Professor Alan Felstead has held positions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and the University of Leicester. From 2006-2024 he was Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University and was a Co-director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) from 2022 - 2024. In 2024 he was made Emeritus Professor.

His research focuses on the quality of work, training, skills and learning, non-standard employment, and the spaces and places of work.

Contributions

• Future of work insights from the Skills and Employment Survey

Andrew Magowan is a strategic adviser, speaker and Non-Executive Director with over 20 years of experience supporting businesses and CEOs land their ambitious long-term plans and putting their business relationships first.

Contributions

• Sustainability

Avivah is a thought leader specialising in gender and generational balance and CEO of 20-first, one of the world's leading global consultancies focused on balancing gender, generations and culture. She advises on leadership, the future of work, the longevity economy and the consequences of 60-year careers.

She is a regular contributor to Forbes and the Harvard Business Review and hosts the 4-Quarter Lives, a longevity-focused podcast, and the Elderberries Substack. Avivah is Visiting Faculty at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, co-Directs the Longevity Leadership Programme at Catolica Lisbon, and is Adjunct Faculty at DePaul University. In addition to her three Ted talks, she speaks regularly at events ranging from The Economist Conferences, The Global Peter Drucker Forum, The Leadership Forum and The Women’s Forum.

Contributions

• Generational balance
• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Female leadership

Ben leads the CIPD's public policy team, which works to inform and shape public debate, government policy and legislation to champion better work and working lives. His personal areas of interest include industrial strategy, skills policy, labour market regulation and enforcement and employee relations and wellbeing.

Ben's published research includes reports on the Apprenticeship Levy, line management capability, zero hours contracts and the gig economy. He is also a member of the Government-sponsored Flexible Working Taskforce and has given evidence to a range of select committee inquiries on behalf of the CIPD. Before joining the CIPD, Ben was news editor and employment law editor at Personnel Today. 

Contributions

• Good work

Dr Carl-Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School. 

In 2013, he co-authored “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?”, whose methodology has been used by President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the BBC’s widely used automation-risk tool. He has since advised international organisations, governments, and businesses, including the G20, OECD, European Commission, United Nations, and several Fortune 500 companies.

He is the author of “The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation”, which examines the interplay of technological revolutions and the social and political shifts that accompany them and was selected as a Financial Times Best Book of the Year 2019.

Contributions

• Technological displacement

Cathy is Head of HR, EMEA at Salesforce where she oversees the teams who deliver HR services across the region. She has held positions at leading tech companies including Google Cloud, Oracle and Microsoft.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Cathy was the Vice President of Human Resources at Oracle where she served as a strategic partner to the Technology business across the EMEA region, providing proactive insight on organisational health and people strategy, including change management, executive coaching, recruiting, succession planning, business analysis and organisation development.

Contributions

• AI-driven workplace transformation

Claire is a technology entrepreneur and future thinker about the space where humans and technology interact in workplaces. She is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of WNDYR, a technology company dedicated to shaping the world of work through digital transformation services and AI-driven data analysis. Claire has over 15 years of experience helping global companies such as Microsoft, Accenture, Bloomberg and SAP define their future of work strategies.

Claire also serves on the boards of UNICEF, talkSTEM and EQL: HER.

Contributions

• Virtual and hybrid work

Clemmie is an experienced education leader with over 15 years in the sector, having taught, led and supported in a range of state, independent, academy and international school settings. She co-developed The Chatsworth Tapestry which is a unique curriculum overlay that ensures every child develops in six key areas including developing a lifelong learning mindset, being digitally literate and becoming a global citizen.

Clemmie is a passionate advocate for inclusion, having overseen the inception, creation and growth of the first fully inclusive school in Riyadh and contributing to a UNESCO Inclusion Conference where she was awarded a Fellowship of the International Forum of Inclusion Practitioners.

Clemmie has also been listed as one of Business Women in Education’s Women to Watch list, in the Trailblazer category and won a GESS award in 2025 in the inclusion initiative category.

Contributions

• Future skills

Daniel is a writer and economist, exploring the impact of technology on work and society. He is the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, Research Professor at King’s College London, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, Digital Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and an Associate Member of the Economics Department at Oxford University.

