Month: August 2017

Infrastructure and Smart City Keynote Speakers

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 62.7 percent of the population lives in cities and the population density in cities is more than 46 times higher than the territories outside of cities. As this number continues to increase, new city infrastructure, sustainability practices, and transportation systems will need to be engineered to accommodate the number of people living, working, and moving about the city. These infrastructure and smart city keynote speakers can help you plan the smart city and smart infrastructure of the future.  

Chris Barker

Chris Barker is a smart city, connected car, and transportation technology consultant and Founder of CBC. /he is focused on advocating the role of technology in advancing the modernization of transportation and urban mobility. Chris provides business, communications and public policy consulting support to automakers, aerospace companies, suppliers, technology companies, investment firms and government organizations around the globe. He has worked with cities such as Las Vegas to improve autonomous shuttles and city-wide wi-fi connectivity, to deploy a vehicle/ green light tracking system, and launch vehicle/pedestrian detection and safety programs.

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna is a geostrategist and CNN Global Contributor. His latest book “The Future of Globalization: Strategic Trends, Economic Competition & Technological Innovation” which looks at how biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and the rise of smart cities will reshape city life as well as the global balance of innovation. As an infrastructure and smart city keynote speaker, Khanna frequently gives keynotes on the subjects of global trends and scenarios, systemic risks and technological disruptions.

Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin is an economic and social theorist and political advisor. He also advises on the building and scaling of the Internet of Things digital infrastructure to develop a sustainable low-carbon economy and ecological society. Rifkin is currently advising the European Commission on the development of Smart Cities in Europe. Rifkin is the author of three bestsellers including “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, The Economy, and The World” and “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, The Collaborative COmmons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism.”

Glen Hiemstra

Glen Hiemstra is an infrastructure and smart city keynote speaker who is dedicated to spreading knowledge about how technology can assist individuals, organizations, and industries in cities through effective strategic planning. He is the author of “Millennial City: How a New Generation Can Save the Future”. In his keynote’s, Hiemstra zeros in on emerging trends in economic demographics, energy, the environment, Internet and communication technology, housing, and transportation to offer solutions to many city and infrastructure problems.

Peter Zeihan  

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist who specializes in global energy, demographics, and security. His worldview combines the realities of geography and populations to offer a deep understanding of how global politics impact markets and economic trends. Zeihan’s focus is geopolitics but his specializations of energy, demographics, and security are applicable to infrastructure and smart city planning. His clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy sectors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests and city planners.  

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CEO Keynote Speakers

CEO keynote speakers are true leaders and visionaries of industry. They bring their vast entrepreneurial experience to your company’s event and also a fresh perspective. These CEO speakers are renowned for their innovative ideas and ability to turn any company in any industry around. Bring one of these CEO keynote speakers to your company’s next event or bring them in for corporate advising.  

Mitch Lowe

Mitch Lowe invested in and became CEO of MoviePass in June 2016. MoviePass is a movie theater subscription service and is headquartered in New York City. The company has recently gained much media attention over its decision to reduce its monthly subscription fee from $30 to $10, allowing users to watch a movie everyday for an entire month at the cost of a single movie ticket. Prior to MoviePass Mitch served as the President of Redbox in 2003 and was a founding executive at Netflix.

Peter Guber

Peter Guber is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Mandalay’s most recent film, The Birth of A Nation, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and swept up top prizes. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was chairman and CEO of SOny Pictures Entertainment, chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, co-founder of Casablanca Record and Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Currently, Guber is the operating owner and co-managing partner of the Golden State Warriors (2015 and 2017 NBA Champions) and owner of the L.A. Dodgers. Peter is a highly sought after CEO keynote speaker.

Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel is the founder of Skinnygirl Cocktails in 2011, a low-calorie cocktail brand. Since the company’s founding, Bethenny has expanded the Skinnygirl brand into a lifestyle empire offering women practical and healthy solutions. Some of the many Skinnygirl products include non-alcoholic beverages, and low-calorie popcorn, candy, salad dressing, coffee, tea, sweeteners, and water flavor enhancers. A star on Bravo’s of Real Housewives of New York City, Bethenny was also a runner-up on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She is also a five-time author and was named one of Forbes “100 Most Powerful Celebrities”.

Daymond John

Daymond John is a self-made business mogul. He is the founder and CEO of clothing brand FUBU. He pioneered the art of integrating fashion, culture, and music into branding nearly twenty years ago. Daymond is also a “shark” on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank and a two-time author. Daymond continues to set standards of excellence while expanding his interests in fashion, branding, marketing, consulting, entertainment, and beyond. This industry leader, best-selling author, and ground breaking entrepreneurial expert has evolved into a highly sought after business and motivational and CEO keynote speaker.

