Tom Koulopoulos

The single most significant shift in business is underway – it’s called digital business ecosystems. Simply put, digital ecosystems are at the heart of successful high growth companies – such as Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Alibaba, Samsung, Nest, and GE.

Digital ecosystems create entirely new business models that drive out all of the friction in an industry – and use data and technology to create an entirely new user experience that provides an integrated and nearly effortless customer experience.

In this leading-edge keynote, Tom looks at how digital disruption, transformation and business ecosystems will be critical to the success of every business in every industry – over the decades to come.

One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post-millennial generation, Gen Z.

While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society – no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability to make sure that every human being (and every “thing”) on the planet is connected to each other, fully educated, and economically engaged. What might this mean for the way in which we build our business, markets – and institutions for education in the future?

In this revolutionary keynote drawing from his recent book, The Gen Z Effect, Tom delves into a vision of the future that will not only disrupt – but also reinvent almost every aspect of how we work, live and play. From radical new approaches to marketing and manufacturing to the potential obliteration of intellectual property and the shift to mass innovation – Tom provides a mind-bending view of why we need to embrace Gen Z as the last best hope for taking on the world’s biggest challenges and opportunities, and how you can prepare yourself and your business for the greatest era of prosperity and advance the world has ever experienced.

In this lightning-paced, tour-de-force session – Tom looks at how companies are radically changing their approach to innovation by learning how to fail fast, embrace uncertainty, build for the unknown, abandon the success of the past, focus on their core competencies, and challenge conventional wisdom. Tom uses examples of some of the pioneering innovators from Sony to Apple and 3M to NASA – to illustrate some of the best and brightest success stories of innovation at work. His views will provide a prescription for change in how you approach innovation, in a way that is straight-forward, comprehensive, and, above all else – incredibly practical. You’ll identify the ways in which you can drive your own organization’s efforts to increase innovation and better leverage the latent creativity in every organization.

Come prepared for an enlightening and life-changing discussion about the importance of innovation – and get ready to take a hard look at how culture, generations, and leadership impact the way we innovate.

You’ll leave this session with a roadmap and a context for your conference experience – and with specific insights, methods and tools to help you quantify your organization’s innovative ability, as well as a solid foundation for the decisions you will need to make in the months and years ahead.

The Cloud is the hottest topic since the advent of the Internet – and nobody can speak to it with more insight, energy, and humor than Tom. It’s why HP, Microsoft, Gartner, Intel, Cisco and many others have asked Tom to keynote their organizations’ Cloud events. Drawing on his book, Cloud Surfing, Tom paints a powerful picture of how The Cloud will change the way we live, work and play.

How will The Cloud define your job, your company, how you do business – and innovation?

The key is that technology is only a small part of The Cloud. Just as important is the way The Cloud changes the way we collaborate, work, how we are influenced – and how we influence and experience the world.

Join Tom as he takes you Cloud Surfing – to better understand how we can respond to this massive change in order to transform ourselves and our businesses!