Topic: Future of Work

Sunnie J. Groeneveld

Sunnie J. Groeneveld is the Managing Partner of the consultancy Inspire 925 and co-founder of its two spin-off companies LunchLottery and Inspire 529. She serves as the Associate Dean of Studies at the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Zurich, where she is responsible for the EMBA in Digital Leadership. She is also a board member of the engineering company HHM, the media group Galledia, the insurance company Sympany and the agency Jung von Matt/Limmat.

Past engagements include serving as the first managing director of digitalswitzerland, the nation’s largest cross-industry initiative on digital transformation. She authored the book “Inspired at Work” (Versus Verlag) and graduated in Economics from Yale -University.

Andrea Iorio

Andrea Iorio is one of the most requested keynote speakers about Digital Transformation, Leadership, Customer-centricity and Web3 globally, and he shares his thoughts and ideas at the intersection of business, technology, philosophy and neuroscience in his more than 150 keynotes per year to companies such as Abbott, Bayer, Cargill, Dow, IBM, Roche, Syngenta, Tetrapak and more.

He is a columnist at the MIT Technology Review Brazil, the official host of NVIDIA’s podcast in Brazil, as well as counts with more than 70k followers on Linkedin.

He holds more than 10 years of experience in multinational and tech companies: he was the Head of Tinder across Latin America for 5 years, and Chief Digital Officer at L’Oréal Brazil. He is an economist with a Degree from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (Washington, DC), and is now an MBA professor at Fundação Dom Cabral.

He is the author of 3 books in Portuguese: “6 Competências para Surfar na Transformação Digital”, “O futuro não é mais como antigamente”, and “Metanoia Lab: lições sobre competências humanas na era digital”: the first one reached the n. 1 position on Amazon in the People Management and Leadership sections in Brazil. Also, he has just launched his first book in English: "Meta-leadership: the new leader's skill set in the world of AI and Web3)

Danilo McGarry

Digital transformation, Ai, Innovation and future of work are the most important topics in any company today. Every board, C level and decision maker is grappling how to lead and run such initiatives. Danilo McGarry is a speaker that can add significant value in relation to these topics.

Danilo McGarry is not just a speaker, he has circa 2 decades of designing, delivering and scaling numerous global technology & operational board level critical initiatives through effective enterprise-wise digital vision and strategy. He has ran some of the largest and most respected Transformation, Ai, Data and Innovation programs in market leading blue-chip companies (such as Citigroup, UnitedHealth Group) in multiple countries and industries. Danilo also has proven board & advisory level experience as well as Public and Private (listed & unlisted) experience. Extensive technical and global people management experience.

Danilo’s work has been published in The Financial Times, The Times, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Computer Weekly – who have coined him as an industry thought and practitioner leader. Danilo is ranked as the 20 most influential people in Ai in the world, top 10 in the world by research and consultancy firms in various other tech domains such as Innovation, Digital Transformation, CRS and Data. He is also hyper connected in tech circles due to active involvement with tech & advisory companies, with whom he develops synergised digital strategy and digital ecosystems.

Danilo’s approach drives and builds a culture of unparalleled efficiency, drastically improved services, new and improved revenue streams and products. He is a digital leader that is technically able but with an entrepreneurial mind set. His speeches are well known for delivering real impact and value, where everyone can walk away from what he delivers wiser and with up-to-date market insights in how to lead and run their technology initiatives better.

Tram Anh Nguyen

Tram Anh Nguyen serves as Board Advisor for EDHEC, NED Passerelles Numeriques, Board Member for Business France Frenchtech UK, Advisory Board Member of the Association of the Corporates Treasurers, and Board Member with Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum.

She is the co-author of CFTE's world's largest Fintech Job Report Book. Entrepreneurship Expert Saïd Business School, Oxford and is an Industry Fellow of Imperial College. She is an advocate of lifelong learning and believes that continuous education is the best tool to help people adapt to a fast-changing world.

Tram Anh strongly believes that in a world dominated by technology, people must remain at the centre of society and organisations, and that education and training are key to helping individuals adapt to a fast changing world. This was the motivation that drove her to launch CFTE to help finance professionals up-skill, find more opportunities and build better finance.

She works tirelessly with governments, policymakers, industry experts, and academia to push initiatives in financial education for Finance 2.0. She followed her passion to bring about a skills revolution in finance to not only transform the industry but to help a multitude of stakeholders, like women and people from different backgrounds and walks of life, to enter the new world of finance.

The platform includes hundreds of experts (from heads of innovation in banks to CEOs of challenger banks and CEOs of Fintech VCs), who have created a platform that helps the industry acquire this knowledge quickly, from Fintech to Artificial Intelligence to Open Banking to Extrapreneurship programmes, with an engaged community with 100,000+ alumni around the world.

CFTE is headquartered in the UK. In addition to London, CFTE is present in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Luxembourg, and France and works with most Tier 1 financial institutions.

Highly respected in the industry, Ambassador for the Singapore Fintech Festival, From 2017 until today as Senior Leader Women in Fintech, International speaker at global events, mentor and judge for the industry.

Of Vietnamese origin, Tram Anh was born in France and lived in Paris, New York, and now London. She provides a great understanding of both Asian and Western cultures and is always keen to bring the best of them together.

As a part of CFTE, a few of Tram Anh’s significant achievements include being a part of releasing the Fintech Job Report and the Blockchain Job Report. The Fintech job report is the first of its kind in history, where the major developments in the field, possible work roles, and pertinent employability skills required to help governments, regulators, employers, and job applicants with future job creation and prospects have been outlined. The Blockchain job report examines the employment implications of blockchain technology from the viewpoints of prospective employees, financial institutions, blockchain enterprises, and governments. The positions that are now in demand in blockchain and the qualifications that are necessary for success in this fiercely competitive market for blockchain are also explored in the report.

