Innovation

<p>The visionary leader behind one of the most extraordinary brand turnarounds in the sports and fitness industry, Jim Weber shares the secrets to his success—from purpose-driven leadership and product innovation to customer obsession and workplace culture.</p><p>As former CEO of Brooks Running, Jim Weber took the company from the brink of bankruptcy to a billion-dollar global performance brand—earning the backing of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett along the way.

<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>One of the most respected leaders in the U.S., Jennifer Granholm provides strategic guidance on how energy policy and technology can drive innovation, transform industries, and create opportunities in a rapidly changing market.</p><p>Drawing from her transformative career which earned her a place on both <em>Time’s</em> Most Influential People list and <em>Forbes</em>’ Top Climate Leaders list, Jennifer Granholm offers audiences a unique insider’s view of the powerful intersection between energy policy and technology.</p><p>Serving mo

<p>Consistently ranked among the world’s top business visionaries, hailed by <em>Forbes</em> for "reshaping our perception of growth,” Tiffani Bova arms audiences with tools for exponential growth, innovation and success.</p><p>Tiffani Bova has helped lead the tech industry through several evolutions over her nearly 30-year career, in roles including Salesforce’s Growth and Innovation Evangelist; Research Fellow at Gartner; and a sales, marketing and customer service executive for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike.

<p>The visionary behind Google’s AI-first transformation and the pioneer for using AI in organizational decision-making, Cassie Kozyrkov blends deep technical expertise and executive experience with humor and charisma. </p><p>Cassie Kozyrkov is a renowned leader in artificial intelligence and the founder of Decision Intelligence, the process of applying analytics, AI and automation to aid decision-making. As Google’s first Chief Decision Scientist, she spearheaded the tech giant’s AI-first transformation, training over 20,000 Googlers and impacting more than 500 projects.

<p>One of today’s leading voices in artificial intelligence, Steve Brown shares winning AI strategies that fuel innovation, boost productivity, and drive growth.</p><p>With a 25-year career in AI and high tech including roles as senior director and in-house futurist at Google DeepMind as well as chief evangelist and futurist at Intel, Steve is a leading expert on generative AI, autonomous agents, and digital transformation. He leads crucial conversations about how AI will shape business, education, and society.

<p>Trent Gillespie turns AI uncertainty into business prosperity, unraveling the power of generative AI to fuel growth and spark breakthrough innovation for organizations.</p><p>Trent Gillespie is a leading expert on AI-driven business transformation and the creator of The AI Flywheel™ and AISPRINT™, frameworks which provide leaders and organizations with a repeatable, systematic approach to scaling innovation, driving prosperity, and staying competitive in an AI-driven world. </p><p>With over 25 years in tech leadership—including nearly a decade at Amazon spea

<p>The innovative creator of culturally-inclusive AI software ChatBlackGPT, Erin Reddick provides expert insights into the ever-changing landscape of AI and the importance of inclusive technology development.</p><p>Erin Reddick has forged a vital path in the technology industry. With a career encompassing significant roles at major tech companies including Meta, Microsoft, and AWS, her most impactful contribution to the field is the creation of ChatBlackGPT, an AI software providing perspectives from the Black and African American communities.

<p>Sharing his inspiring, against-all-odds journey from foster child to NFL player to successful business owner, Anthony Trucks helps individuals and organizations achieve their full potential by shifting their identity to reach peak performance.</p><p>Anthony Trucks has accomplished what statistics would show is impossible. At the age of three years old he was placed into the foster care system, where he remained until age 14, when he was adopted by a poor white family. In high school he set a challenging and lofty goal for himself … making the varsity football team.

Considered the greatest chess player that ever lived, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov shares insights on strategy, innovation, leadership, and risk. 

Garry Kasparov is widely regarded as the greatest chess player in history, becoming the youngest world champion ever at 22 in 1985 and spending twenty years as the world’s top-rated player. His legendary matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 made him a central figure in artificial intelligence and the evolution of the human-machine relationship.