{"id":36646,"date":"2018-05-10T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/blog\/new-speakers-for-your-event"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:34:35","slug":"new-speakers-for-your-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/uk\/blog\/new-speakers-for-your-event","title":{"rendered":"New Speakers For Your Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, we\u2019ve begun working with some uniquely talented keynote speakers\u00a0covering a myriad of different hot topics. We wanted to send you a list of several speakers we expect will be very popular for upcoming events for you to consider before they are booked.<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Steve Van Bellegehem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/steven-van-belleghem\">Steven Van Belleghem<\/a>, Best-Selling Author, Professor, &amp; Expert on the Future of Marketing and Customer Relationships<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Steven talks to audiences about \u201cCustomers the Day After Tomorrow\u201d\u2014or, in other words, how to win customers in a world of AI, bots, and automation. Steven describes how to invest in the customer experience and how to use automated interfaces, consumer science, and more to create personalized, user-friendly experiences to draw future consumers in.<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Daniel Hulme\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/daniel-hulme\">Daniel Hulme<\/a>, CEO of Satalia<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Daniel is the CEO of Satalia, a London-based company that provides Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is also Director of UCL\u2019s Business Analytics MSc, where he applies AI to solve business and social problems. Daniel is a serial speaker for Google and TEDx, and a faculty member of Singularity University. He talks about how AI will change the nature of business, talent management, and innovation, as well as how the workplace will be transformed.<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Alex MAcqueen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/alex-macqueen\">Alex Macqueen<\/a>, Actor, Moderator, &amp; After-Dinner Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alex Macqueen is an actor best known for his roles as Julius Nicholson In the BBC\u2019s Thick of It and Neil\u2019s Dad in the Channel 4 Comedy The Inbetweeners. Alex is a frequent after-dinner speaker and moderator who brings energy to every event. Alex hosted the \u2018Downing Street Debates\u2019 with Prime Minister David Cameron at Number 10, for the charity, Debate Mate, and has been a guest speaker at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Chitra Anand\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/chitra-anand\">Chitra Anand<\/a>, Advisor, Author, Professor, and Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chitra Anand is an award-winning communications &amp; marketing executive. With over 20 years in the technology industry, she has spent time as the head of Communications for Microsoft Canada, Director of Marketing at TELUS Corporation and Director of Operations at Open Text. She discusses how to foster experimentation and innovation within a company and how leaders specially can identify and mobilize agents of change from the C-suite down to entry-level.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an event that could use an exciting, new name, give us a call at +44-203-440-4196. 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