John Danner is a bestselling author, faculty member at two of the world’s finest universities, popular public speaker, experienced executive, and advisor to global enterprises, government agencies and emerging ventures. His work as a management consultant, entrepreneur, lawyer and public official has centered on helping organizations deal with the leadership, strategy and innovation challenges and opportunities of unprecedented change.

He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017), about the personality characteristics of highly successful entrepreneurs; as well as the Amazon bestseller, The Other ‘F’ Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work (John Wiley & Sons, 2015), about strategies to leverage failure as a strategic resource. His articles and interviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, The Economist, Chief Executive and many other US and global media channels.

As a member of the professional faculties at the University of California Berkeley and Princeton University, he teaches executives, graduate and undergraduate students from around the world; and has launched popular campus-wide courses on both campuses. He also anchors and contributes to a number of executive education programs on leadership, strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship for several other prominent organizations in various locations globally – at UC Berkeley, Yale, the Aspen Institute and other US and international organizations.

Scott is at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He has been an active advocate for customers and employees in the technology space for over 20 years, with roles ranging from sales, customer advocacy, and customer service leadership. Previously, he was the Vice President of LinkedIn’s Customer Operations organization. In his current role as Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, Scott blends his lifelong practice and passion with his practical leadership and operations experience. His mission is to change work from the inside out by “mainstreaming mindfulness” and “operationalizing compassion.” He is the author of the book The Full Body Yes, available in May 2021.

Alice de Casanove is in charge of innovation culture in Airbus North America (4000+ employees across the USA), where she fosters the relevant mindset to accelerate future businesses, and she leads the cultural roadmap for digitalization and innovation.
In 2018, Alice was nominated as Woman in the innovation of the year by l’Usine Nouvelle for her innovation project of beehives monitoring by satellites.
Alice plays a determining role in the publication of the ISO referential on good practices in innovation management (ISO 5600 series). Since 2013 she has chaired the international committee gathering 52+ countries in close coordination with WTO, OECD, WIPO, and the World Bank.
Alice has started her career in a video deep-tech start-up then she joined Sagem to manage and develop the value of the Innovation portfolio of the French telecom manufacturer. She has joined the entrepreneurial adventure of Actimagine to develop video technologies on handheld devices (video games consoles and smartphones). Actimagine became the Nintendo Europe R&D center after being bought by NINTENDO. Alice graduated from Telecom Paristech and holds a Ph.D.

Senior designer and education enthusiast with experience on designing end-to-end digital services, team management and organizing learning formats for communities. In addition to crafting, I have been teaching professionally at universities and companies.

Mark Randall semi-retired in 2019 after 12 years as Adobe’s Chief Strategist and Vice President of Creativity, incubating disruptive new businesses and leading the company’s global innovation process. To empower Adobe’s 20,000 employees to develop their own ideas Randall created Kickbox, a unique innovator’s toolbox which Fortune Magazine called “a magical cardboard bundle to kickstart creative problem solving. In 2015 Adobe open-sourced Kickbox leading to its adoption at thousands of enterprises, universities, governments and non-profits. Kickbox has since grown into the world’s most popular enterprise innovation process with Adobe being been named to both Forbes and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies” lists. The free, open source Kickbox is now a cross-industry best practice curated by hundreds of volunteer experts at Kickbox.org, a non-profit community of innovation executives, coaches, educators and students. In addition to Kickbox, Randall’s own innovations at Adobe included the creation of new businesses such as Adobe Live and Adobe Pass, which launched the industry shift to TV Everywhere earning an Emmy Award for technical achievement. Randall also pioneered key strategic initiatives including Adobe's pivot into digital content with the $800M acquisition of Fotolia.

In books, articles, posts, classes, and talks, David Weinberger, Ph.D. explores the effect of the technology on ideas. A long-time affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, he recently was a writer-in-residence at Google AI, was co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and was a journalism fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center. Dr. Weinberger has been a marketing VP and adviser to high tech companies, and a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He is the author of best-selling and award winning books, including The Cluetrain Manifesto (co-author) and his latest, Everyday Chaos. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Chris Mills is a 20-year advertising and marketing veteran and is currently a Director, Marketing Strategy for Anthem, a leading U.S. healthcare company. Chris received his M.B.A. in Marketing and Management from the University of Oklahoma and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Christian University. Chris worked as an advertising account director prior to transitioning to the marketing side within the healthcare and insurance industries. Chris is a practitioner, instructor and student of Heartfulness Meditation, which he has been practicing for over 22 years. He is also a Director for Corporate Programs offered by The Heartfulness Institute USA, where he consults with businesses on development of relaxation and meditation programs as part of their overall health & wellness initiatives. Chris lives with his family in Torrance, California.