Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Vanessa Gamboa Adams
- Philip Aminoff
- Sara Armbruster
- Gianpaolo Barozzi
- Julian Birkinshaw
- Tim Brown
- Curtis Carlson
- Niclas Carlsson
- Yogesh Chauhan
- Laurent Choain
- Clayton Christensen
- Mary Beth Christie
- Judith Clegg
- Sarah Cliffe
- Nicolas Colin
- Peter Day
- Steve Denning
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Mark Esposito
- Bill Fischer
- Debra France
- Maëlle Gavet
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Robert Grüneis
- James Guild
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Anil K. Gupta
- Prabhu Guptara
- John Hagel III
- Guy Halfteck
- Gary Hamel
- Boma Harahap
- Michael Harte
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Tawfik Jelassi
- Eyal Kaplan
- Annie Koh
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Philip Kotler
- Ralf Köster
- Bill Liao
- Andreas Ludwig
- Christian Lüdtke
- Isabella Mader
- Fredmund Malik
- Roger L. Martin
- Mariana Mazzucato
- Milena Milicevic
- Thanigai Muthusamy
- Annu Nieminen
- Efosa Ojomo
- Sally Osberg
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Sarah O`Connor
- Will Peachey
- Magnus Penker
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Joseph Pistrui
- Deepa Prahalad
- Rosemarie Ryan
- Gisbert Rühl
- Philippe Silberzahn
- Hermann Simon
- Richard Straub
- Nicolai Strøm-Olsen
- Joakim Sundén
- Rob van Leen
- Rajeev Vasudeva
- Haiyan Wang
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Rickard Zetterberg
Founder and CEO, The Practice of Innovation,
former CEO of SRI
Biography
Curt Carlson in an internationally recognized innovator and thought-leader on the practice of innovation. As CEO of SRI International in Silicon Valley from 1998 to 2014, SRI became a global model for the creation of high-value innovations, such as HDTV, Intuitive Surgical for robotic surgery, and Siri on the iPhone. Carlson’s new company, Practice of Innovation, works with companies, governments, and universities to improve innovative performance.
He served on President Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Singapore, and he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering study to develop improved U.S. R&D and innovative outcomes.
Carlson wrote, with William Wilmot, Innovation, a BusinessWeek Top-10 Business Book. The process described is now used by companies, universities, and government agencies worldwide.
His teams have won two Emmys, one for HDTV and one for optimized satellite broadcast image quality. He won the Otto Schade Prize for Display Performance and Image Quality from the Society for Information Display.
Carlson is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He has honorary degrees from the Malaysian Technical University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Kettering University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Carlson received his B.S. degree in physics from WPI as a member of Tau Beta Pi. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Rutgers University.