Robert Safian is one of the most sought-after speakers, moderators, and interviewers in modern business. From leadership positions at Fast Company, Time, Fortune and Money, to incisive analysis across multiple TV networks, podcasts and digital platforms, Safian has been lauded as an unparalleled source of insight on the future of the global enterprise. He is not only among the most acclaimed publishing executives in history but has deep relationships across the C-suite in multiple industries, accessing the cutting-edge developments that are reshaping our world.

For decades Safian has chronicled thousands of odds-defying organizations and leaders, uncovering their secrets of success. He synthesizes their lessons into eye-opening and thoroughly entertaining presentations filled with compelling storytelling. Whether assessing a startup in Detroit, the tech scene in Palo Alto or an iconoclast in Shanghai, Safian is constantly translating what is next and new to the mainstream. By presenting stories of the people behind innovative business thinking, he provides hope to millions of talented professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders that meaningful change is possible.

Safian has been propelled by a reputation for near-clairvoyant prediction. He was the first editor to put Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on a magazine cover and covered Airbnb, Netflix and Uber long before they were household names. For nearly twelve years he led the influential, award-winning business magazine Fast Company, turning it into the world's leading progressive business media brand. He was named Editor of the Year by Adweek, and earned the highly coveted National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year in 2014, beating out rivals including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and more.

Prior to Fast Company, Safian was the executive editor for Time and Fortune and headed Money as its chief editor for six years. He is a frequent guest on CBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and other TV networks.

His latest projects include The Flux Group, an advisory firm that is driving awareness of new business practices to both individual companies and mass-market audiences; The Flux Network, a special invitation-only community of leading thinkers, creative collaborators and idea generators; and a highly-anticipated forthcoming book on the reinvention of business that is identifying how leaders at all levels can best adapt and thrive in today’s high-flux environments and turn disruption to their advantage.

Safian has also built a reputation as one of today’s top interviewers, conducting onstage dialogues with many of the world's most intriguing leaders including the CEOs of Starbucks, Nike, Target, Ford, Pepsico, Pixar, Walmart.com, Chobani, Under Armour, J Crew, Soulcycle, Casper, Pinterest, Warby Parker and more, plus celebrities including Kate Hudson, Serena Williams, Chelsea Clinton, Princess Reema Bint Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jordan Spieth, Jared Leto, Alicia Keys and more. He has been a keynote presenter at events ranging from SxSW Interactive to the United Nation's Global Accelerators Council, the National Retail Federation's "Big Show" to the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, HSM Brazil to The World Congress on Intelligent Transport.

In addition to all of Safian's wide experiences, pool of knowledge, and deft storytelling skills, he is also warm, approachable, and an expert at working with event organizers to personalize his presentations for each audience.

• A co-host of the 2x award-winning business podcast, The Expansive.

• An author and co-author of 11 books, five of which are best-sellers.

• Ranked 5th among the World's Top Futurists for 2025, according to Global Gurus research.

• Faculty at Duke Corporate Education.

John Sanei has worked with thousands of leaders and organizations across the globe, including Google, Mastercard, NASA, Singularity University, and clients in technology, finance, FMCG, consulting, government, education, and beyond. He is a sought-after futurist and transformation specialist who helps decision-makers navigate uncertainty, especially in an A.I-disrupted world, so they can turn anxiety into confidence, complexity into clarity, and confusion into purposeful action.

He speaks on topics including futures thinking, organizational transformation, human adaptability, technology integration, resilient leadership, and the evolving relationship between humans and A.I. His sessions are known for being emotionally resonant, commercially relevant, and rich in insights drawn from neuroscience, psychology, and systems strategy.

• Joel talks about the future of healthcare using a long range perspective: 100 years of information technology and its impact on health and healthcare.

• Dr. Selanikio helps the audience navigate the possible futures of the industry, and how it will be affected by AI and technology.

• Dr. Joel Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, and mobile technology to health, healthcare, and social challenges.  He is a recognized innovator in global health, technology, and social enterprise, as well as a former CDC outbreak investigator and Ebola clinic director.

• Past clients include: Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard, Stanford School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google.

Dr. Joel Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, and mobile technology to health, healthcare, and social challenges.  A former CDC outbreak investigator and Ebola clinic director, he also frequently speaks about the challenges of providing clinical services in “the hot zone”, and the role that technology (and humanity) can play in emergencies.

A recognized innovator in global health, technology, and social enterprise, his broad career has allowed him to observe and leverage the great technological changes of our time – including the worldwide shift from personal computers to mobile, the adoption of cloud technologies, and the growing application of big data to healthcare – as few others have done.  Named in 2009 as one of Forbes’ “most powerful innovators”, he is a recipient of both the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare for his work in healthcare technology.  A TED speaker, he has spoken at or provided consultation to organizations including the Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard, Stanford School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google – and been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Economist, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC, among others.

