Technology Speakers

Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia was activated on April 19, 2015 and made her first public appearance at South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in mid-March 2016 in Austin, Texas, United States. She is able to display more than 50 facial expressions.

Carly Fiorina is a tested leader and excellent speaker on politics, business, and global affairs. As CEO of HP, she was the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 business and the first outsider to lead HP. She campaigned to be President of the United States in 2016.

Parag Khanna: a global strategist, CNN Contributor, managing partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geo-strategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder of a leading content branding agency.

Robert Safian is editor and managing director of the award-winning monthly business magazine Fast Company. He is also an entrepreneur, innovator, and wonderful business speaker.

Gus Balbontin is the former Executive Director and CTO of Lonely Planet. He lead a large global restructure that put Lonely Planet financially back on track and positioned the company to tackle further disruption and digital transformation. His experience with these issues make him an ideal business speaker.

Adam Cheyer is co-Founder and VP Engineering of Viv Labs, a startup simplifying the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything. Previously, Adam Cheyer was co-Founder and VP Engineering at Siri, Inc. His experience working with innovative technology have made him a great futurist speaker.

Ben Casnocha a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, author, and executive. He regularly delivers keynote speeches on business topics. He has spoken in a dozen countries in front of tens of thousands of people. He has also appeared on the CBS Early Show, CNN, Charlie Rose, and other media outlets.

Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. Based in Silicon Valley, he researches exponentially advancing technologies that are soon going to change our world. He also an excellent innovation and technology speaker.

Jamie Wheal, Executive Director of Flow Genome Project, is a leading expert on the neuro-physiology of human performance. His work ranges from Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, Google, and Nike, to the U.S. Naval War College and Red Bull.

A globally recognized innovation leader and futurist, Lisa founded futurethink in 2003 to provide a simple approach to the otherwise complicated topic of innovation. Her work in this field has made her a world renowned futurist speaker.

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. A Netflix co-founder, Randolph uses his experience in the business world to give insightful talks.

Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. He previously served as Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senior Coordinator for International Public Information at the U.S. State Department, Director for Multilateral Affairs on the National Security Council.

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is chairman and ceo of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Today the X PRIZE leads the world in designing and operating large-scale global competitions to solve market failures.

Max Levchin is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. His experience founding and managing companies like PayPal and Glow have allowed him to develop high-quality talks focused around business and technology.

Robert Herjavec is one of North America’s most recognizable business leaders. Drawing on his experience as an IT entrepreneur, Herjavec provides audiences with high-quality business advice.

Andrew McAfee studies how IT changes how companies perform, organize themselves, compete at higher levels, and how computerization affects competition, society, economy, & workforce.

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years.

Professor at Oxford University. Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary research center which enables a few exceptional mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists to think carefully about global priorities and big questions for humanity.

Andrew, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is a globally recognized expert on green business strategy, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and CNBC. He has advised some of the world’s leading companies, including Bank of America, Bayer, Boeing, Bridgestone, HP, Johnson & Johnson, and Pepsi.

In 2015 Martin Lindstrom was hired by NBC’s Today Show to turn around mom-and-pop stores in just 24 hours. Operating under NBC’s News section everything has to be real, no cheating, cutting, or acting. Only year later, every single business Martin touched has turned into a success story. A near bankrupt food truck turned into a national restaurant chain. A corner store became a national sensation. All based on simple, yet immensely powerful, advice from the world’s #1 branding expert.