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Which global forces threaten or favor your strategy — and how do you prepare for them?
President & Founder, Eurasia Group · GZERO Media · Political Risk Expert
Ian Bremmer helps leaders navigate geopolitical risk and understand how shifting global power dynamics shape markets, business strategy, and technological innovation.
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Former Chair of the Federal Reserve · Nobel Laureate in Economics
Ben Bernanke offers an unmatched view of monetary policy, financial crises, and the forces shaping the global economy, drawing on his years steering the world’s most powerful central bank.
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Global Economist · Author · Board Director at Chevron & 3M
Dambisa Moyo decodes the macro forces — debt, demographics and emerging-market capital flows — that will define the next decade of global growth and corporate strategy.
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Economist · Former Economic Advisor to the U.S. President · Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI
Dr. Pippa Malmgren translates the interplay between geopolitics, technology and markets into executive-ready signal.
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Global Strategist · Author of Connectography and MOVE
Dr. Parag Khanna maps how connectivity — trade lanes, data routes, capital and talent flows — reconfigures geopolitical risk and opportunity.
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Founder of Atlas · Geopolitical Strategist on China & the Indo-Pacific
Dr. Jonathan Ward provides a clear-eyed view of U.S.–China–India dynamics and the strategic competition shaping the Indo-Pacific.
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Founder, The Geopolitical Business · Geopolitical Futurist
Abishur Prakash pioneered the geopolitics of technology, showing boards how AI, semiconductors and sovereign walls are fracturing globalization and reshaping strategic choices.
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Founder, FACE · Geopolitical Strategist
Velina Tchakarova translates systemic geopolitical chaos and Cold War 2.0 into scenario-planning models for boards, with a strong lens on geoeconomic and supply-chain vulnerability.
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Professor of International History, Tufts Fletcher School · Author of Chip War
Chris Miller is a leading authority on the semiconductor arms race and technological geopolitics, connecting chips with supply-chain resilience, AI development and corporate sovereignty.
View full profile ↗How is AI changing your business, your workforce, and your decisions — and what comes next?
Nobel Laureate in Physics · Godfather of AI · Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Geoffrey Hinton shows leaders and organizations how artificial intelligence will transform society — and why the choices made now will shape whether it benefits humanity.
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Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab · Former CTO, OpenAI
Mira Murati guides leaders through the strategic and human dimensions of AI transformation, showing how organizations can build technology that amplifies human potential.
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CEO, Open Machine · Former Global Head of Machine Learning, AWS · Former IBM AI Lead
Allie K. Miller shows business leaders how to harness AI’s transformative potential through practical strategy, organizational change and human-centered implementation.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Google DeepMind · Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Demis Hassabis offers a rare perspective on artificial intelligence from the scientist whose work is redefining what machines — and humanity — can achieve.
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Google’s First Chief Decision Scientist · Founder of Decision Intelligence
Cassie Kozyrkov pioneered Decision Intelligence at Google. She turns AI and data into better decisions — and helps leaders distinguish hype from real value.
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AI Futurist · Former OpenAI Head of Go-To-Market
Zack Kass explores the AI Renaissance, enterprise strategy and the future of work from the perspective of a former OpenAI commercial leader.
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AI Expert · CEO of 01.AI · Former President of Google China
Kai-Fu Lee bridges East and West, exploring agentic AI, the global AI race and how businesses can navigate the next wave of intelligent automation.
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Former Chief Business Officer, Google X · Author of Scary Smart
Mo Gawdat brings deep tech leadership and human insight to questions about how AI will reshape work, happiness and what it means to stay human.
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AI Expert · Futurist · CEO of Addo
Dr. Ayesha Khanna connects generative AI, smart cities, the future of work and human-centric technology with practical decisions for leaders.
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TIME100 AI · Author of Empire of AI · Co-Host of BBC’s The Interface
Karen Hao provides an investigative look inside the global AI arms race and shows how decisions made by the industry’s most powerful actors reshape business, democracy and the workforce.
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Wharton Professor · Co-Director of Generative AI Labs · Author of Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick delivers a practical roadmap for how organizations can work alongside increasingly capable machines while managing the jagged frontier of AI.
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Former Head of Innovation, Mattel · Founder, 1000 Days Out · Author
Ramy Nassar translates AI governance, strategic foresight and emerging technology trends into practical boardroom roadmaps for organizations that want to design rather than react to the future.
View full profile ↗What’s coming — and how do you prepare your organization for it today?