Tan Le

Tan Le is the founder and CEO of Emotiv, a bio informatics tech company. Emotiv’s brain-computer interface technology incorporates human communication cues into human-computer interactions through the use of a wireless headset. The headset makes it possible to control virtual objects as well as physical electronics with mere thoughts and a little concentration. Le was named Young Australian of the Year and voted one of Australia’s 30 Most Successful Women Under 30. Tan is a sought after tech and CEO keynote speaker who also has an inspirational personal story.

Frits Van Paasschen

Frits Van Paasschen is a seasoned global executive. He served as the CEO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts from 2007-2015 and later served as the CEO of Coors Brewing Company for three years. In addition, Frits has also held executive positions at Nike. Frits is also the author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller The Disruptors Feast. As a CEO keynote speaker, Frits is also passionate about advising and consulting on strategic direction.

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer is the former president and CEO of Yahoo. Her first job out of college was with Google in 1999, where she became the company’s first female engineer and involved work on some of the company’s most recognizable features to date, such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Street View, Google News, and Gmail. In 2012 she was appointed the president and CEO of Yahoo and was tasked with course-correcting the company besieged by declining stock prices. She was also one of only 20 women to run a Fortune 500 company.

 

Celebrity Motivational Speakers

Celebrity Motivational Speakers are actors, athletes, bestselling authors, and award winning entertainers who are well known for their talent but also have a motivational message to tell about how they overcame adversity or achieved success.

Jon Dorenbos

Jon Dorenbos is a former NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles and current magician and celebrity motivational speaker. When Jon Dorenbos is on stage, he emphasizes, through his unbelievable magic tricks, the importance of choice and openly shares his childhood tragedy. When he was twelve, his family was torn apart after his father murdered his mother. Jon chose to rise through adversity by setting goals, no matter how high, and taking the necessary steps to accomplish these goals. He started learning magic at the age of twelve and is now considered a “master magician”, earning the respect of top magicians everywhere including casinos in Las Vegas. Most recently, Jon “wowed” America with his performance on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Jon made it to the finals and placed third amongst tens of thousands of competitors.

Bethany Hamilton

Bethany Hamilton is a source of inspiration to millions of people through her story of determination, faith, and hope. During a surf in 2003, Bethany was attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark, which bit off her left arm. But one month after the attack, Bethany returned to the water and just over a year later she won her first national title. Bethany’s story has been told in the New York Times bestselling autobiography, Soul Surfer, and in the 2011 film with the same title. She is also involved in numerous charitable efforts, including her own foundation, Friends of Bethany, which reaches out to encourage amputees and youth by offering hope to overcome through Christian faith.

Peter Guber

Peter Guber is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, and the owner of the Golden State Warriors and the L.A. Dodgers. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestselling book “Tell to Win” and a professor at UCLA. Guber has transformed each company he’s been a part of. His management is credited with overhauling the Warriors and had a significant part in their Championship wins in 2015 and 2017.

Les Brown

Les Brown is an internationally recognized speaker and one of the nation’s leading authorities in understanding and stimulating human potential. As a celebrity motivational speaker, author and television personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by delivering a high energy message, teaching audiences how to shake off mediocrity and live up to their greatness. It is a message Les Brown has learned from his own life and one he is helping others apply to their lives.

Earvin “Magic” Johnson

Known for his 13 year professional basketball career, which includes 12 NBA All-Star games, an Olympic gold medal win, Earvin “Magic” Johnson is also one of the most requested motivational speakers. After retiring from professional basketball, Magic turned his interest towards entrepreneurship and became a leading spokesperson for HIV education. He also established the Magic Johnson Development Corporation, which builds commercial property in long-neglected minority urban and suburban neighborhoods. As a celebrity motivational speaker, Johnson delivers a passionate message about his life story, what motivated him,  and how we can all make a difference in our community.

Jennifer Arnold

Jennifer Arnold is a pediatrician and neonatologist and the Medical Director at Texas Children’s Hospital. She is also that co-star of TLC’s Little Couple and a cancer survivor. She is an advocate for spreading cancer awareness, supporting those on the road to recovery, and engaging others with her motivational story of survival. A celebrity motivational speaker, Jennifer has spoken at events for the March of Dimes and at the Texas Conference for Women.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross, actress, performance artist, and celebrity motivational speaker, is the star of the new ABC comedy series Black-ish. She is also known for her role on the show Girlfriends which ran for eight seasons and as the daughter of famous singer Diana Ross. Ross is a dedicated and passionate motivational speaker. She teaches a workshop called Tapping Into Your Creative Well which encourages people to discover and utilize their inner joy to keep their lives on course. She is also a committed volunteer intent on making a difference in the lives of teenage girls. She works closely with Aviva Family and Children Services in Los Angeles and The Big Brother Big Sister Program, where she has held self-esteem workshops nationwide.

