine other crew members of the IUVENTA are under investigation for 'aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Italy' - because they saved the lives. The IUVENTA and its crew were involved in the rescue of over 14,000 people in distress at sea. Today they face up to 20 years in prison.
  What lies ahead of the crew is a marathon - not a sprint. The trial is expected to last between 3 and 4 years and the total cost of the trial will be 500,000 €.  The iuventa10 are fighting a legal and political fight against the criminalization of solidarity with refugees and migrants.    

  Twitter: @iuventa10 | Facebook: @juventa10 | Instagram: iuventa10 | Website: www.iuventa10.org

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  Yuliana Gorkorov
  

  Yuliana Gorkorov

  Yuliana Gorkorov, M.A., is a multilingual communication designer, graduate of the Folkwang University of the Arts (2017). Her knowledge of the Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic alphabets drove her to create the award winning «Global Alphabet» project. Within the project she designed fonts that unite these alphabets in different ways, making them simultaneously readable to people from different cultures. She presents the project in exhibitions and lectures around the world, giving a new perspective on letters that we use every day. Yuliana worked for several years as a graduate assistant at the Institute for Lifelong Learning of the Folkwang University. Currently she is working as an independent designer focusing on projects in the field of type design and the history of writing.

  Facebook: @mutualphabets | Website: www.mutualphabets.com

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  Bart de Witte
  

  Bart de Witte

  Bart de Witte is an inspiring and award winning digital health tech leader. During the last years he has been on a mission to harness the power of artificial intelligence for the greater good and help to solve current and future inequalities in healthcare. He is the founder of HIPPO AI, an NGO that focusses on Open Sourcing Medical AI. His experience and his vision places him in a unique position to change the current direction of digital health innovation, which is according to Bart leading to an anti-Gutenberg moment, where medical knowledge is increasingly becoming a private good. Bart as worked as an executive for 2 of the world top 3 software vendors. His experience and his vision places him in a unique position to change the current direction of digital health innovation. He is part of the founding faculty of the European Institute of Exponential Technologies and desirable futures, futur.io. He has been intimately involved as a mentor in the formation and growth of a dozen digital health startups, and lectures at different universities in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria.

  Twitter: @swisshealth20 | Website: www.bartdewitte.com

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  Kristen Berman
  

  Kristen Berman

  Kristen Berman studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. 

  Kristen co-founded Irrational Labs, a behavioral product design company, with Dan Ariely in 2013. Irrational Labs helps companies and nonprofits understand and leverage behavioral economics to increase the health, wealth and happiness of their users. She also co-founded Common Cents Lab, a Duke University initiative dedicated to improving the financial well-being for low to middle Americans. Common Cents has launched over 50 experiments with companies, touching tens of thousands of people. 

  She was on the founding team for the behavioral economics group at Google, a group that touches over 26 teams across Google, and hosts ones of the top behavioral change conferences globally, StartupOnomics. She co-authored a series of workbooks called Hacking Human Nature for Good: A practical guide to changing behavior, with Dan Ariely. These workbooks are being used at companies like Google, Intuit, Neflix, Fidelity, Lending Club for business strategy and design work. 

  Before designing, testing and scaling products that use behavioral economics, Kristen was a Sr. Product Manager at Intuit and camera startup, Lytro. She built product management and marketing systems for small businesses and consumers, for domestic and international markets, for mobile and web, working on front and back end systems. The core thread throughout this all is a deep passion for understanding why people behave the way they do and then building solutions that make their lives better. 

  Kristen is an advisor for Loop Commerce, Code For America Accelerator and the Genr8tor Incubator and has spoken at Google, Facebook, Fidelity, Equifax, Stanford, Bay Area Computer Human Interaction seminar and more. 

  Twitter: @bermster | Website: www.irrationallabs.org

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  Melanie Rieback
  

  Melanie Rieback

  Dr. Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at VU who performed RFID security research (RFID Virus and RFID Guardian), that attracted worldwide press coverage, and won several awards (VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award, NWO I/O award, IEEE Percom Best Paper, USENIX Lisa Best Paper). Melanie worked as a Senior Engineering Manager on XenClient at Citrix, where she led their Vancouver office. She was also the head researcher in the CSIRT at ING Bank, where she spearheaded their Analysis Lab and the ING Core Threat Intelligence Project. For fun, she co-founded the Dutch Girl Geek Dinner in 2008. Melanie was named 2010 ICT Professional of the Year (Finalist) by WomeninIT, one of the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010 and 2017, one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech (Inspiring Fifty Netherlands) in 2016 and 2017, and the Most Innovative IT Leader by CIO Magazine NL (TIM Award) in 2017. Her company, Radically Open Security was also named the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (MKB Innovatie Top 100) in 2016.)

