He is a world-renowned keynote speaker, futures strategist, lecturer, best-selling author, and your guide to future trends and visionary leadership.

With a knack for sharing knowledge and creating connections, John’s path lies at the intersection of human science, neuroscience, quantum technology, futurism, and business strategy.

He decodes future trends, ignites ideas, connects with crowds and leaves an empowering perspective that lasts long after he’s left the stage. John’s keynote talks and masterclasses have taken him around the world and earned global recognition.

He is Africa’s first Singularity University Faculty Member, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education, and an Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

Abe is the Chief Product Officer at Fintech Galaxy, with over 17 years of experience in Financial Services, a subject matter expert  on Open Banking/Finance, Digital Banking,  Digital Transformation, Digital Strategy, Customer Experience,  Business Process Digitization and Data Analytics.

Working at some of the largest financial institutions in the world, including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of Montreal and First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abe has led large-scale transformation initiatives, established Centres of Excellence, and designed/deployed Open Banking / Open Finance platforms, products and services.

Abe holds a degree in in Applied Mathematics and an MBA, and he used to teach Corporate Performance Management in the professional MBA program, at University of Ottawa, Canada.

A seasoned Data Scientist with passion in finance and technology. He has worked previously with Ernst & Young, Hill + Knowlton Strategies, A.T. Kearney, and Foresee Solutions.

He has over 12 years of experience in delivering value-adding consulting and training programs to fuel global growth, competitive advantage, innovation, and transformative change for the Fortune 500 organizations.

Hasan has delivered a range of future-focused programs such as Data is the new oil (not soil), Mastering Data, Data for decision makers.

Hasan mentors innovative FinTech start-ups and is the frequent speaker at international conferences. Also contributes regularly to industry publications. Hasan is a Certified TOGAF® 9 Foundation practitioner.

Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon has devoted his professional life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do. He shares his ideas through his books.

He has devoted his life to sharing his thinking in order to help other leaders and organizations inspire action. Simon may be best known for popularizing the concept of WHY, which he described in his first TED Talk in 2009.

He has also had the honor of sharing his ideas with multiple agencies of the US government and with the senior-most leaders of the United States Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Army and Coast Guard.

He has held top leadership positions in Dow Jones Markets (12 years), The Times & Sunday Times (2 years) Bloomberg Media (5 years). As a Futurist & Transformation professional (www.tariq.tv ), specializing in Media, Tech & Finance, he is a sought-after board & c-level advisor, keynote speaker, presenter & leadership professional.

Tariq uses practical, on the ground experience, with knowledge & research from global masters. This led to the creation of Xponential Group, under MAD Group DWC LLC, a future foresight platform providing advisory/coaching, L&D and media/content.

He has specialized knowledge about innovation, the impact of the brain & thinking, focused on the future. He is also MAD about “Making A Difference” in everything. Work, social impact, life, everything.

Michelle Raymond is an in-demand prolific speaker, an Emerging Leadership Coach and Trainer, Certified Master NLP Practitioner and award-winning International TEDx Speaker. Her clientele includes BT, Deloitte, MAC, Refinery29, Amazon, Lloyds Bank and The Ministry of Justice.

As the Emerging Leadership Programme Lead for the one of the top ten universities in the world, University College, London (UCL), Michelle has developed workshops and programmes that have transformed the professional lives of senior women in leadership and countless entrepreneurs who wish to increase the visibility of their personal brand.

She is a board member of Lloyds Bank Black Business Advisory Group and has been featured on the BBC and SKY, People Management, Good Housekeeping, Business Insider and Hays Journal.