The Leading Speakers Bureau

Highly influential expert in On-demand cloud computing

Dr. Timothy Chou was the president of Oracle On Demand, the fastest-growing business inside Oracle. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Embarcadero Technologies (EMBT) and as a member of the advisory board of WebEx (WEBX). In addition, he has been a lecturer in computer science at Stanford University for more than 15 years and continues to give seminars.

“Under his leadership, Oracle experienced global momentum”
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Highly Successful Entrepreneur

Klaus Kobjoll is a highly successful and noted entrepreneur in the hotel and restaurant business in Europe. He is the owner of the established Country Hotel and Creative Centre Schindlerhof and winner of the European Quality Award for Independent SME’s 1998, Paris.

Klaus Kobjoll studied at the D.Speiser hotel school in Tegernsee, Bad Wiesee and at the Lycée Technique Hôtelier in Strasbourg, France. He also spent some time studying in England.

He began his career at the age of 22 when he established himself as self-employed entrepreneur starting the “Crêperie Rennaise” in Erlangen in 1970. Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s he opened several restaurants including a French Bistro called “Café des Arts”, a jazz cellar with live music called “Strohalm” and a restaurant called “Prison St. Michel” in Nuremberg. In 1978 he opened his first hotel “Landhotel Mörsbergei” with 19 rooms and 80 restaurant seats.
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Leading Innovator, Director of Game Research & Development, Institute for the Future

Jane McGonigal is a brilliant designer of online mass roleplaying games. She’s also on the forefront of academic research on societal development and computer gaming. She is best known for creating games that inspire global-scale collaboration and collective intelligences. Most recently, she directed the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game Superstruct, which brought together more than 7000 future forecasters from 90 countries to tackle real-world problems such as pandemics, food systems, and climate change. The Association of Professional Futurists honoured Superstruct as the “Most Important Futures Work of 2008″.

“The leading innovator in the field of game design for future forecasting and problem solving”
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Philanthropist, World Famous Author & Creator of the Harry Potter Series

Joanne “Jo” Murray OBE better known as J. K. Rowling is perhaps equally famous for her “rags to riches” life story, in which she progressed from living on welfare to multi-millionaire status within five years. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films. Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fandom.

Forbes ranked J. K. Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007
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2007 Joint Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Vice Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND), Colombo; Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and Distinguished Professor at the University of Manchester; and Honorary Senior Advisor to the Sri Lanka Government. As Vice-Chairman of the United Nations IPCC, Professor Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, for his work on global warming and sustainable development.

“Prof. Munasinghe is a multi international prize winner for his research and its applications”
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CEO & Chairman of the Management Board of Gucci Group, Fortune Magazine’s European Businessman of the Year 2007

Robert Polet joined Gucci Group in 2004 after a 26-year career at Unilever, bringing considerable global management experience and a deep knowledge of the development of consumer brands in a multicultural environment. His dynamism has helped turn around luxury goods company Gucci Group and was named as European Businessman of the Year 2007 by Fortune magazine. He encourages the people working with him to break rules and to go outside the box.

“The man who has put the extra into extravagance”
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Former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Wal-Mart

Joining Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in 1970, Jack served in several capacities including District Manager; Vice President of Security (now known as Loss Prevention); Vice President of Store Operations; Executive Vice President of Store Operations, Personnel, and Merchandise; President and Chief Operating Officer; and Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. He was appointed to the Wal-Mart Board of Directors in 1977 and served on Wal-Mart’s Executive Committee.
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Pioneer of “market-based” philanthropy

Jacqueline Novogratz founded and leads Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that takes a businesslike approach to improving the lives of the poor. She’s become a leading voice of the new philanthropy, which emphasizes sustainable bottom-up solutions over traditional top-down aid.

One of the most innovative players shaping philanthropy today, Jacqueline Novogratz is redefining the way problems of poverty can be solved around the world. Drawing on her past experience in banking, microfinance and traditional philanthropy, Novogratz has become a leading proponent for financing entrepreneurs and enterprises that can bring affordable clean water, housing and healthcare to poor people so that they no longer have to depend on the disappointing results and lack of accountability seen in traditional charity and old-fashioned aid.
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Legendary Former International Pakistan Cricket Captain & Politician

Imran Khan was an inspirational all-rounder for Pakistan for over 20 years. He captained Pakistan in 48 Tests and 139 ODIs (both records for Pakistan). Since retiring, Khan has written opinion pieces on cricket for various British and Asian newspapers and also appears as a cricket commentator on Asian and British sports networks, including BBC Urdu and the Star TV network. He has provided analysis for every cricket World Cup since 1992, which includes providing match summaries for BBC during the 1999 World Cup.

Number 8 on the all-time list of the ESPN Legends of Cricket
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Advertising Genius, Founder & Creative Chairman of Droga5

David Droga has rewritten the book for contemporary ideas development and is possibly the most successful Australian creative export. David’s own agency launched in New York City in 2006, Droga5, is now the fastest growing independent agency in America. In Australia, Creative magazine named him “Australian Creative Person of the Decade”. To date, he is the single-most awarded creative at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, with over 50 Cannes Lions. He sits on several boards, including the One Club, Magnum and New Museum.

“Guru of the marketing and advertising world”
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