Tram Anh primarily concentrates on providing lectures in the financial, fintech, business, government, and academic sectors.

Rasmus Hougaard

Rasmus is the Founder and Managing Director of Potential Project, a global research, leadership development, and consulting firm on a mission to create a more human world of work.

His prescient views on the critical qualities of future leaders got him recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the world's most influential business thinkers.

  • He is one of Harvard Business Review's most read author and author of the ground-breaking and best- selling book by HBR "The Mind of the Leader" and the upcoming "Compassionate Leadership - How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way".
  • Through his company Potential Project, Rasmus has been leading their large-scale research studies on more than 35,000 leaders across thousands of companies in more than 100
  • Rasmus has spent extensive time in monasteries in the East, receiving and teaching how to master the mind for mental clarity, focus and high performance and collaborates with Dalai Lama on leadership development ideology and
  • Voted 1 speaker at the prestigious WorkHuman conference 3 consecutive years.
  • Rasmus lives in Copenhagen with his family and three cats.

Victoria Pelletier

Victoria Pelletier draws from her 20+ years in corporate senior leadership at companies like IBM and American Express to deliver engaging, inspiring keynotes to audiences across North America. Victoria's presentations range from her inspirational story of overcoming childhood abuse to becoming a corporate executive, author, brand and networking leader. Perfect for sales, leadership, technology, and management conferences. Victoria's wide range of presentations both inspire, and deliver practical takeaways.

Audiences not only laugh along with Victoria, they learn valuable take-aways they can apply immediately to thrive in the corporate world.

Insights include:

• How developing a personal brand can accelerate your career and your success.

• The power of boundaries help you live a full life, without compromise.

• How choosing mentors, champions, and advocates can supercharge your brand and your career.

• Essential Diversity and Inclusion strategies to empower teams and corporations to benefit from every voice at the corporate table.

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Victoria is a prolific speaker, whose personal story carries so much strength, that she leaves her audience breathless and wanting more. - Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson, Executive at TD Bank

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Victoria has been a popular speaker at our events because she is a master networker and has the ability to explain how she is able to accomplish or overcome adversity. - Dina Barazza, Founder, Avanti Women

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Victoria's professional journey and accomplishments are impressive, and her personal story is truly inspirational. - Miglena Nikolova, IBM Canada

Jarno Duursma

Jarno Duursma is a technology expert, trendwatcher and speaker in the field of digital technology. He is also the author of four books on digital technology, including on artificial intelligence and blockchain. His two most recent reports are about ‘Machines with Imagination’ and ‘Deepfake Technology’.

He can often be seen and heard in the national media and he writes opinion articles for Het Financieele Dagblad (or FD, a Dutch daily newspaper focused on business and financial matters), NRC (a Dutch daily newspaper of record) and De Volkskrant (a Dutch daily morning newspaper) – among other publications.

He is also the creator of the ‘Listening to the future’ tech podcast and he organised the TechEvent SMC050 for many years. He personally founded this event at the time.

 

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In 45 minutes the participants of our ANVR travel congress in Portugal got a barrage of examples from applications of artificial intelligence. Jarno's presentation made it clear to us in a very vivid way that the future has already begun. A great presentation! - Frank Oostdam, Director ANVR

 

The webinar on the power of technology in times of corona is really recommended. Jarno Duursma takes you through the (im)possibilities that technology offers in these corona times in his typical, catchy way. Afterwards you'll be completely up-to-date and enriched with a number of surprising insights! - Bas Baalmans, Digital Business Centre - Rijksuniversiteit

Susan David

Susan David, Ph.D. is the visionary who developed the concept of Emotional Agility. An award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist, Susan has been named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. She offers unique expertise on cultivating more agile, healthy, resilient and authentically happy people, families, workplaces, and communities.

Thinkers50 recognized her with the Breakthrough Idea Award for “insights that have the potential to forever change the way we do business,” and Harvard Business Review named Emotional Agility a Management Idea of the Year. Her book, Emotional Agility was a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, translated into 26 languages, and profiled throughout national and international media including in the New York Times, TIME, and on the TODAY show.

With powerful and engaging stories, humor, and insight, Susan’s creates a deep and authentic connection, so each person in the audience feels understood, inspired, and able to drive real, pragmatic change. Susan has been named an Inc.com top speaker and received a standing ovation at TED for a talk that went viral, with more than 60 million unique views on social media and 6 million at TED.com, making it one of the ten most popular TED talks of 2018.

Nick Webb

Nick Webb is a number one best-selling author and is one of the most popular Healthcare, Innovation, Happiness, Future Trends and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Unlike most innovation speakers who have never actually invented anything and have no real-world expertise in the area of enterprise innovation, Nick is a multi award-winning inventor of technologies ranging from one of the world’s smallest medical implants to a very successful line of educational and fitness products.

Nick has been selected as one of the Hottest Keynote Speakers for 2019 by the ITA Group. Nick earned this recognition by providing highly customized keynote presentations for some of the top organizations in the world.

Nick has served as an Adjunct Professor and a Chief Innovation Officer for one of the most comprehensive health science universities. He has been awarded his Doctorate of Humane Letters (DHL), (hon.) for his contributions in leadership.

As the CEO of LeaderLogic, Nick works with some of the largest brands in the world through his Consulting and Training Company. As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), he works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multi billion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations. His best-selling books include: The Innovation Playbook, What Customers Crave, What Customers Hate, Heyday, The Innovation Mandate, and his bestselling book, The Healthcare Mandate. Nicholas is also the Producer and Host of the Award-winning Documentary Film, The Healthcare Cure.