Co-Founder of Apple · Inventor & Technology Icon
Steve Wozniak offers an inventor’s view on creativity, technology and what comes next, drawing on the engineering mindset that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
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Pioneering Inventor & Futurist · Author of The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s best-known futurists, whose predictions about technology and humanity have shaped how leaders prepare for an exponential future.
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Quantitative Futurist · CEO, Future Today Institute · NYU Stern
Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist recognized for a data-driven approach to strategic foresight and for turning weak signals into choices leaders can act on.
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Futurist · Former COO, Dubai Future Foundation
Dr. Noah Raford helps governments and organizations design for radical uncertainty, drawing on his experience building one of the world’s leading futures institutions.
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Futurist · Singularity University Faculty · Bestselling Author
John Sanei helps leaders shift their mindset for an exponential age, blending futures thinking, neuroscience and strategy into a roadmap for change.
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Founder & Managing Partner, Space Capital · Author of The Space Economy
Chad Anderson has spent over a decade pioneering investment in the space economy and shows leaders where infrastructure, capital and new markets are creating commercial opportunity.
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Founder of Boston Dynamics · Executive Director, The RAI Institute
Marc Raibert offers a pioneer’s view of physical AI, robotics and the machines that will reshape how work gets done.
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Futurist · Author of Technology vs. Humanity
Gerd Leonhard helps leaders navigate the collision of exponential technology and human values, translating large-scale change into questions of strategy and choice.
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Global Futurist · Trends & Innovation Expert
Jim Carroll connects disruptive trends, AI and relentless acceleration with practical opportunities for organizations that need to move before disruption arrives.
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Futurist & Strategic Foresight Advisor · Founder of WAYE · UN AI Advisor
Sinead Bovell bridges emerging technology and non-technical business leadership, mapping how AI and synthetic biology reshape skills, work and strategic investment.
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Founder & Chief Futurist, Signal & Cipher
Ian Beacraft helps companies become AI-native by redesigning workflows, team structures and reskilling around the capabilities of increasingly intelligent tools.
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Founder and CEO of Five Tech Companies · New York Times Bestselling Author
Josh Linkner turns innovation into an everyday leadership discipline, showing teams how small creative actions can produce meaningful breakthroughs.
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Harvard Professor · Authority on Leading Change
John Kotter is one of the world’s best-known authorities on change management, with an 8-Step framework for driving transformation that lasts.
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Global Leader on Simplification & Innovation
Lisa Bodell helps organizations remove complexity, challenge outdated habits and create more space for useful innovation and faster execution.
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Founder of Shazam · AI Innovation Expert
Chris Barton brings a founder’s perspective on breakthrough ideas, consumer technology and the Start From Zero mindset that helped turn Shazam into a global product.
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Former CEO of Boeing Commercial & Ford · Turnaround Leader
Alan Mulally shares the Working Together leadership philosophy behind one of the most closely watched corporate turnarounds in modern business.
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Expert on Disruption & Strategic Transformation
Scott D. Anthony helps leaders navigate disruption by transforming the core business while building new engines of growth.
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Exponential Strategist · Forbes Top Female Futurist · Author of Leadering
Nancy Giordano guides leaders through rapid technological and social change, focusing on adaptability, curiosity and regenerative ways of leading.
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Futurist · Author of AI and the Octopus Organization
Jonathan Brill translates the collision of AI, economics and geopolitics into strategic choices for organizations moving from rigid hierarchies toward more adaptive operating models.
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Global Change Management Expert · Author of Perpetual Pivot
Dr. Mark DeVolder focuses on the human side of transformation, helping people move through uncertainty, change fatigue and decision paralysis.
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How do you secure the organization against threats and stay responsible under risk?
First Director of CISA · Cybersecurity & Resilience Expert
Chris Krebs connects cyber defense with executive responsibility, helping boards move from impossible risk eradication toward systemic operational resilience.
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CEO & Founder, CQURE · Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP & Regional Director
Paula Januszkiewicz combines deep technical expertise with live demonstrations that make enterprise vulnerabilities and identity protection tangible to non-technical leaders.
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Chief Research Officer, Sensofusion · Cybersecurity Pioneer · Author & TED Speaker
Mikko Hyppönen translates AI-enabled threats, connected-device vulnerabilities and autonomous systems into practical questions of security and resilience.
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Co-Founder, CrowdStrike · Author of World on the Brink
Dmitri Alperovitch connects cybersecurity, AI and national security with geostrategic foresight, helping boards evaluate supply chains and technology competition.
