Jennifer Aaker
Dr. Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Coulter Family Faculty Fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business (2020–21). A behavioral scientist and author, Dr. Aaker is a leading expert on how meaning and purpose shape the choices individuals make, how...
Nick Vujicic
Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. Now put both of those scenarios together:...
Mark Inglis
“You are 23 years old, trapped in an ice cave for 14 days by a sub-zero blizzard on the summit of New Zealand’s highest peak. You are starving and freezing to death. You wake up in the hospital to find that you have lost both legs below the knees...
Daniel Flynn
At 19 years old, Daniel Flynn was profoundly impacted by two of our world’s extremes; where currently there are more than 736 million people living in extreme poverty, and at the same time, global consumer spending totals a staggering US$63 trillion per year. This led to a simple idea...
Alvin Wee
Alvin Wee is Alvin Wee is an LA-based music mixer, recording engineer and music producer for film, television, virtual reality and video games. His recent credits include music mixing for the Academy Award Winning Animated Feature Disney’s Encanto, which has received more than 15 award nominations, including the Golden...
Steven Sasson
After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973 with a MS in electrical engineering, Steven Sasson joined the Eastman Kodak Company and began his career working in the Kodak Apparatus Division research laboratory. He engaged in a number of early digital imaging projects. Among these was the design and...
Danielle Krettek Cobb
Danielle Krettek Cobb founded Google Empathy Lab in 2015 out of a desire to create humane, prosocial technology informed by empathy, resilience, and wisdom of heart. The Lab is an interdisciplinary group that guides emerging technologies like AI with a heart-first approach. Its empathy-driven methods allow teams to slow...
Ho Ren Hua
Mr. Ho is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Thai Wah Public Company Ltd, responsible for developing the company’s vision to create innovation and sustainability from Farm to Shelf as a leading Agri-Food company in Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 1947, Thai Wah has been a leading pioneer...
Mauro Porcini
Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer. He joined the food & beverage corporation in 2012 and in said role he is infusing design thinking into PepsiCo’s culture and is leading a new approach to innovation by design that impacts the company’s product platforms and brands, which...
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie is a writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist. He is the author of ‘Only Planet – a flight-free adventure around the world’ a book about his circumnavigation of the globe without getting on a plane, which the Independent said “Allow the world’s flaws and beauty to...
