Credit Solutions Conference 2025

Undoubtedly one of the greatest sprinters in the histroy of track & field, Michael Johnson has accomplished many firsts. He was the first man ever to be ranked #1 in the world at both 200 metres and 400 metres, the first man to win both events at an Olympic Games and the first man to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 400m. Johnson also broke the world record for 200m and 400m during his career and retired in 2000 with four Olympic gold medals and nine World Championship gold medals to his name.

In his session Johnson will look at the parallels between elite athletics and business success. He will discuss how precision, resilience, and long-term strategy drive performance on the track and in the boardroom.

Garry Kasparov came to international fame in 1985 when, at the age of 22, he became the youngest world chess champion in history. He successfully defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov's famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream. They also sparked Kasparov's passionate interest in the human relationship with our increasingly intelligent machines, a theme he has investigated for decades beginning with the invention of "Advanced Chess" (human plus machine) in 1998.