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Dr Pier Vittorio Mannucci's talk will focus on how to keep employees’ creative potential alive over their careers, and how understanding the evolution of employees’ creative needs and creative processes can help companies optimize their innovative output and success. Dr Pier Vittorio Mannucci is an assistant professor at London Business School. His research focuses on how to make every employee creative, and on how individuals and categories that are usually depicted as less creative are just the victims of stereotyping and/or inappropriate stimuli.

Dr. Eliot Sherman will discuss a primary cause of the gender wage gap and how it may be addressed. Dr. Eliot Sherman is an assistant professor at London Business School. His research focuses on gender inequality in the workplace, with an emphasis on testing plausible organizational solutions. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the American Journal of Sociology, Organization Science, and Management Science. He is actively seeking firms with which to collaborate on research.

Jorge Cervera Hauser's talk will offer visual evidence to show how human actions have led to the recovery of many oceanic spots in different places. Jorge Cervera Hauser is an underwater photographer and the founder of Pelagic Fleet, an adventure travel company committed to exploring and protecting the ocean. In 2014, after producing the award-winning documentary México Pelágico, he decided to commit 100% to the ocean.

Matty Dixon's talk will guide us through his personal experiences of living with depression and why he believes sharing is crucial to management of the state. He believes that the condition is misunderstood and as such is not treated as well as it could be within society.

Gah-Yi Ban's talk hopes to help us understand the role of algorithms in our present lives, and how we can shape their role in our future. Gah-Yi Ban is a professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School. Her research is in Big Data analytics; in particular algorithmic decision-making with complex, high-dimensional and highly uncertain data. Gah-Yi has published some of the most-read papers in her field, which are widely recognized for leading the integration of decision analytics with machine learning.

Lucy Popescu’s talk will focus on the power of words, free expression and the experiences of refugees. Her aim is to encourage empathy for those forced to flee their homes and foster a better understanding of their plight. Lucy Popescu is a writer and editor with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and is a volunteer writing mentor for refugees at Freedom from Torture.

What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.

Through her talk, Andi Frkovich seeks to dispel stereotypes of veterans as ‘rigid’ or ‘overly obedient’ by explaining how military training and culture teaches service members to think critically and cultivate agility, especially in chaotic situations. In doing so, she also hopes to share some valuable lessons that can be applied to bring order from chaos in daily life.

Nikhil Sachdeva's talk will address how developments in electrical propulsion technologies will change the industry, its effects on companies and the environment, and what is needed to make widespread electrical air travel a reality. Nikhil trained as an Aerospace Engineer at Imperial College London, starting his career as an engineer at Rolls-Royce. After two years at Rolls he accepted a place on the Harvard MBA, where he was CFO of the Aerospace and Aviation club, before going on to work for Roland Berger as a senior consultant. Nikhil advises clients in the Aerospace, Automotive and Energy industries, with a focus on corporate strategy and commercial due diligence.

Ever ditched a hobby to keep up with work? You may want to rethink that. Emilia Bunea, financial-services-CEO-turned-researcher, shares surprising findings from her research into major company CEOs and their “serious leisure”.