January 29-31, 2020 | San Francisco
The future of work is now.
2019 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Reza Moussavian
SVP Digital & Innovation (HR)
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM
Before taking the lead for the HR division “Digital & Innovation”, Dr Moussavian ran its predecessor named “Shareground” which focused on implementing a culture of innovation throughout Deutsche Telekom.
Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom AG, he worked as managing partner at Detecon, the subsidiary digital consulting company of Deutsche Telekom. He was responsible for establishing new telecommunication companies and transforming established ones in the Middle East and Africa. Furthermore, his career path included positions at IBM and PWC. He completed his doctorate in innovation management in South Africa after studying business administration in Cologne, Germany.
John Hagel
Founder and Co-chairman Center for the Edge, Deloitte
Fellow, World Economic Forum
Trustee, Santa Fe Institute Trustee, Independent Institute
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John Hagel III is a prolific author and an adviser to CEOs around the world. His most profound impact has been at the intersection of business strategy and technology, predicting a number of significant and transformative trends. John Hagel is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, which he co-founded in 2007 with John Seely Brown. He currently occupies leadership roles at the World Economic Forum and the Santa Fe Institute. Hagel has lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years and, in addition to founding two technology start-ups, has spent most of his career at the intersection of business strategy and information technology.
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Audrey Williams-Lee
VP, Corporate Human Resources & Global Philanthropy
HYATT HOTELS CORPORATION
HR leader and advisor for C-suite executives and their leadership teams, leading the development and implementation of a multi-year workforce and talent strategy to meet long-term business objectives. Audrey also leads Hyatt’s community engagement, social impact and governance efforts to mitigate organizational risks in the areas of human rights and human trafficking, and direct the company’s philanthropy strategy and approach. Further responsible for overseeing the operation of Hyatt’s corporate office to ensure the space where colleagues work and engage provides an environment where they can be their best.
Julia Martensen
Director, Head of HR Strategy & Innovation
DB SCHENKER
Julia is managing HR Innovation and Digitization at DB Schenker on a global scale, where she scouts, leads and drives initiatives as well as stakeholder engagement to generate and catalyze a sustainable culture transformation for a 72K+ employee corporation.
Her focus areas are establishing an innovative mindset within the organization, as well as introducing innovative approaches to people management, talent development, and team processes.
Marco Annunziata
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former Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovations Strategy, GE
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Co-Founder, Annunziata + Desai Advisors
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Resident Fellow at Autodesk
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Entrepreneur in Residence at GE
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Benjamin Pring
Co-Founder & Managing Dir.
Center for the Future of Work
COGNIZANT
Co-Author of What To Do When Machines Do Everything.
A widely acknowledged IT futurist and thought leader with a storied track record working with the biggest and fastest growing IT innovators and the most demanding and sophisticated IT buyers. Bens expertise has helped clients see around corners, think the unthinkable and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences.
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is a world-leading professional services company and employs well over 250,000 in the United States and over 180,00 in India.
Miche Roach
Head of HR, Customer Units
ERICSSON
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Strategic HR Leader with a proven track record in the technology industry.
Experienced in leading large HR teams and driving the HR strategy, while providing innovative solutions for the business.
Key competencies include: change management, people leadership and development, execution of HR strategy, outsourcing, talent management, employment law, compensation design, HR transformation, offshoring, and mergers and acquisitions.
Martin Tracey
Chief People Officer
ENJOY TECHNOLOGIES
Fmr Chief People Officer
WHOLE FOODS
Martin Tracey is CPO at Enjoy Technology, Inc., a new kind of delivery experience offering same-day delivery with personalized setup of today’s best tech products founded and led by Ron Johnson, former head of Apple Retail
Previously Global Vice President of Team Member Services (HR) at Whole Foods where he had strategic responsibilities for the end-to-end team member experience including recruitment, compensation and benefits, talent analytics, learning and development and payroll operations for more than 87,000 team members as well as a Starbucks veteran where he held the role Chief Talent Officer and Vice President of People Development.
Raj Sisodia
FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business
Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism, Babson College
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New York Times bestselling author Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.
Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters (2015) and Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business (2016).
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Raj Sisodia is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the movement, Conscious Capitalism. since its inception in 2008. Highly influential in shaping this and other movements aimed at fostering a more humane, caring and enriching way of doing business.
