Keynote Speakers

Tim Cook has served as CEO of Apple since 2011, leading the company to become one of the most valuable businesses in history with a market cap exceeding $3 tril...

Satya Nadella became Microsoft's CEO in 2014 and transformed the company through a culture of growth mindset and cloud-first strategy, increasing its market cap...

Sundar Pichai serves as CEO of both Google and its parent company Alphabet, overseeing a portfolio that includes Search, YouTube, Android, and Google Cloud. Bor...

Jamie Dimon is the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States by assets, and has led the firm through both the 2008 financial cri...

Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997 and transformed it from a DVD-by-mail service into the world's largest streaming platform with over 200 million subscri...

Marc Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999 and pioneered the software-as-a-service model, revolutionizing how businesses manage customer relationships. A committed...

Former CEO and Executive Chairman of Google who led the company through its most explosive growth phase. Co-author of 'The New Digital Age,' he now focuses on n...

Chairman of Kleiner Perkins who backed Amazon and Google and popularized OKR goal-setting through his book 'Measure What Matters.' His book 'Speed & Scale' outl...

Retired four-star US Army General who commanded US forces in Afghanistan and author of 'Team of Teams,' a landmark book on adaptive leadership for complex envir...

Retired four-star Marine General, former US Secretary of Defense, and co-author of 'Call Sign Chaos.' He resigned as SecDef over disagreements with President Tr...

Former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and the world's most prominent voice on the climate crisis whose documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' transfor...

Former US Secretary of State who negotiated the Paris Climate Agreement and served as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. A decorated Vietnam veteran and fo...

Former US Senator from Utah, Governor of Massachusetts, and 2012 Republican presidential nominee who was the only Republican senator to vote for Trump's convict...

Former US Secretary of Transportation and first openly gay person to run a major national presidential campaign, a Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and Navy in...

Former anchor of ABC World News Tonight and one of the most celebrated journalists in American television history, known for probing interviews with world leade...

NBA Hall of Famer, 1993 MVP, and beloved TNT analyst on 'Inside the NBA,' one of the most dominant power forwards in basketball history. He speaks on leadership...

NBA legend, four-time champion, and one of the most dominant centers in basketball history with a remarkable second career as a businessman, TV personality, and...

Four-time Super Bowl champion, three-time Super Bowl MVP, and widely considered the greatest quarterback in NFL history known for his unflappable composure unde...

Tennis legend and equality icon who won 39 Grand Slam titles and defeated Bobby Riggs in the iconic 'Battle of the Sexes' match in 1973, watched by 90 million v...

'The Great One,' widely considered the greatest hockey player in history who holds 61 NHL records including goals, assists, and points despite being smaller and...

Five-time World Series champion and Yankees captain who is one of the most respected figures in baseball history and a model of professionalism, leadership, and...

Academy Award-winning director and producer of films including 'Apollo 13,' 'A Beautiful Mind,' and 'Frost/Nixon' who grew up as a child star on 'The Andy Griff...

Editor-in-Chief of Vogue and Artistic Director of Condé Nast, the most influential figure in the fashion industry whose tenure at Vogue transformed fashion jour...

Late four-star General and former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush who was the first African American to serve in that role. His '13 Rules of L...

Former US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that office, a Czech-born refugee who became one of America's most consequential foreign policy figures...

Former National Security Advisor and US Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama who navigated crises from Syria to the Ebola epidemic. Author of ...

Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford and one of the most influential strategists of the 20th century. His books on diplomacy, ...

Earvin 'Magic' Johnson is a five-time NBA champion who became an HIV awareness pioneer and massively successful businessman. His business empire includes movie ...

Patrick Mahomes is a multi-time Super Bowl champion and MVP who has established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of his generation with the Kansas Ci...

Janet Yellen served as the first female Secretary of the Treasury under President Biden and was previously the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve. She is ...

George W. Bush served as the 43rd President during 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has since become an accomplished painter and author ...

Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President, presiding over the longest peacetime economic expansion in American history. He founded the Clinton Foundation, focus...

Andy Jassy is the CEO of Amazon, having previously built and led Amazon Web Services (AWS) from an internal project to the world's dominant cloud computing plat...

Founder and CEO of Shopify who built one of the world's most important e-commerce platforms from a snowboard shop's frustrated online storefront. Under his lead...

Bishop, author, filmmaker, and leader of The Potter's House megachurch with over 30,000 members. Named by TIME as one of America's most influential spiritual le...

Founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners and the wealthiest Black American who famously paid off the student loans of the entire 2019 Morehouse College graduati...

Co-founder of KKR and a pioneer of the leveraged buyout who has been one of the most powerful figures in private equity for over four decades. He speaks on deal...

Co-founder and CEO of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative investment firm, and author of 'What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.' He speak...

Former CEO of Morgan Stanley who transformed the firm from a high-risk trading house into a wealth management powerhouse. An Australian immigrant, he speaks on ...

Four-time NBA champion who revolutionized basketball with his three-point shooting and founded Unanimous Media and SC30, building a growing business empire. He ...

Commissioner of the NFL who has overseen the league's growth into the most valuable sports league in the world with over $20 billion in annual revenue. He speak...

