Sarah Rawson is an Actuary by trade, and quickly rose to become one of the youngest Managing Directors at Swiss Re. She is responsible for a large portfolio of Life & Health Insurance coverages across several countries. Sarah leads 280 people from many cultural backgrounds and serves as the Appointed Actuary for Swiss Re Europe and a member of Swiss Re's Management Committee. She is an influential voice for key decisions on topics that are often strategic but complex and provides significant steer to the business.

Burcu Ozturk is the CFO of MLP Care, which operates 33 hospitals and has c.20,000 employees. It is the largest private hospital group in Turkey. Burcu Ozturk graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration and joined PricewaterhouseCoopers. During her 10 years of service, Burcu worked as a consultant in Mergers & Acquisitions activities of international investors. Burcu was transferred to PwC New York in 2010; where she provided consultancy services as a Director for 2 years. In 2019, Burcu was ranked among the Top 10 “CFO’s Best For Investor Relations” in Medtech&Services, in the global survey by “Extel”. In 2020-2024, Burcu was awarded as the “Best CFO” in Turkey and EMEA by “Institutional Investor”. In 2018-2024, Burcu entered the list of "Turkey's Top 50 CFO” prepared by Fortune magazine, four times in a row. Burcu is a member of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey and works in Access to Finance Group, contributing to the development of women entrepreneur ecosystem.

Amit Paley is the Executive Director of the Movement Against Malnutrition, a groundbreaking new effort aimed at ending the global public health crisis of children dying from malnutrition. In addition to this role, he serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The Movement Against Malnutrition is at the forefront of tackling global malnutrition, by screening and treating millions of children, driving innovative research, and advocating for urgent, life-saving action. Launched by the IRC, a global humanitarian organization active in 40 conflict-affected countries and providing refugee support across 28 U.S. cities, the Movement represents a bold step toward ending this global injustice.

Prior to the Movement Against Malnutrition, Amit was the CEO of The Trevor Project, the world’s leading organization for suicide prevention and mental health support for LGBTQ youth. Under his leadership, The Trevor Project significantly expanded its reach, launched global initiatives, and introduced cutting-edge technology tools that were recognized among TIME magazine’s top 100 inventions. The organization also transformed TrevorSpace into the largest safe-space social network for LGBTQ youth, established a pioneering research department, and led the world’s largest grassroots campaign against conversion therapy.

Amit’s career also includes his time as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 companies, governments, and non-profits. He played a key role in the firm’s digital, healthcare, and non-profit sectors. Earlier, Amit worked as a journalist at The Washington Post, covering major stories as a foreign correspondent in Iraq, where his work earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and as a business investigative reporter. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he served as president of The Harvard Crimson, and later earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Amit is a highly regarded speaker, frequently featured in outlets like The New York Times, USA Today, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, and CNN. He has served on various leadership bodies, including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Steering Committee, the Executive Committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and the Board of the Center for Public Integrity. As Chair of The Harvard Crimson, he led its financial aid program and spearheaded a $15 million campaign, the largest in collegiate journalism history. Amit has also been an adjunct professor at the City University of New York, recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and honored in prestigious lists like Fortune's 40 Under 40, Crain’s, OUT Magazine’s OUT100, and NBC’s #Pride 50.

Devina is transforming the industrial world through digital technology to enable countries and cities to shift towards more sustainable and efficient mobility, infrastructure, and energy systems; European governments have invited her to share her work with other pioneers; she was nominated 'Changemaker' at the London Tech week and is a strong advocate for diversity in tech.

Ioana Patriniche is Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations for Deutsche Bank, responsible for strategy and execution of the bank’s external stakeholder management. She was a former Head of the UK financial institutions debt capital markets business, responsible for advising management teams on financing, capital raising and investor engagement. Patriniche is a founding member of Deutsche Bank's first-ever group for fostering and developing high-potential female talent and a mentor for rising female talent throughout the firm. She also works with the Romanian Education Trust, a charity focused on helping Romanian students secure funding to study at top-ranking MBA programmes in Europe.

For over ten years, Grégoire has been working for the family business, a Swiss private Bank, in Switzerland, the Bahamas, and the UK. Grégoire currently leads the North American market for private clients out of Geneva, his hometown. Developing strong relationships is key in everything he does, both professionally and personally. Grégoire believes that more than ever, the World requires human connectivity and inquisitive minds. Grégoire holds an MBA from IESE and a MA from Edinburgh University. Outside work, he enjoys reading, playing tennis and hiking.