Claude Silver
Chief Heart Officer VAYNERMEDIA
As VaynerMedia’s first Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver unlocks employees' potential by forging human-to-human connection, creating cultures of belonging, empowers teams to be purpose-driven, efficient, and strong, and infuses the agency with empathy, humanity, and joy. Claude’s unique perspective on corporate leadership and team-building comes both from her training in Transpersonal Psychology & Human Development and her experience in talent management, leadership development, coaching, employee retention, workplace culture, and people operations.
Angela Hood
Founder & CEO
ThisWay Global
Angela Hood is the Founder & CEO of the leading AI candidate-to-job matching platform, AI4Jobs. Their technology supports some of the largest and most innovative organizations in the world. Hood is an alumni/founder from ideaSpace – University of Cambridge, UK, and her company, ThisWay Global, is headquartered in Austin, Texas. She is a recognized thought leader on the topics of 'ROI of Diversity' and 'De-biasing with AI in HR’.
Jennifer Wilson
Global Human Resources
Workplace Flexibility
DELL
A tireless advocate and highly respected changemaker in workforce flexibility. Proven track record of successfully leading global and complex programs impacting over 100K employees in a Fortune 50 Company.
Jennifer Wilson manages Dell's Global work flexibility programs (Connected Workplace) within Human Resources. Through her management of the Connected Workplace Program, Jennifer focuses on continuously advancing Dell’s work flexibility initiatives which allows team members successfully collaborate regardless of where, when and how they work.
David W Kim
Head of Inclusion & Diversity
GILEAD SCIENCES
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Gayatri Jane Agnew
Corporate Philanthropy
WALMART
Gayatri Agnew leads strategy and grantmaking for the economic opportunity portfolio. This includes investments in economic mobility in retail, veteran’s reintegration, diversity and inclusion, and US manufacturing.
Prior to joining Walmart, she worked in the public and private sectors focused on education, workforce, and economic development with an emphasis on pathways to opportunity for all.
She is dedicated to improving education, pathways to good jobs and building creating strong communities. She serves on the development committee for the Helen Walton Children’s Enrichment Center, the national advisory board for Vote Mama PAC and is a founding board member of Emerge Arkansas. She is a former trustee of the Seattle Community Colleges and a former board member of the Center for Women and Democracy.
Ross Sparkman
Head of Strategic Workforce Planning
Contemporary people leader with deep business acumen and an analytical approach in the fields of Human Capital Strategy and Strategic Workforce Planning. His modern approach to improving company performance through its most valuable asset - PEOPLE - spans across several industries and focuses on leveraging big data and advanced statistics to help align the workforce with organizational strategy. Once aligned, talent levers can be used to create an optimal employee and organizational "people" mix that drives superior company performance.
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Elisa Graceffo
Director, 21st Century Jobs, Skills and Employability
MICROSOFT
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Ever since my undergraduate days when I worked part-time in a campus computer lab, I’ve been passionate about the power of technology to improve how people get things done. This passion led me to help booksellers launch online stores and to spend the last decade and a half in various leadership roles at Microsoft. I have helped transition Microsoft Office products from software to an online subscription service and from three applications to a whole suite of communications, collaboration and productivity tools for computers, tablets and smart phones.
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I love to help people connect to others and to information in new and exciting ways both in the workplace, in my private life, and in charitable leadership roles.
Parminder K. Jassal
Work + Learn Futures Group
INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE
Dr. Parminder K. Jassal leads the Learn + Work Futures Group at the Institute for the Future. Parminder investigates the future through three intersecting lenses: the innovations of open economies; changing role of people in their environments; and the relationship between learning and working. Through new research and research-inspired prototyping, Parminder applies insights from the fringes to promote positive culture shift and solutions by getting ahead of inequities.
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Kelley Steven-Waiss
EVP & CHRO
HERE TECHNOLOGIES
Chairman Of The Board
ALearn.org
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Ross Mitchell
Director of Research & Innovation
AT&T
With years of experience on both the agency and client side, Dr. Mitchell has led International Research and Innovation for both Ford and AT&T on topics ranging from autonomous vehicles to new mobility ventures and omni-channel retail transformation.
Earlier at a number of agencies, Ross developed projects for global leaders including Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi and Allergan across five continents.
