innovation Speakers

Carla Harris has extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, Ms. Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.

When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan.

One of the world’s most widely recognized figures in the field of science, Dr. Michio Kaku looks to the future to predict trends affecting business, commerce, finance and technology.

Heather E. McGowan is a champion for humans in the learning-centric future of work. McGowan is the coauthor of both The Adaptation Advantage (2020) and The Empathy Advantage (2023). 

Josh Linkner is a New York Times bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, venture capital investor, professional jazz guitarist, and a globally-recognized innovation expert.

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry.

Recently named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 50 World’s Greatest Leaders, a recipient of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award and listed as one of the world’s most influential creative people by The...

Allison Baum Gates is a successful venture capital investor, Harvard graduate, McGraw-Hill author, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a contributing writer for Forbes, a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley-HaaS and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. As...

A globally recognized leader, futurist, and expert in helping companies find success through simplification, Lisa Bodell shows how simplifying can shake off the twin evils of complexity and complacency prevalent in today’s organizations.

NYU Stern School of Business professor and serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway shares unfiltered, data-driven insights, bold predictions, and thoughtful advice.

Called the “father of IBM Watson” and a pioneer of “Trusted Artificial Intelligence” for his work on building ethical and responsible AI system, Manoj Saxena’s work ― as a leading practitioner and investor at the forefront of AI...

With his expertise in enigmas and magic, David Kwong delights and challenges audiences around the world with his intellectual brand of “puzzles and prestidigitation.”

Helping humanity prepare for a tech-driven future; helping business make technology better for humans. Kate O'Neill is author of Tech Humanist, expert media commentator, early Netflix employee, Fortune 500 advisor.

Andres Jones-Rooy bridges art and science to help organizations gain insight into data and answer their biggest questions.

With his finger on the pulse of today’s changing workforce, Seth Mattison blends storytelling from his own personal experience working with category-leading brands while leveraging cutting-edge research to develop fresh perspectives on the key strategic issues most relevant...

Jonah Berger is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. He shares tactics for leading innovation, changing minds, and driving success in an age of disruption from...

Jim Carroll provides deep insights into how organizations are adapting to fast-paced trends through uniquely creative thinking and innovative leadership.

Called “Silicon Valley’s most provocative voice” for his ideas on technology trends, globalization, U.S. competitiveness and the future, Vivek Wadhwa’s work puts him at the heart of where innovations—technological and otherwise—are being developed that will change the very...

"We will see virtual, distributed or hybrid, and global work become significant parts of work arrangements that will expand our repertoire, digital skills, and performance, promising to make us and our organizations that much better." – Tsedal Neeley

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley veteran with experience at Apple and Google. He has over thirty years of experience with creating innovative products and services and going to market. He speaks for major organizations fifty or more...

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and innovator who speaks on how rapidly developing technologies are and will impact the future of healthcare and medicine.

Called a "Digital Dale Carnegie" and “the Tony Robbins of Tech,” Erik Qualman helps organizations understand the implications of social media on our daily lives—and how businesses can tap the power of social media to increase their sales,...

Simone Ahuja provides a practical playbook for sustainable innovation and "intrapreneurship."

After decades of standing in the fire with leaders of high-performing organizations, Peter Sheahan has come to believe that an organization will only go commercially where its leaders first go personally.