Dr. Selanikio is a graduate of Haverford College and the Brown University School of Medicine, and he continues to practice pediatrics at Georgetown University.

• Rohit talks about how organizations can navigate a rapidly changing reality in his highly customized keynote and helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change

• Audiences leave with the key topics and learning takeaways that address how their specific organizatons can address the critical factors of future success.

• Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning and thought provoking speaker, strategic advisor, author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Fast Future.

• Past clients include: 3M, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, American Express, Barclays, Bayer, BP, Citi, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, EE, Emaar, Emirates, Etisalat, and EY.

Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning and thought provoking speaker, strategic advisor, author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Fast Future. He delivers keynote speeches, executive education, consultancy, research, and future-focused leadership mentoring to clients internationally. He helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change. He works with major corporations, governments, professional services, investors, associations, business schools, and NGOs - to help them anticipate, prepare for and create the future. He has delivered over 1,500 keynote speeches and executive workshops in 70+ countries on six continents.

Rohit leads Fast Future Publishing - delivering a series of multi-contributor books exploring the emerging future. He is the co-author of Designing Your Future, lead editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business, and editor of Technology vs. Humanity. He is also a co-editor and contributor for the recently published Beyond Genuine Stupidity - Ensuring AI Serves Humanity, and The Future Reinvented - Reimagining Life, Society, and Business. He is also working on two forthcoming books: Unleashing Human Potential - The Future of AI in Business, and 50:50 - Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

His new book Aftershocks and Opportunities – Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future published on June 1st, 2020 draws on contributions from 25 thought leaders around the world to explore the emerging possibilities and risks and the resulting critical actions required to navigate our way out of the current health crisis and economic disruption.
Rohit delivers fully researched and completely customised presentations for each keynote, and has the audience spellbound with his story of ending up on Interpol’s most wanted list due to identity theft. He has undertaken a wide range of foresight research studies for clients as diverse as the UK Government, Heathrow Airport, Amadeus, and the European Commission

Rohit’s primary objective is to support clients in exploring and shaping the emerging future - putting people at the center of the agenda. He helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change. Rohit highlights the new thinking and business models being enabled by exponential technologies such as AI, blockchain, and hyperconnectivity and uses case studies to demonstrate how firms across sectors are reinventing themselves in the era of smart machines. He then explores the mindset shifts and leadership capabilities required to compete in the emerging future. Finally, he demonstrates how to harness the next waves of innovation to unleash human potential and ensure a very human future for our organisations.

Rohit has delivered keynote speeches around the world and for clients across the globe. Example clients include 3M, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, American Express, Barclays, Bayer, BP, Citi, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, EE, Emaar, Emirates, Etisalat, EY, GE, Generali, IBM, Intel, KPMG, Latham and Watkins, Linklaters, Microsoft, Nokia, Norton Rose Fulbright, Novartis, O2, Orange, PWC, Pepsi, SAP, Sara Lee, Tata, The Singapore Government, The World Government Summit 2016 (UAE), and Twofour54.

James Taylor; Keynote Speaker on Creativity, Innovation & AI | Author of SuperCreativity | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts | Global Innovation Expert

Unlock Human Creativity in the Age of AI. As AI becomes capable of doing more, what will make your people and organization more valuable—not less?

For more than 20 years, James has helped leaders and organizations understand how technology is changing the way we work, create and compete. His message is optimistic and practical: AI doesn't diminish the importance of human creativity—it makes creativity an even greater competitive advantage.

Through highly visual, engaging and customized presentations, James shows audiences how to combine uniquely human capabilities with the extraordinary power of artificial intelligence.

Why Book James Taylor?

James helps answer one of the biggest questions facing organizations today:

How do we capture the benefits of AI without losing the human creativity, collaboration and judgment that drive breakthrough performance?

His perspective comes from an unusual background. James began his career managing high-profile rock stars and creative talent before becoming an internationally recognized authority on creativity, innovation and AI.

He has since interviewed more than 750 of the world's leading creative minds and delivered over 3,000 events around the world.

The result is a keynote that combines inspiration, emerging technology and practical strategies audiences can immediately apply.

What Makes James Taylor Different?

• Creativity + AI expertise — connects human ingenuity with artificial intelligence
• 3,000+ events delivered — extensive experience with corporate and association audiences
• Global perspective — has presented across more than 50 countries
• 750+ creative leaders interviewed — draws insights from innovators, entrepreneurs and AI pioneers
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts — recognized for his contribution to creativity and innovation
• Author of SuperCreativity — explores augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence
• Former music-industry leader — brings an unusual perspective from working with highly creative performers
• Highly customized — builds presentations around the audience, industry and event objectives
• Practical frameworks — gives audiences tools for turning ideas into action

Why Is James Right for Your Audience?

