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<p>A globally recognized innovation strategist, Shawn Kanungo works at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology—including generative AI like ChatGPT—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.

<p>Renowned as an outlaw within the tech industry, Mike Pell is an unapologetic disrupter, having spent over three decades pushing the tech industry’s boundaries well past innovative design and technologies into the realm of true breakthroughs.</p><p>Today, many of those breakthroughs are imbedded in our everyday lives – Apple’s stylized Font menu (1984), pioneering 3D work on the original Metaverse (1995), and most significantly, inventing Adobe Acrobat’s PDF (1990) – which Pell hacked together in a matter of days, bridging what was considered at the time the great insurm

<p>Blockchain pioneer, builder, four-time startup entrepreneur at the intersection of emerging technology and cultural trends.</p><p>Samantha Radocchia ("Sam Rad") is a reformed gamer who started studying virtual currencies in 2009 while writing her anthropology thesis on currency exchanges in the virtual world <i>Second Life</i>. Since then, she has founded four companies, holds several patents, and was an early and outspoken voice in blockchain as the co-founder of Chronicled, an enterprise blockchain company focused on supply chains.

<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>A thought leader at the very epicenter of today’s technological revolutions in Silicon Valley, Peter Leyden brilliantly explains new technologies like generative artificial intelligence and other megatrends driving fundamental system changes through the 2020s, so businesses can confidently and responsibly enter this new era. </p><p>As <em>WIRED</em> magazine’s managing editor and the author of two highly influential big idea books about the future—<em>The Long Boom and What’s Next</em>—Peter Leyden helped introduce the world to every stage of the

<p>One of the nation’s most prominent cybersecurity authorities, Theresa Payton shows audiences how to be future-ready and secure—especially as advancements in artificial intelligence are reshaping cybercrime as we know it.</p><p>An inventor and visionary in the digital world, a U.S. patent holder, and the first female White House CIO, a two-time company founder and CEO, Theresa Payton, was named one of the “Top 50 Women in Tech” by <em>Award Magazine</em> in 2021.

<p>Former <em>Forbes</em> Publisher and Futurist Rich Karlgaard provides real-time insights on the U.S.