Sinan Yaman
is the Young Business Guru of Turkey. More than 40,000 university students and businessmen attend his seminars at the most respected universities of Turkey and the USA . He has contributed many articles to prominent business magazines in Turkey and internationally about international marketing, innovation and leadership.

His book, “ Truthful Leader ” is considered as a new and successful approach to leadership and is well approved in business/academic circles. The book, which has become one of the best sellers in leadership philosophy, has been translated into English as well. His second book “ Leader & the Dreampartners ” was published in 2006. He combines the well established notions of modern business systems with concepts deriving from the great philosophical masters.

Yaman has been awarded the social responsible leader of the year by Turkish American Association, Middle East Techical University, Koc & Sabancı university students.

Baroness Jean Coussins
was CEO of the Portman Group from 1996 until 2006. She was a member of the Alcohol Education & Research Council, the Scottish Ministerial Advisory Committee on Alcohol Problems and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Group on Alcohol Misuse strategy.

She currently serves on the UK Advertising Standards Authority, which adjudicates on complaints against advertising in broadcast and non-broadcast media. She has also been an independent member of the Advisory Council of the British Board of Film Classification and a member of the Better Regulation Commission.

Jean currently works as an independent consultant and non-executive director, advising companies on corporate social responsibility. She was created a Life Peer in 2007 and sits in the House of Lords on the crossbenches.
She has a BA(Hons) and MA, Modern Languages from Cambridge University.

Charlie Leadbeater
is an ideas generator, strategic adviser and one of the most influential creative people in the world. He is former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair’s favourite corporate thinker. The New York Times anointed Charlie’s idea, “The Pro-Am Revolution”, as one of the biggest global ideas of 2004. In 2008, Spectator Magazine described him as “the wizard of the web”. His most recent book “We Think; mass innovation not mass production” has been an Amazon bestseller. In 2002 he was listed by GQ magazine as one of the Most Powerful Men in the United Kingdom. In 2003 Accenture, the global management consultancy, ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world, and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK.

He spent ten years working for the Financial Times between 1985 and 1995. In 1998 he won the prestigious David Watt Prize for journalism.
Since 1997 Charlie has been an adviser to the Downing Street Policy Unit and the Department of Trade and Industry on the Internet and the knowledge driven economy, helping to shape government policy across a number of fronts.

Charlie read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, leaving with a 1st Class Honours degree.

Magnus Lindkvist
is a trendspotter based in Stockholm, Sweden, As one of the “most entertaining business speakers in the world today”, he combines insights about trends with exuberant energy and personal warmth to create vivid images of the world we live in and the world we will live in.

With an MSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and a degree in film from UCLA, he combines measurable, tangible data with imaginative, emotional ideas in his trendspotting to extract and exploit the sweetspots between business logic and human magic.

He founded his business, Pattern Recognition, in 2005 and employs a number of trendspotters at his base in Stockholm. He is an active member of TED (www.ted.com), the world’s best trend seminar based in California and runs a blog at magnuslindkvist.vox.com. Furthermore, Magnus is the course director for Europe’s only academic course in trendspotting and future thinking at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (www.sses.com).