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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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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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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Taryn Stejskal, Ph.D.

Former Head of Nike's Executive Leadership Development

• Author of the highly anticipated book Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People
• Lead Nike’s Global Executive Leadership Development Strategy and Enterprise-wide Agenda
• Former Head of Cigna’s Leadership Development & Executive Programs
• Doctorate degree, University of Maryland, College Park
• Neuropsychology Fellow with the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

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