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SPEAKERS

These are the first confirmed speakers for TNW2019.

Sandy Fershee

Global Manager, User Experience,
Ford Motor Company
Emanuele Madeddu

Executive Vice President, Global Brand Strategy,
National Geographic
Stephanie Hannon

CPO,
Strava & Hillary Clinton Campaign
Corinne Vigreux

Co-founder,
TomTom
Ali Rayl

Vice President, Customer Experience,
Slack
Angel Diaz

VP Developer Technology and Open Source,
IBM
Ankiti Bose

Co-founder& CEO,
Zilingo
Gordon Willoughby

CEO,
WeTransfer
Jonathan Rochelle

Director of Product Management,
Google
Gilad Lotan

VP, Head of Data Science,
BuzzFeed
Gillian Tans

CEO,
Booking
Jack Constantine

CDO,
Lush
Des Traynor

Co-founder & CSO,
Intercom
Stacia Carr

Director of Engineering,
Zalando
Toke Nygaard

Chief Creative Officer,
Zendesk
Jonathon Morgan

CEO,
New Knowledge
Jane Zavalishina

President & Co-Founder,
Mechanica AI
Fedra Ribeiro

SVP,
Bosch
Alice Zagury

CEO,
The Family
Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist,
Google
Purna Virji

Senior Manager of Global Engagement,
Microsoft
Chris Slowe

CTO,
Reddit
Robert Vis

Founder & CEO,
MessageBird
David Allen

Author,
Getting Things Done
Karen Wickre

Author, previous editorial director,
Twitter
Louise Troen

Vice President, International Marketing & Communications,
Bumble
James Bridle

Author,
New Dark Age
Chris Hall

Founder,
Bynder
Bracken Darrell

CEO,
Logitech
Rob McCargow

Director of AI,
PwC
Stewart McCrone

Head of Strategy, M&A and Partnerships,
Philips
Jaya Baloo

Chief Information Security Officer,
KPN Telecom
Letitia Seglah

Independent Expert,
European Commision
James Beacham

Particle physicist,
ATLAS Experiment at CERN
Jeroen Tas

Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer,
Philips
Marcus Wermuth

Mobile Lead,
Buffer
Pamela Kaupinen

SVP, Strategy,
HelloSociety
Bindi Karia

Founder & CEO, Innovation expert,
Bindi Ventures Ltd
Steve Vassallo

Author,
The Way to Design
Guillaume Princen

Head of Continental Europe,
Stripe
Chris Messina

Co-founder,
Molly
Tim Leberecht

CEO, Author, Consultant,
The Business Romantic Society
Rand Hindi

Founder & CEO,
Snips
Catherine Price

Author,
How to Break Up With Your Phone
Nadya Khoja

Chief Growth Officer,
Venngage
Jackson Palmer

Creator,
Dogecoin
Emilie Tabor

Founder & CMO,
IMA
Rama Allen

Executive Creative Director,
The Mill
Rania Svoronou

Associate Design Director,
IBM iX
Tim Bradshaw

Global Technology Correspondent,
Financial Times
Lofred Madzou

AI & Machine Learning Project Lead,
World Economic Forum
Francis Pouliot

CEO and Co-founder,
Bull Bitcoin
Sally Eaves

CTO and UN social Impact strategy Advisor,
Emergent Technology
Simona Pop

Co-founder,
Bounties Network
Margarita Khartanovich

Editor In Chief, Head of Insight,
Binary District
Alain Sylvain

Founder,
Sylvain Labs
Jon Matonis

Founding Director,
Bitcoin Foundation
Yoni Assia

CEO,
eToro
Amy Whitaker

Author, Assistant Professor,
Art Thinking
Ravi Vora

CEO,
Catawiki
Kaspar Korjus

Managing Director,
E-Residency Estonia
Gabe Zichermann

Founder, Author & Speaker,
The Gamification Revolution
Mihai Botarel

Co-Founder, Creative Director,
RXM Creative
Charles Hamel

Product Lead for Crypto,
Opera
Caroline Hargrove

CTO,
Babylon Health
Robert Metzke

Chief of Staff Innovation & Strategy and Head of Sustainability,
Royal Philips
Dhruv Ghulati

Co-founder & CEO,
Factmata
Mark van der Heijden

Founder,
Wanderbrief
Heather Zynczak

CMO,
Pluralsight
Paul Triolo

Head of Geotechnology Practice,
Eurasia Group
Scott Snyder

Partner,
Heidrick & Struggles
Diana Wehmeier

CEO & Creative Director,
PLASMA Magazine
Madeline Gannon

Founder & Principal Researcher,
Atonaton
Eva Gladek

Founder and CEO,
Metabolic
Jessi Baker

CEO,
Provenance
Amit Sharma

CEO and Founder,
Narvar
Bas van de Poel

Creative Director,
SPACE 10
Gary Shapiro

President,
Consumer Technology Association
Luba Elliott

Curator & Researcher
Simon Kemp

CEO,
Kepios
Anita Fontaine

Creative Director,
W+K Department of New Realities
Daniel Gebler

CTO,
Picnic
Lydia Kostopoulos

Senior Researcher, Emerging Technology,
Digital Society Institute
Paula Forteza

Member of Parliament,
France
Estelle Caswell

Music Journalist,
Vox
Sarah Kessler

Author,
Gigged
Mark Rolston

Founder and chief creative,
argodesign
Dave Kerpen

Author,
The Art of People and Likeable
Elliot Callender

Founder,
Nodeunlock
Sergio Pereira

Founder,
TechHQ
Lyle Fong

Partner,
EQT Ventures
Amy Brown

Founder,
PHOENIX Brand Strategy
Sara Kalick

CEO, coach, speaker,
The Possibilitarians
Annemarie Joosen

CMO,
Marktplaats
Geoffrey Lillemon

Creative Director,
W+K Department of New Realities
Loubna Bouarfa

Founder & CEO,
OKRA
Sougwen Chung

Artist in Residence,
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Georgia Frances King

