Duncan Wardle, who formerly served as Disney's Head of Innovation and Creativity, is a well-known name in the innovation and creative industries. Wardle was instrumental in promoting innovation and guiding the creative direction of teams from a variety of Disney departments, including Marvel, Pixar, Disney Parks, ESPN, Lucasfilm, Imagineering, and Animation, throughout his entire employment there. His contributions were crucial... read full bio
Adam Bierman is the co-founder & CEO of MedMen Enterprises, the nation’s most recognized brand in the emerging marijuana industry. He is a leader in institutional practices, professional standards, and clear and reasonable regulations that will take the cannabis industry to it’s next phase. Bierman started MedMen with his partner Andrew Modlin. The duo started MedMen with the though of... read full bio
Jim Bankoff is an American businessman who has served as chairman and CEO of Vox Media. He graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s in international studies. He went on to earn his Master of Business Administration degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Some of his earliest jobs included working as a production assistant for Washington... read full bio
Amber Baldet is currently the CEO and co-founder of Clovyr and a blockchain speaker. Clovyr makes modern application development flexible and easy to use to the blockchain domain. It empowers teams of all sizes to grow products to production much faster than before. Prior to Baldet’s work with Clovyr, she has previously worked as an application developer with Avalon Research... read full bio
Multifaceted professional Nicholas Webb is well known for his skills in innovation, leadership, and customer experience. Webb has made a name for himself in the realms of business and education as a keynote speaker, best-selling book, professor, CEO, and prize-winning inventor. As the founder and CEO of LeaderLogic, a well-known management consulting and training company, Webb equips companies to successfully negotiate... read full bio
Scott Amyx is a managing partner at Amyx Ventures. He is also a TEDx Speaker, IBM IoT Futurist, Forbed New York Business Council Member, Singularity University and Smart City Accelerator Mentor, and more. Amyx is author of the book “Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success”. He has also set to publish the book “The Human Race:... read full bio
Jeff Immelt is an American business executive who has worked as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. He has recently retired as chairman of the board of the U.S.-based conglomerate General Electric. He had been selected as CEO by their board of directors to replace Jack Welch and prior to being CEO, Immelt had headed up GE’s Medical Systems... read full bio
Mohanbir Sawhney is an author, scholar, professional speaker, consultant, and management expert. He is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology at the Kellogg School of Management and an adviser to several large organizations on e-commerce strategies. Sawhney was born in Kalaikunda, India, and holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned... read full bio
Anjali Kumar is co-founder of The Justice Department, a women-led firm that works on legal counsel and business strategy development for females. She is also an attorney, advisor, author and an “idea acupuncturist”. Kumar graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical ethics. She went on to earn her JD from Boston University School of Law and after... read full bio
Professor Americus Reed II is the Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School. He is co-founder of Persona Partners and is a leading expert on “identity”. Reed researches on the role consumers play in guiding buying decisions. He researches on how social influence, attitudes, values, judgments and social identity shape consumer’s purchase decisions and behavior. His research has been featured... read full bio
Ellen Pao is an American attorney, investor, and activist who co-founded the non-profit Project Include. She gained popularity after filing a gender discrimination suit against her former employer, Kleiner Perkins. Pao was born in New Jersey and learned how to code from her mother when she was only 10 years old. She later graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s... read full bio
Shlomo Benartzi is a behavioral economist, accounting for psychology and its role in how people make economic choices. Utilizing his research, Shlomo works to solve social issues in the modern day. Shlomo has pioneered programs designed to help people make better financial decisions. His projects include Save More Tomorrow (SMarT) and the VOYA Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation. Benartzi shares... read full bio
Jonas Kjellberg is a speaker on digital transformation, an author, investor and co-creator of Skype. As co-creator of Skype, Kjellberg was also their managing director for several years and while under management, he helped generate 90 percent of their revenue stream. Apart from Skype, Kjellberg has also been CEO and founder of Campuz Mobile and Optimal Telecom. He has founded... read full bio
Judith Spitz, Ph.D is the founder and Executive Director of Break Through Tech and is the former CIO of Verizon. With Break Through Tech, Spitz has made initiative that helps women and underrepresented groups earn a higher education and career in tech through innovation, career access and community building. Spitz has been featured in Crain’s list of Notable Women in... read full bio
Erica Dhawan is an American keynote speaker, author, a leader on Connectional Intelligence, podcast host, and founder and CEO of Cotential. Cotential is a global consultancy that helps organizations transform by improving their collaboration across teams, business units, customers and stakeholders. Dhawan is best known for being a leading authority on 21st century collaboration as well as connectional intelligence. As... read full bio
Varun Sivaram is an American businessman who is the Chief Technology Officer of ReNew Power, which is India’s largest renewable energy company. Sivaram earned his B.S. in engineering physics and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University where he was also awarded with a Truman Scholarship. Sivaram went on to earn his Ph.D in condensed matter physics from the... read full bio
Brian Armstrong is a businessperson who is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. Armstrong earned her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from Rice University and he went on to earn his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Rice University as well. Armstrong went on to start his career a team lead intern at IBM and went on to... read full bio
Audrey Gelman is an American entrepreneur and political staffer who is founder of the women’s co-working space and social club, The Wing. She is also known for being the inspiration for the character Marnie on the HBO television series “Girls”. Gelman studied at Oberlin College but left after two years to work on Hillary Clinton’s campaign for U.S. President. After... read full bio
Adam Coates is currently a Director at Apple who has previously been an operating partner at Khosla Ventures. Coates has earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University. He went on to be a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University where he led a team to develop HPC methods for deep learning. He has also been a... read full bio
Andrew Yang is an American attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and political commentator from Schenectady, New York. Yang graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite boarding school in New Hampshire, and after went on to major in economics and political science at Brown University. After earning his degree, Yang went on to earn his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and... read full bio