His book, Growth: A Reckoning (2024), was a runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2024. He is also the author of A World Without Work (2020) and co-author of the best-selling book, The Future of the Professions (2015).

Daniel previously worked in various roles in the British Government – in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and the Cabinet Office.

Contributions

• HR in the age of big data, AI and algorithms

David is a globally renowned authority in the fields of conflict management, HR transformation, culture change, leadership and organisational development. He is the CEO and founder of The TCM Group, a consultancy he established in 2001 to help organisations adopt people-centred, values-based approaches to leadership, conflict resolution and cultural change. His extensive experience in mediation and dispute resolution has made him a passionate advocate for the need for organisations to move away from damaging, retributive models of workplace justice towards restorative approaches.

In 2021, David was recognised as one of the global top 20 HR most influential thinkers and in 2022, he was invited to join the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar.

Contributions

• Workplace conflict challenges (2024)
• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Managing workplace conflict

Derek has over a decade of experience helping senior leaders undertake large-scale culture transformations that enabling them to bring their purpose to life and achieve their strategic objectives. He was head of organisation and culture at co:collective for over 5 years, advising clients in a wide range of sectors including IBM, American Express, Memorial Sloan Kettering, McKinsey & Company, the NFL and the Whitney. Prior to joining co:collective, Derek was a leadership and culture expert at BCG, where he worked with Fortune 500 clients to design and implement culture and capability-building programmes at a global scale.

Derek is also affiliated faculty in liberal and professional studies at the University of Pennsylvania and delivers workshops on leadership influence, team building and culture change at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education. He was a faculty director for the Certificate in Organisational Culture and Collaboration in Penn’s online bachelor’s degree program, the first in the Ivy League.

Contributions

• Workplace culture

Eliza is a historian, bestselling author and the founder of AllRelative, a platform helping businesses understand how wealth, work and family life are being reshaped in the twenty-first century. Combining historical insight with contemporary data, she helps people and organisations recognise the deeper and longer-term forces rewriting our world – from generational change and the future of work to the shifting dynamics of wealth, class, ageing and family life.

Eliza is the author of three books. Her latest, “Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad” (2024) explores the rise of generational wealth and the growing role of family money in shaping opportunity and became a Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller. In recognition of her research on generational change, she was awarded the Europa Forum’s Millennial Leaders Award.

Through her platform AllRelative, Eliza works with global corporations, financial institutions and professional services firms to help leaders understand the social and economic forces transforming modern life.

Contributions

• Generations

Elizabeth is a strategic advisor, turnaround executive and leadership coach, working at the intersection of human capital strategy, operational design, and innovation – helping CEOs, C-suite executives and enterprise leaders create frictionless systems that convert effort into momentum. As Director of Innovation at Cisco, she co-founded Webex Hologram – the industry’s first photorealistic, real-time 3D holographic collaboration system – pioneering new ways for distributed teams to connect.

She has navigated Fortune 100 enterprises, evaluated early-stage startups for venture funds, and coached leaders across industries on building scalable, human-centric organisations. Named one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Female Pioneers in Technology" by Toptal, Elizabeth’s work has been featured in Forbes, Inc., and MIT's EmTech NEXT. Her Amazon bestseller, "Cake on Tuesday: 25 Lessons to Unlock Corporate Innovation," distils hard-earned lessons from leading innovation inside a global enterprise.

Contributions

• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• People and emerging technology

Giles is co-founder and CEO of Good Business, a strategy consultancy firm with almost 30 years of experience advising organisations on purpose, behaviour change, sustainability and responsible business strategies. Good Business advise global corporates, brands, start-ups and foundations including The Coca-Cola Company, Aviva, Rathbones, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Aesop and the Wellcome Trust to help them understand where the world is moving and how they can actively create their place in the future and thrive in it.

He is co-author of “Good Business: Making Money by Making the World Better” which explores the intersection of business and social responsibility to argue that successful companies in the 21st century will be those that leverage their power to promote social progress.

