STEM professionals bring expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, equipping businesses with the tools to adapt to rapid changes in the modern landscape. Their ability to translate complex concepts into actionable strategies can inspire teams to think creatively and embrace a forward-thinking mindset.
Furthermore, hiring Female STEM Speakers, in particular, can prove highly valuable in businesses striving to foster diversity and inclusion. Our female STEM speakers share their expertise and serve as role models, breaking stereotypes and demonstrating that women can excel in traditionally male-dominated fields. Their presence can inspire young women to pursue careers in STEM, providing much-needed representation and paving the way for a more equitable future.
For businesses, supporting and promoting such voices sends a strong commitment to gender equity and innovation. STEM speakers can connect with audiences on a knowledgeable level, highlighting the importance of collaboration and adaptability in driving progress. By showcasing the transformative potential of STEM advantage for business, our STEM experts are inspiring future leaders while helping companies to remain competitive and inclusive in the evolving global economy.
Discover our STEM Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Alexandra Forsyth is a Creative and Technology Founder, TEDx speaker, British Podcast Awards Judge, and host of the transatlantic podcast Take a Chance On You.
Blending lived experience with strategic insight, Alexandra developed the H.U.M.A.N. ROI Matrix, a human performance framework designed to help organisation’s identify hidden friction points. Her work sits at the intersection of human-centered leadership and the future of work, particularly as organisations navigate AI transformation, rapid growth, and evolving workplace cultures.
Beckie Taylor is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and creator of The Sound Barrier documentary. After building and exiting the award-winning technology business Tech Returners, she now helps organisations unlock the human advantage in the age of AI.
Through powerful storytelling, business experience, and practical insight, Beckie speaks on AI and the future of work, leadership, confidence, workplace culture, and finding your voice. She challenges organisations to look beyond technology, showing why trust, human connection, and confident leadership will define the most successful businesses of the future.
Recognised as one of the UK’s Most Influential People in Technology, Beckie delivers inspiring, thought-provoking keynotes that leave audiences ready to lead with confidence in a rapidly changing world.
Shazam founder Dhiraj Mukherjee is an international keynote speaker on AI, leadership, and adapting to emerging technologies.
He helped grow Shazam from the original idea to over 100 billion uses, and was also named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by The Financial Times. Since Shazma’s sale to Apple, he has invested in over 250 leading AI and technology startups, including OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT).
He has also held senior roles in financial services, technology, media, and entertainment. Dhiraj’s expertise is in helping leaders to build adaptable organisations, combining practical experiences building and iconic company with first-hand foresight of a technology-driven future.
Dhiraj has a degree in Mathematical Economics from Dartmouth College, USA and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He advises corporate leaders to build organisations that embrace adaptability as a core competency. He guides executives to systematically create companies that learn, evolve, and reinvent themselves, rather than reacting to disruption after it occurs.
Daniel Traça is a Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in London. He is also a Visiting Professor at INSEAD in France and Singapore.
He has previously been an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, and held the Marie et Alain Philippson Chair in Managing for Sustainable Human Development at the Solvay Business School in Brussels, where he was also Vice-President and Director of the MBA program.
Daniel was a Visiting Professor in the KDI School of Management and Policy in Seoul, and in the Graduate Institute of International Economics in Geneva. He worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Commission and has published his scientific research in several leading international academic journals in the field of globalisation and economic development.
Rohit Bhargava is an expert in marketing, innovation, trends, and the future. He believes the world needs more non-obvious thinking and his mission is to help people see what others miss.
For more than a decade, Rohit has been inspiring audiences at Coca-Cola, Disney, Microsoft, NASA, Schwab, SXSW and hundreds of other clients with his signature keynote presentations. He is a master at weaving stories into his talks in a way that helps audiences better understand the world today, while also preparing for the future.
He is a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 10 books on marketing, innovation, and trends; has been invited to be a non-boring speaker to events across 32 countries; and is a frequent contributor to publications including Entrepreneur and GQ magazines.
Cybersecurity Speaker Joe Tidy blends investigative journalism with clear, actionable guidance for a wide variety of audiences. With a reputation for tracking down cybercriminals and unpacking complex threats for mainstream viewers, he helps leaders, teams, and students understand risk and act with confidence.
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Joe Tidy Cybersecurity Speaker engagements really deliver when you need credible reporting insight, practical security steps, and stories that stick.
