TEDxBerlin Salon

Speakers

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• Alvin Wang Graylin

  Alvin W. Graylin is a strategist, author of Our Next Reality, and Chairman of the Virtual World Society. With 35+ years in AI, semiconductors, XR & cybersecurity, and leadership roles at HTC, Intel, IBM and Trend Micro. He has also founded four startups and invested in 100+. A Digital Fellow at Stanford HAI and MIT lecturer, he advises governments and enterprises on AI policy, governance and the AGI transition, drawing on U.S.–China experience to promote safe AGI and abundance economics

• Christina Bösenberg

  Christina Bösenberg is a senior executive and recognised expert in Strategy, AI-driven transformation, and large-scale strategy execution. With more than 20 years of international leadership experience across technology, industry, and consulting, she has shaped transformation programmes for global enterprises in Europe, the US, and Asia (former Siemens, BCG-, EY- Partner). In her role as Executive Vice President and Head of Workforce & Organization at Capgemini Invent, she advises C-level leaders on the strategic design of AI-enabled operating models, future skills architectures, and people-centric transformation at scale. Her work integrates technology, business strategy, and human behaviour into coherent transformation systems. She works with global leaders to envision and realize new ways to create value, navigate transformation, and apply cutting-edge technology in ways that are real and impactful. That includes finding practical, responsible ways to apply AI and automation across industries. Christina is widely regarded as a bridge-builder between business, technology, and policy, supporting organisations in navigating disruption with clarity, ambition, and measurable impact. She is a regular keynote speaker, advisor to senior executives, and a leading voice on the future of work, AI governance, and organisational resilience.

• Elizebeth Varghese

  Elizebeth partners with Boards and C-suite leaders to create powerful business outcomes with strategies in emerging tech, AI, blockchain and robotics. She is on the Board of The SETI Institute, which works with NASA and other space agencies to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life. She was on the Board of the Columbia Business School Women’s Circle, and Co-Chair of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology committee. Her book “Stellar Singularity—Navigating the Spacefaring Economy” was internationally acclaimed and Elizebeth is called the “Space Philosopher”—because she integrates the technological aspects of our expansion into space with imperatives for economic, diplomatic, and ethical behavior. She also authored a bestselling book “[Block]Chain Reaction—The Future of How We Live and Work” and was recognized as among the Top Experts and Inspirational Leaders by The HR Gazette and is “The Outstanding 50 - Asian Americans in Business” awardee.

• Hayley Van Loon

  Hayley Van Loon is Deputy CEO of Crime Stoppers International and founder of Magnolia Intelligence. She began her career in the Australian Intelligence Community and has since advised governments, Fortune 500s, and multilaterals on transnational threats, insider risk, and national security strategy. Hayley spent nearly a decade in the US working at the intersection of global security, technology, and intelligence, before returning to Australia in 2023. She serves on several international coalitions, including the World Economic Forum’s Coalition for Digital Safety and the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, is an ambassador for CI-ISAC Australia, and sits on RMIT’s Cyber Research and Innovation Industry Advisory Board. Hayley is committed to advancing sovereign capability and supporting those on the frontlines of intelligence and law enforcement.

• Jakob Trollbäck

  In 2015, Jakob and his team created the visual and verbal communication system for the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Two years later, he launched The New Division, a Stockholm-based agency dedicated to communicating sustainable thinking and practices. In 2019, The New Division co-founded the Inner Development Goals, a framework for the skills and capacities humanity needs to reach the SDGs. Most recently, his team shaped the communication system for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also known as The Biodiversity Plan. Jakob is most recently the founder of The New Foundation, created to counter polarization and strengthen unity by highlighting facts and the fundamental wishes we all share: freedom, justice, equality, and well-being on a healthy planet. The foundation's mission is to bring together the many organizations working for good causes and help them communicate with a clear, unified voice that inspires cooperation across divides.

• Kelly Kagan Law

  Kelly is a senior leader at Snap Inc. where she leads a team that uses Council circles—a listening and storytelling practice—to scale empathy, foster connection, and build a culture of belonging through shared stories. Council has been integral to Snap's culture since its founding. Kelly also serves as the Chair of the board for the Snap Foundation, which champions youth access to the creative economy in Los Angeles. Before her work at Snap, Kelly dedicated her time to designing and implementing creative programming in schools and incarcerated settings throughout Los Angeles.

