Future Trends (C - Business)

<p>John Rossman is a former Amazon executive who provides techniques and strategies for audiences to apply to their business</p><p>Rossman is most known for launching and scaling the Amazon Marketplace, which Jeff Bezos called “one of his magical businesses,” accounting for over 50% of all Amazon units sold and shipped.

<p>Linda Bernardi believes the impact of digital disruption is a huge positive for today’s business organizations. With highly engaged discussions, Linda raises the comfort level audiences have with embracing disruptive technologies. She shares an enthusiastic outlook on how a wide range of sectors such as finance, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare can futureproof their business and thrive in the disruptive economy.  </p><p>Linda is a serial high-tech entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of IoT and the emerging hyperconnected world.

<p>Jack Shaw is a global thought leader and change management strategist with more than 30 years' experience helping leaders transform their organizations' digital ecosystems amid new waves of technology.</p><p>Jack Shaw stands as a preeminent strategist in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies. His four-decade career has seen him at the vanguard of AI's evolution and its integration into the business world.

<p>Kim Lear provides cutting-edge, highly-customized research and action-driven advice on emerging cultural trends to prepare organizations for the workforce and marketplace of the future.</p>

<p>Robert Safian delivers near-clairvoyant insights on succeeding through the chaos of modern business.</p><p>Bob is the founder of The Flux Group and former editor-in-chief of the influential, award-winning business media <em>Fast Company</em>.

<p>Creator of the most-watched innovation keynote speaker video in history, Jeremy Gutsche is renowned for predicting the future of emerging trends. Gutsche encourages audiences to create, innovate, and seek out opportunity, and to ignite change and keep ahead of the crowd.</p><p>With an MBA and two best-selling business books, Jeremy Gutsche is CEO of the influential TrendHunter.com, and a groundbreaking entrepreneur with broad appeal.

<p>Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading futurists on global trends and innovation. <i>The New York Times</i> has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.</p><p>He has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact.

<p>Peter Leyden is a tech expert and thought leader on artificial intelligence, the implications of transformative technologies like clean energy, and the positive possibilities of the near future. </p><p>Leyden has followed the front edge of technological change ever since coming to San Francisco to work with the founders of <em>WIRED </em>magazine at the beginning of The Digital Age and the arrival of the internet.

<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.

<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>