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Joe Tidy is a UK-based cybersecurity reporter and speaker who explains evolving digital threats, why they matter, and what audiences can do next to protect themselves.
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His in-demand talks cover emerging cybercrime, ransomware, phishing, social engineering, and resilience, with examples from BBC reporting and UK sector realities.
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Rachel Botsman is a lecturer, designer, artist, and author renowned for her work on trust and societal change. A leading expert, she has been recognised as one of the world’s top 30 most influential management thinkers, and was once honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
She has written two bestselling books – What’s Mine is Yours (2010), and Who Can You Trust (2017) – that have been translated into 14 languages.
As a former Trust Fellow at Oxford University, she teaches entrepreneurs and leaders how to navigate trust in technology, society, and work culture. She has produced several TED talks that have been viewed over five million times.
Her expertise is in high demand, and she regularly appears in the media, contributing to The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, WIRED, and The Financial Times.
Tim Harford is a data detective, writer, and ‘geek storyteller’.
A BBC presenter, behavioural economist, and award-winning Financial Times columnist, Tim offers a distinctive blend of humour, intelligence, and narrative He has published a range of bestselling books, including The Undercover Economist, which has sold nearly two million copies, and the Sunday Times number one business book How to Make the World Add Up. He has several BBC radio series, including More or Less, Things That Made the Modern Economy, and How to Vaccinate the World.
He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE “for services to improving economic understanding”.
He is a highly sought-after business speaker and has presented for companies including Google and PopTech, as well as three times for TED which have been viewed more than 10 million times.
“AI is not just a technological leap; it’s a catalyst for reshaping humanity’s story, blurring the lines between the possible and the unimaginable.” – Nina Schick
Nina Schick is a globally recognised expert on AI, geopolitics, and power. She has been at the forefront of how AI is reshaping global dominance, not just in business, but in military strategy, economic infrastructure, and state power.
She was among the first to predict the societal impact of AI-generated content (Deepfakes, 2020) and now leads the conversation on Industrial Intelligence – the idea that AI is not just software revolution, but a physical, geopolitical, and industrial transformation.
She has advised and worked with global leaders including NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Joe Biden. Nina helped shape EU policy for nearly a decade. Now she is a trusted advisor to frontier AI firms and tech firms, including Synthesia, Qlik and Truepic.
Nina is a sought-after speaker at Davos, CES, WebSummit, CogX, TEDx, and regularly appears in MIT Tech Review, WIRED, TIME, and Bloomberg.
Bernie Collins is a renowned Formula 1 strategy analyst and former Head of Race Strategy at Aston Martin. During her career, she has held senior strategy and performance engineering roles, playing a central role in the teams she has worked for.
With a career that has taken her from elite motorsport to broadcasting, Bernie is a testament to what one can achieve with resilience and dedication.
She was one selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 Young Rising Stars of Manufacturing for the Make It In Great Britain campaign, and was also named in The Manufacturer’s Top 100 UK Role Models list.
Recently named as a global top 10 speaker by MSN, Nick Jankel is a transformative keynote speaker at the very top of his game. A professional futurist, Nick helps leaders both see and shape the future of work, leadership, education, business, healthcare, and more.
With over 30 years of experience, Nick is a world authority of leading in and through change, and how to unlock innovation, business transformation, and rapid adaptation through an uncertain and volatile business landscape. A Cambridge-educated medic, Nick is the creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® Method for leading change and transformation, which he has presented to over 100,000 leaders, and more than 100 Fortune 500 companies.
He is highly sought after for his customised and WOW-making keynotes that inspire hearts, influence minds, and ignite change. He has worked with some of the top corporations, including Google, Pfizer, LEGO, Unilever, HP, and with No 10 Downing Street. His keynotes dazzle even the smartest minds, and are designed to plant seeds of concrete change in his audiences. With over 250 leadership development journeys and 100+ innovation programs designed and led by him, he is a highly experienced facilitator and transformation catalyst who sees a keynote as the accelerator of change.
Matthew Griffin is one of the world’s most renowned futurists and leadership coaches. Once referred to as a “walking encyclopaedia of the future”, he helps build tomorrow’s high-performance companies.
Matthew Griffin is the founder of the Futures Advisory firm, 311 Institute, and is a 15-time author of the hit Codex of the Future series.
