Disruption

<p>One of the world’s leading innovation experts, Stephen Shapiro inspires organizations to break free from conventional thinking, turning their biggest challenges into unparalleled opportunities for growth.</p><p>Stephen Shapiro doesn’t just teach innovation—he redefines it. With decades of industry experience and a keen ability to spot opportunities others miss, Stephen has transformed how leaders and teams approach business challenges.

<p>Trent Gillespie is a leading Operational AI expert and former Amazon executive who helps organizations move beyond AI hype and into real-world execution. Having led AI and automation initiatives inside some of the world’s most complex organizations, Trent brings rare, hands-on experience translating AI strategy into measurable operational impact.</p><p>Rather than focusing on abstract trends, Trent shows leaders how AI actually gets deployed—across operations, customer experience, supply chains, and teams—so it delivers value quickly, responsibly, and at scale.

<p>One of <em>Forbes</em>’ Leading Female Futurists and <em>Fast Company</em>’s Most Creative People in Business, Sheryl Connelly helps business leaders think like futurists for resilience, performance, and growth through uncertainty.</p><p>All too often, companies are surprised by disruption. While no one can predict the future, many of these events can be anticipated.

<p>An acclaimed expert in trendcasting and innovation, Shawn DuBravac delivers provocative insights on the ways technologies like generative AI are impacting diverse industries.</p><p>By providing an elevated view of developing trends, Dr.

<p>Chris Barton wanted a way to identify songs anywhere he heard them. There wasn’t one – so he invented an app called Shazam. </p><p>Chris’s creation is nothing short of pure magic and changed the way the world discovers music. It was the first mass consumer AI product in history. Chris delights people by using technology to make seemingly impossible ideas come to life. Shazam is just one of them. In addition to creating Shazam, Chris holds twelve patents and played key roles in the early days of Google and Dropbox.

<p>Why do good teams kill great ideas? Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs and innovative organizations. </p><p>Safi Bahcall is a former public-company CEO, a physicist and an award-winning biotech entrepreneur.

<p>A global branding expert with an acclaimed career across some of the world’s most iconic companies—from LEGO to Lufthansa—Sara Riis-Carstensen shows how creative, disruptive, and genuinely happy teams become the foundation for lasting success.</p><p>Armed with a wealth of experience from roles at companies such as Carlsberg, Giorgio Armani, De Beers, and currently Lufthansa, Sara Riis-Carstensen possesses a unique perspective on the intricacies of brand strategy and premium brand positioning.

<p>Business guru, NYU marketing professor and thought-leader Scott Galloway offers his irreverent and radically honest take on the future of business, work and technology.</p><p>One of today’s most compelling and provocative commentators on business, Big Tech and our economic future, Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. He was named one of the world’s best business professors by Poets & Quants.

<p>Blending entrepreneurial grit, engineering expertise, and strategic foresight, Lital Marom cuts through the AI hype to deliver bold, practical guidance that drives innovation and impact.</p><p>Shaped by years of leading global brands and building companies across continents, Lital Marom delivers inspiring keynotes and offers practical frameworks to help global audiences translate AI, innovation, and emerging technologies into real business outcomes.</p><p>A software engineer, serial entrepreneur, and investor, Lital got her start building computer systems fo

<p>A globally recognized innovation strategist, Shawn Kanungo works at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology—including cutting-edge developments in generative AI—to help companies and individuals move boldly into the future.</p><p>Formerly an Innovation Expert for Deloitte, Shawn is a Partner with Queen & Rook, where he advises leading organizations and executives on disruptive trends, and actively invests in early-stage ventures.