Innovation Keynote Speakers
Innovation speakers who invented the product, scaled the company, and rewired how organizations create what comes next.
Rave's Innovation roster is not a lineup of pundits, it is a bench of operators who built the thing. Chris Barton created Shazam. Jamie Siminoff invented Ring. Peter Diamandis founded XPRIZE and Singularity University, and Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn before betting early on AI. These are the founders, inventors, and category makers who turned a wild idea into a product people use every day, then codified how they did it. Some speak to the frontier of AI and healthcare, some to habit and creativity, some to the gritty mechanics of shipping a first version. Whatever the theme, they translate hard-won experience into moves a room can run on Monday. A meeting planner's job is matching the right builder to the right room, and this page is organized to make that match fast, honest, and specific to what your audience needs to hear.
AI & Emerging Technology
The frontier of artificial intelligence and exponential tech, with Reid Hoffman, Zack Kass, and Peter Diamandis mapping what comes next.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, Greylock partner, and NYT bestselling author. The sharpest single voice on what every CEO and board has to decide in the next decade as AI reshapes hiring, productivity, and what a company actually is. A definitive Innovation keynote.
Zack Kass
Former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, where he helped commercialize the models that redefined the category. Kass gives audiences an insider read on where artificial intelligence is heading and how to ride the curve rather than get flattened by it, an unmatched fit for the Innovation stage.
Peter Diamandis
Founder of XPRIZE and co-founder of Singularity University, plus NYT bestselling author of Abundance and Bold. Diamandis has spent decades turning moonshot thinking into working ventures, making him the go-to Innovation voice on exponential technology and thinking bigger than the room thought possible.
Jerry Kaplan
Serial inventor, Stanford scientist, and author of Humans Need Not Apply and Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know. Kaplan has built AI companies and shaped the public understanding of the field, making him a rare fit for rooms that want depth on where the technology truly stands.
Nell Watson
Futurist and AI ethics authority, a founding force in machine intelligence standards and responsible-AI research. Watson maps where emerging tech is actually heading, then hands rooms the ethical guardrails to innovate without stepping on a landmine they cannot see coming.
Erik Qualman
Bestselling author of Socialnomics and a top-ranked digital leadership researcher whose keynotes have reached millions. Qualman translates AI, focus, and digital disruption into habits leaders can act on Monday, making him a fit for rooms that want innovation grounded in behavior, not buzzwords.
Dr. Geeta Nayyar
Former Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce and a preeminent voice on AI in healthcare. Dr. Nayyar shows how artificial intelligence is reshaping medicine, trust, and outcomes, a fit for any Innovation room grappling with how emerging tech lands in high-stakes, human-centered industries.
Daniel Kraft, M.D.
Physician, scientist, and founder of Digital Medicine at Singularity University. Dr. Kraft charts how AI, robotics, and exponential technologies are remaking health and medicine, giving Innovation audiences a vivid, evidence-based look at the future arriving faster than their roadmaps assume.
Crystal Washington
Futurist and technology strategist who built a career teaching leaders to future-proof their organizations against accelerating change. Washington cuts through the tech hype and shows audiences the practical moves that keep teams innovative and relevant as the ground keeps shifting under them.
Inventors & Product Founders
Builders who shipped iconic products and brands, including Chris Barton of Shazam, Jamie Siminoff of Ring, and Christina Tosi of Milk Bar.
Chris Barton
Founder and creator of Shazam, the app that identified a billion songs before Apple acquired it. Barton also built technology at Dropbox and Google, giving Innovation audiences a rare, firsthand account of turning a seemingly impossible idea into a category-defining product.
Jamie Siminoff
Inventor and founder of Ring, the video doorbell he built in his garage, pitched on Shark Tank, and sold to Amazon for a reported billion dollars. Siminoff gives Innovation audiences a firsthand story of invention, persistence, and turning a rejected pitch into a category leader.
Christina Tosi
Founder and CEO of Milk Bar, two-time James Beard Award winner, NYT bestselling author, and Netflix host. Tosi turned a small bakery into a national brand, giving Innovation audiences a creative founder's view on building something iconic from a single, unconventional idea.
Mike Cessario
CEO and founder of Liquid Death, the canned-water brand he grew into a billion-dollar company through wildly unconventional marketing. Cessario shows Innovation audiences how creative disruption and brand storytelling can turn even the most ordinary product into a cultural phenomenon.
Jennifer Fleiss
Co-founder of Rent the Runway, the company that turned designer fashion into a subscription and reshaped how people shop. Fleiss, now an entrepreneur and investor, gives Innovation audiences a founder's playbook for spotting an overlooked market and building a new category around it.
Johnny Cupcakes
Top retail innovator and entrepreneur who built Johnny Cupcakes into a cult brand by selling T-shirts from a bakery-themed store, never a single cupcake. Johnny Cupcakes' story hands Innovation audiences a masterclass in branding, creativity, and turning an unconventional idea into a devoted following.
Josh Linkner
New York Times bestselling author, five-time tech entrepreneur, and venture capitalist who built and sold companies worth billions. Linkner teaches audiences to become creative troublemakers, giving Innovation rooms a battle-tested playbook for sparking the everyday inventiveness that fuels real growth.
John Rossman
Early Amazon executive and author of The Amazon Way and Big Bet Leadership. Rossman helped launch the Amazon Marketplace, and he now teaches organizations how the world's most inventive company operates, a definitive fit for Innovation rooms that want to place and win transformative bets.
