Disruption

Stephanie Mehta

CEO of Mansueto Ventures | Former Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company

Any company can become a Fast Company by pushing their creative boundaries.

Nina Tandon

CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone | TED Senior Fellow

How to revolutionize an industry, one cell at a time.

Laura Huang

Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University | Faculty Director of Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative | Author of Edge

Are you looking for an edge to help you succeed? Guess what—you've already got one.

Ellen Bennett

Founder and CEO of Hedley & Bennett | Author of Dream First, Details Later

Overthinking kills innovation. You need to dream first, and worry about the details later.

Nicholas Thompson

CEO of The Atlantic | Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED

Generative AI is changing what it means to be human, and that's just the beginning. You can find the opportunity in emerging AI technology today.

Joe Jackman

Founder and CEO of Jackman | Author of The Reinventionist Mindset

It’s about more than retail. It’s about total reinvention.

Mark Johnson

Co-Founder of Innosight | Author of Lead from the Future and Reinvent Your Business Model

The future is eminently knowable—through visionary thinking.

Douglas Rushkoff

World-Renowned Thinker | Bestselling Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock, and Survival of the Richest

We can be fully human in a world of technology.

Alex Kantrowitz

Reporter and Founder of Big Technology | Author of Always Day One

To stay on track with the future, we must remain obsessed with reinvention.

Radhika Dirks

CEO & Co-Founder of XLabs and Ribo | One of Forbes’ 30 Women in AI to Watch | Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

Generative AI is changing the tech infrastructure of the world. Your biggest dreams—your most ambitious moonshots—are closer than ever before.

Martin Ford

New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots and Rule of the Robots

To adapt to machine learning, we'll need to come up with unprecedented solutions.

Ajay Agrawal

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert | Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab | Bestselling Co-Author of Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction

Being second in the AI race isn’t good enough. You have to get ahead now to gain a sustained edge over the competition.

Shoshana Zuboff

Bestselling author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus | Activist and scholar

We may have democracy, or we may have Facebook, but we cannot have both.

Doug Stephens

Retail and consumer futurist | Internationally acclaimed author and founder of Retail Prophet

The past few years have transformed shopping forever, but if retailers can adapt to AI and our changing supply chains, they'll survive—and thrive.

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter | New York Times bestselling author of Create the Future

This is the year AI changes you. You can let the disruption derail you—or you can find the opportunity in chaos and gain an AI edge.

Tom Wujec

World Renowned Expert on Innovation | Former Chief Disruptor at Autodesk | Author of The Future of Making

An era of continuous disruption is changing, forever, how we design, manufacture, and consume.

Randall Lane

Chief Content Officer of Forbes Magazine

Endless disruption has led to faster innovations, better approaches, bigger opportunities.

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk | MIT Media Advisor | Author of The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency | Web3 Expert

It’s time to rethink the internet. The blockchain offers us great potential to democratize our digital spaces and bring them back under our control.

David Robertson

Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan | Author of The Power of Little Ideas and of Brick by Brick

The third way of innovation is not radical disruption—it’s a low-risk, high-reward strategy.

Michael Katchen

Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple

In order to grow, we need to weave innovation into the DNA of our organizations.

Disruptive innovation is how we companies evolve, and it’s a more necessary skill than ever. These disruption speakers (and bona fide disruptors) explain that there’s no supreme model to follow — but they do have some tricks they’re willing to share.