Mika Cross
Vice President of Employer Engagement, FlexJobs
former Director of Strategic Communications, Digital and Public Engagement
U.S. Department of Labor
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On behalf of the White House and the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invited Mika to contribute to the “Workforce of 2020” strategy sessions. Mika now serves as Vice Chair of the Governance and Innovation, Community of Change for the Senior Executives Association (SEA.) During her work as a President’s Management Council (PMC) Interagency Fellow at OPM, she led government-wide projects affecting culture and process change. Her work in transformation initiatives resulted in winning numerous awards- the most recent being USDA named on the Forbes 500 Best American Workplace rankings in March 2015.
Jennifer Carlson
Executive Director & Co-Founder
APPRENTI
Addressing the tech industry’s workforce and diversity needs through a building a nationally registered technology apprenticeship program called Apprenti. Additionally, she serves on the Tech Councils of North America (TECNA) workforce board and as an Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at Seattle University. Previously, she successfully ran a $260MM P&L in 12 states, developed web based policy management systems and ran national branding initiatives for AIG Agency Auto, a billion-dollar insurance division of AIG, and Progressive Insurance.
Matthew Mottola
Future of Work & On-Demand Resource Allocation
MICROSOFT
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At Microsoft, Matthew R. Mottola owns user experience for the on-demand/freelance economy. At Georgia Tech, he guest lectures and helps develop their entrepreneurship curriculum. At Universities, he speaks and advises on how to prepare for this future. He is the author of StartUp not StartDown and upcoming book Ready For It: Automation & the Future of Work.
Before Microsoft, Matthew drove thought leadership and launched a signature go-to market offering for Gigster, one of the fastest growing players powering the Gig-Economy.
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Sally Thornton
CEO & Founder
Forshay & WorkLabAccelerator
Advisory Council, Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Sally founded Forshay in 2011 to connect the Bay Area’s most innovative and progressive companies with exceptional talent, on demand. Prior to founding Forshay, Sally co-founded Flexperience in 2006 which she led into a nationally acclaimed firm that the San Francisco Business Times listed as one of its 2010 “Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies.” Sally works with Stanford’s “Redesigning and Redefining Work” project to support efforts to restructure workplaces to more effectively align with the lives of today’s workforce while harnessing diverse talent for future success.
Eric Riz
Founder & CEO
EMPTY CUBICLE
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An entrepreneur focused on driving change and improving corporate efficiency, Eric is the Founder & CEO of Empty Cubicle; the world's first verified hiring platform. Eric is the force behind the corporate vision of the company, changing the way organizations hire world-wide, and filling a recognized gap in the hiring process. With the launch of Empty Cubicle’s proprietary technology, Eric has created disruption in the HR space, drastically reducing the amount of time companies spending sourcing and vetting new hires.
Abby Eaton Feinberg
Employee Experience for Worldwide Customer Service
ELECTRONIC ARTS (EA)
Abby leads Employee Experience for the WWCE team at Electronic Arts. Her passion for developing strong teams and creating meaningful experiences has had her leading Employee Experience for growth-stage startups, HR programs for Fortune 50 orgs, and running her own People Strategy Consulting firm. She’s cultivated team cultures to win multiple Best Places to Work awards and was on a winning HR Team of Excellence team with SDHR Forum.
Amber Weaver
Volume Recruiting and Talent Research
HILTON
Relationship builder; innovator; strategy developer; agile project leader; analytical story teller; candidate experience/cx enthusiast; talent acquisition leader; community volunteer -Amber heads up volume recruiting and talent research for Hilton;
Hilton employs over 160,000 people at their company-owned locations worldwide
Tyi L. McCray
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Director Diversity and Belonging
AIRBNB
A scientist turned diversity and inclusion leader. Dr. McCray heads Airbnb's diversity and belonging team.
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Valerie Morignat
Chief Innovation Officer
SOAR
Dr. Valerie Morignat is Chief Innovation Officer at Soar and MIT certified consultant in AI and Business Strategy. A seasoned strategist, and interactive and immersive design expert, she has held executive positions in creative agencies, startups, consulting firms, government, and academia as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Arts at the University of Montpellier III.
Valerie relocated to Silicon Valley where she successfully led cutting-edge interactive experiences for the Healthcare industry prior to joining Paul Allen's latest startup as CIO.
A San Francisco based independent consultant, she provides services to private and public organizations worldwide in AI-First strategy, interactive and immersive design, multi-channel marketing, and digital strategy.
