The Leading Speakers Bureau

World’s Youngest IBM Watson programmer, Prodigy&Tech Author

Tanmay Bakshi at 14 years old is a Software Developer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Algorithm-ist, Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor, IBM Champion for Cloud and YouTuber.Programming since the age of 5, he had his first iOS app, tTables, accepted when he was 9 years old.

“Highly talented Software/Cognitive Developer, Honarary IBM Cloud Advisor”

[expand title=”In detail”] Tanmay Bakshi has already spoken to over 150,000 people live worldwide about programming and its value for society. His passion for programming began when he started coding at the age of five, where he fixed his schools computers. Today he builds applications engineered to augment human capabilities. He is an algorithm-ist specialising in neural-network architecture, a published author, AI keynoter and TED speaker, Visiting Faculty Member at Grad Valley Data Science, IBM Honorary Cloud Advisor and the host of IBM’s most popular Facebook Live Series called ‘Watson Made Simple with Tanmay’ where he explains today’s most cutting edge technology in a way that people can understand and build themselves.

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[expand title=”What he offers you”]Tanmay has become a global force in programming and having spoken at a number of international conferences and events, he loves to talk about and work with Cognitive Computing, AI, and Machine Learning.One of the youngest app developers in the world with over 2,700,000 views and 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, Tanmay is currently working to achieve his goal of inspiring and training 100,000 kids and novice developers to help them create their own solutions.

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[expand title=”How he presents”]Fluent in most, if not all, of the major codes in use today, Tanmay advocates and enjoys talking about Open Source development. His passion for sharing his knowledge comes through his motivational and inspirational talks.[/expand]

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Europe’s No 1 Ethical Hacker

Jamie Woodruff is a Certified Ethical Hacker and Certified Penetration Testing Engineer.He is the Technical Director at Metrix Cloud LTD which is a cyber security consultancy built on years of behavioural research and projects combined with the latest cyber security insights.

“One of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber security”

[expand title=”In detail”] Jamie entered the public eye when he hacked Facebook as part of a student competition at Bangor University where he was studying computer information systems. He has since uncovered security holes in numerous high-profile operations. Jamie started his hacking career at nine years old, after being kicked out of school and college and almost deciding university wasn’t for him. He ended up at a hackathon where a company called IT Security Experts saw his potential and gave him the opportunity to sit his certifications and exams to become an ethical hacker. He specialises in social engineeringand he has recently joined the advisory team of Cybersmile as a Cyber-Safety advisor and will be helping to develop learning tools and educational resources.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jamie speaks about the importance of system and network security and is extremely well known for disclosing world-wide exploits and vulnerabilities within leading security applications (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Apple, Google).[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Jamie is a fantastic, interactive speaker, involving the audience to understand how we can be manipulated, and how we can guard against it.
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Research Worker at UCAM

José Pedro Cerón Carrasco is a researcher based at UCAM. His main research interests are the applications of theoretical methods to the study of biosystems including DNA and novel drugs, aiming to enhance the therapeutic properties of currently available anti-inflamatories and anti-toumoral drugs.

“Using DNA to discover new Cancer treatments”

[expand title=”In detail”] José Pedro Cerón earned his Ph.D. at the University of Murcia in Spain. After that he joined the University of Namur in Belgium (2009) and the University of Nantes in France (2011), during his postdoctoral training supported by FundaciónSéneca. Next, he was a Marie Curie scientist in the Quantum Chemistry group of Murcia.José Pedro is currently working at the The Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing (BIO-HPC) Research Group, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM). Six of his works have been highlighted in the cover of Chem. Comm., PCCP and ChemPhotoChem and he is inventor of two international patents.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Using the cutting edge research of today’s foremost scientists, Jose Pedro explores the science of tomorrow: computational chemistrybioinformatics, and models of biological environments. He explains how science is opening entirely new avenues for society and provides valuable advice on how to prepare for change.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A distinguished and gifted speaker, his unique background allows him to engage his audience. [/expand]

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Leading Expert on E-commerce in China& Author

Porter Erisman is a leading expert on E-commerce with more than 20 years of experience working in China and an Entrepreneur. He is also the Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group, China’s internet giant, an award-winning film producer and author.

