Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio. 

At UCL he teaches undergraduates (in the Science and Engineering for Social Change BSc), graduate students in MPA programmes, and PhD students. He has a PhD in telecommunications and has been a visiting professor at London School of Economics (LSE) and Melbourne University, a senior visiting scholar at Harvard University and President of the Innovation Design Department at the Italian University for Design (IAAD) in Turin. He has also been a regular lecturer at the China Executive Leadership Academy. 

Geoff helped found many organisations including Demos, the Young Foundation, the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Uprising, Studio Schools Trust, Action for Happiness, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, the Australia Centre for Social Innovation and Nesta Italia. He has co-chaired a World Economic Forum group looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrial revolution. 

He has advised many governments. He is on the advisory panel for STOA which advises the European Parliament on science and technology. He was a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow from 2019-22, and a fellow of Demos Helsinki and the New Institute in Hamburg. In 2023-24 he chairs a European Commission programme on 'Whole of Government Innovation'. He is an editor in chief of the Collective Intelligence journal published by ACM and Sage (launched 2022). He has pioneered many ideas used by governments and others – including creative economy strategies, joined-up government, anticipatory regulation, experimentalism, open innovation and problem-solving methods. Geoff has given TED talks on the future economy, happiness and education. 

His Twitter handle is @geoffmulgan and a summary of ideas Geoff has worked on can be found here. His website is geoffmulgan.com He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2020. 

Prof Anna Mavrogianni is Professor of Sustainable, Healthy and Equitable Built Environment at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER), at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL. Within IEDE, she leads the Research Theme on Temperature, Moisture and Air Quality. With a background in architectural engineering and building physics, Anna is an expert in building indoor environmental quality and energy performance analysis, and climate change adaptation of the built environment sector, with a focus on overheating and air pollution at the building and urban scale, and associated impacts on human wellbeing, health and health inequalities. 

In the last 15 years, Anna led, co-led or significantly contributed to more than 30 research projects, and co-authored over 150 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, Government and industry reports. She recently led the EPSRC-funded project ‘Advancing School Performance: Indoor environmental quality, Resilience and Educational outcomes’ (ASPIRE) and led work on the quantification of climate change impacts on UK housing heating and cooling needs, as part of the DESNZ ‘Climate Services for a Net-Zero World’ (CS-N0W) project. She is part of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health and the Clean Air Network 'Health and Equity Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation measures on indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure' (HEICCAM), where she leads the Early Career Researcher (ECR) group. She is also a Co-Investigator in the NERC-funded ClimaCare project, assessing the climate resilience of UK care homes, and an NIHR-funded project, aiming to quantify the potential health and health equality impacts of planning deregulation housing in England.

Anna is a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Knowledge Management Committee and a Co-Secretary of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)-England Board. She is an Associate Editor at the Energy and Buildings journal, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Buildings and Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Advances in Building Energy Research, where she has acted as a Guest Editor or Co-Guest Editor of Special Issues on sustainability, climate justice, health and health inequalities related to buildings and urban environments.

Due to personal circumstances, Mark has had to withdraw from appearing at TE2024.

Dr Mark McBride-Wright CEng, MIChemE is a recognised diversity and inclusion leader, who speaks about psychological safety in inclusive teams. He is founder and Managing Director of EqualEngineers, a company offering a wide array of diversity & inclusion consultancy and training services, as well as creative events. Mark founded the Equality in Engineering conference, and the Engineering Talent Awards.

He speaks on his research in Masculinity in Engineering, inclusive leadership in engineering, and LGBTQ+ in engineering. Mark has delivered 25 Engineering & Technology careers fairs since 2017 connecting over 10,000 diverse opportunity-seekers with over 100 inclusive employers. Mark also founded the Equality in Engineering conference, and the Engineering Talent Awards, and established the Masculinity in Engineering research theme leading to a new way to deliver more impactful positive interventions on organisational culture change.

Mark has trained thousands of engineers on creating inclusive cultures from front line leaders and operatives to senior leadership and executive teams. Clients include EDF Energy, McLaren Racing, Eurostar, GKN Aerospace, Institution of Mechanical Engineers amongst others.

Dr Antonella di Trapani is currently Executive in Residence Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where she is investigating the climate change - energy security and global security nexus and the threats and opportunities offered by emerging and disruptive technologies for the green transition and SDGs. She has also been lately as EU Science Diplomacy Working Group member leading the subtopic on emerging and disruptive technologies for foreign and security policy.

She has been until Dec 2023 Head of Nuclear Education and Knowledge Management at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency heading the Secretariats of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework and the Global Forum on nuclear education, science, technology, and policy.  She has senior level experience in science management, policy, diplomacy, communication, education and capacity building policies and programmes, and international research co-operation gained by working in academia, industry and in several international organisations, including the European Commission. 

She delivers lectures on Science Diplomacy and Nuclear Threats to the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU)’s new course on “Introduction to science and tech diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology’.

She is Advisory Board Member of the new UCL BSc Degree on Science and Engineering for Social Change and she has been awarded a Mercator Science Policy Fellowship for the year 2024-2025.

Dr di Trapani is an Italian national and holds a MSc in Chemistry from the University of Palermo (Italy) during which she was awarded an Erasmus Fellowship at University College London (UK), a PhD in Chemistry and a PostGraduate Diploma in Quality Improvement from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), a MSc in Science Communication and Journalism from University of Ferrara (Italy), and a PostGraduate Diploma in International Development from London School of Economics and Social Sciences (UK).