Matthew has a reputation for identifying, tracking, and explaining the impacts of emerging technologies and trends on global business, society, and culture. He has worked for companies including Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his client list includes royalty, world leaders, and global investors.
Zenia Tata is an innovation strategist, a trained futurist, and a humanitarian who is passionate about tapping the vastness of human potential to tackle the planet’s most vexing problems.
As an independent consultant, Zenia Tata has been leading innovation projects and advising on sustainable impact initiatives for Kitty Hawk Ventures, MAKR Venture Fund, Pure Technologies, Breakthrough Victoria, a 2-billion-dollar impact investment fund for the Prime Minister’s Office of Australia; an affordable and sustainable housing design project for Emaar Properties through ExO Mesh; and sustainability related consulting projects globally for BCG.
She is currently part of the founding team of InLife, a highly empathetic AI life coach and Entrokey, a cybersecurity company, creating post quantum keys with high entropic value.
Sasha Qadri is an engaging TV News Presenter, with a CV that includes Sky News, Channel 4, CNBC, and Reuters.
For many years, she has been a popular corporate events moderator, hosing business events, panels and roundtable discussions, as well as interviewing high-profile figures. She also works regularly for Bloomberg, where she shapes editorial content for events and moderates business conversations for Bloomberg Live. Sasha hosts international events, interviewing government ministers and CEOs on topics ranging from humanising AI to fintech disruption
Sasha’s genuine warmth and compassion, her journalistic background, and her ease presenting means Sasha is the perfect professional addition to any live or virtual event.
Victoria Scholar is one of UK TV’s foremost financial commentators, enjoying a rare combination of banking, television and journalistic experience.
A hugely popular broadcaster and expert on business, finance and economics, Victoria is the Head of Investment at Interactive Investor – the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform. She has a wide-ranging broadcast remit discussing the daily business news agenda, investment strategy and asset allocation, collective investments and direct shares, as well as macro-economics and markets.
Named by The Observer as “one of the world’s leading thinkers”, and by Vogue as “one of the world’s most inspiring women”, economist Professor Noreena Hertz is a board member, senior advisor, bestselling author, and keynote speaker.
Noreena, a global economist whose work intersects the nexus of economics, politics, society, and technology, is a pioneering and renowned thinker on AI, community building, decision-making, and the post-millennial generation. She is also an advisor to some of the world’s largest organisations on strategy and transformation.
She sits on the boards of Nasdaq-listed companies Mattel and Warner Music Group and also the board of the HR Tech Company, Workhuman. She has served on Citigroup’s Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board, the Inclusive Capitalism Taskforce’s Advisory Group, and RWE’s Digital Transformation Board. Her thinking served as the inspiration for Bono’s Product (Red).
Mark Pollock is an explorer, researcher, and prominent keynote speaker. Everything he does is about inspiring leaders and their teams to build resilience, optimise performance, and collaborate with others so they can achieve more than they ever thought possible.
Not letting his blindness get in the way, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps – in fact, he became the first blind person to race to the South Pole. He also won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games.
In 2010, a fall from a second story window nearly killed him. Breaking his back, and damaging his spinal cord to the extent that he became paralysed, Mark is now on a new expedition, this time exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide to cure paralysis in our lifetime.
Robert Hannigan CMG is a leading authority on cybersecurity, cyber conflict, and the application of technology in national security. He is a popular international speaker and author on cybersecurity topics.
Robert is the Chairman of BlueVoyant, a global cybersecurity services firm. He is also Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Centre, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has also worked as an advisor for McKinsey & Co, and as Director of GCHQ.
Zoe Kleinman is one of the UK’s most prominent technology journalists, with a career spanning nearly two decades.
Known for her insightful reporting on some of the most significant technological developments of our time, Zoe has established herself as a trusted voice in the tech world, breaking down complex topics for a broad audience.
Covering everything from cyber-security breaches and hacking scandals to the latest developments in AI and autonomous vehicles, Zoe brings cutting-edge tech stories to millions worldwide. Her reports feature across a wide range of platforms, including BBC News, BBC World News, BBC World Service, and Radio 4’s Today programme, making complex tech topics accessible to a global audience.
In 2021, Zoe was appointed Technology Editor at the BBC. In this role, she leads the BBC’s coverage of tech developments, reporting on everything from cybercrime and social media trends to the impact of AI and the ethical dilemmas surrounding emerging technologies. As part of her work, Zoe explains how technological innovations are influencing industries, shaping economies, and altering the fabric of society.