“World’s Leading Expert on E-Commerce”

[expand title=”In detail”] After studying for an MBA in the United States, Porter Erisman returned to China and worked at Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing, overseeing an Internet marketing group as China’s Internet began to take off. From 2000-08, Erisman worked as a Vice-President at Alibaba.com and Alibaba Group, at various times leading the company’s international website operations, international marketing and corporate affairs. Erisman wrote, directed and produced Crocodile in the Yangtze, an independent documentary memoir film of the nearly 10 years spent at China’s Alibaba.com. The film presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at China’s Internet revolution and was awarded “Best Documentary” at the San Francisco United Film Festival.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Porter Erisman has spoken at conferences around the world and has been featured in leading media. He provides audiences with an overview of e-commerce in emerging markets, including examples from India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Porter Erisman combines wit and extensive knowledge of business and e-commerce in China to deliver impeccably informative and enlightening speeches.[/expand]

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Professor of Computer Science

Radhika Nagpal and her research team took a swarm of robots inspired by the design of ant colonies, and redefined expectations for self-organising robotic systems. The robots guide themselves into a variety of shapes that might lead to applications like disaster rescue, space exploration and beyond.

“What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish”

[expand title=”In detail”] Radhika’sinterest lies in engineering and understanding self-organising multi-agent systems, where large numbers of simple agents cooperate to produce complex and robust global behaviour. This work lies at the intersection of computer science (AI/robotics) and biology. Her group studies bio-inspired algorithms, programming paradigms, and hardware designs for swarm/modular robotic systems and smart materials, drawing inspiration mainly from social insects and multicellular biology. Also investigating models of self-organisation in biology, where the overall goal is to provide a framework for the design and analysis of self-organising systems by combining traditional computer science techniques with biological models. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Robotics engineer Radhika studies the collective intelligence displayed by insects and fish schools, seeking to understand their rules of engagement. In visionary talks, she presents her work creating artificial collective power and previews a future where swarms of robots work together to build flood barriers, pollinate crops, monitor coral reefs and form constellations of satellites.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Radhika’sresearch shows us how the future of robotics looks bright. She has moved the field forward in some major ways, so look to this brilliant woman for an idea of what to expect from the robots of tomorrow.[/expand]

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Innovative & Disruptive Marketer

John Beasley is an nnovative and disruptive marketer, who has spent the last 12 years at the cutting edge of industry progression, as Vice President at Monster Energy and at Red Bull.

“An expert on branding”

[expand title=”In detail”] John played a central role in the Monster growth, taking the brand from 0.5m to 25m fans on Facebook, overtaking Red Bull on Twitter with higher engagement on both, whilst launching 20 new products and expanding from 5 markets to over 60. This has seen Monster grow to be the No.2 energy drink globally with annual double-digit growth, at No.7 on Forbes most innovative companies in the world and top 3 best performing stock of the last decade on the NASDAQ. John was Vice President of Marketing across EMEA for Monster Energy for 7 years, prior to that he spent 5 years at Red Bull heading up the brand team and sitting on the global interactive team. Before that he spent 7 years working for two of the world’s biggest Advertising Agencies: McCann-Erickson and Y&R and successfully transitioning Marks & Spencer’s to M&S. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]John has a practical working knowledge of how to deliver disruptive, creative thinking to
solve business challenges. He is an expert in working with
influencers, content creation and syndication, using digital
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John is an enthusiastic and engaging speaker who keeps audiences entertained with his high performance presentations and exciting videos. [/expand]

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Social Media, Branding and Digital PR Expert

Mel Carson is the founder of the US based consultancy Delightful Communications which helps businesses and individuals understand and successfully apply strategies that focus on Social Media, Digital PR and Personal Branding. Mel also relishes his work as US Brand Ambassador for Majestic SEO, evangelizing the largest publically available link intelligence database and toolset to marketers and advertising professionals.

“A leading expert on Social Media and Digital Marketing”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mel worked for 7 years as Digital Marketing Evangelist at Microsoft Advertising and was responsible for building relationships within the online advertising community. He was also part of the team that planned and executed the UK roll-out of the Microsoft ad Center in 2006 and helped to set up Microsoft’s Advertising Community Team that same year when it became apparent that Social Media Marketing was going to be huge. Mel began career as an editor at the search engine LookSmart in 2000 and was Account Director at 24/7 Search. He lectured on MBA, MSc and marketing courses at Cranfield School of Management and London University. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]For well over a decade Mel continues to inspire decision makers around the world from a wide range of businesses to understand and to make the most of the explosion in the use of digital media and technology.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Creative, compelling, emotional, engaging and visionary, Mel’s presentations are highly inspirational as well as practical and resonate deeply with audiences around the globe.[/expand]

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Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society

Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is a Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

“Governments can no longer govern; they can only negotiate”

[expand title=”In detail”] Between 1967 and 1979 he was associate professor of sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences at the University of Paris. In 1979 he was appointed Professor of City and Regional Planning and of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has lectured in over 300 academic institutions in 43 countries.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Manuel Castells is the most influential urban theorist of our time and has revolutionized modern thought on the processes of advanced capitalism and the generation of inequality. His forward thinking views reflect the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Manuel is a brilliant speaker who brings great depth to his immaculately researched presentations in which he skilfully demonstrates his analytical prowess.[/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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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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