Basketball legend and successful entrepreneur, Magic Johnson has transcended his athletic career to build a thriving business empire. His insights on leadership...

Chris Evans is an acclaimed actor best known for playing Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a career spanning film and television. His thoug...

Kobe Bryant was an NBA legend and one of basketball's greatest players, known for his 'Mamba Mentality' approach to excellence and competition. He remained an i...

John Maxwell is a world-renowned leadership expert, speaker, author, and pastor who has devoted his life to inspiring and equipping individuals to reach their f...

Alan Mulally is a renowned business executive, engineer, and motivational speaker, best known for his transformative leadership as the President and CEO of Ford...

Lou Holtz is a renowned former American football player, coach, and analyst who has emerged as one of the most influential speakers in the field of sports and l...

Simon Sinek is a highly acclaimed British-American author, motivational speaker, and organizational consultant, renowned for his unique insights on leadership a...

Mary Barra became CEO of General Motors in 2014, the first woman to lead a major global automaker, and has guided the company's bold pivot to electric vehicles....

Indra Nooyi served as CEO of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018, overseeing the company's 'Performance with Purpose' strategy that doubled revenues and expanded healthie...

Meg Whitman transformed eBay from a small startup to a global e-commerce giant during her tenure as CEO from 1998 to 2008. She later led HP through a difficult ...

Ken Chenault served as CEO of American Express from 2001 to 2018, guiding the company through 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis with remarkable steadiness. He ...

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreessen Horowitz after successfully building and selling the cloud computing company Opsware to HP for $1.65 billion. His book 'The H...

Brian Chesky co-founded Airbnb in 2008 with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, turning the concept of renting air mattresses in a San Francisco apartment into a...

Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO of Uber in 2017, inheriting a company embroiled in multiple controversies, and led a remarkable cultural and strategic turnaround t...

Susan Wojcicki served as CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023, during which she grew it from 1 billion to 2 billion logged-in monthly users and built it into one of...

Marissa Mayer was Google's 20th employee and led product development for the Google Search engine before becoming Yahoo's CEO in 2012, where she attempted to re...

Ginni Rometty served as Chairman and CEO of IBM from 2012 to 2020, leading the 108-year-old technology giant through a historic strategic transformation toward ...

Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 2014, leading the company from the brink of bankruptcy to become a semiconductor industry powerhouse compe...

Greg Brockman is a co-founder and former President of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he helped build from a nonprofit research lab into the creator...

Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Chair of Starbucks' Board, and financial literacy advocate whose TED Talk 'Color Blind or Color Brave?' has over 5 million views. S...

Former CEO of Merck who led development of one of the most effective COVID-19 antiviral treatments and famously resigned from Trump's business advisory council ...

CEO of ServiceNow and former CEO of SAP, author of 'Winners Dream,' who grew up working-class and built himself into a Fortune 500 CEO. He speaks on the power o...

Retired three-star General, former National Security Advisor to President Trump, and author of 'Battlegrounds' and 'Dereliction of Duty.' Now a senior fellow at...

Three-time NBA champion, three-time MVP, and one of the greatest basketball players of all time who also became a championship coach and executive for the India...

Three-time NBA champion and one of the greatest shooting guards in history, author of 'A Father First' who has been equally inspiring off the court. He speaks o...

Three-time Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl MVP, and now beloved Monday Night Football broadcaster who recently co-founded Eight Beer. He speaks on leadership, w...

Two-time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Fame quarterback famous for 'The Drive,' and later EVP and President of Football Operations for the Denver Broncos. He spe...

Hall of Fame quarterback and one of the greatest passers in NFL history who set passing records that stood for decades despite never winning a Super Bowl. He sp...

Two-time Olympic gold medalist, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, and widely considered the greatest female soccer player of her generation who inspired...

Two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA Women's World Cup champion, and all-time top scorer in international soccer history who transformed how the world sees fema...

Two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and one of the most recognizable female athletes in the world who led the fight for equal pay alongside her USWNT teamm...

Two-time Stanley Cup champion, two-time Penguins team owner, and one of the greatest hockey players in history who came back from Hodgkin's lymphoma to win a sc...

Hall of Fame shortstop who played 2,632 consecutive games — one of sport's most unbreakable records — and is widely considered the model of professionalism and ...

One of the most gifted natural talents in baseball history and a first-ballot Hall of Famer whose smile and backward cap defined a generation of baseball fans. ...

Former SVP of Retail at Apple and former CEO of Burberry who transformed both companies' retail experiences through radical human-centric approaches. She speaks...

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, voting rights advocate, and founder of Fair Fight Action who is widely credited with turning Georgia blue in 2020. A Har...

US Representative from New York and the youngest woman ever elected to Congress who has become one of the most recognizable progressive politicians in America. ...

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Pulitzer Prize winner for 'A Problem from Hell,' and current USAID Administrator who has spent her career advocating...

Leon Panetta served as both CIA Director and Secretary of Defense under President Obama, overseeing the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. He previously ser...

George Stephanopoulos is the anchor of ABC's 'Good Morning America' and 'This Week,' and one of the most recognizable journalists in America. A former senior ad...

David McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for 'Truman' and 'John Adams,' and was one of America's most beloved historians and storytellers. His other books...

Shaquille O'Neal is one of the most dominant NBA centers in history with four championships. After retiring, he became a successful businessman, investor, and a...

Shonda Rhimes is the creator of 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Scandal,' and 'How to Get Away with Murder,' and signed a landmark $150 million deal with Netflix. Her memoir...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is a global icon who transitioned from winning Miss World to becoming a Bollywood superstar and then a Hollywood leading actress. She is a...

John McCain was a U.S. Senator, 2008 presidential nominee, and Vietnam War hero who spent five years as a prisoner of war. His memoir 'Faith of My Fathers' and ...

Admiral William McRaven commanded the operation that killed Osama bin Laden and served as the ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. His UT Austin ...

Safra Catz is the CEO of Oracle Corporation and one of the highest-paid female executives in the world. Born in Israel, she has led Oracle through major acquisi...

Adam Silver is the Commissioner of the NBA, leading the league through the COVID-19 pandemic and overseeing its expansion into new media, international markets,...

Dana White is the president of the UFC, having transformed mixed martial arts from a niche spectacle into a global mainstream sport worth over $10 billion. His ...

Rex Tillerson served as CEO of ExxonMobil and then as U.S. Secretary of State under President Trump. He led the world's largest publicly traded oil company for ...

John Chambers served as CEO of Cisco Systems for 20 years, growing the company from $70 million to $47 billion in revenue and making it the most valuable compan...

Ajay Banga served as CEO of Mastercard and is now President of the World Bank. Born in India, he transformed Mastercard into a technology company focused on fin...

Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships in 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, the most by any player in NBA history. He was also the first Black head coach in ma...

Gordon Ramsay is one of the most famous chefs in the world with multiple Michelin stars and hit TV shows including 'Hell's Kitchen,' 'MasterChef,' and 'Kitchen ...

Author of over 100 books with 33 million sold including 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership,' perhaps the world's most prolific leadership author. He has tra...

Author of 'The Purpose Driven Life' which has sold over 50 million copies making it one of the bestselling nonfiction books in history, and founding pastor of S...

Co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group and author of 'How to Lead,' who has interviewed hundreds of the world's most powerful leaders. He speaks on lea...

Author of 'Emotional Intelligence' which has sold over 5 million copies and introduced the concept of EQ to the mainstream, fundamentally changing how we think ...

Yankees captain who broke the American League single-season home run record with 62 in 2022, embodying the humility and work ethic of a modern baseball hero. He...

Edmonton Oilers captain and widely considered the best hockey player in the world, leading the Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final in 2024. He speaks on excellence,...

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Governor of South Carolina, and 2024 Republican presidential candidate. Daughter of Indian immigrants, she speaks on...

Three-time AL MVP widely considered the best baseball player of his generation. He speaks on excellence, perseverance through team struggles, and staying focuse...

Eleven-time NBA champion coach known as the 'Zen Master' who coached both the Bulls and Lakers dynasties. He speaks on mindfulness, team dynamics, leadership, a...

Former CEO of Nike, eBay, and ServiceNow who has led iconic consumer brands through digital transformation. He speaks on leadership, digital commerce, and corpo...

Former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance and COO of Starbucks, one of the most prominent Black female executives in American corporate history. She speaks on lead...

Five-time NBA champion and the greatest power forward in history, known as 'The Big Fundamental' for his quiet, consistent brilliance. He speaks on quiet leader...

US Senator from Massachusetts, former Harvard Law professor, and consumer protection champion who created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She speaks o...

CTO of Amazon and VP whose 'working backwards' methodology has been widely adopted. He speaks on cloud computing, distributed systems, technology leadership, an...

Former executive secretary of the UNFCCC who led the negotiations that resulted in the 2015 Paris Agreement, author of 'The Future We Choose.' She speaks on cli...

Retired four-star Navy SEAL admiral and bestselling author, William McRaven brings military leadership principles to corporate audiences. His powerful insights ...

Hockey legend and Hall of Famer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in NHL history, known for exceptional leadership both on and off the ice. Messier...

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency with extensive experience in national security, intelligence operations, and counterterrorism. Tenet provides...

CEO of a major healthcare company with extensive experience in healthcare transformation, digital innovation, and organizational leadership. Lynch is known for ...

Bestselling author and organizational consultant specializing in team dynamics, leadership, and organizational health. Lencioni's frameworks on team dysfunction...

Renowned college football coach known for turning programs around through disciplined leadership, development focus, and strong winning culture. Harbaugh is a c...

Retired CEO of Boeing and legendary business leader with extensive experience transforming large complex organizations. McNerney brings proven expertise in oper...

Sophia Bush is an accomplished actress, activist, and entrepreneur known for her work in television and film, as well as her advocacy for social causes. She spe...

José Manuel Barroso served as President of the European Commission and brings decades of experience in European politics and global affairs. He provides insight...

James Stavridis is a retired four-star admiral and former NATO Supreme Commander with extensive expertise in military strategy and global security. He provides ...