At three stripes, Alexandra and her team are responsible for rewiring the adidas digital landscape to delight consumers with predictive and intuitive digital experiences while inspiring them through the stories of brand’s truly legendary heritage. 
 
Alexandra’s passion is to celebrate the possibilities of digital and connect people to sport. Outside of her daily job Alexandra is dedicated to bringing young people and those less advantaged closer to their dream jobs through mentorship and coaching.

Constantine is an experienced design leader with a 20-year track record of delivering impactful business results in the face of evolving human behaviour, technological advancements, and economic pressures. 
 
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Constantine has spent the last 15 years in Amsterdam heading product design at a leading video game developer, before working with top apparel brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, and now adidas. As a passionate advocate for user experience and mindful technology, he believes that designers and product leaders hold a responsibility to shape the future of their brands and customers.

Mark is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning global thought leader, sitting at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and brand building. He has worked directly with A-list celebs to C-suite to drive brand growth and transformation and is now Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation at VICE Media Group, which has come from humble beginnings as a print magazine to become a multi-billion-dollar youth media empire with offices in 40 countries. 
 
He’s driven by the mission to democratise his knowledge and digitally upskill 10 million people by 2025 and has travelled to over 100 countries so far in pursuit of this cause. Mark's sessions are a raw, honest, and often hilarious look at the state of marketing, creativity, and innovation in the modern age.

Danielle is a trailblazing force in empathic design with two decades of work grounded equally in science and soul, having transformed some of the largest organisations and tech companies in the world. 
 
At Google, Danielle founded Google Empathy Lab, working with teams from AI and BARD to ATAP, Devices, Inclusion and Crisis Response. Her skill of braiding together scientists, artists, poets, writers, ecologists, Indigenous leaders, human rights and land activists led to the company’s most radical collaborations. Prior to the Lab, Danielle ran special projects for Google X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, and was previously the youngest senior executive on Apple’s graphic design team, working on the top product launches of all time, from the Intel Mac and MacBook Pro to the global introductions of iPhone and iPad.

Mikaela Jade is a Cabrogal woman of the Dharug-speaking Nation of Sydney. Through the Indigenous edu-tech company that she founded, Indigital, Mikaela seeks to develop innovative ways to digitise and translate knowledge and culture from remote and ancient communities. Her aim is for Indigital to help create meaningful pathways for Indigenous people into the digital economy and the creation of future technologies.
 
Mikaela's visionary work and achievements have been widely recognised. In 2022 she was announced as one of 15 leaders to be awarded the Schwab Foundation Social Innovators of the Year Prize, was nominated for the ACT Australian of the Year Award, and was named ANU Indigenous Alumna of the Year. Mikaela has spoken at the United Nations in New York to demonstrate the impact of new technologies in Indigenous communities, is a member of the WEF Metaverse Governance Steering Group, and a delegate on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues.

Sam is most recently the creator of The Uncertainty Experts, a unique hybrid of online learning, interactive documentary, and psychological intervention, and the author of the international best-seller Be More Pirate.
 
He was co-founder of Livity, the multi-award-winning social enterprise and youth-led creative Network, co-founder of Digify Africa, providing transformational digital skills to thousands of young Africans, and co-founder of Don’t Panic, the original activist and Bafta-winning content studio. Sam has won Entrepreneur of the Year, Agency of the Year, The Queens Award, and many others. He is a consultant to brands from Rolex to Red Bull, and a mentor to many entrepreneurs and innovators around the world. 

Dr Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is a professor of AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of technology, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and sought-after public speaker. 

Jonnie is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, a Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He was formerly a MIT Media Lab Assembly Fellow, Google Technology Policy Fellow, Fellow of the British National Academy of Writing and popular broadcaster.

Jack Tame is a journalist and broadcaster who’s been a regular on New Zealand airwaves for more than fifteen years. As the host of Q+A on TVNZ1 and Saturday Mornings on Newstalk ZB, Jack interviews politicians and thought leaders about politics, policy, and economics. His career has taken him around the World and more elections than he can count. Jack loves new ideas, and in his spare time he enjoys reading and test cricket. Jack will serve as the co-host of the Future State: Festival of Radical Innovation. 

Dr Michelle Dickinson (MNZM) is a Nanotechnologist and Materials Engineer. She has spent the last two decades contributing to cutting-edge technologies, researching solutions for medical and technology applications for clients who range from small start-ups to large corporates. Having set up and run New Zealand’s only nanomechanical testing laboratory that specialises in making and breaking tiny things (nano and micro), Michelle spends her time helping companies with board advisory around science and technology commercialization, including technical consulting for investors and VC’s looking for ROI advice for high-tech start-ups. Her experience spans academia, government labs and large-scale R&D departments.
 
Michelle’s success comes from her hard work and lots of lucky opportunities, allowing her to break the poverty cycle she grew up in through education. This experience led her to co-found Nanogirl Labs, a socially conscious business designed to create beautiful and engaging content to help everyone build confidence around STEM. Nanogirl Labs is both an in-person and a digital platform that highlights positive, diverse role models with fun and engaging storylines and kinaesthetic based learning helping everyone to see that they can be a creator not just a consumer. 
 
Michelle has been recognised for her many services to New Zealand for her work in STEM, including becoming a Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours, awarded the Sir Peter Blake Leadership award in 2015, was the winner of the Women of Influence award for science and innovation in 2016, winner of the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize and the New Zealand Association of Scientists Science Communicators Award in 2014.