Chase Rowbotham
Head of People Analytics
GENENTECH
Chase Rowbotham is Head of People Analytics for Genentech. Hired into the role in April 2015, Chase is responsible for leading a team of professionals to develop and execute an HR analytics strategy that enables data-driven decisions across the entire employee lifecycle. People Analytics is dedicated to creating a great place for the organization’s 15,000 employees to do their best work in support of Genentech’s mission and goals.
Jeanita Pritchett
Academic Program Manager & STEM Education Expert
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Dr. Jeanita S. Pritchett is an Academic Program Manager in the International and Academic Office (IAAO) and a Research Chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As an Academic Program Manager, she manages the prestigious National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Program and the Graduate Measurement Science and Engineering (GMSE) Fellowship. Furthermore, she promotes organizational excellence by providing career development training for various levels of NIST staff. She also works with educational institutions of all levels to implement measurement science training and exposure to STEM subject areas.
Andrew Buhrmann
Founder & President
VETTD
Andrew Buhrmann is Founder and President at Vettd. Andrew is a thought leader in how to leverage deep learning AI for Talent Data across three pillars for HCM - Talent Data Enrichment, Talent Management and Strategic Workforce Planning. This is his third successful start-up including Balance Financial which was Acquired by TaxACT in 2013 .Andrew has a degree from the University of Washington in Economics and has a growing family in the Pacific Northwest where he loves to ski and cycle.
Jeffrey Martin
Workplace Change Management
WELLS FARGO
Jeff is responsible for leading the marketing, launch, and organizational change management for Workplace, which is an enterprise effort focused on evolving the work environment and providing innovative space and technology solutions to help team members and businesses succeed.
Eric Pinckert
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
BRANDCULTURE
As a Co-founder and Managing Director of BrandCulture, Eric leads BrandCulture’s strategy practice. Across his career, Eric has worked with big and small organizations alike put their respective best feet forward through strategic branding, naming, print and digital media. Prior to BrandCulture, Eric served in a variety of client- and agency-side executive positions, including Head of Corporate Affairs and Head of Strategic Marketing for LRN Corporation and Senior Vice President at global branding and interactive media consultancy Siegel + Gale.
Sara Sutton
CEO and Founder
FLEXJOBS
Founder, Remote.co
1 Million for Work Flexibility
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Known as the "Queen of Remote Work," Sara Sutton Fell has more than 20 years of experience in the online job market industry. She is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs and founder of Remote.co, a one-stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative.
Carol Fishman Cohen
Co-Founder
iRELAUNCH
Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch, is a pioneer in the career re-entry space. She is the host of the 3,2,1 iRelaunch! podcast, is the author of Harvard Business Review seminal article "The 40-Year-Old Intern," and co-author of "Back on the Career Track." iRelaunch co-leads the STEM Re-entry Task Force with the Society of Women Engineers, in which over 325 “relaunchers” have participated in 20 company programs, and 85% have been hired. iRelaunch co-leads a similar initiative in the financial planning sector with the CFP Center for Financial Planning, that now includes 13 companies.
Arnold Levin
Principal, Corporate Workplace Strategist
SMITH GROUP JJR
I have combined a career of research, teaching, consultation and design practice within the workplace arena. This background has provided insight on the interrelationships between each critical field and its impact on each other enabling me to bring an awareness to consulting with business organizations on developing the most appropriate workplace strategy solutions. I have developed tools and methodologies that interactively connect design strategy solutions with an organizations business needs enabling design strategy to solve not only space problems but lead to business solutions.
Richard Swartzbaugh
CHRO
CVHCare
CVHCare is a Joint Commission accredited, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services certified and Department of Public Health licensed healthcare organization. We are a company devoted to building, maintaining, improving and implementing healthcare programs geared toward keeping seniors in control of their health and independence.
They provide a wide range of health care services that can be delivered in the comfort of home
Nate Johnson
Chief Marketing Officer
REALTOR.COM
Nate Johnson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Realtor.com. He joined in 2015 from Path, where he served as Vice President of Marketing and Growth & Engagement.
Prior to joining Path, Johnson was Head of Consumer Marketing at LinkedIn. Earlier, he held senior marketing roles at Google and Apple. He has also has brought his marketing and product management expertise to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups in an advisory capacity and serves as a mentor at Desai Accelerator, U of Michigan.
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Phyllis Stewart Pires
Senior Director of WorkLife Strategy
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stewart Pires came to Stanford with an extensive background in providing practical, comprehensive programs to improve the workplace for families. She spent many years designing, building and managing corporate child-care centers. Stewart Pires was operations director for the Apple Child Care Center and PG&E Children's Centers, taking both through NAEYC accreditation. She also founded the award-winning Family Services programs at Cisco. She has held a variety of HR, communications and diversity roles at Cisco and SAP.