Contributions

• Sustainable and responsible business

Dr Grace Lordan is Associate Professor in Behaviour Science at the LSE and founding Director of the Inclusion Initiative (TII), a research centre she established in 2020 to bring behavioural science insights to firms to allow then to enhance the inclusion of all talent. She is also the creator of the MSc in Behavioural Science at the LSE.

Grace is a leading voice on labour market skills, building productive organisations, inclusive leadership, women’s progress in the workplace and the future of work. She served as an expert advisor to the UK government, sitting on their skills and productivity board and also led the £2 million ESRC funded diversity and productivity from education to work (DAPEW) project. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals and she has written for the Financial Times, Fortune, Fast Company, MIT Sloan Management Review, Reuters and Harvard Business Review.

Contributions

• The business case for DE&I
• Leveraging underrepresented talent

Harriet Molyneaux is an executive and business coach working at the intersection of leadership, culture and organisational capacity. She supports executives and boards to strengthen judgment and the conditions required to lead well under sustained pressures and is a long-standing advocate for business as a force for good.

As former Managing Director and now Non-Executive Director of HSM Advisory – the research and advisory group founded by Professor Lynda Gratton – she has spent over a decade helping organisations build sustainable high-performance cultures through flexibility, inclusion and people-centred design. She also previously served on the 10 Downing Street Committee for Workload and Wellbeing, supported Linklaters win the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards for Strategy and Behaviour Change (2016) and sat on the board of directors for the Responsible Initiative for Justice.

Contributions

• Future of work trends

Professor Ian Goldin is Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, a Professorial Fellow at the University’s Balliol College and responsible for the Oxford Martin School Programmes on the Future of Work, Technological and Economic Change and Future of Development.

From 2006 to 2026 he was the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, during which time he established 45 programmes of research, bringing together more than 500 academics to create the world’s leading centre for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges. He has received wide recognition for his contributions to development and research, including having been knighted by the French Government and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He is the presenter of three BBC series and has published over 50 articles and 25 books.

Contributions

• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Longer-term trends shaping the work

Jenny is Unily’s Chief People Officer, appointed in 2023 after serving as Vice President of Employee Success for UKI & North EMEA at Salesforce. She has significant experience working to develop and execute innovative people strategies, with a focus on equality and attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent in the market. She is passionate about maintaining and scaling Unily's strong and unique culture to support its significant growth and believes that enhancing employee experience and engagement is the secret sauce for any business. Previously, she worked as an employment lawyer in City law firms.

Contributions

• Driving exceptional employee experience and organisational velocity
• Technology, trust and the evolving employment 'deal'

Jeremy Myerson is a leading international writer and researcher in design specialising in inclusive design, the future of work and healthy cities. He is Emeritus Professor at the Helen Hamlyn Centre of Design at the Royal College of Art which he co-founded in 1999 and served as its Director for 16 years, pioneering new practices in inclusive design in relation to population ageing.

He is also co-founder and Director of WORKTECH Academy which provides a forum for academics and practitioners to share new ideas on the future of work and workplace and is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.

Contributions

• Future of the office

Campaign Director of the 4 Day Week Foundation and a former Labour Party Press Officer. Campaigning across the UK for a four-day, 32 hour working week with no loss of pay for workers. Supports organisatiosn and workers of all kinds to transition to a four-day week through workshops, mentoring and networking.

Contributions

• 4 Day Week Campaign

Over the last 20 years, Kevin has worked in law, hedge funds, asset management and financial technology, with short-dated fixed income; building businesses; and B2B capital markets being the common threads. Outside of work, he loves playing, coaching and watching sports, wherever possible with his three children.

Contributions

• ESG

Kit Krugman is the Managing Director at co:collective, a creative and strategic transformation consultancy.

Kit has 10 years of experience designing, managing, and growing teams at creative organizations. She has worked on Future of Talent/Future of Work projects for clients like IBM, LinkedIn, and Microsoft and designed organizational change initiatives for diverse communities including schools, design firms, and publishing companies.

Kit is deeply committed to building more inclusive communities and organisations. She has been published in INC, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post and spoken at DisruptHR, Talent2030, and Adobe’s 99U on numerous topics including women in leadership, new organizational models and building a culture of inclusion and innovation.

