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...After Life magazine showcased her in the starting blocks at Atlanta, Sports Illustrated for Women did an entire ten page spread on Aimee’s athletic accomplishments. This exposure ultimately led her to travel the world to speak at international design conferences and fueled a deep interest in body image and fashion advertising and how they relate to the standard notions of femininity and beauty. Aimee Mullins made her runway debut in London at the invitation of the legendary fashion designer, Alexander McQueen. Aimee’s likeness appears in exhibits world-wide, at such esteemed institutions as the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the...

...and reflection. A Prolific Author Alf is inquisitive and committed, whether he is lecturing, researching or offering comment and analysis. He has written 19 books including several bestsellers. More books are in the pipeline. His latest book, Innovation for the Fatigued (published by Kogan Page), focuses on innovation and the multiple threats to innovative thinking. He explains how innovation fatigue affects organisations, why the innovation industry is partly to blame, what we can do to create innovation cultures and why respect and inclusivity are crucial if innovation is to flourish. In The Leadership Paradox (available in Swedish and Finnish) he...

...d’Elite. With over 30 years’ operating experience, Mark focuses on New CEO Readiness for more than 85 boards of directors. He specializes in high profile leaders, celebrity CEOs and family members from Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, Google founder Larry Page, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Pinterest founder Evan Sharp, World Bank CEO Jim Kim, Charles Schwab, Apple founder Steve Jobs and Tony Robbins. He is a New York Times bestselling author with titles that include: Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value; Now, Build a Great Business!: Seven Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market; and Success Built...

...of Status Grand Prix, competing in lower formulae and international sports cars racing. Since 2012 Mark has focused on his Formula 1 consulting business, Performance Insights, working with a range of clients across the sport. He is also a columnist, feature writer and broadcaster for GP Racing Magazine and Autosport, part of the global Motorsport Network. He has written three books, Grand Prix – The Last 25 Years (WH Smith, 1999) and two editions of The Business of Winning (Kogan Page, 2014) with a fully revised, 2nd edition published on 3rd October 2021. Mark also collaborated with David Coulthard on...

...Museum of American History. Despite leaving full tenure, Thrun maintains a research professorship at Stanford, focusing on leveraging AI to enhance everyday life. In 2012, he co-founded Udacity, a pioneering educational platform where he now serves as Chairman. Udacity, renowned for its ‘nanodegree’ offerings, provides cutting- edge tech education to individuals irrespective of their backgrounds, promoting the democratization of education. Thrun further expanded his entrepreneurial influence by co-founding Kitty Hawk, an electric ultralight aircraft startup, alongside Larry Page, Google’s long-time CEO and co-founder. As CEO until 2022, he steered Kitty Hawk’s vision of revolutionizing personal transportation. Currently, Thrun is also...

...TrendHunter.com is the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. Imagine the insight you’d get from a 100,000,000 person focus group. That’s Trend Hunter—its custom innovation advisory is changing the way the world’s most powerful brands innovate. As its founder, Gutsche relentlessly tracks and finds The Next Big Thing—that valuable but elusive commodity—for a global audience that generates millions of views a month. With phenomenal speed, Gutsche has grown Trendhunter into a trusted showcase for “what’s next” in marketing, design, technology, and other categories. (It attracts roughly fifteen times more page views than its competitors...

...a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of the nation’s leading law firms representing technology businesses. He served as Google’s first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, he worked with a wide variety of technology companies to help them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. Drummond has led Google’s efforts to create a huge digital library, which now contains more than seven million titles. A broad array...

About Speaker John Doerr… John Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980 and has since backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit. John’s passion is helping entrepreneurs create the “Next Big Thing” in mobile and social networks, greentech innovation, education and economic development. Ventures sponsored by John have created more than 200,000 new jobs. John serves on the boards of Amyris, Google, and Zynga, as well as several private technology ventures. He also led KPCB’s...

...also has led K-State undergraduate students in a three-year study of YouTube culture. The resulting 55-minute video has now been viewed more than one million times and was called “a phenomenon” by The New York Times. Saying that “the more individualistic we become, the more we crave community,” Wesch speaks on the innate modern-day connection between the media and our sense of cultural and individual identity. Drawing this connection into the world of marketing, he explains how, in worrying about page views and unique visitors, we can lose our view of the big picture: What are we contributing to society?...

...Alto and nominated a tech pioneer, 2023. A company born during the pandemic in 2020. She is awarded with the WEF Young Global Leader title alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Larry Page. Nominated the Thinkers50 Ideas into Practice Award alongside Reid Hoffman in 2019. Thinkers50 Radar Award, 2020, and ‘Nordic Thinkers 20’ alongside Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA, as well as “40 under 40 Europe”. She is personally committed to uplifting underserved communities, championing equality, advancing educational quality, and improving quality of life by removing barriers, whether they exist within the individual or in society. “A homeless child can grow up...

...stories about the Trump Administration. Before joining POLITICO’s D.C. political team, she reported for POLITICO’s European edition where she covered the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, the Greek financial crisis and the British referendum. At the time, she was a CNBC contributor where she provided commentary on-air. Prior to moving to Europe, Palmeri reported on New York City politics for the New York Post. She started at the newspaper in 2010 as a reporter for Page Six. During President Obama’s first term, she co-authored the Washington Examiner’s “Yeas & Nays” column on people, power and politics in the U.S. capital....

...since then, he has worked in nearly every facet of book publishing. He is also an expert in the field of social media. His blog, MichaelHyatt.com, is ranked by Google in the top one-half percent of all blogs with more than one million page views a month. He has readers in more than two hundred countries. Recently, Forbes magazine named him one of “Top 10 Online Marketing Experts to Follow” and one of the “Top 50 Social Media Influencers.” His podcast, This Is Your Life, is consistently in the top ten in the Business category on iTunes and downloaded by...