Lamont Gilbert
Leadership & Executive Development
CSAA INSURANCE GROUP, AAA INSURER
Lamont has designed, and delivered leadership programs at all levels, including major company-wide programs such as vision & values (culture) to executive leadership development (performance). The Leadership Institute - Leaders Development Program, directed by Lamont, continues to earn an array of national awards for improving business results through developing leaders.
Sasha Arjannikova
Organizational Performance and Analytics
BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA
Versatile human resource professional with strong background in learning and development, talent management, performance management, and diversity and inclusion. Additional areas of expertise include: Organizational Culture, Process Improvement, Assessments, and Change Management.
David Karandish
Founder & CEO
JANE.ai
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I have worked in the tech sector for over 17 years, focused on Online Advertising, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. I recently Co-founded Jane.ai, an Artificial Intelligence company here in St. Louis with interest in bridging the digital divide in St. Louis.
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We are building an artificial intelligence platform to transform the modern workforce. Think of it like a Siri or Alexa for work, but with secure access to all of your apps, documents and your institutional knowledge. Our AI platform “Jane” is a virtual team member that everyone can chat with to access information.
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Kate Lister
President
GLOBAL WORKPLACE ANALYTICS
WORKPLACE EVOLUTIONARIES (WE) RESEARCH LEAD
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A lifelong advocate for workplace transformation, Kate is president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research-based organization that helps employers and communities create and communicate the people, planet, and profit business case for strategies that involve workplace flexibility, agility, engagement, and well-being. Kate has co-authored three business books, contributed chapters to two others, and written scores of articles for major media outlets. Her firm’s research has been cited by hundreds of publications including the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Gervias Tompkin
Principal
GENSLER
A Principal with the global design firm Gensler, Gervais is a creative talent with a passion for both intuitive understanding and scientific rigor.
As a leader of Gensler, Gervais applies a research based design process to complex design problems.
He is an expert on emerging global work styles and workplace.
Jamie Latiano Jacobs
President, National HR Association (NHRA)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
CEO & Chief Catalyst
Catalyst Strategy Solutions
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Doing what I love, specializing in helping leaders and management teams create award-winning organizations and Best Places to Work, especially during stages of rapid organizational growth and/or transform.
Steven Huan
People Scientist
Head of Diversity & Inclusion
CULTURE AMP
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Steven Huang left his career as a life and health insurance actuary to join the budding People Analytics field in 2011. Ever since, he has become a champion of using data modeling to solve big problems. His sights are now set on solving issues around Diversity and Inclusion. As one of Culture Amp’s early employees, Steven is the Head of Diversity and Inclusion where he manages the D&I products and services for over 2,000 customers. He has a B.S. in Business from Babson College.
Melissa Meredith
SVP of People Operations
TIGER CONNECT
Melissa is the SVP of People for TigerConnect; healthcare’s largest provider of clinical communication solutions, TigerConnect helps physicians, nurses, and other staff communicate and collaborate more effectively, accelerating productivity, reducing costs, and improving patient outcomes.
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After spending the early part of her Human Resources career in Corporate America, Melissa remembers thinking there's got to be a better way to bring people together and get things done. So she set out on a journey to discover what works, what doesn't and why.
Savitri Lopez Negrete
Director of Research & Innovation
BRANDCULTURE
Savi is a Design Strategist with a background in service design, ethnography and innovation. Her experience is cross-industry, ranging from healthcare and education to consumer goods and mixed-use developments. She utilizes a human-centered, interdisciplinary approach to tackle business, customer and societal challenges, specifically focusing on enhancing interactions. She has brought her innovative thinking to clients such as Samsung, Honda, Lowe's, Shell Oil, Fruit of the Loom, Art Center College of Design, and The Truth Campaign, among numerous others.
Anuradha Pai
Program Lead, Project Unity
ROCHE MOLECULAR SOLUTIONS
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Gigi Gormley Kalaher
Head of Design Strategy
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
Faculty, Harvard University Extension School
d.school Course Instructor
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
Gigi leads team of design strategists as they build new businesses centered on what people really need. These design strategists identify and incubate opportunities that range from the technical (artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital currency, blockchain); the societal(the freelance economy, healthcare, the future of work); and the human (loss, grief, hopes and dreams.)