Jack Canfield

The originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and a prolific self-development author, Jack is recognized as America’s number one motivational speaker and a celebrity in the speaking industry. From Jack’s motivational keynote audiences will be inspired to participate more fully in life, show more compassion and caring in their professional relationships, dream bigger, replace blaming and complaining with responsibility, and how to persevere in the face of fear, obstacles, and setbacks. A keynote presentation from motivational speaker Jack Canfield is a once and a lifetime experience not to be missed.

 

Motivational Business Keynote Speakers

Motivational speakers are a great way to inspire and spark the flame in your team, but sometimes, all that built up inspiration and drive has no direction moving forward and then eventually dissipates. This is why motivational business keynote speakers are often the better choice for corporations.

An article defines motivational business keynote speakers as a speaker who motivates your team with their story of overcoming adversity to reach their dreams and achieve success while reinforcing their message by providing “actionable insights from their highly tuned business acumen.”  

Motivational Business keynote speakers have beat the odds and have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, though they also usually have a background in or prior experience with the business world, which makes their motivational story particularly applicable to a business-centric audience.

Here are some of the top motivational business keynote speakers:

Isaac Lidsky

Isaac Lidsky played “Weasel” on the 1990’s “Saved by the Bell” spin-off series, graduated from Harvard College at the age of 19, and later graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. He served as a supreme court clerk for Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, started a tech company that sold for $230 million and transformed a struggling $15 million concrete subcontractor into an industry-leading $150 million construction services company in five years. Perhaps most striking, Lidsky is only 37, and he is blind. He was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative disease of the retina, though neither his youth nor his blindness has limited him. Motivational business speaker, Isaac Lidsky has been recognized for his achievements dozens of times and his leadership is routinely sought after for keynotes and corporate consultations.

Robyn Benincasa

Robyn Benincasa is a World Champion Eco-Challenge Adventure Racer, a CNN Hero, and a full-time firefighter with a background in corporate marketing who advises organizations on how to build a world class team of their own. She and her teammates have competed at the front of the pack in the most unique and compelling locations on earth–the jungles of Borneo, the Himalayan peaks of Tibet, the rivers of Fiji, the rainforests of Ecuador and the desert of Namibia–studying the good, the bad, and the not-so-pretty in extreme teamwork. Through these challenges, she has mastered the skills required to inspire a group of semi-exhausted people through a seemingly endless series of checkpoints, in pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal. Motivational business speaker Robyn Benincasa offers a refreshing and truly unique perspective on what it takes to build the kind of world class team that succeeds against all odds.  

Bert and John Jacobs

Motivational speakers, and brothers, Bert and John Jacobs have an inspirational story of turning their dream into a socially conscious business. The duo launched their retail company, Life is Good, with $78 in their pockets, by selling T-shirts on the streets of Boston. Today, Life is Good is a $100 million positive lifestyle brand sold by over 2,000 retailers across the US and Canada. The founding of Life is Good is more than just an inspiring tale, it’s also a lesson in building a business in the 21st century. The brand has built itself on the tenants of co-creation with its customers and focusing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as ways of building a loyal community of customers. This makes Bert and John the perfect combination of motivational and business speakers.  

Colin O’Brady

In 2008 Colin suffered a tragic accident. He was severely burned in a fire, with burn injuries covering nearly 25% of his body and primarily damaging his legs and feet. Doctors told him he may never walk again, but Colin beat the odds, and then some! Last year Colin broke two world mountaineering records (three if you count Snapchatting from the summit of Mt. Everest!): conquering the speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and Seven Summits, which entail climbing the tallest mountain on every continent including Mt. Everest and skiing the last degree of latitude to the North and South Poles. Before attempting the Explorers Grand Slam Challenge Colin built social media buzz and gained sponsorship from Nike and Columbia, among others, through a series of well orchestrated social media marketing campaigns. As a motivational business speaker, Colin will motivate your team while also providing them with insights into social media marketing.  

Tan Le

Tan Le is an innovator, entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of the bioinformatics company EMOTIV. In her motivational keynote speech, “My Immigration Story,” Tan recounts her childhood experiences fleeing from war-torn Communist Vietnam with her mother, and sister at the age of 4, to their life in Australia as refugees. Despite immense financial and emotional hardships, Tan explains how her single mother was able to support her and her sister and provide them with a good education. Audiences will be motivated by the tenacity of this young entrepreneur and all that she has accomplished, and inspired by her courage and grace in any situation.