Future of Work & Teams
Rewiring how organizations work, lead, and collaborate, with Heather McGowan, Erica Dhawan, Liz Wiseman, and Ben Casnocha.
Erica Dhawan
World's leading expert on 21st-century teamwork and author of Digital Body Language. Dhawan shows how the best teams collaborate and innovate across distance and difference, a fit for Innovation rooms where breakthroughs now depend on connection across hybrid, digital, and cross-functional lines.
Heather McGowan
Workforce and organizational transformation thought leader whose frameworks guide how companies rethink talent for the future. McGowan shows Innovation audiences how to shift from fixed roles to continuous learning, preparing organizations for a future of work that AI and automation are actively reshaping.
Liz Wiseman
Executive strategist and bestselling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. Wiseman, a former Oracle executive, shows how leaders unlock the full intelligence of their teams, a fit for Innovation rooms that know new ideas come from making everyone in the room smarter.
Ben Casnocha
Future of Work expert and co-author, with Reid Hoffman, of the bestseller The Start-Up of You. Casnocha shows how the entrepreneurial mindset that built Silicon Valley applies to every career and company, a strong fit for Innovation rooms rethinking talent, adaptability, and how work gets built.
David Burkus
Organizational psychologist, Columbia University professor, world-ranked business thinker, and bestselling author of Best Team Ever. Burkus turns rigorous research into practical ways to build more innovative teams, a strong fit for Innovation rooms that want evidence-based moves, not motivational slogans.
Eric Termuende
Future of Work expert focused on building tomorrow's greatest places to work. Termuende helps leaders rethink culture, teams, and talent for a rapidly changing workforce, giving Innovation audiences practical ways to design organizations that attract and keep the people who drive new ideas.
Robert Safian
Former editor-in-chief of Fast Company and a leading voice on leadership, innovation, and navigating change. Safian spent years chronicling the world's most inventive companies, giving Innovation audiences an insider's read on how the best leaders stay adaptable when the rules keep rewriting themselves.
Debra Jasper
CEO of Mindset Digital and a communications expert who trains leaders to thrive in a digital-first world. Jasper shows audiences how to sharpen focus, communication, and digital fluency, a practical fit for Innovation rooms adapting how their people work and connect as technology keeps accelerating.
Creativity, Habits & Reinvention
The mindset and craft of creating, with James Clear on Atomic Habits, Jonah Berger on ideas that spread, and Jon Dorenbos on reinvention.
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits, the number-one New York Times bestseller with millions of copies sold. Clear shows how small, compounding changes drive reinvention at the individual and organizational level, giving Innovation audiences a proven system for building the habits that make new ideas actually stick.
Jonah Berger
Wharton marketing professor and bestselling author of Contagious and The Catalyst. Berger brings hard research to why ideas spread and how to change minds, giving Innovation audiences a proven, data-backed framework for making new products and ideas actually take hold.
Amy Jo Martin
One of the world's leading human transformation experts and a pioneer who built the social-media playbook for major brands and athletes. Martin teaches audiences to challenge convention and reinvent how they connect, making her a strong fit for rooms chasing creative, category-breaking growth.
Jon Dorenbos
Pro football long snapper turned professional magician, America's Got Talent finalist, and author of Life Is Magic. Dorenbos is a living case study in reinvention, and Jon Dorenbos' story hands audiences the creative resilience to see fresh possibility exactly where others see a dead end.
Alison McCauley
Author and strategist focused on how the acceleration of AI is changing our world. McCauley helps organizations sense emerging shifts early and reinvent before disruption forces their hand, a fit for Innovation rooms that want a clear-eyed guide to adapting at the pace technology now demands.
Innovation for Human Good
Turning invention toward impact, featuring Mick Ebeling of Not Impossible Labs and Kenton Lee, creator of The Shoe That Grows.
Mick Ebeling
Founder of Not Impossible Labs. Turns invention toward human problems others call impossible, from a 3D-printed prosthetic arm to devices that let the paralyzed communicate. A two-time SXSW Innovator of the Year for rooms that want innovation with a soul, not just a roadmap.
Kenton Lee
Global humanitarian and creator of The Shoe That Grows, a simple invention that expands to fit growing children in impoverished communities. Lee proves innovation does not need a lab or a big budget, a fit for rooms that want invention aimed squarely at real human problems.
Nick Webb
Innovator and author focused on the future of healthcare, technology, and customer experience. Webb helps organizations anticipate disruption and design what customers will want next, a fit for Innovation rooms that want a forward look at where technology and human expectations are heading together.
John Sileo
President and CEO of The Sileo Group, a Colorado technology think tank, and a cybersecurity and privacy expert who learned the stakes firsthand. Sileo helps audiences innovate and adopt new technology without exposing themselves, a fit for Innovation rooms weighing bold moves against real digital risk.
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The roster ranges across the whole arc of innovation. On the AI and emerging-tech front you get Zack Kass, Reid Hoffman, Jerry Kaplan, and Nell Watson. For inventors and founders who shipped iconic products, there is Chris Barton, Jamie Siminoff, Christina Tosi, and Mike Cessario. On future of work and workforce transformation, Heather McGowan, Erica Dhawan, and Ben Casnocha. For creativity, habits, and personal reinvention, James Clear, Jonah Berger, and Jon Dorenbos. And for innovation aimed at human good, Mick Ebeling and Kenton Lee.
These speakers fit a board offsite, an all-hands, a sales kickoff, or a closing keynote, and they scale from intimate leadership sessions to main-stage audiences of thousands. Every speaker on this page books through Rave Speakers, and our team helps you match the theme, the format, and the budget to your event.
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