View full profile ↗How do you win and keep customers in a market where experience decides loyalty?
Harvard Professor · Authority on Competitive Strategy
Michael Porter’s frameworks define how organizations build and sustain competitive advantage, making strategy concrete for leaders across industries.
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Marketing Author · Author of Purple Cow & This Is Marketing
Seth Godin reframes marketing around remarkable products, trust and communities — and the choices that turn customers into advocates.
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Growth & CX Expert · Former Global Customer Growth Evangelist, Salesforce
Tiffani Bova connects customer experience, employee experience and sales into a single view of how sustainable growth actually happens.
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Marketing Professor, Michigan Ross · Author of For the Culture
Marcus Collins shows how shared beliefs, identity and cultural communities shape behavior and brand loyalty far beyond conventional demographic targeting.
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Harvard Business School Lecturer · Former CMO of Aetna · Co-Author of Personalized
David C. Edelman helps organizations use AI to redesign customer decision journeys, scale personalization and build more agile marketing teams.
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Customer Experience Futurist · Bestselling Author
Steven Van Belleghem explores how AI and human connection can work together to create customer relationships that are convenient, trusted and difficult to leave.
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Global Keynote Speaker · Author · CEO, The Paul Bramson Companies
Paul Bramson focuses on human motivation and communication, helping leaders and commercial teams create relevance, ask better questions and build stronger connections.
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Creators of Blue Ocean Strategy · INSEAD Professors
Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne created Blue Ocean Strategy, the framework for moving beyond crowded competition by creating new market space.
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Wharton Professor · Organizational Psychologist · Bestselling Author
Adam Grant applies organizational psychology to motivation, generosity and rethinking, helping people and teams challenge assumptions and improve performance.
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Researcher & Author on Courage, Vulnerability & Leadership
Brené Brown’s research explores how courage, vulnerability, empathy and trust shape leadership, culture and meaningful work.
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Harvard Professor · Authority on Psychological Safety
Amy Edmondson shows how psychological safety enables teams to speak up, learn faster, handle failure intelligently and perform under uncertainty.
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Former CEO of Burberry · Former SVP of Apple Retail
Angela Ahrendts brings a practitioner perspective on human-centered leadership, showing how purpose, empathy and culture can drive transformation at scale.
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Entrepreneur & Author · Inspiration Behind The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner uses his journey from homelessness to entrepreneurship to explore resilience, self-belief, reinvention and persistence under pressure.
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Former SVP at Cisco · Author of The Problem with Change
Ashley Goodall challenges constant organizational disruption and shows why team-level stability can be a powerful foundation for performance and meaningful change.
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Strategy Lecturer, London Business School · Author of Survive, Reset, Thrive
Dr. Rebecca Homkes gives leadership teams a strategy loop for converting volatility into faster adaptation, better decisions and new growth.
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Former VP EMEA, Twitter · Workplace Culture Expert · Author of Fortitude
Bruce Daisley uses workplace research to rethink burnout, resilience and culture, emphasizing the social conditions that help teams perform sustainably.
View full profile ↗How do you make sustainability real strategy instead of a compliance exercise?
Former CEO of Unilever · Author of Net Positive
Paul Polman reframes corporate sustainability around value creation, long-term responsibility and the idea that companies can prosper by giving more than they take.
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Sustainable Finance Expert · Former CSO, DWS
Desiree Fixler brings an unusually practical view of sustainable finance and greenwashing, separating credible ESG action from claims that cannot withstand scrutiny.
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Sustainability Strategist · Former Fannie Mae Executive · Advisor to McKinsey
Chrissa Pagitsas brings practical experience from sustainable finance, including scaling Fannie Mae’s Green Bond program and translating environmental goals into investable models.
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Director General, European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability
Andrea Geremicca connects ESG, regulation and innovation, helping organizations turn large sustainability shifts into concrete portfolios and actions.
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Co-Founder, Futerra · Author of The Solutionists · TED Speaker
Solitaire Townsend reframes sustainability around solutions rather than guilt, connecting climate action with innovation, customer relevance and commercial opportunity.
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CEO, Gurīn Energy · Clean Energy Entrepreneur · Author
Assaad Razzouk brings a commercial view of the energy transition, connecting renewables with geopolitics, capital, supply chains and growth.
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Global MD of Board Development, Board Intelligence · Hall of Fame Inductee
Helle Bank Jorgensen brings ESG into the boardroom, helping directors connect sustainability with governance, trade, AI and other complex non-financial risks.
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