Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor, a venture capital investor, and founder of Cowboy Ventures. She coined the Silicon Valley term, unicorn, which is defined as a privately held startup that has a billion dollar valuation. Lee started her career working as an M&A analyst for Morgan Stanley. She went on to work in business development at Gap Inc.... read full bio
Linda Bernardi is a technologist, author, entrepreneur and innovator who helps companies and organizations make market-changing products, services and methods. Bernardi has been a Senior Advisor for McKinsey & Company Worldwide and has previously been Chief Innovation Officer at IBM for IoT and Cloud. She has also been the EVP, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Element AI where she... read full bio
Inge Thulin is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for 3M. Thulin was born in Malmo, Sweden, and is both Swedish and American. Thulin started his career with 3M Europe where he worked in marketing, sales, and management for over 20 years before being appointed to executive vice president for international operations which he served as... read full bio
Anna Young is the CEO of MakerHealth, a TEDMED Speaker, and a lecturer in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. She has been featured in Fast Company as one of the “Most Creative People in Business” and has been named a “Top Health Innovator Under 35” by LinkedIn. Young’s work with MakerHealth is to create devices that... read full bio
Gary Kunath is the founder and former CEO of the Summit Group. During his time as CEO of the Summit Group, Kunath grew the company to a global enterprise and it was ranked as one of the top sales training companies in the world by Selling Power magazine. Kunath has been previously named Businessman of the Year for the United... read full bio
Mauricio de Vengoechea is a political consultant for leaders and governments with De Vengeochea & Associates. He was born in Bogota, Colombia, and has been President of the Latin American Association of Political Consultants and was later elected vice-president of the International Association of Political Consultants. Mauricio has also been named to a team of political campaigners by Aristotle, Inc.... read full bio
Richard Browning is a British inventor, entrepreneur, and speaker, who has been named the “real-life Iron Man” by multiple outlets around the world. Browning is the founder of Gravity Industries Ltd., a pioneering aeronautical innovation company that has been the creator of Daedalus Mark 1, a jet pack that uses several mini jet engines to be able to achieve vertical... read full bio
Kenneth Langone is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist, who is best known for organizing financing for the founder of The Home Depot. Langone was born in Roslyn Heights, New York, and he went on to study at Bucknell University and the New York University Stem School of Business. Langone began his career working at a Wall Street financial services... read full bio
Joseph Lubin is a Canadian-American entrepreneur who is known for founding and co-founded several different companies such as EthSuisse, Ethereum, and ConsenSys. Lubin has earned his B.S. in Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, Lubin went on to be a manager in the robotics and expert systems laboratory at Princeton where he worked... read full bio
From 1981 to 1991, Jacques Attali was an advisor to President Francois Mitterrand. He subsequently cast doubt on Mitterrand's past as a mid-level Vichy government functionary in his retrospective of Mitterrand's career, C'tait Francois Mitterrand, published in 2005. In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by... read full bio
Russell Simmons, the business and cultural icon shares his experiences in and beliefs on success in Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success. Simmons has been instrumental in bringing hip-hop to every facet of business and media since its inception in the late 1970's, and with a major new digital initiative launching... read full bio
Uri Levine is an Israeli entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest navigation and traffic app that was bought out by Google for over 1 billion dollars. Levine graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in Economics. He is a Board Member for Moovit, HERE Technologies, and SeeTree, which he is also an investor of. Levine... read full bio
Supermodel Christy Turlington is best known for representing Calvin Klein for twenty years. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts, with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped. In a presentation adapted from a speech she gave to the Society for Women's Health Research, Christy speaks, not as a... read full bio
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Stan Slap is one of the world's foremost business strategists. Through his 20+ years as CEO for massive companies to his own appropriately named international consulting firm Slap, Stan has been revolutionizing the way companies brand themselves. His keynote speeches combine his incredible insight, humor, and empathy to ensure your audience leaves with an experience they'll remember for years to... read full bio
Daniel Lamarre is the president and CEO of the visionary spectacle, Cirque du Soleil. In this role Lamarre is responsible for developing strategies related to business development, operations, sales, the company’s financial sustainability, and the perpetuation of its cultures and values. Some of Lamarre’s greatest achievements with Cirque De Soleil have been negotiating agreements with The Beatles’ and Michael Jackson... read full bio
Brian David Johnson is a former chief futurist at Intel Corporation and an author. He is currently a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. As a former chief futurist at Intel, Johnson’s work was called future casting and he would use ethnographic... read full bio
Keynote speaker Bert Jacobs is co-founder and CEO (Chief Executive Optimist) of Life is Good, which spreads the power of optimism through inspiring art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking nonprofit work. Bert and his brother John launched their business with $78 in their pockets, selling T-shirts in the streets of Boston. Today, Life is Good is a $100 million positive... read full bio
Liz Wiseman is the president of The Wiseman Group, a Silicon Valley-based research and development firm. Wiseman has conducted extensive research on leadership and collective intelligence. She teaches leadership to executives around the world. Some of her recent clients include: Abbott Laboratories, Adobe, Apple, Campbells, Dubai Bank, Gap, Nike, PepsiCo, PayPal and many, many more. She is a former executive... read full bio
