Multi award winning designer Damini Kumar is the EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR FOR CREATIVITY & INNOVATION, a prestigious ongoing role which she was appointed by the EU Commission in January 2009 to foster the principles and value of innovation and creativity at all levels of European society. She co-authored a EU Manifesto on Creativity and Innovation together with her fellow ambassadors (who included Edward De Bono, Philippe Starck, Erno Rubik, Ken Robinson, Richard Florida and Jean-Philippe Courtois) which was presented to President Barroso, President of the EU Commission, and is being used in current EU strategies. A UK native she graduated from Imperial College London with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering and later completed two Masters of Science Degrees. She is an international expert in product design, creative thinking, design thinking, user centered design and innovation.

Parag Khanna author of "How to run the world" is now represented by Connect Speakers Bureau. He is a leading geo-strategist, world traveler and author. Presently a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, he is author of the international best-sellers How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) which provides bold and innovative strategies to global political and economic stability, particularly through a new "mega-diplomacy" that incorporates governments, corporations, and non-government organizations (NGOs) into coalitions that transfer resources to where they are needed most. His notion of "connective leadership" is an essential approach for organizational leaders to find their place – and their essential new partners – in the new global division of labour

Diane Coyle speaking at Oxford Literary Festival

Internationally renowned and celebrated, Marcus Buckingham is the go-to consultant in his field, a sought-after speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. Challenging accepted and entrenched social theory, Buckingham pioneered a revolutionary concept: that people will be dramatically more effective, successful, and fulfilled when they play to their strongest skills rather than attempting to improve their weaknesses. He calls his research-based technique the “strengths revolution,” and his work has been proven again and again in boardrooms, seminars, and individuals’ lives around the world.

DR. HENRY CHESBROUGH is the renowned visionary who created the theory and coined the term "Open Innovation". Chesbrough’s forthcoming work, “Open Services and Innovation" ...

DIANE COYLE (OBE) was a former economist at the U.K Treasury, European Editor of Investors Chronicle and Economics Editor of The Independent. Presently she is Director of “Enlightenment Economics”, the consultancy company she founded in 2001, specialising in global and technological issues.