Adam Day
Vice President
WeWork
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Foster stronger human connections. Create exceptional employee experiences. Leverage data-driven design and lateral thinking to enhance the well-being and creative potential of organizations.
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Kay Sargent
Senior Principal, Director of Workplace
HOK
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Kay Sargent brings over 30 years of experience in the interiors industry. Her work has taken her to multiple continents where she has worked with Fortune 500 companies on their global real estate strategies and designed workplaces of the future. Kay specializes in helping companies identify their unique organizational DNA and requirements, align their space with their business goals, develop the workplace of the future and deliver it across their global portfolio.
Mariano
Suarez-Battan
CEO, MURAL
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Mariano is the CEO of MURAL, a startup in residence in IDEO that is focused on helping creative teams go through the design thinking process. Teams gather research, synthesize, brainstorm and share ideas through online collaborative whiteboards called murals. Murals are being used globally by clients like Steelcase, Stanford GSB, HMH, Paypal and IBM Design funded by Intel Capital, Alta Ventures, and most recently IDEO and Collaborative Fund.
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Tim Whipple
VP, Client Results
LIVEOPS
I love changing the way the world works and how work gets done - leveraging technology to find the sweet spot where quality, efficiency, customer delight come together and the workforce is committed and engaged. I've built and led large multi-site contact center operations as well as distributed communities of thousands working all over the country. I love inspiring virtual workforce teams to accomplish results they considered beyond their capabilities, and I've carried that enthusiasm into the new world of on-demand workforces as head of community operations at various startups.
Lori Adams
Veterans Policy Director & NLx Senior Advisor
National Association of State Workforce Agencies
Steve Ardire
Steve Ardire, AI Startup Advisor & ‘Merchant of Light’
AI startup advisor 'force multiplier' who shapes serendipity to connect and illuminate the dots that matter ( aka The Merchant of Light ). He leverages significant relationship capital and personal branding in AI space. An active thought leader in the ai space whose favorite topic is #AugmentedIntelligence for #futureofwork.
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Anthony K Moore
Principal and CEO
Paradigm Group
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Julia Douthart
Founder& Executive Director
WORK REBOOTED
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David Slight
President US & Canada
QUORA CONSULTING
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David focuses on how to accelerate change across people, workplace, technical and business capabilities in large organizations.
Alp Sezginsoy
Founder & CEO
EXPERTERA
Pat Wadors
Chief Talent Officer
CHRO, ServiceNow
former CHRO, Linkedin​
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Pat Waders is one of the most well known and respected CHROs in the country. As the former SVP Global Talent Organization for LinkedIn, the professional social network with more than 500 million active users around the world, Pat Wadors was responsible for all things HR. She joined LinkedIn in 2013 bringing a wealth of experience gained from Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Viacom, Merck, Applied Materials, Align Technology, Yahoo! and Plantronics.
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Aaron Hurst
CEO, Imperative
Author, The Purpose Economy
Founder, Taproot Foundation
Author, Fast Company's Purposeful CEO profile series.
A globally recognized social entrepreneur who works to create communities that are empowered to realize their potential. He is the CEO of Imperative, a B Corp advocating for Purpose-Oriented Workers and supporting the organizations that embrace them.
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Mark Levy
Fmr Global Head of Employee Experience
Airbnb
Pioneer of Airbnb's Employee Experience function, which supports the entire employee journey from recruiting through alumni and everything in between. Traditional HR functions in addition to employee volunteerism, Workplace and our special sauce of Ground Control, who bring our culture to life. Recognized in 2016 as the #1 Best Place to Work by Glassdoor.
Mary George Opperman
Vice President & CHRO
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Cornell University employs approximately twenty thousand staff and faculty on campuses in Ithaca, Geneva, New York City and Qatar.
Under Mary’s leadership, Cornell has received numerous workplace awards including being named AARP’s top U.S. employer for workers 50 and older two years in a row. Cornell has also been listed as a best employer for working mothers, prospective and adoptive parents, IT professionals, veterans, and women executives. In March 2015, Mary was selected by the editors of Human Resource Executive magazine as one of the 15 most influential women leaders in human resources.
Gifford Pinchot
Chairman, Pinchot & Company
Founder and President Emeritus of "The Bainbridge Graduate Institute" - (Now merged with Presidio Graduate School), which offered the first MBA in Sustainable Business.
