Jennifer James was born in London and grew up in Spokane, WA where she was active in rodeo riding, barrel riding and hunt jumping. She delivered the Spokesman Review on horseback throughout her farming community. She graduated from West Valley ...

An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The City: A GLOBAL HISTORY, published by Random House/Modern Library, with editions ...

Karen co-founded Virtual Distance International in 2004 to help organizations create meaningful, satisfying, productive workplaces where people and institutions can thrive in the Digital Age. At a time when many people are working virtually and communicating with their colleagues primarily through e-mail and other computer-mediated means, Karen and her VDI colleagues have created a much-needed methodology for measuring Virtual Distance ? a psychological gap that grows out of a heavy reliance on electronic communications - and improving productivity and innovation over distance by reducing its effects.

Sergio Zyman is the Chairman and founder of Zyman Group and the former Chief Marketing Officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Over the course of 30+ years of hands-on marketing experience, Zyman has conceived a revolutionary set of principles that ...

Few speakers know the global world as well as Tom Faranda. His clients include CEFCO China, Siemens Germany, IBM Europe, GE on five continents, Thermo-King Japan and Ford Canada. He has clients in India, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, South Africa, ...

A highly sought after expert on the new global economy and global business development, John Caslione is a leading authority on business globalization and leding emerging markets. As President and CEO of GCS Business Capital LLC, John is a merger and acquisition advisor and is author of Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy.

Dr. Kent Moors is an internationally recognized expert in oil/natural gas policy and finance as well as global risk management. He has consulted for numerous governments and large-scale companies on a wide range of issues including the intricacies of the oil markets and risk management. Internationally Recognized Oil and Gas Authority: Dr. Moors has advised the leaders at the highest level of six world governments, as well as corporations and international banks in 23 countries.

Mr. Sinai founded Decision Economics, Inc. in 1996 and is the Chief Global Economist, Strategist, and President. He is known for his objective fact-based analyses and forecasts, which for nearly 35 years have proved to be quite accurate, especially on the economy and financial markets and on "big wave" economic, political, and societal fundamental trends that move markets and business.

John Seely Brown is not only the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, he is also a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at USC. Brown has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and again in 2002 for his article "Your Next IT Strategy."

David Pearce Snyder, Life-Styles Editor of The Futurist magazine, is a data-based forcaster whose thousands of seminars and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies and from ...