Contributions

• Workplace culture

Margaret is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker. She is currently a professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management and in 2021, was inaugurated into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fam for her lasting contribution to Management Thinking. 

She is the writer of seven books that explore the areas of business, leadership, decision-making and creativity. Margaret also teaches entrepreneurship, mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organisations through Merryck & Co.

While Margaret’s first two books focused on female leadership, entrepreneurship and how they impact women in the workplace, her overarching theme is recognising and releasing the capacity that often lies buried inside organisations.

Contributions

• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Technology, trust and the evolving employment 'deal'

Matthew Taylor is a writer, public speaker and former political strategist. He was Chief Executive of the RSA from 2006 – 2021, transforming the organisation into a global institution with 30,000 fellows and a high-profile and influential research programme.

Before that he was Chief Adviser on political strategy to Prime Minister Tony Blair, and he also ran the Institute for Public Policy Research for four years. He is a widely known commentator on policy, politics and public service reform and was commissioned by the Conservative Government in 2016 to carry out an independent review into modern employment practices, with the Taylor Review report “Good Work” published in 2017.

Contributions

• Reshaping business models and the workforce in the digital age
• Business Transformation in the post-pandemic world

Experienced property, workplace, facilities and change leader. Successfully led strategy, commercial development, acquisition and dispodal, award-winning wokrplace design and delivery. Led complex organisational change and transformaiton programmes in over thirty countries in a wide variety of industry sectors. Neil has developed a people-centric approach to change that has proven itself successful and adaptable in meeting a variety of challenges.

Contributions

• Business transformation in the post-pandemic world
• Future of the office

Neta Meidav is Co-Founder and CEO of Vault Platform, a tech company helping businesses remain ethical by disrupting the outdated model of workplace misconduct reporting and resolution. After her own experience with workplace harassment it became clear that legacy solutions for employees to report misconduct and employers to respond, were not effective. Neta founded Vault Platform in 2018, with Rotem Hayoun-Meidav, to empower workers to speak up in confidence, while simultaneously protecting enterprises from the potential fallout of public whistleblowers and giving them a platform to maintain their ethics and integrity.

Contributions

• Business transformation in the post-pandemic world
• Trust and tech

Nimmi is the Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity at techUK. She works on all things skills, education, and future of work policy, focusing on upskilling and retraining. Prior to joining the techUK, she worked for the UK Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party, and holds an MA in Strategic Communications at King’s College London and BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester. She also took part in the 2024-25 University of Bath Institute for Policy Research Policy Fellowship Programme and is the Education and Skills Policy Co-lead for Labour in Communications.

Contributions

• Automation and emerging technologies

Director of the IPA since January 2008, and an honorary fellow of CIPD, Nita has a long career in the trade union and labour movement. She joined COHSE from university in 1976, working for the health union until 1983; after seven years at the GLC/ILEA including four year’s as Ken Livingstone’s press officer she rejoined COHSE in 1992 and was merged into UNISON the following year.  She was press officer and then political officer for UNISON until January 2001 when she joined Downing Street as Tony Blair’s assistant political secretary with responsibility for trade union liaison.

At No 10 Nita was directly involved in establishing important social partnership developments including the transposition of the Information and Consultation Directive, the Women and Work Commission, the commissions looking at the right to request part-time working, the Turner Pensions Commission and many others.

She was instrumental in securing government support for the ground-breaking two-tier workforce deal and the Cabinet Office guidance on the treatment of staff in contracting; she was also one of the prime movers behind the establishment of the Public Services Forum, bringing together public sector unions and employers and was one of the government nominated members of the PSF. She was particularly involved in the development of the Drive for Change toolkit, which embodies the principles of partnership working. She also ensured that proposal for a Compact, further equalising the treatment of directly and indirectly employed staff, was included in the Warwick Agreement of 2004, and worked on its implementation right up to leaving No 10 in June 2007.

