Geoff Colvin, author of the bestseller Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else, explains the surprising findings about achievement, work, and talent. Chair: Richard Cree, group editor, Director Magazine

David Chaytor, MP for Bury North and member of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee; Jackie Beere OBE, author, former headteacher and educational consultant; Professor John Bynner, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences in Education, London Institute of Education.  Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA

Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management.

David Aaronovitch, journalist and author of  `Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History`

Lone Frank, Denmark's most distinguished science writer and author of the bestselling book Mindfield