Katarina Berg

Katarina Berg has been heading up Spotify’s global HR team and she’s also head of the company’s Global Workplace Services and Strategy Operations teams. She’s been with the company since 2013, leading the talent transformation during the business transition from startup to a mature international company.

Before Spotify, Katarina held high-profile HR roles in various multinational companies, such as Preem, Swedbank, Kanal 5 (SBS Broadcasting) and 3 (Hi3G Access). As well as catering to the people needs of a diverse, nimble and ever-changing organization, Katarina is also focused on building teams and reinventing processes to establish an environment where creative and passionate people can be their very best, have fun and develop great careers.

Josh Bersin

Josh Bersin is Founder and Principal at Bersin by Deliotte, leading provider of research-based membership programs in human resources (HR), talent and learning. He is responsible for Bersin by Deloitte’s long term strategy and market eminence.  He is a global research analyst, public speaker, and writer on the topics of corporate human resources, talent management, recruiting, leadership, technology, and the intersection between work and life. Josh has been quoted on talent management topics in key media, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, on BBC Radio, CBS Radio and National Public Radio. He is a popular blogger for Forbes.com and has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine. Josh spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM.

He has spent much of his career in technology, sales, marketing, and business leadership and actively writes about major global trends in leadership, management, HR and talent management technologies. He lives in the San Francisco area, close enough to Silicon Valley to keep up with new technology and its impact on the business of talent.

Josh’s education includes a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alexander Westerdahl

Alexander wanted to become an engineer, but he says that he met people who were much more passionate about it than he was. He realised he needed to discover his own spark and found it in HR. Before becoming VP of HR Research & Development at Spotify, he led HR teams in telco, fintech and tech.

Laura Ryan

Laura Ryan is the Director of International HR at Dropbox, the content collaboration platform that helps keep work organised in the new world of distributed working.

Laura joined Dropbox in 2015 to lead the company’s international people strategy and operations – and her team ensures that Dropbox continues to grow as a great place to work. Prior to this, she spent five years at Google building out their fast growing geo operations function for Europe, leading recruitment activities and building HR policies.

Today, Laura has over 16 years of experience within the HR industry, having previously started her career at the insurance company Aviva, where her commitment to “making work human” was awarded with fast-tracked progression during her seven years at the organisation.

Laura also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Galway University and is committed to her personal mission as an HR leader to shape the way of working for future generations.

Asif Sadiq MBE

Asif is the Senior Vice President at WarnerMedia for Equity and Inclusion, International, he was previously the Global Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact at adidas and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police. He is a board member for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a member of the board of advisors for Hedley May. Over his 20-year career he has worked in Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia.  

Asif has been credited with impactful global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities and programs across organizations, that have created a strong sense of belonging for all and resulted in truly diverse workplaces. He has been key in building synergies between internal and external D&I efforts within organizations, ensuring diversity and inclusion is embedded in all elements of a business, resulting in innovative, creative and inclusive products and services. 

Thomas Møller Lybæk

Thomas is the global HR Process Innovation Director at the LEGO Group. The past 10 years Thomas has been involved in company turnarounds, HR transformation and HRIT implementation projects both as HR lead and management consultant with global companies like Vestas Wind Systems and Arla Foods. Prior, he worked within management consulting and market leading companies on strategy, product development, sales and marketing. Thomas holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from CBS (Copenhagen) and executive training from IMD and Chicago School of Business.

Nikki Lanier

Nikki Lanier is a Central Banking SVP and Site Leader, Multi-Sector CHRO, Board Director, Keynote Speaker, Race and Equity Strategist, and Employment Attorney striving to help employers achieve greater engagement with black and brown talent and greater impact in community. Racia Equity is a talent and self-preservation play. Ask Nikki how.

Daniel Illes

Daniel is VP People at Vinted, the largest second hand platform in Europe. Before Vinted, Daniel was Co-Founder and Chief People Officer at Drover, a car subscription startup in London which exited to Cazoo last year. In a previous life, Daniel worked as a corporate lawyer and later as an early employee at the ridesharing company Lyft.