Executive Summit Speakers

 
TIM CANNON

Tim Cannon is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and biohacker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known as the co-founder and Chief Information Officer of Grindhouse Wetware, a biotechnology startup company that creates technology to augment human capabilities. Cannon has spoken at conferences around the world on the topics of human enhancement, futurism, and citizen science. He currently has a radio-frequency identification(RFID) tag in his hand and magnetic implants in a finger, wrist, and tragus, causing him to be labeled a cyborg by media outlets including Business Insider, Newsweek, The Awl, and others.

 

      
ESKO KILPI 

Esko Kilpi explores an intellectual foundation for post-industrial work at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund in Helsinki. He also shares his time with the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation in New Delhi and his own ensemble. Esko Kilpi Company consists of a group of researchers and strategists. The focus of the group is on combining the art of interaction, the sciences of social complexity, and the design of digitally native practices. Their theoretical framework comes from sociology, relational psychology, network theory, computer science, cognitive neuroscience, and sciences of complexity. What we all want is to help create a human-centric future of work.

 

      
ANDREW KEEN 

Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best-known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". 

He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show "Keen On", a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates, a columnist for CNN and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. 

  

      
JAMES MCQUIVEY 

James is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and the foremost analyst tracking and defining the power and impact of digital disruption on traditional businesses. His consumer models identify the ways consumers have embraced digital experiences and platforms, and his strategy models help companies prepare to serve those consumers. He applies this knowledge to a wide variety of industries, from consumer media to consumer technology, from financial services to retail and consumer products. In February 2013, James published his book Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation.

  

    
PETER LEYDEN  

Peter Leyden is an expert in new technologies and future trends who frequently gives keynote talks and works for innovative organizations out to reinvent fields. Leyden was managing editor at the original Wired Magazine, and worked at Global Business Network, the pioneering think tank on the future. He was founding director of the New Politics Institute helping reinvent politics on the Internet. Leyden currently is founder and CEO of Reinventors, a network of innovators using the new medium of group video for a series of conversations about how to reinvent America. Leyden started his career as a journalist, including as a special correspondent for Newsweek magazine in Asia. He coauthored two books on the future: The Long Boom and What’s Next.

 

    
SANDRA MATZ

Sandra Matz is a computational social scientist and personality researcher who studies human behavior and preferences using a combination of Big Data analytics and traditional experimental methods.

Her research aims at understanding how psychological characteristics influence real-life outcomes in a number of business-related domains (e.g. financial well-being, consumer satisfaction or team performance), with the goal of helping businesses and individuals to make better decisions.

 

     
MORAN CERF

Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management and the LIJ department of Neurosurgery. Additionally, he is a visiting faculty the MIT Media Lab, and the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute.

 He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature and Science, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. 

Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.

 

     
LUCIANO FLORIDI

Luciano Floridi is the OII’s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute. Outside Oxford, he is Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the national institute for data science) and Chair of its Data Ethics Group; and Adjunct Professor (“Distinguished Scholar in Residence”) of the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. His research concerns primarily Information and Computer Ethics (aka Digital Ethics), the Philosophy of Information, and the Philosophy of Technology. Other research interests include Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Scepticism.

 

     
CHRISTIAAN TRIEBERT

Christiaan Triebert is an award-winning journalist interested in conflict and development. Besides his research, Christiaan provides worldwide training in digital forensics on behalf of Bellingcat. He has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, among many other countries. He graduated from the War Studies Department at King’s College London, after obtaining two bachelors degrees in International Relations and Political Philosophy at the University of Groningen.

 

     
RISTO LÄHDESMÄKI

Based in Palo Alto, CA, Risto leads the global Idean management team, covering: design, operations, sales, marketing and finance. Idean is a global design firm that works with the world's leading companies, helping them to create long-lasting relationships with their customers, through truly enchanting and elegant experiences. The design firm which was founded in Finland in 1999. 

 

    
DAN NEAULT

Dan leads outbound-facing Product Management for the Database, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence services portfolio. He also leads key strategic customer programs, including data migration with the Database Migration Service and architectural guidance through the Customer Solutions Advisory Team.

Dan joined AWS in 2017 after being President and CEO of a storage spin-out from Samsung Electronics, where he was previously an SVP in the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center. He joined from NetApp, where he was the SVP of the Datacenter Solutions Group, a global engineering organization with high ecosystem engagement. Prior to NetApp in 2013, Dan held several GM roles at Microsoft including building their Enterprise Architecture and cloud migration programs, while leading the Cloud Strategy team in Microsoft’s Services Division. He also led Microsoft SQL Server and BizTalk Server marketing, including SQL Azure and .NET Services, and held senior leadership roles in Program Management, Business Development, and Strategy since joining in 1995.

Dan started his career developing defense-related simulations, including real-time air-combat engagement systems with pilots-in-the-loop and computer-driven aircraft. Dan has an EE degree from Gonzaga with Liberal Arts honors and a Chicago Booth MBA with Marketing and Finance concentrations.