Our Speakers

Jeremy White is Senior Innovation Editor at WIRED, where he tracks the technologies and companies building the near future and turns them into usable insight for leaders. His beat spans AI and automation to mobility, cybersecurity, and consumer hardware, with a focus on what’s real, what’s hype, and where value appears first. Earlier stints at the Financial Times and Esquire (UK) shaped his eye for design and product—how innovations cross from lab to everyday life. As a keynote speaker and moderator, White briefs boards and product teams on timelines, adoption hurdles, and the operational impacts of emerging tech. He is known for translating complex systems into clear choices—what to pilot, how to govern, and how to talk about change with customers and regulators. Whether road-testing exoskeletons or interrogating quantum and web3 claims, he keeps promise and trade-offs in view, offering a realistic map of the next decade that decision-makers can act on.

Niina Majaniemi, MBA, is a globally recognized expert in emotional intelligence, inclusive leadership and workplace wellbeing, with two decades of experience across international business and tech, including roles at Nokia and Microsoft. A published academic and practitioner, she has designed global training, produced events, and authored thought leadership for organizations such as Microsoft, Adobe and Manpower. Niina coaches leaders to embed empathy, accessibility and responsible AI into product design, leadership and customer experience, translating soft skills into measurable outcomes. She speaks at international forums alongside presidents, executives and changemakers, and works as a workplace culture architect and human centered leadership advisor. Her mission is simple: organisations don’t have to choose between humanity and profit - they can (and should) achieve both.

Roger Federer retired in 2022 after a career that reconfigured modern men’s tennis. His play—marked by technical fluency, strategic clarity and public composure—produced 20 Grand Slam singles titles and 103 ATP singles championships, records that anchor his standing in the sport’s recent history. Beyond match results, Federer has built a sustained philanthropic platform through the Roger Federer Foundation, focusing on early childhood learning across Southern Africa and Switzerland. His post-playing agenda combines advocacy, selective partnerships and public conversation about transitions, performance psychology and the responsibilities of public figures.

Tanmay Bakshi is an AI and software architect known for making machine learning accessible to builders, students and business audiences. He began coding at five, later became a young face in the IBM Watson ecosystem, and now speaks from the overlap of engineering, education and applied AI. He is also the author of four technology books, including Hello Swift!, Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson, Tanmay Teaches Julia for Beginners, and Tanmay Teaches Go. His talks focus on AI literacy, first-principles thinking and how organizations can use technology with more clarity and less hype.

Falguni Nayar founded Nykaa in 2012 after a long career in investment banking, building it into a leading beauty and lifestyle platform that married curated assortment, content-led discovery and physical retail into a profitable public company. Her talks distill practical lessons on category creation, omnichannel scaling, founder governance and disciplined risk—offering executives concrete frameworks for growing consumer brands in emerging markets.

Smriti Mandhana is an Indian opening batter and vice-captain who played a leading role in India’s 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup victory. Renowned for a blend of technical finesse and aggressive rhythm, she has set national and international benchmarks — including centuries across formats and calendar-year scoring records — while captaining at franchise level.