Her reporting is often distinguished by its accessibility. Zoe has a gift for making even the most complicated technological advancements understandable to the average person, demystifying complex concepts like blockchain, quantum computing, and the metaverse. Her style is approachable, informative, and engaging, which has earned her a loyal following both in the UK and internationally.
Zoe is a familiar face not only on the BBC but also at technology conferences and events. She is a regular speaker at industry panels, where she discusses Artificial Intelligence, innovation and trends in technology, as well as the role of the media in informing the public about the complexities of technological advancements.
A confident and entertaining speaker who is in demand as a host, chair, panellist and lecturer, Zoe’s expertise and knowledge of the tech sector is brought to life by her engaging style.
Perla Bloom is a dynamic global marketing strategy leader.
Passionate about the intersection of tech, creativity, and culture, she builds brands and creates connected experiences for audiences that solve a problem to reach specific objectives.
She is currently the senior global comms manager for Expedia, responsible for planning content, editorial and entertainment for the company. She is also the WELL London Chapter Lead, Expedia’s internal women’s organisation.
She is also a much sought-after international keynote speaker at industry events and on podcasts.
Gary Foote is the Chief Information Officer and Director of Sustainability at the Haas Formula 1 Team. In a career that has spanned 20 years, he has been part of numerous Motorsport World Championship-winning teams, winning 6 world titles with drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, and Jenson Button.
As the CIO of the Haas Formula One Team, he is responsible for several operational departments spanning IT, Digital, Facilities, Operations, ESG, and Continuity. As the ESG lead, he drives the teams’ carbon reduction initiatives forward, manages their community outreach program, and ensures adherence to their social responsibility agenda.
Gary is an active public speaker who is often engaged in discussions on topics such as data, innovation, a high-performance mindset, team ethos and culture, sustainability and diversity, and digital transformation.
Ant Morse is a futurist, author, and digital innovation specialist, exploring and deciphering the complex world of new and emerging technologies, assessing how innovations may transform how we live and work and their impacts on our wider society and economic landscapes.
With a career spanning three decades in the tech industry, Ant has been at the vanguard of innovation, leading many transformation projects across public and private sectors. His success in predicting trends, coupled with his expertise in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Spatial Computing, and loT, has earned him recognition as a sought-after thought leader.
Ant’s keynote presentations, based on his book The Future of Us, offer a compelling glimpse into the potential futures that lie ahead. He explores how emerging technologies will likely shape and transform our world, from the ethical dilemmas of advanced Al to the boundless possibilities and likely reality of our collective futures of work.
Ant Morse is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, known for his engaging and accessible presentations. He tailors his insights to align with the needs of diverse audiences, from corporate executives to academic institutions.
Andrew Davis is considered one of the UK’s most prolific keynote speakers and trainers in social media and content marketing. With over 22 years as an industry expert, he helps translate the language of digital for clients in multiple sectors, illustrating how a ‘digital lens’ can attract new customers while strengthening existing relationships.
Andrew is adept at translating the language of digital for clients in multiple sectors, showing how a ‘digital lens’ can attract new customers while strengthening existing relationships.
His ability to connect with diverse audiences ensures that his message resonates with everyone.Well known for delivering captivating keynote presentations and impactful training workshops in digital marketing, Generative AI was the natural next step in Andrew Davis’s journey.
He has helped organisations such as KPMG, Royal Mail, Ogilvy, Dyson, O2, and Tesco connect with their audiences through content, strategic thinking, and simple frameworks that use what is working digitally.
Andrew’s philosophy has always been to ‘put a digital lens across traditional business practices’. This commitment to innovation is why he became an early adopter in Generative AI and has delivered talks, or workshops, to several organisations who are already achieving results from his advice.
In addition to working with clients and being a keynote speaker, Andrew Davis also has a popular Podcast and Newsletter called In A(I) Nutshell, where he advises, talks, and teaches people about what is happening in the world of Generative AI.
Abigail Ireland is a Peak Performance Strategist, international keynote speaker, coach, and facilitator.
Passionate about inspiring her audiences to bring their A-Game, Abigail Ireland is the founder of Understanding Performance, a leadership and training consultancy helping clients perform at their best in a sustainable way.
Her expertise is in high demand and she has been featured in a range of HR and media publications, including GQ Magazine, HR Magazine, and the ILM.