Known for having coined the terms intrapreneur, intrapreneurship and intrapreneuring. Gifford is a noted thought leader on intrapreneuring, innovation and susatinable business
Author of the bestseller, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, which was published in 15 languages. Intrapreneuring launched and defined the intrapreneurship movement, which is flourishing today.
Micheal Priddis
CEO & Founder
Faethm
CEO and founder of Faethm, an R&D firm focused on the Applications and Implications of emerging technologies such as AI, robotics, advanced materials and IoT.
At the Boston Consulting Group, Michael led and built the BCG Digital Ventures business across Asia, as part of the global leadership team, achieving team and revenue growth that was significantly over plan.
Heather McGowan
Co-Founder, Work to Learn
Strategic Advisor to the President, Becker College
Architect, Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, and Commerce at Philadelphia University
co-author and co-editor of the book Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate.
As an internationally known speaker, writer and thought leader, McGowan prepares educators and business leaders to most-effectively react to rapid and disruptive changes in education, work, and society.
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John W. Sigmon
frmr Chief Human Resources Officer
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a global organization dedicated to advancing military medical research by administering, managing and supporting preeminent scientific programs that benefit members of the armed forces and civilians alike. Previously, John was the CHRO for AARP and has held several prestigious posts with government agencies including the HHS.
Bernard Coleman III
Global Head, Diversity & Inclusion
UBER
As Uber's Head of Diversity & Inclusion he has had to move at lightning speed to harness the power that its unique workforce offers.
Prior to Uber, Bernard led Hillary for America's (HFA) Diversity and Human Resources initiatives, as the first-ever Chief Diversity and Human Resources Officer in United States history, for any presidential campaign of either political party.
Nigel Cameron
President & CEO, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies​
Nigel Cameron, Ph.D., M.B.A. is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School. Before founding C-PET, he was Research Professor & Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he established the first US university center on nanotechnology & its social implications.
Nigel has also served on US delegations to the UN and UNESCO, and was invited to participate in the State Department-led scenario planning Project Horizon.
He has written widely on the policy impacts of emerging technologies, including, Will Robots Take Your Job? A Plea for Consensus (Polity Press / John Wiley)
Barry Melnkovic
Vice President & CHRO
U.S. STEEL
Barry Melnkovic joined U. S. Steel in May 2017 as vice president and chief human resources officer. In this role, he is responsible for all facets of the company’s human resources and labor relations organizations.
Previously he served as executive vice president and chief human capital officer for National Railroad Passenger Corporation / Amtrak, as well as serving as an officer and member of the company’s executive committee. During his tenure, Mr. Melnkovic developed and executed Amtrak’s human and labor relations strategies for the company’s large workforce, established an enterprisewide lean six sigma function and a culture of continuous improvement.
Jennifer Hulett
Vice President & Head of HR
ERICSSON
Accountable for all HR strategy and delivery in support of 15,000 employees, for a $7B products and services business. Direct management of a team of 100+ HR professionals, including HR Business Partners, HR Generalists, Total Rewards, Benefits, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning & Analytics, and Learning & Development. Dual reporting to the CHRO of Ericsson and the CEO for North America.
Ericsson is a world’s leading provider of communications technology and services.Today, more than 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks in over 180 countries, and we support customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscribers
Jennifer Hulett
Vice President & Head of HR
ERICSSON
Accountable for all HR strategy and delivery in support of 15,000 employees, for a $7B products and services business. Direct management of a team of 100+ HR professionals, including HR Business Partners, HR Generalists, Total Rewards, Benefits, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning & Analytics, and Learning & Development. Dual reporting to the CHRO of Ericsson and the CEO for North America.
Ericsson is a world’s leading provider of communications technology and services.Today, more than 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks in over 180 countries, and we support customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscribers
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2018 SUMMIT CONTRIBUTORS
Stephane Kasriel
Chief Executive Officer
UPWORK
As CEO of Upwork, the largest freelancing website, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Education, Gender and Work, Stephane is in a unique position to share his perspective on future trends -- from global forces impacting the job market and the rise of the freelance economy to how companies are changing the way they build teams and the way education should evolve. An expert in staffing innovation and remote work, Stephane led a distributed team of engineers as Upwork's SVP of Engineering before ascending to be CEO. His book Hire Fast & Build Things details how to use freelancers to power businesses. Stephane holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in CS and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
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