Speakers

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   Rahaf Harfoush

   NYT best-elling author | Digital anthropologist

   Rahaf Harfoush is a digital anthropologist and New York Times best-selling author of three books. Her most recent is Hustle & Float: reclaim your creativity and thrive in a world obsessed with work. Rahaf is the executive director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture and teaches Innovation & Emerging Business Models at SciencePo’s School of Management. She is a member of France’s National Digital Council and is a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. Formerly, Rahaf was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Program at the World Economic Forum.

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   Christopher Sanderson

   Co-founder & CEO at The Future Laboratory

   Christopher is the CEO of The Future Laboratory, a leading consultancy that helps organisations around the world with trend forecasting, brand strategy and consumer insight. He is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global programme of conferences, media events and Trend Briefings, which he presents to audiences all over the world.

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   Meredith Whittaker

   President at Signal

   Meredith is the President of Signal. She is the current Chief Advisor and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute. Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialisation of computational technology. She also worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She has advised the White House, the FCC, FTC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organisations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.

Moderator

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   Steven Van Belleghem

   Customer experience enthusiast & Co-founder at Nexxworks

   Steven is the author of several international bestsellers, including When Digital Becomes Human, Customers the Day After Tomorrow, The Offer You Can’t Refuse, and most recently, A Diamond in the Rough. His passion is to inspire people about the customer experience of the future. Steven believes that entrepreneurs can only truly connect with their customers' hearts by approaching them with empathy and as fellow human beings. This can be achieved by playing the long-term game and using new technology with common sense. Success naturally follows from this approach. As an international keynote speaker, Steven has delivered over 1,500 presentations in 45 different countries. At the UBA Trends Day, Steven will be your moderator.