• Futurist, noted technology & innovation expert

• The founder of Shared_Studios and Portals

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication

• Tech & Innovation Executive at award-winning indie film studio A24, and top tech investor

• Former founder/CEO of Behance (world's largest creative industry network), and former Chief Product Officer at Adobe

• Writer of leading technology industry newsletter, "Implications" & bestselling author of two acclaimed books

• Bestselling Author, Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation and Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction 

• Founder & Chief Creative Officer of the consultancy dreams • design + life, helping companies solve their roadblocks and scale businesses.

• Award-winning contemporary art advisor, author & curator

• Author of How Creativity Rules the World

• Author of The Invisible Gorilla

• Senior Managing Director at Teneo

• Former Director of external affairs for Google and former Editor at Fortune

• Author of The End of Suburbs & The Airbnb Story

• Founder & CEO of Girls in Tech

• Author of Tech Boss Lady

• Co-founder & CTO of Infactory AI

• Former designer & engineer for Apple

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

• Author of Reinventing the Heartland: How One City’s Inclusive Approach to Innovation and Growth Can Revive the American Dream 

• Executive strategist & entrepreneur

• The expert on transformation and the tech-driven workplace

• Author of Disrupted, Lab Rats and STFU

• Writer on Silicon Valley. 

• Founder of the Moving Up Media Lab & Host of the PBS podcast, Attribution

• Author of the best-seller, Three Little Engines

• Expert on social mobility and the American Dream

• Author of Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It

• A leader in the application of human-centered design

• Author of several books including, The Design of Everyday Things

• UX consultant and speaker — a household name in UX and product design

• Author of ten books —  most recently the bestselling The User Experience Team of One

• Guggenheim Fellow

• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems

• Silicon Valley futurist and technologist

• Author of the books, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck and This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

• Author of The Invisible Gorilla

• 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

• Target’s former VP of Trend Design 

• Author of several books including, The Hummer and the Mini

• Consumer needs expert

• Author of PROXIMITY: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life (2024)

• A venture investor in more than 30 companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution

• Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University