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These are the top innovation keynote speakers who can cover such topics as Artificial Intelligence, big data and quantum computing, augmented reality, blockchain, robotics, biometrics, 3D printing, drones, IoT (Internet of Things), business trends, disruptive technology, singularity, tranhumanism, marketing, digital innovation, entrepreneurship, media, and more.
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Ray Kurzweil
The Wall Street Journal described Ray Kurzweil as the “restless genius”.
Forbes Inc., on the other hand, calling him the “ultimate thinking machine”, ranking him #8 among entrepreneurs in the US, naming Ray the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison”.
In addition, Kurzweil was among PBS’ 16 “revolutionaries who made America”. Ray is considered one of the globe’s leading thinkers, investors, and futurists with a good 30-year track record of precise predictions.
Considered one of the best speakers on innovation, Kurzweil has written books on AI, health, technological singularity, transhumanism, and futurism.
He is also a public advocate for transhumanist and futurist movements, giving public talks to share his optimistic thinking and outlook on the life extension techs and the future of robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology.
Ray also speaks broadly to the audience both in the private and public sectors, delivering innovative keynote speeches at industry conferences.
Some of his quotes include…
“By the 2030s, the non-biological portion of our intelligence will predominate.”
“I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It’ll just know this is something that you’re going to want to see.”
Peter Thiel
As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Thiel has been involved with some of the most famous companies to emerge from Silicone Valley in the past 10 years.
His first start-up was the now-popular paying platform PayPal which he co-founded in the year 1998.
After eBay acquired PayPal, Peter then founded a worldwide macro hedge fund, the Clarium Capital Management. He even helped launched an analytical software company Palantir Technologies, serving as the chairman of the board.
Thiel’s contribution to entrepreneurship, technology, and finance has been widely recognized, giving him the title of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum and BusinessWeek naming him as one of the 25 most influential individuals on the Web.
As a highly sought out business innovation keynote speaker, Peter covers a wide variety of topics which include technology, future trends, execution, and more.
“The thing that’s always a big mistake is going after a giant market on Day 1”
“Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.”
Chris Sacca
Sacca knows success. He was Google’s former Head of Special Initiatives, sharing into all projects in development and served as the company’s lead spokesperson.
Chris is also a first-round investor in social networking and now a formal advisor.
Widening his vision, Sacca was also involved in the Obama campaign and served as Media, Telecommunications and Technology Advisor.
With the series of lessons that he learned from Google, Twitter and on the Obama campaign, Sacca has this unique ability to identify trends into action and how these ideas apply to your business.
As a digital innovation speaker, he shares exciting new ways of organizing, thinking and communicating the most powerful tools in technological history.
Some of his quotes include…
“I want to be investing in the future and not the present.”
“The very best products and the very best entrepreneurs are the ones worth arguing with.”
Jeff Bezos
An American aerospace and internet entrepreneur, investor and media proprietor, Jeff Bezos is one of the most influential CEO’s today.
Best known as the founder, president and CEO of the global online shopping site, Amazon, Jeff was named as the “Richest Man in Modern History”, according to Forbes wealth index. Forbes even described Bezos as “far richer than anyone else on the planet”.
Jeff then broadened his business pursuit to include aerospace and founded the Blue Origin and Newspaper after he purchased the Washington Post.
He is considered one of the best speakers on innovation because of how he was able to scale Amazon so quickly which every company is now trying to emulate.
Some of his quotes include…
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
Jack Ma
Born as Ma Yun, Jack Ma is the co-founder of infamous Alibaba Group with numerous international honors and awards.
Jack Ma saw a problem in his country, dedicated his resources to solve the problem and found that true definition of business and entrepreneurship.
Now, Ma still ranks as one of the most effective innovation keynote speakers today as he helps organizations approach their business problems from his unique perspective.
His effective analogies, repetition for emphasis and body language are a major part of his innovative speeches. He is not only unique but controversial and uses his speech to motivate his audience.
Some of his quotes include…
“Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”
“No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).”
