Nancy Giordano

Strategic Futurist, Corporate Strategist, Keynote Speaker

• Founder & CEO, Play Big Inc.
• Lecturer, Singularity University
• Ranked as One of the “World’s Top Female Futurists” and Top 7 “Women of Influence on the Future of Leadership”
• Curator of TEDxAustin and TEDxYouth@Austin
• Producer of Gigaom Change leadership summit
• Strategic Advisor, Kung Fu Artificial Intelligence

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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, Your Happiness Was Hacked
• 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

• International bestselling author, Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Everyone Else Can Learn from the Innovation Capital of the World
• Author two additional bestsellers, The Risk Factor and The People Equation
• Former Senior Aide to The White House & US Congress
• Founded four companies, including Alley to the Valley®
• Awards include: Silicon Valley Women Business Owner of the Year Award, The White House Project 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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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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Tarun Wadhwa

Strategic Futurist and Carnegie Mellon Faculty

• Founder of Day One Insights
• One of the Highest Rated Instructors at Carnegie Mellon University
• Contributor, Forbes and The Huffington Post
• Author, Identified: The Digital Transformation of Who We Are
• Co-Founder and COO of AIC Chile

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Jeanne Bliss

Leadership Authority and Bestselling Author

• Pioneered the position of Chief Customer Officer
• CCO of Lands’ End, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, and Allstate
• Author of the international bestseller, Chief Customer Officer
• Author of three other bestselling leadership books.
• Co-founded the Customer Experience Professionals Association (PXPA)

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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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