Speaker Bio

Ben Saunders is a record-breaking polar explorer, an acclaimed keynote speaker, and a 3x TED main stage ‘master storyteller’ – he has covered more than 4,500 miles on foot in the Arctic and Antarctica since 2001, and holds the world record for the longest ever polar journey on foot. He is now a GP at Kintanna Ventures – an early-stage fund backing outliers on the frontiers of our planet.