Sean Parker
Starting as a rogue computer hacker in his teenage years, Parker showed to be the early genius and co-founded Napster, a file-sharing computer service. Later on, he also became Facebook’s founding president.
Now, Sean is a venture capitalist investor and philanthropist with his interest in music leading him to invest in Spotify in the year 2010.
In 2015, Parker launched the Parker Foundation for global health, science, and civic engagement.
A year after, his foundation grants to establish an Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. In addition, Sean who has allergies to certain foods and asthma also founded the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research in 2014.
He is a highly sought-after innovation conference speaker who is passionate about inspiring audiences to think differently about how the approach their businesses.
Some of his quotes include…
“It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren’t working on.”
“Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.”
Chamath Palihapitiya
Palihapitiya was born to be a venture capitalist and the CEO and proud founder of Social Capital.
In his early years, Chamath was a senior executive at Facebook and is a minority board member and stakeholder of the Golden State Warriors.
Chamath worked with The Information, a technology industry publication, and published a report on the diversity of venture capital.
Here, Chamath wrote a calling for a “wake-up call” among venture capital businesses that would open doors and recapture the potential to surround them with a more diverse set of skills and experience.
He is a savvy and super-smart individual that understands the big picture and has a crystal clear vision where the world is going.
As a business innovation public speaker, he is not only able to tackle the high-level abstract business concepts and simplify them in terms most can understand, but he is also able to dig into analytics and details to strengthen gut resolves in decision making.
Some of his quotes include…
“Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.”
“I think the reality is that it’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it’s never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it’s very energetic. It’s wonderful.”
Marc Benioff
CEO and chairman of Salesforce, Benioff is one of the pioneers of cloud computing. He has the vision to create in-demand, information management services to replace traditional business software technologies.
And under his guidance, Salesforce has grown from an innovative idea to the fastest growing software company globally and the biggest CRM company.
Marc was later on recognized for his pioneering innovation and visionary leadership. Fortune Readers named him as the “Businessperson of the Year”, Barron gave him the title as one of the “Best CEOs in the World” and even received The Economist’s Innovation Award.
Throughout his career, Marc has developed a new model of integrated corporate philanthropy. And later on focused his personal philanthropy on advancing health care for children via the USCF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
Considered a great innovation guest speaker to have at any business conference, he can cover many topics such as technology, future trends, management, leadership, and more.
Some of his quotes include…
“One idea alone is a tactic, but if it can be executed a number of different ways, it becomes a great strategy.”
“You must always examine what’s working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
Vaynerchuk is born to build businesses. Fresh from college, Gary took his family wine business and in just 5 years, it went from $3M to a $60M business. Currently, he runs one of the globe’s hottest digital agencies— VaynerMedia.
He is New York Times best-selling author of The Thank You Economy; Crush It!; #AskGaryVee; and Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook. Vaynerchuk also hosts the #AskGaryVee Show to provide as much value as possible by answering questions about entrepreneurship, social media, family businesses, and startups.
As a business innovation speaker, Gary talks a lot about future trends on social media and how businesses can create their winning edge by adding unique values that other companies are not.
Some of his quotes include…
“When it comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.”
“You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.”
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is the proud owner of Landmark Theatres, National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, and Magnolia Pictures. He is also the Chairman of HDNet and a “shark” investor of the Shark Tank television series.
Mark wrote an e-book entitled How to Win at the Sport of Business, which tells his life experiences in sports and business.
Named 2006 Men of the Year from GQ Magazines and included in “Year in Ideas” from New York Times Magazines, Cuban is recognized to be among the most influential speakers in both the sports and cable industries.
Today he is considered a top disruptive innovation speaker and an active investor in cutting-edge technologies who can cover such topics as the future of business, marketing, strategy, and more.
Some of his quotes include…
“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.”
“Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them.”
Safi Bahcall
Safi Bahcall is a Physicist and entrepreneur who dedicates his life to studying “loonshots”, that is innovative and has wild ideas that are considered crazy – until they change the world.
He was named New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year and also supported Barack Obama’s council of science advisors where he focused on the future of national research.
