20-21ST JANUARY 2023
źródło: https://unsplash.com/photos/F2KRf_QfCqw
Speakers
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah – An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah – An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group – UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group – UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
Marek Bracha
Pianist
Marek Bracha
Pianist
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Marek Bracha
Pianist
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
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Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
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Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc – an international consumer publishing company – where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc – an international consumer publishing company – where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
#Business
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
William Stewart is a doctoral researcher at University College London researching the material geopolitics of the International Space Station. His research considers the role of gravity in diplomacy and space infrastructures. He is a former military intelligence analyst with experience in diplomacy and politics. He is also interested in exploringspeculative thinking as a tool for reimagining the past, present, and possible futures through collaborative and creative methods.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
William Stewart is a doctoral researcher at University College London researching the material geopolitics of the International Space Station. His research considers the role of gravity in diplomacy and space infrastructures. He is a former military intelligence analyst with experience in diplomacy and politics. He is also interested in exploringspeculative thinking as a tool for reimagining the past, present, and possible futures through collaborative and creative methods.
20-21ST JANUARY 2023
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20.01.2023
20.01.2023
Boost your personal brand with confidence (for high school students)
#Workshops
12:45 PM
20.01.2023
Julia Mikołajczyk
President at JuliaArt Foundation, Actress, Art Director, Public Speaking Coach
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
Boost your personal brand with confidence (for high school students)
#Workshops
12:45 PM
20.01.2023
Julia Mikołajczyk
President at JuliaArt Foundation, Actress, Art Director, Public Speaking Coach
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
20.01.2023
Experience Design Thinking
#Workshops
1:00 PM
20.01.2023
Jakub Legat
EY EMEIA wavespace Operations Lead
90min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
Experience Design Thinking
#Workshops
1:00 PM
20.01.2023
90min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
20.01.2023
PE deal process and LBO modelling workshop Capital Partners
#Workshops
16:30-17:50 PM
20.01.2023
Marta Kowalska
Mikołaj Konior
Investment Executive
Investment Executive
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
PE deal process and LBO modelling workshop Capital Partners
#Workshops
16:30-17:50 PM
20.01.2023
Marta Kowalska
Mikołaj Konior
Investment Executive
Investment Executive
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
20.01.2023
Separating fact from fiction: learn how to effectively filter information (for high school students)
#Workshops
14:25 PM
20.01.2023
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Małgorzata P. Bonikowska
Polsat News
CNN
Gazeta, POLcast
Polsat News
70min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
Separating fact from fiction: learn how to effectively filter information (for high school students)
#Workshops
14:25 PM
20.01.2023
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Małgorzata P. Bonikowska
Polsat News
CNN
Gazeta, POLcast
Polsat News
70min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
20.01.2023
Boost your personal brand with confidence
#Workshops
14:50 PM
20.01.2023
Julia Mikołajczyk
President at JuliaArt Foundation, Actress, Art Director, Public Speaking Coach
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
20.01.2023
Boost your personal brand with confidence
#Workshops
14:50 PM
20.01.2023
Julia Mikołajczyk
President at JuliaArt Foundation, Actress, Art Director, Public Speaking Coach
80min
Torrington Place, UCL
UCL Leaders is an annual conference facilitating international debates on the most pressing issues faced by the leaders today and platform for sharing ideas between ambitious students and the inspiring speakers. It welcomes interdisciplinary panel discussions between industry experts, politicians and leading academics on European and global topics ranging from economics, business, and law to culture and sustainability.
The 2023 edition, taking place over two days in London, will bring together experts in four fields: Science and Technology, Business, Politics and Art which will analyze the current problems of our world and the innovative technologies to solve them. Don’t miss out the opportunity and buy your tickets now!
20.01.2023
Boost your personal brand with confidence (for high school students)
Experience Design Thinking
Separating fact from fiction: learn how to effectively filter information (for high school students)
Boost your personal brand with confidence
PE deal process and LBO modelling workshop
21.01.2023
Registration
Welcome from Project Leaders
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speech
#Technology and Science Panel Innovation in Healthcare: Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Coffee break
Another Perspective Foundation
#Art Panel Cultural Diplomacy: Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Business Panel Corporation or its alternatives: Where to attain individual success?
Lunch Break
Federation of Polish Student Societies
#Politics Panel Geopolitics of Space: The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Closing Ceremony
Conference Ball
Speakers
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah – An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah – An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group – UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group – UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
Marek Bracha
Pianist
Marek Bracha
Pianist
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Marek Bracha
Pianist
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc – an international consumer publishing company – where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
#Business
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc – an international consumer publishing company – where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
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Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
21.01.2023
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Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
21.01.2023
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Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
21.01.2023
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He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Michał Brański
Co-founder of o2.pl and VP Strategy in WP
He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
21.01.2023
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Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
21.01.2023
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Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
21.01.2023
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Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
21.01.2023
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Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
21.01.2023
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Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
William Stewart is a doctoral researcher at University College London researching the material geopolitics of the International Space Station. His research considers the role of gravity in diplomacy and space infrastructures. He is a former military intelligence analyst with experience in diplomacy and politics. He is also interested in exploringspeculative thinking as a tool for reimagining the past, present, and possible futures through collaborative and creative methods.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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William Stewart
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
William Stewart is a doctoral researcher at University College London researching the material geopolitics of the International Space Station. His research considers the role of gravity in diplomacy and space infrastructures. He is a former military intelligence analyst with experience in diplomacy and politics. He is also interested in exploringspeculative thinking as a tool for reimagining the past, present, and possible futures through collaborative and creative methods.
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