Ideas Editor,
Quartz
Pauline Van Dongen

Fashion Designer
Jitse Groen

CEO,
Takeaway.com
Iwo Szapar

Remote Work Advocate & CEO,
Remote-how
Joeri van Geelen

Founder & CEO,
Build Blocks Group
Juha-Matti Liukkonen

Director of Space and Robotics,
Reaktor
Laure Cucuron

Managing Director,
TerraCycle
Christina Bechhold Russ

Principal,
SamsungNext
Ricardo J. Méndez

Technical Director,
Samsung Next
Bernhard Schambeck

Head of BMW Startup Garage,
BMW
Susanne Chishti

Founder & CEO,
FINTECHCircle
Sander Nagtegaal

CEO,
Unless
João Graça

Co-founder & CTO,
Unbabel
Vinay Ramani

CPO,
Pipedrive
Jenny Fielding

Managing Director,
Techstars New York
David Vermeulen

Founder & CEO,
The Inner Circle
Mike McGee

Co-Founder & CCO,
Framestore
Victor Knaap

Main Monk & CEO,
MediaMonks
Pep Rosenfeld

Co-founder & CEO,
Boom Chicago
Amy Lewin

Senior Reporter,
Sifted
Caroline Sinders

Research Fellow,
Harvard University
Karen Palmer

Storyteller from the Future
David Arnoux

Co-Founder & Head of Growth,
Growth Tribe
Mike Gaston

CEO & Founder,
Cut.com
Ash Koosha

Creative Technologist & Composer,
AUXUMAN
John Thornhill

Innovation Editor,
Financial Times
Reshma Sohoni

Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Seedcamp
Wybo Wijnbergen

General Manager for Northern Europe,
WeWork
Uranik Begu

Executive Director,
Innovation Center Kosovo
Nicolas Burer

Managing Director,
digitalswitzerland
Georgina Ustik

Editorial Community Manager,
TNW
Rodolfo Groenewoud

Business Director,
In4Art
Lara Gessner

Graphic Designer
Joanna Skorupska

Founder,
Radicalzz
Lennart Frank

Director of Augmented Creation,
DCMN
Tanya Soman

Venture Partner,
500 Startups
Ian Sanders

Creative Consultant,
The Ian Sanders Company
Henri Jacobs

Chairman of the Board,
Techventures
Yaroslav Stepanenko

Head of Growth,
Setapp
Mike Gozzo

Co-founder & CTO,
Smooch
Rodger Buyvoets

Founder & CEO,
Crobox
Barbara Galiza

Growth & Product Data Specialist
Alisa Choong

Vice President and CIO, IT Services and Operations,
Shell
Stefan Fountain

CEO,
PR.co
Holley Murchison

Founder,
Oratory Glory & HOLI. Brands
Martha Mghendi-Fisher

Founder & Chair to the Executive Board,
European Women Payments Network (EWPN),
Jason Williamson

Vice President,
Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem
Peter Guse

Founder & CEO,
grow
Ulla Riber

Vice President, Head of Corporate Garage,
Group Commercial ISS World Services A/S
Katja Berkhout

International Director,
StartupDelta
Lillian Li

Co-founder,
Diversity VC

WHAT OTHERS SAY

"THE MOST INTIMATE TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL ON THE PLANET."
"THIS WAS A GREAT SHOW, THE PRODUCTION WAS FIT FOR TECH SUPERSTARS."
"IT WAS BOTH TERRIFYINGLY INTERESTING AND INTERESTINGLY TERRIFYING."

IN GOOD COMPANY

We've had the pleasure of working with industry-defining brands. These are just some of them.

PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Take a look at some of the previous speakers who joined TNW Conference on stage.

Emily Weiss

Founder & CEO,
Glossier
Scott Belsky

Founder,
Behance & 99u
Casey Neistat

Filmmaker
Julie Zhuo

VP Product Design,
Facebook
Jason Fried

Co-founder,
Basecamp
Gary Vaynerchuk

Founder,
Vaynermedia
Tim Ferris

Best-selling Author
Gillian Tans

CEO,
Booking
Cal Henderson

Co-founder & CTO,
Slack
Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist,
Google
Danielle Wood

Director Space Enabled,
MIT Media Lab
Anjali Sud

CEO,
Vimeo
Alexis Ohanian

Co-founder,
Initialized Capital & Reddit
Jason Silva

Futurist & filmmaker
Kevin Kelly

Co-founder,
WIRED
Ron Faris

GM, S23NYC Digital Studio,
Nike
Ray Chan

CEO,
9GAG
Rich Pierson

Co-founder & CEO,
Headspace

Gary Vaynerchuk

Founder, Vaynermedia

An incredible lineup of speakers, and the set up and production of the conference was absolutely mind-blowing. I even paused mid-talk to applaud them because this event was off the charts.