Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991. Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School, later moving to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, she received a BSc in chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1984 and a PhD from Birkbeck, University […]
Eugene Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions. Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him […]
Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale. She is recognized for her seminal contributions to the study of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes. She is a phenomenologist and uses gravitational lensing observations, the deflection of light rays by matter in the universe, to map the detailed distribution of dark […]
John Delaney
John R. Delaney is a Professor of Oceanography and holds the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks at the University of Washington. Since 1997, he has directed the evolution and development of the first U.S. Regional Cabled Ocean Observatory, which was initially known as NEPTUNE and is now the Regional Scale Nodes program within […]
Joseph Stiglitz
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ is University Professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president […]
Sergei Zhukov
Sergei Zhukov is Executive Director of the Space Technologies & Telecommunications Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation and a Member of Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. From Dzhezkazgan, in Kazakhstan (now the landing site for Soyuz landing modules), Zhukov graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and did post-graduate work on gas core nuclear installations for space […]
Chema Alonso
Chema Alonso is PhD in Cibersucurity and one of the most popular speakers at hacking conferences worldwide. He has been a speaker at the world’s leading Hacking and Cybersecurity conferences for over fifteen years, where he has presented many of his research works. He was the founder, CEO, and Chairman of ElevenPaths, and before that, […]
Ignacio Cirac
Ignacio Cirac is a theoretical physicist and one of the world’s leading pioneers in quantum information science and quantum computing. He is Director of the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany. Cirac’s groundbreaking work on quantum entanglement, trapped ions, and quantum simulation has laid key foundations for modern quantum […]
Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at the London School of Economics. She has pioneered the concepts of new wars and global civil society. Her elaboration of the real-world implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national governments. She is the author […]
Richard Marko
Richard Marko has been ESET’sCEO since 2011. Under his leadership, ESET has become one of the leading cybersecurity vendors with its headquarters in the EU and an impressive list of clients including MS, Google, Tesla, Dell, etc. Richard is a board member of the ESET Foundation devoted to the support of education, technology, innovation and […]