During his speeches, he covers a wide variety of topics which include science, pharmaceutical, and biotech.
Nicholas Thompson
Voted as one of LinkedIn’s top voices, Nicholas Thompson is the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, one of the dominant platforms in the world of tech and futurism.
He is the first person to give keynote talks on the latest innovations and ethical questions going on in Silicon Valley, where he has provided in depth investigate reporting.
As a digital innovation speaker, he can cover a wide range of topics which include AI, the future of technology, and how tech plays a role in politics.
Ari Wallach
Ari Wallach is a strategist and social innovation expert.
He’s the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs – an initiative focused on nurturing new ways of thinking and acting for the greater good of humankind.
With over 2.3M views on TED, Ari is definitely one of the voices people are paying attention to when it comes to innovation.
As a disruptive innovation speaker, you can hear his passion for the future of mankind and how tech can play a role in helping to fix many of our problems in a more holistic and unifying way.
Jonas Kjellberg
Jonas Kjellberg is the co-founder of Skype which was the first platform to truly make video conferencing accessible worldwide.
In 2014, he co-authored the book Gear Up, a handbook that was created at Stanford University and Harvard Business School that helps young entrepreneurs test their business ideas.
He then went on to launch Gear Up Ventures which helps entrepreneurs put into practice many of his philosophies from the book.
During his presentations, you can hear him cover a variety of topics that include disruption, new business models, creating a winning sales culture, and more.
Lisa Bodell
Lisa Bodell is a futurist and the CEO of Futurethink where she helps companies like Pfizer, Bloomberg, and Lockheed Martin innovate within their organization on how to be more simple.
As the author of “Why Simple Wins”, her mission is to help organizations re-think how they do business so that they can focus on what matters and get more done.
Jeremy Gutsche
Jeremy Gutsche is the CEO of trendhunter.com, a future forward website that brings the latest trends to its readers.
As a graduate of Stanford University, Jeremy has been focusing his energy on where business is going in the future and helps companies position themselves so they can be ahead of the curve.
During his speeches, you can hear him talk about big data, AI, and how technology will play a role in business.
Alden Mills
Alden Mills is a former Navy Seal and the founder of Perfect Fitness where he uses his experience from the Armed Forces to transform how people are getting in shape and staying healthy.
While the fitness industry has changed over the years, Alden is on a mission to completely transform how we perceive the human body and take care of it.
During his presentations, he will cover such topics as leadership, team building, and high performance.
Jeff Degraff
Known as the “Dean of Innovation”, Jeff Degraff is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and business professor at the Ross School of Business. He is responsible for accelerating the growth of Dominos’ Pizza in the 1980’s.
Aside from that, he has also written many books on Innovation, the latest being “The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict”.
Having worked with companies such as Google and Coca-Cola, he has created a number of tools and methodologies to help leaders and organizations innovate constantly.
A performer at heart, Jeff Degraff is an ideal innovation event speaker guaranteed to deliver an exciting presentation that will enable any company to become (and stay) innovative.
He has partnered with companies such as American Express, Cisco, Coca Cola, Google, and GE where his topics include: “Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Organization’s Growth Engine”, “Business Design in the New Tech Centric World”, and many more.
Some of his quotes include…
“Innovation, at best, is a work in progress.”
“Innovation is a cyclical learning process.”
Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph is an Amazon #1 Bestselling Author and angel investor who co-founded Netflix and acted as its first CEO.
As a veteran Sillicon Valley entrepreneur, Marc has also mentored Looker Data Sciences until it was sold to Google for 2.6 billion dollars. He now acts as board member and advisor to several startups.
His talks revolve around topics such as overcoming adversity and how people can bring innovation to their companies.
He also shares stories from the starting and growing of Netflix, combined with valuable lessons he has learned in his 40+ years as an entrepreneur.
Some of his quotes include…
“On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.”
“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.”
Jack Dorsey
As instant messaging became popular, Jack Dorsey came to Odeo and, alongside Biz Stone, built a prototype of SMS text and the status message idea. The result was a company named Twitter, which was created in two weeks.
