IBTM World Keynote Speaker line up

IBTM World has announced three keynote speakers who will head up the full programme of 55 sessions forming this year’s Knowledge Programme in the ACS Knowledge Village.

Duncan Wardle, one of the primary creative forces behind The Walt Disney Company, will lead a session as part of the ‘innovation, technology and creativity stream’. Duncan will draw on his 25-year career at The Walt Disney Company and his experience leading a team of creative ideation consultants, to show how leveraging creative thinking can generate far reaching and unexpected business results.

Dex Torricke-Barton, former Head of Communications at SpaceX, Executive Communications Manager at Facebook, and Executive at Google will lead a session on ‘How technology will transform the meetings and events industry.’ Dex will take the audience into Facebook’s boardroom, Elon Musk’s open-concept cubicle, the famed Googleplex and finally to the UN itself to share his insights.

Multi-award-winning millennial tech entrepreneur Charlotte Pearce who has been tipped as ‘one to watch’ by Richard Branson, will draw on her background as CEO and founder of innovative technology platform, Inkpact, to present her session. Titled ‘Humans of Business; why connection matters’, Charlotte will explore methods in which businesses can connect to their customers in more thoughtful and personal ways.

The full programme covers eight topical content themes in the ACS Knowledge Village. The themes include: innovation, technology and creativity; industry trends; engagement and experiences; safety and security; sustainability and CSR; professional development, recruitment and wellbeing; and business development and strategy.

IBTM World 2018 takes place from 27 – 29 November at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. This year the event will welcome around 3,000 exhibiting companies from over 150 countries, over 3,500 buyers and thousands of visitors for a packed schedule of meetings, networking and educational sessions. In 2017, over 74,000 pre-scheduled meetings between exhibitors and buyers were arranged over the three days.

For more information on IBTM World 2018 visit ibtmworld.com.