James is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand AI without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the uniquely human capabilities that will matter even more in the future.

He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI events, innovation summits, association meetings and organizations navigating digital transformation.

Book James when your audience needs to:

• Understand how AI is changing work and business
• Develop greater creativity across the organization
• Build effective human-AI collaboration
• Generate and implement better ideas
• Become more comfortable with technological disruption
• Strengthen collaboration across teams
• Lead people confidently through change
• Turn innovation into competitive advantage

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding why creativity becomes more valuable as AI advances
• Better prepared to work alongside artificial intelligence
• Equipped with practical tools for generating stronger ideas
• Understanding how human-AI collaboration can improve performance
• More confident navigating technological change
• Better prepared to create cultures that encourage innovation
• Recognizing the importance of communication and persuasion
• Inspired to turn ideas into action

James Taylor Keynote Programs

SuperCreativity™: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.  When AI can generate ideas in seconds, where does human creativity create competitive advantage?

James explores how organizations can combine the imagination, empathy and original thinking of humans with the extraordinary processing capabilities of artificial intelligence.

Drawing from his research with hundreds of leading creative thinkers, he shows audiences how to develop their creative capacity and use AI as a partner in the innovation process.

The goal isn't simply to become more comfortable with AI. It's to use AI to amplify what humans do best.

Ideal for: Innovation summits, AI conferences, leadership meetings and organizations navigating technological disruption.

SuperCollaboration™: The Rise of Human-AI Collaboration. The future isn't humans versus machines. It's humans working more effectively with machines.

James explores how AI, digital twins, robotics and intelligent technologies are transforming the workplace.

He shows audiences how high-performing organizations are combining human judgment, creativity and collaboration with the capabilities of intelligent machines.

The result is a practical roadmap for building teams that are more innovative, adaptive and future-ready.

Ideal for: AI conferences, future-of-work events, executive meetings and organizations accelerating AI adoption.

SuperCommunication™: How the World's Best Leaders Inspire, Influence and Drive Action In a world where AI can generate unlimited information, the ability to inspire people to act becomes even more valuable.

James explores the communication principles used by highly effective leaders to turn ideas into action.

Audiences discover how to communicate ideas more clearly, build support for change and persuade others to move from understanding an idea to actually doing something about it.

Because innovation isn't just about having great ideas.

It's about getting people to believe in them.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales events and organizations navigating transformation.

Why Book James Taylor Through The Sweeney Agency?

James Taylor combines creativity, innovation, AI and highly engaging storytelling to help audiences understand how human potential can be amplified rather than diminished by technology.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm James Taylor's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which James Taylor keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare James with other leading AI, innovation and future-of-work keynote speakers

Is James Taylor Right for Your Event?

Tell us how AI, innovation or technological change is affecting your organization—and what you need your people to do differently.

We'll help you determine whether James is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

Planning an AI conference, innovation summit, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking James Taylor as your keynote speaker.

Vivek Wadhwa's background is impressive - an entrepreneur, academic, business strategist, author, keynote speaker wrapped into a wonderfully vibrant and charismatic package. His research is focused on the critical advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials, and how these advances are creating disruptive changes for companies, industries, governments and the culture at large.

Vivek just rejoined Harvard as a Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor, and Worklife Program, where he will help lead a critical three-year research project on the effects of technology on future employment and work. This will be the first study on how technology will affect the core foundations of our economy.

He is also currently a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, he teaches on CMU's Silicon Valley campus about the latest exponential technologies; technology convergence and industry disruption; risks and regulation; and the new rules of innovation. Vivek was also a Director of Research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, and Fellow at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, and Emory University. Remarkably, he has held as many as six simultaneous appointments at top universities.

Vivek's syndicated column for The Washington Post is one of the world's most popular columns on all things technology and innovation.  His newest best-selling book is Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back.  Previous books include the award-winning, The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future, he also wrote The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012, and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, for which the Financial Times named him #2 on its global list of the top ten men worth emulating.

This talent for communicating the complexities of global technological advancements in simple, almost poetic ways, have made Vivek one of the most in-demand keynote speakers in the world. He gives more than 100 talks every year to the most prestigious and powerful audiences, including world leaders, CEOs, industry organizations, universities, entrepreneurship groups, and a multitude of national science and engineering academies.

He started his career as a software developer and gained a deep understanding of the challenges in building computer systems. His experience as Vice President of Information Services at investment banking powerhouse CS First Boston (CSFB), spearheading the development of technology for creating computer-aided software-writing systems, was so successful that CSFB decided to spin off that business unit into its own company, Seer Technologies. As its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Wadhwa helped grow the nascent startup into a $118 million publicly traded company.