In June 2015, Jack became Twitter’s interim CEO. He has also created the company Square, inc. a new platform for small business to accept debit and credit cards on a mobile device.
Drawing from his experience as the co-founder of Twitter, Jack delivers powerful talks about social media and entrepreneurship.
Some of his quotes include…
“Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect.”
“Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.”
Kevin J. Surace
Kevin Surace is the creator of one of the first smartphones and AI digital assistant, besides being innovator of the decade.
Having disrupted every industry he has entered, Kevin has been named Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year and CNBC’s Innovator of the Decade. He has also been inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame.
Kevin uses his unique hands-on experience to deliver high-energy, interactive and fun presentations. His topics include Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation and Innovation.
Adam Cheyer
Adam Cheyer is responsible for co-founding Siri, which was later acquired by Apple in 2010, and Viv, an AI company acquired by Samsung in 2016.
He has worked in some of the largest technology companies in the world, startups and research labs, contributing with his innovative ideas.
His topics include how Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every industry, challenging current business models and re-imagining consumer experiences. He also talks about how companies can stay relevant through innovation.
Duncan Wardle
Duncan Wardle is the former Vice President of Innovation & Creativity at the Walt Disney Company.
For 25 years, Duncan led the Walt Disney creative process for LucasFilms, Pixar, Marvel, Disney Imagineering, Disney Parks and ESPN.
He has trained over 3000 professionals and executive Disney cast members to be more innovative.
Duncan is also the founder of id8, a consulting firm that helps businesses unlock their creativity. Some clients include Ford, Coca-Cola, NBA, Apple and Forbes.
In his talks, Duncan teaches companies, brands and individuals how to think outside the box and unleash their creativity.
He discusses how people can create their innovation “light switch”, and how ordinary companies can be turned into industry leaders.
Dan Pallota
For the past 10 years, Dan Pallota’s methods have been able to raise billions of dollars for important causes, such as breast cancer, AIDS and pediatric leukemia.
A humanitarian entrepreneur, Dan has been at the forefront of philanthropy and innovation. Among his many creations, Dan is the founder of Advertising for Humanity, an inspiration agency for the humanitarian sector.
In his speeches, Dan shares important ideas on how philanthropists can innovate the non-profit industry. He challenges the way we think about charity and discusses crucial points such as purpose, dreams and innovation.
Some of his quotes include…
“And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.”
“It’s time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.”
Larry Page
Larry Page co-founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin. He was able to take Google from a Ph.D research project to the internet giant we know today.
Coming from a family of scientists, Page entered a Ph.D program at Stanford, where he met Brin. He has been the visionary behind Google projects such as Google maps, Google books and Android.
In his speeches, Page shares the struggles he and Brin had while starting Google, encouraging people to take more risks in life.
Some of his quotes include…
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
Logan Green
Logan Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft. The idea to create a more social, sustainable and affordable transportation system came when Green used to carpool in Zimbabwe. In 2009, Businessweek listed Logan as one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.
In his talks, Logan shares his vision of filling 80 percent of empty seats on the road, thus creating a more sustainable way of transportation.
Some of his quotes include…
“I’ve always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.”
“Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we’re doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.”
Shane Smith
In 1994, Shane Smith launched VICE as a punk magazine, which would later turn out to be a global youth media brand.
VICE has now branched to several other types of media businesses, including a television production studio (with a show on HBO), a record label, and a book-publishing house.
Smith is widely regarded as an expert on global youth culture and industry innovator. In his talks, he shares his expertise and covers innovative ways media can be used.
Some of his quotes include…
“I want to build the next CNN with ‘VICE’ – it’s within my grasp.”
“The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, ‘Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'”
Tiffani Bova
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Tiffani Bova is the lead innovator at SalesForce, the top CRM platform used by almost every major sales driven organization.
With many sales accolades under her belt including one of the top sales experts to follow by Inc Magazine, Tiffani has given over 500 keynote presentations on The Future of Work, Sales, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, and more.
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