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The Istanbul 2027 speaker lineup will be announced in stages. Below is a selection of names from previous editions.
Past Speakers100 names
Names who took the TOA stage in Berlin between 2012 and 2024. Not the Istanbul 2027 lineup — that is announced separately.
Sergey Brin
Co-Founder · Google
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO · Amazon
Allen Blue
Co-Founder · LinkedIn
Gavin Wood
Free-Trust Technologist and Founder · Ethereum, Polkadot, Kusama, Parity, Web3 Foundation
Jawed Karim
Co-Founder · Youtube
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, Philosopher, Bestselling author of Sapiens
Steve Huffman
Co-Founder & CEO · Reddit
Slav Petrov
Vice President, Research · Google DeepMind
Matt Mullenweg
Founder · Wordpress / Automattic
Dorothee Bär
Former Minister of State for Digitalisation · Member of the German Bundestag
Steve Bartlett
Founder & CEO · Steven.com
Richie Hawtin
Artist
Fred Wilson
Founder & Partner · Union Square Ventures
Colin Jarvis
Chief Architect · OpenAI
Jutta Steiner
Co-Founder & CEO · Parity Technologies
Alex Gluchowski
CEO & co-inventor · Matter Labs (zkSync Era)
Juergen Mueller
CTO · SAP
Adam D’Angelo
Co-Founder & CEO · Quora
Jess Houlgrave
CEO · WalletConnect
Andras Orban
Engineering Director · Google Gemini
Claudius Senst
CEO · BILD Group
Scott Croyle
Director · Apple
Rem Koolhas
Architect · OMA
Robert Habermeier
Co-Founder · Polkadot
Dominik Richter
Founder & CEO · Hello Fresh
Chema Alonso
Chief Digital Officer · Telefónica
Maximilian Tayenthal
Founder & Co-CEO · N26
George Church
Geneticist / CRISPR Inventor · Harvard MIT
Johannes Reck
Co-Founder & CEO · GetYourGuide
Luis Von Ahn
Founder · Duolingo
Sebastian Siematowski
Co-Founder & CEO · Klarna
Boyan Slat
Founder & CEO · The Ocean Cleanup
Beatie Wolfe
Founder · Smoke and Mirrors
Mathias Döpfner
Chairman & CEO · Axel Springer SE
Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator · MoMA
Niklas Östberg
CO-FOUNDER & CEO · Delivery Hero SE
Kathleen Breitman
Co-Founder · Tezos
Tom Hulme
General Partner · Google Ventures
Taavet Hinrikus
Co-Founder & Chairman · TransferWise / Plural Platform
Renaud Visage
Co-Founder · Eventbrite
Alex Salnikov
Co-Founder & Head of Product · Rarible
Alexandra Cousteau
Co-Founder · Oceans 2050
Young Sohn
Former President · Samsung Electronics
Arlan Hamilton
Founder & Managing Partner · Backstage Capital
Bryant Chou
Co-Founder (Founding CTO) · Webflow
Camila Russo
Founder · The Defiant
Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist · Google
Daniel Krauss
Co-Founder and CIO · Flixbus
Mike Pondsmith
Creator, Game Designer · Cyberpunk
Dr. Claire Novorol
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer · Ada Health
Fabian Heilemann
Founder & CEO · AENU
Qasar Younis
CEO · Applied Intuition
Florian Heinemann
Founding Partner · Project A Ventures
Frank Thelen
Founder & CEO · Freigeist
Nicole Moudaber
DJ/Producer
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Chairman & CEO · United Therapeutics
Anne Boden
Founder & CEO · Starling Bank
Wade Davis
VP of Inclusion (Product) · Netflix / Former NFL Player
Jeanette Epps
Astronaut · NASA
Caterina Fake
Partner & Investor · Yes VC
Jitse Groen
CEO · Just Eat
Erika Cheung
Founder · Ethics in Entrepreneurship
Katie Rae
CEO & Managing Partner · The Engine
Erika Lust
Founder · Erika Lust Films
Leilani Farha
Global Director · The Shift
Lubomila Jordanova
CEO & Co-Founder · Plan A
Lucas von Cranach
Founder & Investor · One Football
Magnus Resch
Professor for art economics · Yale University
Markus Witte
Founder & CEO · Babbel
Monique Morrow
Co-Founder · Humanized Internet
Om Malik
Founder · GigaOm
Phil Libin
CEO & Co-Founder · All Turtles and mmhmm
Rolf Schrömgens
Founder · Trivago
Sarah Kunst
Managing Director · Cleo Capital
Seth Bannon
Founding Partner · Fifty Years
Tania Singer
Scientific Head · Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society
Chris Burniske
Partner · Placeholder
Albert Wenger
Managing partner · Union Square Ventures
Wendy Kopp
CEO and Co-founder · Teach for All
Wes Kao
Co-Founder · Maven
Audrey Tsang
Co-CEO · Clue by BioWink GmbH
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Founding Partner · La Famiglia VC
Ingmar Hoerr
Founder · Morpho Foundation / RNA Pioneer
Adrian Locher
Founder & CEO · Merantix
Andy Yen
Founder & CEO · Proton
Anna Frebel
Astronomer & Professor · MIT
Helene Huby
CEO · The Exploration Company
Daniela Gerd tom Markotten
Board Member · Deutsche Bahn
Mick Halsband
Founding Partner · Lunar Ventures
Zak Khutoretsky (DVS1)
Founder · Aslice
Alain Ryan Bouwman
Head of Strategy · Mercedes-Benz.io
Bradley Miles
Co-Founder & CEO · Roll
Carla Glassl
Co-founder & CTO · Ucaneo Biotech GmbH
Carrie Walter
Co-CEO · Clue by BioWink GmbH
Lasse Clausen
Founding Partner · 1kx Capital
Christian Bogatu
Investor Advisor · SPRIN-D
Dr. Anna Christmann
Commissioner of BMWK for the Digital Economy and Start-ups · German Government
Friederike Ernst
Co-Founder · Gnosis
George Goldsmith
Chairman and Co-Founder · COMPASS Pathways
Josef Ackermann
Advisory Board Chair · The TMRW Foundation / Former CEO, Deutsche Bank
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