Innovation speakers
Scott Belsky is Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe, as well as the Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications.
Former designer & engineer for Apple, and author of the bestseller Creative Selection
Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life and author of Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation
Co-Founder of Stanford's Masters of Creativity at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
• Futurist, noted technology & innovation expert
• The founder of Shared_Studios and Portals
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication
• Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe
• Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications
• Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life
• Author of Reimagining Design
• 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
• Adjunct Professor Stanford University (Design Institute), Co-Director Stanford Executive Education
• Co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
• Founder Launchpad Accelerator Stanford University
• Former COO Patagonia, CEO Timbuk2, and founder Atlas Snowshoe Co.
• 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
• 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.
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems
• Silicon Valley futurist and technologist
• Author of The Invisible Gorilla
• Founder & CEO of TerraCycle, a company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste
• Co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
• Podcast host of Beyond the Prompt, an exploration of the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work
• Author of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
• 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