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Kai Kight

Innovative Keynote Speaker & Composer

As a classical violinist turned innovative composer, Kai Kight uses music as a metaphor to inspire individuals and organizations across the world to compose paths of imagination and fulfillment.

Kara Brown

Pop-Culture Writer & Podcaster

Kara is passionate about telling stories of people of color. She is a former staff writer for "Grown-ish", Jezebel, and former co-host of Crooked Media's pop-culture podcast "Keep It."

Kara Swisher

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Host of On with Kara Swisher & Pivot Podcasts, Editor-At-Large at New York Magazine

Kara Swisher is arguably the most feared and respected tech journalist in the business. She is the co-founder and executive editor of Recode, a weekly contributor to the New York Times, podcast producer, and appears regularly on CNBC.

Kat Echazarreta

Electrical Engineer | Science Communicator | Citizen Astronaut

Katya Echazarreta is a Mexican American who, despite the language barrier, took her science career to incredible heights – literally. It was because of her mother, who inspired a lot of great work ethic throughout her childhood, that she found a reason to follow her passions. Katya also saw that there was a lack of women in the STEM fields. This was an issue, as she could not ask anyone with her own perspective for advice on how to make it in the largely male dominated field. It definitely paid off. After graduating from high school, she attended a Community College, where she studied Electrical Engineering. Eventually, she would go on to attend UCLA, where she got a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. It was here where she earned an internship with NASA. This ultimately landed her a full time position as an engineer, a position that afforded her the opportunity to work on five different NASA missions, such as the Europa Clipper and the Perseverance rover. Right now, she is continuing her education in Electrical Engineering at John Hopkins University, where she hopes to receive a Master’s Degree.

Kate Ancketill

CEO @ GDR Business Futurist Consultancy | Retail & Business Strategy Consultant | Conference Speaker

Founder, CEO and chief story-teller at GDR Creative Intelligence. A retail trend and strategy consultancy working with an impressive roster of brands including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, P&G, Hilton, LVMH, Capital One, Macy’s, Tesco and Lego.

We fuse big picture context with carefully curated case studies from the world's leading designers, technologists, marketer’s, architects and thought leaders to illustrate how new technologies and consumer behaviours will impact physical and digital commerce.

‘Innovation almost always starts with cross fertilisation. Looking outside of your sector and geography at non-competitors is far more likely to lead to disruptive breakthroughs than can be achieved by chasing your competitors'.

Drawing upon 20 years' experience consulting on innovation pathways for billion dollar blue chips, I provide road-tested insights on the technological and human innovations that will change the shape of business over the next five years.

Ken Burns

Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; and, most recently, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Future film projects include The American Buffalo, Leonardo da Vinci, The American Revolution, Emancipation to Exodus, and LBJ & the Great Society, among others. Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations. In September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In November of 2022, Ken was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

Kristen Berman

Behavioral Scientist, Co-founder of Irrational Labs

Kristen Berman studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational.

Krister Ungerböck

Leadership Language Expert | Global Tech CEO | 100M Growth | 99.3% Employee Engagement | Author of 22 Talk SHIFTs: Tools to Transform Leadership

Krister Ungerböck is a leadership language expert, former global tech CEO and author. His work has appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., HR.com, and Chief Executive. Prior to retiring from corporate life at age 42, Krister was CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world.

Lisa Bodell

CEO, FutureThink; Bestselling Author, Why Simple Wins

“Complexity is crippling our organizations. It’s stifling our people and keeping them from doing their most meaningful and impactful work.” Lisa Bodell, a global leader on simplification, collaboration, and innovation, has a solution. Lisa shows organizations how to eliminate complexity and leverage simplicity – unleashing creativity and sparking the energy so essential to innovate and compete in a rapidly changing world. FutureThink, which she founded in 2003, works with leading brands worldwide and has become the largest source of innovation research, tools, and training in the world. Lisa is the author of two groundbreaking books, Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters and Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution. She ranks on the list of Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and captivates audiences with her energy and humor. Lisa’s keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arms them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

Liz Claman

Anchor/Correspondent, FOX Business Network

With nearly 25 years of experience, Liz Claman—described by Vanity Fair as “…one of television’s top business reporters and anchor”—shares insights on leadership and the global economy gleaned from her access to the most influential and powerful business leaders in the world.