Internationally recognized expert on Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation, Gabor George Burt is the chief architect and original host of the Blue Ocean Executive Experience series. A lecturer and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Gabor speaks on innovation and strategies that lead to uncontested market space.

Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over 20 years and is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived. Today this master of strategy applies the insights and unique perspective from his extraordinary chess career to the issues of leadership, logical thinking, strategic thinking, and success on the speakers' circuit and to Russian politics.

Founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm and visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School, Gary Hamel is the originator of the concept of core competencies. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research foundation.

Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.

In his highly anticipated new book, Earning Serendipity, Glenn invokes the wisdom of his Cuban father and combines it with two decades of experience as an American corporate executive and entrepreneur. The result is an irresistible methodology for create and sustaining a momentum of good fortune, in the workplace and beyond.

As an entrepreneur, author, speaker and advisor on business issues, change, leadership and ethics, Howard Putnam's ultimate objective is "bottom line improvement." Howard has also served as director of several startup technology companies. As former CEO of the highly successful Southwest Airlines whose foundation and culture places people first, Putnam believes cultures that place "people" as their #1 priority have the greatest long-term impact and success.

Expert on future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management and leadership, Jack Uldrich is a leading expert on helping businesses to adapt. He has served as an advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and is noted for his ability to deliver provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker, and best-selling author.