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AI scientist and digital pioneer, explaining how the capabilities of emerging technologies, including AI, shape what organisations can change and the priorities they set for digital transformation.
Founded the first company to sell services over the internet and later chaired computing at a technology institute, drawing on early internet disruption to examine how industries and established organisations respond to major technology shifts.
Futurologist and data scientist specialising in retail, examining digital transformation through retail, including changes in customer expectations and business models within a specific industry.
Links between digital transformation and Asia-Pacific market conditions, regional technology adoption and the business environment in which transformation programmes are planned, from a corporate futurist and AI strategist working from Singapore.
Former professional rugby player turned innovation and transformation leader, exploring why successful organisations become trapped by what once worked. And how they can recognise the signals of decline early enough to reinvent.
Digital transformation through changes in strategy, value creation and business models, connecting technology decisions with the wider direction of the organisation, informed by a London Business School professor on strategy and business model innovation.
AI strategist and author advising organisations on applied AI. Focuses on digital transformation where AI is being embedded into existing operations, workflows and customer-facing services.
Former Global Director of Culture and Strategy at Banco Santander, where he led The Santander Way across 32 countries and 200,000 employees. Author of *The Culture Advantage* (Kogan Page). He teaches AI-powered HR and innovation at IE University Business School.
The organisational capabilities, data skills and AI readiness required to support large-scale digital change, from a business school professor working on digital transformation and analytics.
Competitive pressure and the strategic challenges established companies face as large technology firms reshape markets, from a business school professor who analyses how large technology companies capture markets.
Organisational design, including how teams, structures and ways of working evolve as technology changes, informed by work on exponential technologies and new models of work.
Futurist and author on technology-driven business change, placing digital transformation within a broader view of emerging technology, organisational change and the longer-term direction of business.
Former Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he led a shift to digital operations, bringing experience of digital transformation in a mission-driven international organisation.
Technology research and insights lead at Deloitte and former Gartner VP of Research, drawing on digital operating model research and work on digital disruption to examine how organisations structure and govern transformation.
Connections between digital transformation and AI governance, trust and the design of systems people are expected to use, from an AI ethicist and engineer who founded a machine-vision company whose measurement technology was applied to personalisation in retail and telemedicine.
Digital transformation within wider shifts in technology, business models, customer behaviour and the future of organisations, informed by a business futurist covering technology within broader global trends.
Co-founded an early major UK e-commerce business and later worked on digital public services, drawing on commercial and public-sector experience to examine digital transformation in large institutions.
The effects of digital transformation on institutions, workers and society alongside the commercial and technological changes it creates, informed by an author and long-standing critic of the digital economy.
The customer side of digital transformation, including adoption, trust and how people respond to new digital products and services, from a technology journalist and entrepreneur who explains consumer technology to mainstream audiences.
Recognising when a technology shift becomes strategically important and how leaders respond as new capabilities change markets, from a Columbia Business School professor whose work centres on strategic inflection points.
Behavioural scientist tracking shifting human psychology and leadership dynamics. He looks beyond technological deployment to the psychological barriers, generational shifts, and trust realities that dictate whether an organisation’s digital investments actually succeed or fail in practice.
Entrepreneur and author who has built and sold technology companies and advises boards on innovation, examining why established organisations lose momentum during digital transformation and how organisational structures can affect their ability to adapt.
Works on AI and smart cities, advising corporates and governments, examining infrastructure at city and national scale, including the systems and technologies used to deliver digital services.
Not every digital transformation speaker comes from the same discipline. The strongest fit may come from technology, innovation, customer experience, organisational change or business-model strategy.
For many corporate events, the useful focus is not how a particular technology works, but what it changes for customers, operating models, decision-making and people. In those cases, a broader transformation speaker may be more relevant than a narrow technical specialist. For deeper AI or cybersecurity briefs, a specialist may be more appropriate.
Sophie Hackford
Futurist tracking emerging technology and its commercial consequences, looking beyond the immediate transformation programme to the technologies and business changes that may shape the next stage of organisational change.