She has an in-depth understanding of the positive role that modern unions and representatives can have in the workplace and a very wide knowledge of the trade union movement as well as business needs.  She has close working links with the TUC and many individual unions as well as the CBI, EEF, Chemical Industries Association and many individual companies

Contributions

• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Employee voice

Paul is Chairman and founder of the Digital Workplace Group (DWG), one of the UK’s leading management consultancies in digital transformation. He is a business and social entrepreneur. 

Paul is the co‑author of the acclaimed ‘Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age’ with Shimrit Janes. His earlier book, ‘The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering Digital Workplaces Fit for the Future,’ co‑authored with Elizabeth Marsh, was shortlisted for the Management Book of the Year Award in 2016. He also wrote ‘The Digital Workplace: How Technology Is Liberating Work,’ a seminal title that helped popularise and explain the concept of the “digital workplace.” Paul has given many talks on the digital future of work for audiences at Microsoft, IKEA, Google, Accenture, Harvard Business Review, Cisco, European Commission, IMF, Adobe and Oxford University.

Contributions

• Organisational adaptiveness and resilience

Penelope Mantzaris is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in market research and consulting. Currently serving as Senior Vice President at Edelman Data & Intelligence since July 2019, Penelope previously held several roles at Gracechurch Consulting from August 2013 to June 2019, including Director, Research Director, and Research Manager. Penelope's earlier roles include Research Manager at Ipsos MORI, Research Executive and Senior Research Executive at TNS SA, and CMI Assistant Manager at Unilever. Educationally, Penelope graduated with a Business Science Honours degree in Marketing from the University of Cape Town in 2006.

Contributions

• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• Technology, trust and the evolving employment 'deal'
• Trust in the workplace

Peter Cheese is the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He is recognised as a consultant, speaker and writer in the field of human capital and organisation and has worked with many organisations, practitioners and thought leaders in this field.

Alongside his role as CIPD Chief Executive, he is Chair of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and of the Engage for Success movement, and sits on the Board of a number of Advisory Boards and Forums. He co-chairs with the UK Department of Business and Trade the Flexible Working Taskforce focused on promoting and understanding flexible working in organisations and workplaces.

Peter writes and speaks widely on the development of HR, the future of work, and the key issues of leadership, culture and organisation, people and skills.

Contributions

• Shaping the future workplace: insights on people, AI, leadership and flexibility
• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond
• 2020 future of work trends
• Shifting workforce demographics – rising to the challenge

Philip is Founder of UnGroup and Cordless Group. He is a futurist, author and advisor. Focusing on people and behaviours, he specialises in predicting the impact of emerging technology on the way we will work, shop, consume leisure and live.

He has worked with over 1000 organisations delivering workplace innovation concepts including Facebook, Schroders, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Allen & Overy, GlaxoSmithKline, Cisco, Macquarie Group, BBC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Scotland, Jones Lang LaSalle, Intel, JP Morgan Chase and the Boston Consulting Group.

Philip has written a number of books on the future of work including The Creative Office, The 21st Century Office, and Space to Work (all co-authored with Jeremy Myerson).

Contributions

• Future of the office

After 20+ years exploring how culture and trends shape human behaviour, Philippa founded PeoplePlacesSpaces to bring this approach to hospitality - working with independent owners, international brands, and real estate developers across brand strategy, guest experience innovation, and trend forecasting.

Philippa's approach starts with people, not products. Philippa works at the early stage of brand development - constantly gathering insights from across the industry through her #FutureGuest research and by getting amongst guests, teams, and competitors - to understand what's really driving connection and choice.

Contributions

• Rise of the sustainability agenda

Rebecca’s post-A-level studies began with a Geography and Physical Education degree from Leeds University, followed by the National Professional Qualification for Headship and more recently, an MA in Education from Buckingham University. Her extensive career has spanned both state and independent schools with a breadth of roles, including Departmental Head and Director of Sixth Form, Assistant Head and Deputy Head. She is also a qualified ISI Inspector and represents HMC on the school’s inspection committee for the South West. She was previously Headteacher at Hull Collegiate before moving down south. Rebecca is a Governor at an independent school in Hertfordshire and on the Executive Learning Committee for a Multi-Academy Trust in London. Now in her fourth year as Principal at Surbiton High School, Rebecca is looking forward to the next challenge, after leading the School through a WW2 bomb scare and global pandemic!

