Contributors

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Jim Hertzfeld

Jim Hertzfeld is Principal and Chief Strategist for Perficient. For over two decades, he has worked with clients to convert market insights into real-world digital products and customer experiences that actually grow their business. More than just a strategist, Jim is a pragmatic rebel known for challenging the conventional and turning grand visions into actionable steps. His candid demeanor, sprinkled with a dose of cynical optimism, shapes a narrative that challenges and inspires listeners.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimhertzfeld/

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Brian Solis

Brian Solis is a world-renowned futurist, digital anthropologist, 9x best-selling author, and international keynote speaker. Brian serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow where he advises customers on business and digital innovation and transformation strategies. 

 

Brian has consistently been recognized as one of the world's leading thinkers in innovation, business transformation, and emergent leadership for over two decades. He has authored of over 60 widely read research reports that explore the future of business and industries, disruptive technologies, and important consumer shifts.

https://briansolis.com/

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Chris Duffey

Chris Duffey is a leading figure in technological futurism and growth strategies, known for his 25+ years of pioneering digital innovation with leading global companies. Chris spearheads Adobe's Global Partnerships for AI Solutions.  

 

Blending his expertise in AI and emerging solutions to shape the future of digital experiences, Chris’s work has captured the attention of over 300 global media outlets, and serves on prestigious industry boards including the ANA, AdCouncil, CTA and United Nations AI Council.

 

He is an award-winning author of Superhuman Innovation, the world’s first book co-authored by AI about AI in 2019, named one of the best product innovation books of all time by BOOKAUTHORITY. In 2023 Chris published Decoding the Metaverse: Expand Your Business. Chosen by CIO magazine as one of The 10 Business Leaders Transforming Their Industries in 2023 and Ad Age's Tech Power List in 2024. 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisduffeycreativeai/

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Deena Piquion

Deena  Piquion is chief growth and disruption officer at Xerox. She previously served as chief marketing officer, and senior vice president and general manager of Xerox Latin America operations. Prior to joining Xerox in 2019, she was with Tech Data Corporation, where she last served as vice president and general manager of Latin America & Caribbean.

 

Deena was awarded the Florida Diversity Council Glass Ceiling Award in 2016, was selected as a CRN Women of the Channel Honoree in 2017, and was named to Diversity First’s Top 50 Women in Tech 2021 and Top 100 CMOs in 2022. 

 

Deena is actively engaged in her community and passionate about supporting children’s cancer research, and diversity and inclusion in technology. She is a dynamic blogger who created her own branded platform to share tips on personal and professional growth with an engaged following in the industry. 

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Kate O'Neill

Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm that enhances human experiences at scale through data-driven and AI-led interactions.  Kate has worked with prestigious clients like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the United Nations, and she was one of the first 100 employees at Netflix. Her groundbreaking insights have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and WIRED, and she has shared her expertise on NPR and the BBC. 



https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateoneill/

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Kevin Kelly

Kevin is Senior Maverick at Wired, an award-winning magazine he co-founded in 1993. He is co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, a membership organization that champions long-term thinking, and founder of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. He is also the author of multiple best-selling books about the future of technology. His latest is “Excellent Advice for Living,“ a book of 450 modern proverbs for a pretty good life. He is best known for his radical optimism. 

https://kk.org/
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Mark Cuban

Mark is the best-selling author of How to Win at the Sport of Business. He holds multiple patents, including a VR solution for vestibular-induced dizziness, and a method for counting objects on the ground from a drone. He is the executive producer on movies that have been nominated for 7 Academy Awards: Good Night and Good Luck, and Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room.


Mark gives back to the communities that promoted his success through The Mark Cuban Foundation. The Foundation’s AI Bootcamps Initiative hosts free Introduction to AI Bootcamps for low-income high schoolers, starting in Dallas. Mark also saved and annually funds the annual Dallas Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, the largest parade in Dallas and a city institution.


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May Habib

May Habib is CEO and co-founder of Writer, the only fully integrated generative AI platform built for enterprises. Leading brands choose Writer to help them automate key operational activities and increase employee creativity and productivity. The company's security-first approach means that Writer proprietary LLMs are deployed inside an enterprise's own computing infrastructure. May is an expert in AI-driven language generation, AI-related organizational change, and the evolving ways we use language online. She's received many recognitions, including the 2023 Forbes AI 50 and Inc.'s 2023 Female Founder Award. May graduated from Harvard University and spends her time between San Francisco and London.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/may-habib/
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Neil Hoyne

Neil is the Chief Strategist at Google, Senior Fellow at Wharton, Author at Penguin Random House. He has served as an analyst, researcher, inventor, lecturer, and, in his words, the father of many forgettable slides of glossy funnels and Venn diagrams. A witness to and participant in billion-dollar successes, and instructive failures, all in the pursuit of building indestructible customer relationships through digital media. A key player in the executive rallying cry to be more “data-driven.”

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Scott Brinker

Scott Brinker, dubbed the "Godfather of MarTech" by AdAge, has been analyzing marketing technology and its impact on marketing organizations for more than 16 years as the editor of the chiefmartec.com blog. He serves as VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, helping to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He also authored the best-selling book Hacking Marketing and co-authored the recent best-seller “The New Automation Mindset.”

https://chiefmartec.com/

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