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Linda Bernardi is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as innovation, disruption, technology, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. She is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where she gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and schools.
Linda Bernardi is hired to speak at events and conferences where she can give expertise on important global business affairs. She is the founder and CEO of StraTerra Partners, a technology strategy consulting firm. She works closely with large companies and technology developers to help them disrupt industries, develop new ideas, and think creatively.
Linda, an experienced business owner, started ConnecTerra, Inc. in 2001. It is a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that links RFID technology to enterprise IT. RFID is thought to be where IoT came from and what made it possible. She lived in Seattle and went to UCLA to get a master’s degree in applied math and statistics.
She was in the leadership of academics, research, innovation, and strategy programs at Element AI as EVP, Chief Product, and Strategy Officer. Linda had been IBM’s Chief Innovation Officer for IoT and Cloud before that. Her main goal was to help IBM’s Fortune 100 clients integrate IoT, AI, and cognitive capabilities into their operations so they could do well in a world where everything is connected. She added Watson’s intelligence to the Internet of Things and new product offers. As a top executive at IBM, she was also in charge of changing the global culture of the company.
The Inversion Factor, which was written by Sanjay Sarma and Kenneth Traub, looks at the shift from a “product-first” to a “needs-first” way of thinking in companies, as well as the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a hyper-connected world. After she left IBM, she mostly worked on finishing her second book, which came out in November 2017 from MIT Press. Research into inversion is important for a business to stay in business.
In Linda’s first book, ProVoke, which came out in 2011, she discusses how innovation needs to be disrupted. The global innovation environment and the five stages of resistance to change are discussed. Businesses can’t innovate in a meaningful way if they can’t get past these obstacles.
Linda has spoken to tens of thousands of readers and innovators worldwide and given hundreds of lectures at major organizations, tech conferences, and innovation forums. She has taken the initiative to create a culture of innovation and disruption in big companies. Linda was one of the first people to join the boards of directors for both the SETI Institute and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Linda Bernardi says that the effects of digital disruption are incredibly good for businesses today. Linda makes people more comfortable with using new technologies by giving interesting speeches. She gives a positive view of how businesses in finance, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare can prepare for the future and do well in an economy that is changing quickly.
In the February 2020 issue of Smart Manufacturing magazine, she was named one of the most important women in smart engineering.
Linda works with companies in many fields to invent their ideas and products. Linda is the publisher of The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy, published by MIT Press in 2017. In her talks, she teaches people how to future-proof their businesses by putting the customer’s needs first instead of the product. Linda talks about how companies like Netflix, Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, and others used disruptive innovation to rethink their futures and make sure their processes would work in the future.
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