  Website: www.radicallyopensecurity.com

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  Cynthia Barcomi
  

  Cynthia Barcomi

  Cynthia Barcomi was born in Seattle, Washington. She received her diploma with distinction in philosophy and theater studies from Columbia University in New York City. In 1985 she moved to Berlin and began her career as professional dancer.  An avid cook and baker since childhood Cynthia opened her first shop – a coffee roastery and bakery in 1994 and has never looked back.  In 1997 she opened her second shop, a Deli in Berlin-Mitte and in 2007 published her first baking book.  In 2009 Cynthia launched her own bakeware line which is handmade in England. Her seven best-selling baking & cookbooks are inspired by sense-memories, dreams and bridging the cultural gap between classic American cuisine and her love for Germany.  In addition, Cynthia is the baking expert on ARD and ZDF and recently was a guest judge on Top Chef.  She lives with her husband and four children in Berlin.

  Twitter: @cynthiabarcomi | Website: www.cynthiabarcomi.com

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  Barry Fitzgerald
  

  Barry Fitzgerald

  Dr. Barry W. Fitzgerald is a superhero scientist, speaker, author, and enthusiastic communicator based at TU Delft, the Netherlands. His research interests include computational physics, responsible innovation, scientific outreach, and superhero science. For the latter, Barry aims to identify the science and technology of today that could lead to superpowers tomorrow. Barry is the author of two popular science books (Secrets of Superhero Science, Secret Science of Santa Claus), the editor-in-chief of the open access journal Superhero Science and Technology, and he has published scientific papers in physics, chemistry, physiology, and education. In addition, Barry has spoken at numerous events around the world about superheroes such as La Futura Shanghai, the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, and the Galway International Arts Festival. Barry has seen the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War more than 40 times and his superpower will always remain a closely guarded secret.

  Twitter: @BWScienceNow | Website: www.bwscience.com | Facebook: BW Science

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  Sule Kutlay Gandur
  

  Sule Kutlay Gandur

  Sule Kutlay Gandur is an international executive coach, strategic consultant, and keynote speaker, based in Istanbul and Paris. Her niche is in “resilience”, to increase her clients’ agility hence re-define their lives. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s master’s level coaching program; she is also a certified Gestalt coach and NBI (“Neethling Brain Instrument”) practitioner. Sule was born and raised In Istanbul, until she left to study in America. She double majored in communication and psychology at Macalester College. She then received her Master of Arts degree in communication, from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her first job was as a news reporter in Washington. She then worked for Saatchi & Saatchi advertising, and was appointed managing director in 2001. In 2004, Sule decided to become an entrepreneur, setting up her boutique marketing consultancy firm. In 2015, she has re-shifted her focus, from strategic advising to leadership coaching. Sule Kutlay is an active member of Young Presidents Organization, Columbia University Learning Association, and European Association for Coaching.

  Twitter: @sulekutlay | Website: www.sulekutlay.com

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  Simon Kretschmer
  

  Simon Kretschmer

  Simon loves journalism. Although he isn't a writer. He once founded a school newspaper which succeed as a business, but it failed on the editorial side. This convinced him to use his business and organizational skills to enable great journalistic work to have an impact and be financially sustainable. After traveling the world, working and studying abroad, he joined Gruner+Jahr, the biggest magazine publisher in Europe, where he finally became Publisher and Managing Director of various well-known media brands and magazines. After 16 years at Bertelsmann he left the corporate path to join a young non-profit organization. This radical professional change was driven by his belief in the power of investigative journalism. He now heads CORRECTIV as the managing director, an independent investigative newsroom. Last year they coordinated and published the investigation on the 55 Billion Euro tax robbery in Europe known as the CumEx-Files. In addition to investigative journalism, CORRECTIV fights against false information, promoting media literacy and initiates educational programs.

  LinkedIn: Simon Kretschmer | Website: www.correctiv.org/team/simon-kretschmer/