Future & Tech speakers

FEATURED SPEAKER

Jacob Ward is an NBC News technology correspondent, and science & tech contributor for CNN, Al Jazeera, and PBS. The former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine, Ward writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Wired. LEARN MORE »

FEATURED SPEAKER

Longtime Silicon Valley foresight guru


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Professor at Columbia Business School, & author of The Digital Transformation Playbook 

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Former designer & engineer for Apple, and author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process...

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• Futurist, noted technology & innovation expert

• Big data expert & journalist

• Author of several books including The Numerati & Final Jeopardy

Founder of Behance & Adobe's Chief Product Officer

• Author of The Messy Middle & Making Ideas Happen

• Early Investor & Product Advisor, Pinterest, Uber  & Other Top Companies

•  Former CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Entrepreneur in Residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

• Director of external affairs for Google

• Former Editor at Fortune

• Author of The End of Suburbs & The Airbnb Story

• Founder & CEO of Girls in Tech

• Author of Tech Boss Lady

• Professor at Yale

• Author the NY Times called a “rock star” of computer science

• Leading Expert in Cybersecurity & Hacking

• Award-winning journalist & author of Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention

• Former designer & engineer for Apple  

• Author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs


• Humanitarian futures and strategic foresight expert

• Regents Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at University of Arizona

• Sharing lessons from working at NASA on how we can learn our exploration of the cosmos.

• The expert on transformation and the tech-driven workplace

• Author of Disrupted, Lab Rats and STFU

• Writer on Silicon Valley. 

• Tech journalist & author of The One Device

• Former Wall Street Journal tech columnist

• Founder of Recode & former Executive Editor of The Verge

• Futurist & author on how emerging technologies are shaping our future

• Silicon Valley futurist and technologist

• Managing director of Massive Entertainment

• Author of The Dream Architects

Generative A.I. and Metaverse Expert

• CEO of the game design firm Beamable 

• Pushing the limits of human potential with projects like the human-powered helicopter 

• Pushing the limits of human potential with projects like the human-powered helicopter 

• Professor at Columbia Business School 

• Author of The Digital Transformation Playbook on how to rethink any traditional business for the digital age 

• Author of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most


• The Future Studies and Forecasting Chair at Singularity University 

• Former CTO at the US Department of Health and Human Services 

• A globally renowned expert in the areas of innovation, leadership, public policy & healthcare 

• Founder & CEO of TerraCycle, a company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste 

• Author of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most


• NBC News technology correspondent 

• Global futurist & bestselling author