Innovators  
 
     
 

Breaking Trends™ distils and filters the ideas of established and emerging innovators around the world in order to stimulate and inspire all forms of planning for the future.

17 of the 1,700 innovators interviewed by Breaking Trends™ so far include:

 
     
 
Dr. Steve Arlington Global Leader, IBM Pharmaceutical Practice
Kazuhiro Saito Editor-in-Chief, Vogue Japan
Craig Newmark Founder & CEO, Craig’s List
Dr. Condoleezza Rice US Secretary of State
Mark Pincus Founder, tribe.net and friendster
Giovanni di Lorenzo Editor-in-Chief, Der Tagesspiegel
Hugh Mackay Sociologist and social historian
Narayana Murthi Chairman Infosys Technologies (known as the 'Bill Gates of Asia’)
Paul Mercer CEO, Iventor (inventor of the Apple iPod operating system)
Theresa Flynt-Gaerke Vice-President Global Retail Operations, Hustler Stores
Kenichi Ohmae Co-founder of McKinsey’s and author of The Borderless World and The Evolving Global Economy
Margareta van der Bosch Head of Design, H&M
Natwar Singh India’s Foreign Minister (2003-2005)
Peter Barrett Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft TV
Tim Draper Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (inventor of Hotmail and viral marketing, now on the board of Skype)
Dr. Jeffrey Cole Director, UCLA Center for Communication Policy
Tracey Cox Presenter, BBC2’s Would Like to Meet and Channel 4’s The Sex Inspectors, former and best-selling author of Supersex and Superflirt
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimers Braunschweig University (‘godfather’ of European Digital TV)
Prof. Yorihiro Yamamoto Dept of Bionics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
 
     
  … as well as a host of leading entrepreneurs, academics, politicians, business leaders, strategy consultants, anthropologists, publishers, magazine editors, columnists, architects, authors, designers, restaurateurs, IT and media specialists from around the world.