
Innovation
Disruptive Innovation | Creativity | Execution | Risk-Taking | Cultures of Innovation | Flux Economy | Collaboration | Diverse Perspectives
Nancy Giordano
Strategic Futurist, Corporate Strategist, Keynote Speaker
- Founder/CEO, Play Big Inc.
- Transformation Strategist, Kungfu AI
- Ranked as One of the “World’s Top Female Futurists” and Top 7 “Women of Influence on the Future of Leadership”
- Advisor, Retail Tomorrow + Future Frontiers + Center for Partnership Systems
- Founder, TEDxAustin + TEDxYouth@Austin
- Founder/Producer, Career Fair For The Future + Femme Futurists Society
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Robert Safian
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor for Fast Company, Time, Fortune, Money
- Founder of The Flux Group
- Former Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company
- Former Managing Editor of Money, Fortune, Time
- 2-time winner, “Magazine of the Year” Award
- Awarded “Editor of the Year” and “Innovator of the Year”
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Vivek Wadhwa
Technology & Innovation Author and Futurist
- Fellow/Professor, Harvard and Carnegie Mellon
- Globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post
- Founder and CEO, Relativity Technologies
- Former EVP/CTO, Seer Technologies
- Author, From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation
- Author, The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
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Deborah Perry Piscione
Authority on Changing Mindsets
- Author three bestselling innovation books, Secrets of Silicon Valley, The Risk Factor, and The People Equation
- Former Senior Aide to The White House & US Congress
- Principal and Co-founder of Oceana
- Founded four companies, including Alley to the Valley®
- Awards include: Silicon Valley Women Business Owner of the Year Award, Gracie Allen Award, The White House Project Award, Editorial Excellence Best of the Web Award
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Joel Cohen
Emmy-Winning Writer & Producer, The Simpsons
- Awards: 2 Emmys and 3 Writer's Guild Award as Producer and Writer, The Simpsons
- Earned an MBA at York University
- Former Ad Executive/Manager, Turner Broadcasting
- Former writer for Saturday Night Live and Suddenly Susan
- Author, How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters
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Tarun Wadhwa
Strategic Futurist and Carnegie Mellon Faculty
- Founder of Day One Insights
- One of the Highest Rated Instructors at Carnegie Mellon University
- Visiting Fellow at Emory University’s Department of Political Science
- Contributor, Forbes and The Huffington Post
- Founder of the innovation lab AIC Chile
- Author of the upcoming book, Identified: The Digital Transformation of Who We Are
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The Honorable Michelle Lee
Technology and Innovation Pioneer
- Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office (2015-17)
- Under Secretary of Commerce
- Former Google Executive and Deputy Counsel
- Computer Scientist, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Hewlett-Packard’s Research Laboratories
- Co-founder, Chief IP Counsels (ChIPs)
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Jeff Leitner
Social Innovation Pioneer & High-Stakes Strategist
- Architect of the Unwritten Rules
- Designer of the first doctorate in social innovation
- Founder of Unwritten Labs
- Founder of Insight Labs, the first philanthropic think tank
- Fellow at New America, a think tank for American renewal
- Author of See Think Solve: A Simple Way to Tackle Tough Problems
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