Peter Leyden
<p>Drawing from his expertise in transformative technologies, artificial intelligence, and future trends, Peter Leyden helps audiences understand and navigate a new era of global change.</p><p> Peter Leyden is a tech expert and thought leader in artificial intelligence, transformative technologies and the future ever since coming to San Francisco to work with the founders of<em> WIRED </em>magazine at the start of the Digital Revolution.
Mike Walsh
<p>Futurist Mike Walsh shares his provocative view of the future of business – and how corporations can navigate and thrive while dealing with emerging technologies.</p><p>Mike has gained a reputation as a futurist who challenges his audience to rethink their concept of technology and how it will disrupt their own lives. Mike customizes his message to each audience’s needs, drawing on wide-ranging research, while providing a blueprint for corporations to re-invent their futures. He also broadens his message to corporate culture and strategies for engaging consumers.
Peter Diamandis
<p>In 2014<i> Fortune Magazine</i> named Peter Diamandis as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders.</p>
<p>Diamandis is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies.</p>
Jim Carroll
<p>Carroll is one of the world’s leading global futurism, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list that ranges from NASA to the PGA, Disney to Johnson & Johnson, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the National Australia Bank.</p><p>Over the last 20 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight with his events on stage, taking in his ability to inspire audiences through a combination of deep insight, on-stage humor and motivational guidance, all grounded in deep observations on future trends.</p><p>For close to 20 yea
Terry Jones
<p>Terry Jones is a Digital Disruptor, an author and a venture capitalist. He has founded five startups, with two billion dollar IPOs, Kayak and Travelocity, and has served on seventeen corporate boards. </p>
Chris Valasek
<p>Chris Valasek draws from his research and headline-making exposure of serious automotive security flaws as he shares real-world solutions for protecting consumers and companies against cyber-attacks.</p>
<p>Regarded for his work in the automotive security arena, Chris is a Principal Autonomous Vehicle Security Architect at Cruise Automation and also served as a security lead at Uber’s Advanced Technology Center and chairman of SummerCon, America’s longest running hacker conference.</p>
Major General Brett Williams, USAF (Ret.)
<p>Major General Brett Williams expertly transforms the technical world of cybersecurity into relevant, straightforward strategies and solutions that can be effectively implemented by any business.</p><p>After 33 years of distinguished leadership experience in the Air Force, General Williams has since built a successful career in the private sector as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at IronNet Cybersecurity, which provides cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions to firms of all sizes and industries.</p><p>Previously, General Williams served as director of o
John Battelle
<p>From the center of the tech-driven transformation of business since its onset, John Battelle shares groundbreaking insights on prospering in today’s high-stakes business environment and the “information-first” age.</p><p>Part futurist, part business/cultural anthropologist, John is the authority when it comes to forecasting what’s next in business and technology, from market fluctuations and cryptocurrency to the impact of blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Steve Wozniak
<p>Steve Wozniak is best known as the co-founder of Apple Computer, which helped shape the personal computer industry with the popular Macintosh. An inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, he is constantly innovating, teaching the lessons of Apple to show that evolution can be achieved from the ground up.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a technology pioneer, author and journalist, who is also futurist-in-residence for The New York Times Company. His consultancy, Practical Futurist, has worked with organizations ranging from NBC Universal and FedEx to Boeing, GE and Microsoft.