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Kevin Surace

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine in 2009
  • Is honored in RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame
  • Invented AirCommunicator, the first smartphone ever to send data over cellular
  • Invented Mary (Portico). This was the first ever digital assistant in AI.
  • Contributed to the development of low carbon footprint materials, such as EcoRock
  • His company retrofitted the Empire State Building, using ultra-energy-efficient windows
  • Co-invented the web-based multivariate reverse auction
  • A highly sought after futurist keynote speaker who is passionate about inspiring audiences on the exciting potential impact businesses can have on society

Mike Walsh

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Authored Futuretainment, a bestselling book that won the Art Director’s Club Award, a New York City accolade
  • Has been named as one of Australia’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30
  • Released book The Algorithmic Leader in 2019
  • Founded Jupiter Research, a consumer behavior research company in Asia Pacific
  • Has been a senior strategist at News Corporation and Star TV
  • Mike is a powerful futurist public speaker who has traveled the world to share his insights with businesses on how they can thrive in the 21st century

Vivek Wadhwa

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, in its Labor and Worklife Program
  • Is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering
  • Won the 2018 Visionary award from Silicon Valley’s Forum
  • Wrote the book…The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
  • Wrote the book…The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent which was named Book of the year by The Economist in 2012.
  • He is a strong futurist guest speaker who captivates audiences with insights on how technology and innovation is shaping our lives and business

Dr. Michio Kaku

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He co-founded String Field Theory, a form of mathematics that helps explain String Theory
  • More than 70 of his articles have appeared in physics journals
    Authored international bestsellers Visions: How Science Will
  • Appeared on the Science Channel, BBC, Discovery, and the History Channel
  • Authored multiple books including Parallel Worlds, Physics of the Impossible, and Physics of the Future which are all bestsellers

Thomas Frey

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Launched the DaVinci Institute, a futurist think tank, consulting, and networking firm.
  • Held a position as an engineer and designer at IBM for 15 years, winning more than 270 awards during this period
  • Has been a member of the Triple Nine Society
  • Featured in a vast number of articles in national and international publications, such as The New York Times, World Economic Forum, Forbes, and Huffington Post
  • He is a highly popular futurist conference speaker who has worked with Visa, Lucent Technologies, Boeing, Qwest, First Data, AT&T, Ford, and more.

Martin Ford

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Founded Genesis Systems LLC, a Silicon Valley software development enterprise
  • Authored Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
  • Has more than 25 years of experience in software development and computer design
  • He is a future trends keynote speaker who is helping to crate more awareness on how Artificial Intelligence will impact our lives

Jim Carroll

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He has more than 25 years of event experience, sharing his insights with at least 2 million people
  • Participated in events involving figures such as President George W. Bush, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, Buzz Aldrin, Chris Hadfield, Leonard Nimoy, and Carrie Fisher.
  • Named “a leading source for innovation insight” by BusinessWeek
  • A passionate future trends public speaker who has spoken for Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, Nestle, and many other Fortune 500 companies

Pieter Abbeel

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He co-founded Covariant AI in 2017 and Gradescope.com in 2014.
  • Is a Founding Faculty Partner with the Venture Fund AI@TheHouse
  • Won many best paper awards at organizations such as NIPS, ICML , and ICLR
  • Won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), as well as early career awards from NSF, ONR, Darpa, Sloan, AFOSR, and IEEE.

Ross Dawson

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Authored Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, a bestseller at Amazon.com
  • Authored Living Networks, an acclaimed book that predicted the social networking revolution
  • Published more than 100 articles in important publications all over the world
  • Had media appearances on Bloomberg TV, CNN, European Business Network, ABC TV, SkyNews, and other venue

Peter Schwartz

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He created Global Business Network (GBN) in 1988.
  • Held a leadership role in Royal Dutch/Shell’s scenario team in the 1980s
  • Was co-author of “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security” for the Pentagon
  • Authored several successful books on future-focused subjects

Oliver Cameron

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He was founder of a startup propelled by the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator
  • Held position as Vice President of Engineering, Content & Product for Udacity, an online education startup
  • Co-founded Voyage (a venture in the self-driving car industry) and holds the position of CEO. Venture has the backing of Jaguar Land-Rover, Initialized, CRV, and Khosla Ventures.

Gerd Leonhard

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Has done more than 1,500 engagements in over 50 countries since 2004, sharing his ideas with more than one million people
  • Co-authored The Future of Music, a best-selling book
    Authored The Humanity Challenge in June of 2016, as well as four other books
  • Was named “one of the leading Media Futurists in the World” by Wall Street Journal in 2006
  • Was listed at #88 of a list of Europe’s top 100 influencers by Wired Magazine in 2015

Michael Rogers

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Held a position as futurist-in-residence at The New York Times
  • Has a consultancy that has worked for organizations such as Microsoft, FedEx, Pfizer, NBC Universal, Siemens, and Boeing
  • Authored best-selling fiction exploring how technology affects human beings
  • Co-founded Outside magazine after writing for Rolling Stone
    Established Newsweek’s technology column

Mark Stevenson

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He authored the futurist publications “We Do Thing Differently: Travels on the Cutting Edge of Change” and “An Optimist’s Tour of the Future” in 2017.
  • Founded wdtd.co.uk, a cultural change agency
  • Published in The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and The New Statesman

Amy Webb

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Authored book The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity in 2019
  • Founded the Future Today Institute which helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures
  • Was included in the 2017 Thinkers50Radar list of management thinkers most likely to shape the future
  • Won Thinkers50 Radar’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2017
  • Authored The Signals are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream, a best-selling book that won awards

Peter Diamandis

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • He was named as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2014.
  • Founded the XPrize Foundation, an organization focusing on the design and operation of large-scale incentive competitions
  • Founded Singularity University, an institution in Silicon Valley that provides advice for leaders in rapidly growing technologies

Patrick Dixon

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Established ACET, an international AIDS agency, after publication of his book, The Truth About AIDS.
  • Has been honored as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive
  • Dixon’s Web TV site has attracted 10 million visitors since 1996 and is visited by as many as 500,000 a month
  • Has advised some of the world’s largest corporations, including Microsoft, Toshiba, HSBC, Aviva, Allianz, and UBS.
  • As a future trends conference speaker, he has addressed audiences in at least 50 nations

Daniel Burrus

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Authored Flash Foresight and Technotrends, a New York Times bestseller
  • Has been named one of the top three business gurus in high demand as a futurist event speaker by the New York Times
  • Clients include companies such as Google, Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, FedEx, Verizon, Honda, Microsoft, and Deloitte, as well as government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense

Richard Yonck

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Founded the Intelligent Future Consulting
  • Has three decades of working in technology
  • Worked as computer systems programmer-analyst for more than 25 years
  • Published in magazines and periodicals such as Scientific American, The Futurist Magazine, Psychology Today, Fast Company, and the World Future Review
  • Authored book Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Faith Popcorn

Accomplishments & Accolades

  • Founded a futurist marketing consultancy called BrainReserve in 1974
  • Has been cited in Time, Fortune, and The New York Times, and mentioned on Face the Nation, The Today Show, and CNN
  • Was called “The Trend Oracle” by The New York Times and ‘the Nostradamus of Marketing’ by Fortune Magazine

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