Contributions

• Future skills

Richard Vanner is Senior HR Director at WTW, which  is a global advisory, broking, and solutions company that helps clients turn risk into a path for growth. With around 49,000 colleagues operating in 140 countries and markets, WTW combines deep data insights with local expertise to support strategy, resilience, workforce motivation, and performance.

In his HRD role Richard is responsible for UK, Western Europe & CEEMEA  and has worked at WTW for over 20 years.  His early career was spent with Royal Mail (graduate trainee) and Mars Incorporated, where he worked in a variety of generalist HR roles before joining WTW in 2004.  In his current role Richard is a UK Board member and has overall responsibility for HR delivery and strategy implementation across the regions.  Richard leads a team of circa 80 HR professionals many of whom are HR generalists covering a wide range of HR activities.  A common feature of Richard’s career has been managing the HR aspects of organisational change indeed, he has overseen three large M & A’s during his WTW career, as well as numerous other transformation related activities.  This has stood him in good stead for the fast pace of work within his industry sector.

Richard has business degrees from UK and French universities and is a fluent French speaker.  He is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development.  Outside of work Richard is a very keen road cyclist, is a frequent visitor to France and has an interest in wine.

Contributions

• Values-led growth and transformation

Ritu has over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles with HR and talent-focused businesses. She also led business development and strategic growth efforts in EMEA at Glint before joining Syndio. Before Glint, Mohanka worked at Kenexa, IBM Smarter Workforce, to drive rapid revenue growth across the EMEA region. She is the winner of multiple awards and has been recognised on the EMpower Top 100 Ethnic Minority Senior Executive list.

Contributions

• Workplace and pay equity

Rob Worrall was Head of People at BDO UK until June 2025, where he led the firm’s UK workforce growth from 3,500 to over 8,000 employees and supporting revenue growth to 1bn, as well as spearheading transformative DEI, agility and wellbeing initiatives. His expertise spans talent strategy, organisational design, employee experience and digital HR transformation. 

Contributions

• Human skills, agility and proactive workforce planning

Shruti is a Senior Economist in the Skills and Employment Division of the OECD, leading work on Ageing and Employment policies. She joined the OECD in 2007, and has since led and co-authored several landmark reports in the area of active ageing, career mobility and retention of older workers, promotion of age-inclusive workplaces, age diversity, disability, mental health and work policies.

Shruti also co-leads the award-winning initiative Living, Learning and Earning Longer to support global companies reshaping employer practices and policies to nurture a multigenerational workforce. She has authored articles, reviews and interviews published in a variety of publications including Journal of the Economic of Ageing, Le Monde and Financial Times.

Contributions

• Age inclusion
• Strategic priorities shaping the workforce and HR agenda in 2024 and beyond

Simon is a leading business anthropologist whose consulting experience centres on product, business and platform strategy. His expertise lies in understanding the relationship between people and technology to create product and organisational impact.

Simon’s 25-year career has included founding the UK’s first dedicated ethnographic research company and running an innovation lab at Intel. His book “The Power of Not Thinking” was shortlisted for The Business Book Awards 2021, and his work has been covered by Bloomberg, the FT and BBC.

Contributions

• Workplace behaviours and cultures

Till Leopold is Head of Work, Wages and Job Creation at the World Economic Forum's Centre for the New Economy and Society, leading efforts on the future of work, skills and labour market transformation. Till has been instrumental in shaping the World Economic Forum's landmark annual Future of Jobs report which examines the trends expected to transform the world of work.

Contributions

• The future of jobs: technology, skills and the green transition

Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepeneur and author. She co-founded Socos Labs, a company dedicated to leveraging AI-driven research to maximise human potential for companies, global policy and education reform. Named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017, Dr. Vivienne Ming wants to create better people—through technology. Whether she’s creating expression recognition AI or using cutting edge neuro-prosthetics, Vivienne’s goal is the same: to augment human potential.

Contributions

• Human-centred AI