The explosive growth of the internet afforded Vivek with an even greater opportunity to help businesses adapt to new and fast-changing technologies, and founded Relativity Technologies. As a result of his vision, Forbes.com named Wadhwa a Leader of Tomorrow, and Fortune declared Relativity one of the 25 coolest companies in the world.

In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an "Outstanding American by Choice", for his "commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans". He was also named one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME's list of "Tech 40", one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of "ten men worth emulating" in the Financial Times.

Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor

Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.

Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.

His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.

Why Book Mike Walsh?

Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.

As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.

His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.

Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.

What Makes Mike Walsh Different?

• Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
• AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
• Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
• Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
• Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
• Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
• Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
• Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges

Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?

Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.

He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.

Book Mike when your audience needs to:

• Understand what's coming next in AI
• Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
• Reimagine how their organization operates
• Identify new opportunities created by automation
• Lead people confidently through technological disruption
• Make smarter data-driven decisions
• Rethink customer and employee experiences
• Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
• Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
• Thinking differently about the future of work
• Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
• Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
• Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Ready to rethink how their organization creates value

Mike Walsh Keynote Programs

Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business.  What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?

AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.

Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.

He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.

Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.

The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?

Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.

He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.

Technology is only part of the transformation.

Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.

The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.

Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.

Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.

Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.

It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.

Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.

The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?

Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.

He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.

Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.

Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.

Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?

Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Mike Walsh's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Mike Walsh keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Mike with other leading AI, futurist and future-of-business keynote speakers

Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about AI and the future ahead.

We'll help you determine whether Mike is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

Planning an AI summit, executive conference, leadership meeting or association event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Walsh as your keynote speaker.

Nick Webb is a number one best-selling author and is one of the most popular Innovation, Healthcare, Future-trends, and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Nick is the CEO of LeaderLogic, LLC a Management Consulting Firm that provides consulting services and training to the top brands in the world. Nick works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multibillion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations.

As a technologist, Nick has been awarded over 40 Patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including one of the world’s smallest medical implants and one of the first wearable technologies.

Nick’s best-selling books include, What Customers Crave, The Innovation Mandate, What Customers Hate, Happy Work, Lucid Leadership and his number one bestselling book, The Healthcare Mandate. Nick has been awarded one of the Top 30 Business Experts for eight years in a row.

Nick has served as a Chief Innovation Officer and an Adjunct Professor at a top medical school. Nick was awarded his Doctorate of Humane Letters (hon.) for his contributions in healthcare.

Additionally, Nick is also the Producer and Host of the Award-winning Documentary Film, “The Healthcare Cure”. The film won the Sedona International Film Festival’s “Audience Choice Award”, Most Impactful Film.

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John Winsor is an entrepreneur, thought-leader and global authority on the future of work, open talent and remote work. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he’s built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption and storytelling.

John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which studies AI and Workforce Transformation strategies, and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work.

Recently, he has been leading a global industry coalition made up 4000 global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry to start a non-profit trade association, The Center for the Transformation of Work with the goal of Transforming work for a billion people by 2025.

In his past life, John was the chief innovation officer of Havas, when Havas purchased his open advertising agency, Victors & Spoils, in 2015. Winsor founded V&S after introducing the advertising world to the practice of co-creation in his role as vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor had merged his company Radar Communications, the world’s leading open strategy and research company, with CP+B back in 2007. Other companies Winsor founded include Sports & Fitness publishing, sold to Conde Nast, and the Gravity Games, sold to NBC.

Winsor’s new book, “Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Crowd to Solve Your Biggest Challenges,” published by Harvard Business Press, comes out in the fall of 2023.

Winsor’s is also the author of “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped,” and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing. Winsor is also an advisor to the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes and Digiday.

Winsor was an early digital nomad. Twenty years ago, he found a satellite dish, mounting it on his house in a village in Mexico and connecting in illegally to a network in Canada to communicate with the world. He has also worked on his skiing, surfing and climbing exploits from Fiji to Alaska.

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.

In 1981, he went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators.

In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.

Through the years, Wozniak has been involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students.  Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, he adopted the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Wozniak is Chief Scientist at Primary Data and is a published author with the release of his New York Times best selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon by Norton Publishing. His television appearances include reality shows Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and The Big Bang Theory.  In 2014, he was awarded the Hoover Medal, a prestigious honor given for “outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity,” and was inducted into the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

Edith Yeung is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and a China Internet expert. She is also the author and creator of the China Internet Report, an annual report on China technology trends that is widely popular among investors and corporate executives.

Selected by Inc Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Yeung is a partner at 500 Startups - the world’s most active early seed investor. She has invested in over 40 mobile, AI and blockchain startups including Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense , DayDayCook, AppOnBoard, Hooked, Oasis, Stellar, Solana, CoCos-BCX, and many more.

Before 500, Edith was previously a GM at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Yeung also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless and Autodesk.

Yeung has been featured on CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, SCMP, the BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NPR, TechCrunch, Asia Society, the Economist, and many more.