• Love Dager

  Love Dager is a serial entrepreneur and hackathon expert. Known for his achievements in creating tech communities, fostering innovation and impact, Love comes from a background in tech working for Norrsken, Microsoft and Hack for Earth. Pioneering the hackathon method at the government mission Hack for Sweden in 2019 Love adapted this previously tech based format to tackle society’s greatest challenges, giving birth to the method that would later become Hack for Earth. Back in his home country of Sweden he runs Stockholm Fintech, the nation’s largest community within fintech, and invests in early stage startups on the side. His passions are tech and empowering youth to become entrepreneurs.

• Mariam Khayretdinova

  Mariam Khayretdinova is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brainify.AI, a large brain data company building the world's most comprehensive EEG intelligence platform to accelerate the development of precision diagnostics and novel treatments in neuroscience, including psychiatry and neurodegenerative disorders. A TEDx speaker, author of Decoding Despair: How AI Is Reshaping Psychiatry (Wiley, 2026), Harvard alumna, and researcher at the University of Cambridge, Mariam bridges technology, neuroscience, and AI to make brain disorders explainable—and treatment truly personal.

• Mia Drennan

  Mia Drennan, GLAS Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GLAS Mia is a seasoned banking professional with expertise working on a wide range of institutional debt, private credit and large global restructuring transactions. With more than three decades at the forefront of Debt Capital Markets, she has shaped the standards, expectations, and evolution of the institutional debt landscape across the globe. Mia’s pioneering idea was to create an independent “white glove” loan agency and trustee business to help creditors get their money back on defaulted institutional debt. Under Mia’s leadership, GLAS has grown into an institution with 450+ professionals across ten countries and fourteen offices. The firm has $750+ billion in assets under administration. Mia has led the organisation through several defining milestones, including a partial buyout by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners in 2022 and subsequent investment from Oakley Capital and La Caisse in 2025. Mia was recognised with the 2025 UNWWO Brand Leadership Award and won the 2025 EY Entrepreneur of the Year UK award.

• Nivruti Rai

  Ms. Nivruti Rai is a global technology leader from India, inspiring professionals worldwide with her vision of maximising the world with "maximum India."" A recipient of the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India's highest civilian award for women, conferred by the Hon'ble President of India on International Women's Day 2022, she has been recognised for her contributions to technologies such as Al, semiconductors, and rural connectivity, including power-efficient chips and cost-effective high-speed solutions. She currently serves as MD & CEO of Invest India, the national investment facilitation agency of the Government of India, where she leads efforts to promote investments, trade, and technology. Previously, as Country Head, Intel India, she drove engineering excellence and ecosystem growth, leading a 20,000-strong organisation and advancing the use of technology to solve large-scale societal challenges. Ms. Rai has been consistently featured in Business Today's Most Powerful Women in Business, named among Fortune India's Most Powerful Women, and honoured as ICON of the Year at the #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards 2025. She has also served on several government committees and industry bodies and received the Intel Achievement Award during her nearly three-decade career at Intel. She is widely regarded as a symbol of India's confident, emerging global.

• Safwan Adam

  Safwan Adam is a British entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist whose work spans high-street franchising, private investment and UK-focused civic engagement. Born in East London and trained as an Aeronautical Engineer, he began his career with the CeX franchise, later expanding into food & drink, and hospitality and healthcare. Safwan is the founder of Adam Management Holdings, where he applies a systems-driven investment approach across sectors including fintech, data analytics and precision engineering. His investment model centres on increasing access to wealth creation, often using his own capital to absorb risk and allow smaller investors to invest securely. He manages investments in a technical training institute turned EdTech platform offering technology educational services for over 25 years. Two of the vehicles Safwan founded to deliver philanthropic activity are the Adam Foundation and Avicenna Foundation. These institutions strengthen social cohesion and civic participation across the UK through cross-party engagement, political forums in underrepresented communities, and mentorship and funding for future leaders.