Future & Tech speakers
Jacob Ward is a former 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 »
Professor at Columbia Business School, & author of The Digital Transformation Playbook
Former designer & engineer for Apple, and author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process...
• Futurist, noted technology & innovation expert
• Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe
• Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications
• Co-Founder & CEO of Alby, an AI company that helps companies integrate large language models into their websites to create guided shopping and search experiences
• Author of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
• FutureTech Expert
• Bestselling and Award-Winning Author
• 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 and Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure
• Head of Product Engineering at Humane
• 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 whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Wired, the Atlantic, the LA Times, the Guardian, Slate, VICE Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, and beyond
• Author of The One Device and the acclaimed 2023 book, Blood in the Machine
• 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
• Generative A.I. and Metaverse Expert
• CEO of the game design firm Beamable
• Professor at Columbia Business School
• Author of The Digital Transformation Playbook on how to rethink any traditional business for the digital age
• Silicon Valley forecaster and Stanford Professor
• 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
• Expert on the social implications of technology
• Former NBC News technology correspondent
• Founder & CEO of CX/Digital
• Author of The Digital-First Customer Experience: Seven Design Strategies from the World’s Leading Brands
• Global futurist & bestselling author