Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez is a Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development. Perez, who currently resides in United Kingdom, is Honorary Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), University of Cambridge.

Perez has held posts in the government of Venezuela, first in the Institute of Foreign Commerce in relation with the technology aspects of the North-South Dialogue (1975-1977), later as founding Director of Technology in the Ministry of Industry (1980-1983).

Her articles from the early 1980s and her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages have contributed to the present understanding of the relationship between technical and institutional change, between finance and technological diffusion and between technology and economic development. She is perhaps most famous for her development of the concept of the “Techno-Economic Paradigm Shift”.

Michael Braungart

Michael Braungart is a German chemist who advocates that humans can have a positive ecological footprint by redesigning systems which support life. A former Greenpeace activist who once lived in a tree as protest, he is now a professor of process engineering.

The book is a manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design. Through historical sketches on the roots of the industrial revolution; commentary on science, nature and society; descriptions of key design principles; and compelling examples of innovative products and business strategies already reshaping the marketplace, Braungart makes the case that an industrial system that "takes, makes and wastes" can become a creator of goods and services that generate ecological, social and economic value.

Martin Lindstrom  

Martin Lindstrom is the author of Buyology – Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best –seller. Lindstrom is CEO and Chairman of Lindstrom Company and Chairman of Buyology Inc. as well as BRAND Sense agency.

In 2009, TIME Magazine, arguably one of the world’s most respected publications, published its annual World’s 100 Most Influential People, recognizing Lindstrom for his groundbreaking work on neuroscience and branding.

In his book Buyology Lindstrom explains what neuroscience studies can tell society about how selling (and more important, buying) works.

Joseph Pine  

Joseph Pine is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings.

He is the co-author of the groundbreaking books “The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage” and “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”. In his last book he explains that availability, cost, and quality no longer suffice. Today’s consumers seek the authentic where and when they buy. This idea was featured in TIME's "10 Ideas That Are Changing the World".

Emily Nagle Green

Emily Nagle Green is president and CEO of Yankee Group, a leading firm in researching global connectivity change. Yankee Group supports businesses worldwide that use, operate, or help build networks with powerful ideas, forecasts, conferences, and strategy consulting. Green is also vice-chair of MITX, the largest association for digital marketing and media technology in the United States.

She is author of the book Anywhere, How global connectivity is revolutionizing the way we do business.