Theme: Creativity and Culture

Listen to your favourite TED talks, and hear from internal and external speakers on culture, creativity and technology.

Meridian Room, L41
HSBC Tower, 8 Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London, London, City of, E14 5HQ
United Kingdom

Andy Law

Award Winning Author, Entrepreneur of the Year, Marketer and Consultant in business creativity

Andy Law, author, marketer and consultant in business creativity, is widely recognised as one of the UK’s foremost practitioners of breakthrough business thinking. An international speaker of high regard, Andy has, over the years, shared the podium with the likes of Mikhail Gorbacev, President Clinton, Bono and the astronaut Buzz Aldrin (but not all at the same time). Andy read Classics at the University of Bristol and worked briefly in commodities trading before beginning his advertising career in 1978. In 10 years’ time he became the youngest-ever board director at the famous British ad agency Collet Dickenson Pearce, working on brands like Hamlet Cigars and Range Rover. He was profiled in Harvard Business Review and was also voted Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Most Innovative Global Adman” by China’s best-selling media magazine. Now he is the Director of Parity Group plc. and Executive Chairman of SuperCommunications Ltd.

Lars Tvede

Portfolio Management, Investment Banking, High-Tech and Telecommunications. International awards winning Entrepreneur & Author

Lars Tvede (www.larstvede.com) took two simultaneous degrees as M.Sc. in engineering and B.A. in business administration before spending 11 years in portfolio management and investment banking. Subsequently he moved to the high-tech and telecommunications industries, where he co-founded companies in the satellite communication, Internet and mobile data spaces, which have won several international awards, including the Red Herring Global 100 Award, the Bully Award (twice) and the Wall Street Europe Innovation Award. He is also founder of Beluga, a successful financial trading company. Furthermore, Lars Tvede has authored a number of business and technology books which have been published in 11 languages and more than 50 editions. Lars was listed in The Guru Guide to Marketing as one of the Worlds 62 leading thinkers of marketing strategy. Lars Tvede lives in Zug, Switzerland with his family. His hobbies include skiing, sailing and collecting Italian sports cars and wine.