Christoph Pietsch is part of the management board of Publicis Groupe Germany. As Chief Growth Officer, he is responsible for group marketing, business development, innovation management, partnerships and corporate communications. In October 2015 he was appointed as the youngest Chief Marketing Officer in the country and the first in the global organization's history. From 2017 to 2021, Pietsch was Chief Marketing Officer of Omnicom's DDB Group in Germany. During those years, the 400-people-strong creative company became agency of the year two times in a row and finished all national creative rankings as #1. In 2020 and 2022, he was again named Agency Personality of the year by HORIZONT and New Business Magazine.

Tom Plümmer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wingcopter, a humanitarian and commercial delivery drone company from Germany, known for its pioneering and life-saving work. His mission is to improve people’s lives around the world thanks to Wingcopter's delivery drones. Tom raised more than $100 Million for Wingcopter and became a World Economic Forum YGL in 2023. Plümmer's commitment to social impact is a cornerstone of his leadership philosophy. He firmly believes in the potential of technology to address pressing societal challenges. This commitment is evident in Wingcopter's humanitarian missions, such as delivering vaccines and medical supplies to isolated regions, especially during crises. Tom thinks globally but acts locally, upskilling young people on the ground where his projects are being built so that they can get ready for the fast-growing billion-dollar drone economy and run the drone networks by themselves.

Hriday is the Global chief Digital & information officer at Orange. He and his team are responsible for thought leadership with a focus on Orange’ technology strategy and transformation. His success in this field has come from a practical approach that uses technology innovation as a tool for business transformation, Hriday is also committed to societal development and is passionate about providing technological solutions as a force for good to drive change. Hriday has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from University of Edinburgh and also an MSc in Major Programs from Oxford University.

Atika Rehman is a journalist with over a decade of experience working as a reporter and editor in Pakistan. She is now based in the UK, where she is the foreign correspondent for Dawn, a widely respected English daily in Pakistan. Atika covers a breadth of local and international stories. She reports on Pakistani politics and the sizeable British Pakistani community in the UK and covers major developing stories such as Brexit, the elections and landmark court cases. Previously, she was the Managing Editor of Dawn.com, Pakistan's highest traffic English news site which has a digital audience of 90 million a month. Currently, Atika is also the Deputy Editor at The Third Pole, a digital publication which covers Asia's water crisis and its effects on migration, food security and livelihoods. Her work has earned both national and international recognition. Atika is a 2019 Acumen Fellow.

Thomas Roulet is a professor, holding the Chair of Organisational Sociology and Leadership at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of King's College Cambridge where he co-founded the King's Entrepreneurship Lab, a venture incubator. His work revolves around stigma and contestation, mental health and the future of work and has been published in premiere research outlets, the Harvard Business Review, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. His latest book, "The Power of Being Divisive" (Stanford Press, 2020) was labelled by the Financial Times as “a fascinating study of the social-media fuelled and fast-changing landscape of public opinion, and the possible ways in which that might be beneficial”. He has been regularly covered in the Financial Times, the Economist, the Telegraph and Le Monde, among others. He has received multiple awards including the Pilkington Prize of Teaching Excellence, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy, named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40 (Poets&Quants) and is on the Thinkers50 Radar.

Today Anneliese serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Syncron AB and member of the Group Management Team, one of the fastest growing SaaS companies headquarters in Sweden in their pursuit of enabling digital transformation for the manufacturing industry.

Anneliese has been previously acting as the youngest Regional President in Software AG’s history having lead their Asia Pacific and Japan business operations and having been a member of the Global Executive Leadership Team.

Her achievements externally working with customers and partners to transform their operations to the digital world as well as internally to transformation the Software AG operation in region led her to be recognised as “Business Leader of the Year” at the 2019 “Women in IT Asia” Awards, to be shortlisted as the "Transformation Leader of the Year" at the 2020 "Women in IT Asia" Awards and to be called out as part of the top 100 list of Women in Tech Listing in 2020. Anneliese is committed towards gender equality, multi-culturalism, and employee engagement. She has been leading her regional team on diversity and inclusion which she views as key innovation enabler and actively promotes in her work environment growth mindset principles and purpose-lead operations.