Michael Conrad, founder of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership and former vice chairman and chief creative officer of Leo Burnett on cross functionality leadership, idiosyncratic shifts and one-word strategies that inspire change. Learn the importance of creativity, of brave thinking and of challenging the status quo.

Mark Achler is a venture capitalist investor, a CEO, a serial entrepreneur and a faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also is the co-author of Exit Right which discusses how companies and startups can plan their best exit. Mark believes that the human is the key to a successful company; learn how kindness and trust can create an environment that allows people to innovate, and how to enable and empower a community of employees and customers to advocate for your brand.

Further readings: Exit Right by Mark Achler and Mert Iseri https://www.exitrightbook.com

Mark Achler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markachler/

Sarah Fay is a partner at Glasswing Ventures a first-capital-in venture capital firm investing in the next generation of intelligent enterprise and frontier technology startups. She is a pioneer and leader in marketing being the former North American CEO of Isobar and Aegis Media. Learn how AI will help us all as individuals, completely change the way marketing is created, distributed and measured and the keys to being a successful investor including pattern recognition.

Further reading links:
Glasswing Venture: https://glasswing.vc/
Sarah Fay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfayboston/

Yoav Shoham, Emeritus Professor at Stanford, artificial intelligence pioneer and co-founder of AI21Labs, AI Index, and WeCode.org.il, explains how machine and deep learning, pattern recognition and statistics will change our work. He predicts that in only a few years, most consumer interaction with brands will be via computational chatbots, software will be our copy writing and reading partner, and how much more sophisticated audience segmentation will deliver hyper-personalisation.

Further reading links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Shoham
https://www.ai21.com/
http://www.aiindex.org
https://www.wecode.org.il

Fabrice Braunrot was Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan Chase and is now the Co-Founder of Harvest Ridge Capital. Fabrice discusses two of his obsessions; how to eat well and how to build great client relationships. Learn about “green washing” and why we need many more nuclear reactors! If you want to build trusting relationships, do not read from a script, but instead, solve their problems and also consider the art of the French Impressionists!

Moran Cerf, former hacker and now neuroscientist and business professor at the Kellogg School of Management, predicts why every company will need a neuroscientist on the board, the ethical challenges presented by the marketing opportunities of artificial intelligence machines reading and writing our dreams, and why, as more people choose to have a neural implant, a new class in society will emerge.

Further reading links:
Website: morancerf.com
Twitter: twtrdtcm

Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill, co-founders and co-CEO’s of Newsguard show how programmatic advertising has been funding billions of dollars worth of misinformation and what can be done about it.

Further reading links:

To learn more about NewsGuard and its work to help ad agencies and clients with brand safety against misinformation, visit NewsGuard’s website:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/solutions/brandguard/ Learn more about how $2.6 billion every year is unintentionally spent in programmatic advertising by brands to support misinformation sites, promoting everything from healthcare hoaxes to Russian disinformation about Ukraine:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/brands-send-billions-to-misinformation-websites-newsguard-comscore-report This explains why MediaPost named NewsGuard the advertising Supplier of the Year:
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/370068/2021-media-supplier-of-the-year-newsguard.html This is NewsGuard’s annual Social Impact Report:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/social-impact-report-2021

For more information including about how Publicis makes NewsGuard protections available for its clients, please contact Sarah Brandt, Head of Partnerships for NewsGuard, at [email protected]. Follow NewsGuard on Twitter: @NewsGuardRating

GC Cooke, an entrepreneur and FTSE 100 NED, discusses Web 3: The End of Business As Usual, discusses his groundbreaking new book that aims to educate readers about the potential of web3 for businesses and society. The book is the first on the subject written from the perspective of an established business leader.

Using established strategic frameworks and a broad historical overview of the internet’s development, Web3 – The End of Business-As-Usual tells why web3 will usher in a supply-side revolution that will change the way in which the world makes things and how people work together.

Further reading links:
www.web3thebook.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamccooke/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/web3-the-end-of-business-as-usual/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Web3-End-Business-As-Usual-GC-Cooke/dp/1915036860/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y2QDE3MGU75Y&keywords=web3+the+end+of+business+as+usual&qid=1668077343&sprefix=%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1

How do agencies and marketers prepare for a fast-approaching world where algorithms make buying decisions instead of humans and what’s produced is determined concurrent with actual demand? Robert C. Wolcott, early-stage investor, Chair of The World Innovation Network (TWIN Global), Adjunct Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business, and co-founder of growth strategy firm Clareo, predicts a new age of ‘Proximity’ where digital technologies push the production and provision of products and services ever closer to actual demand—ushering in a new era of sustainability.

Further reading links:
https://www.responsible.ai/
https://www.twinglobal.org/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwolcott/?sh=1eaa31d94088
https://clareo.com/

Author, Consultant & Former Senior Vice President of P&G Beauty, Gill Whitty-Collins, discusses the invisible forces that hold women back & lead to over 90% of the world’s senior leadership roles being held by men.

Her experience & insights inspired the publication of her book, “Why Men Win At Work - And how we can make inequality history.”

Links:
Website
https://gillwhittycollins.com
Newsletter sign up: https://gillwhittycollins.com/join
LinkedIn
http://linkedin.com/in/gillwhittycollins
Instagram @gillwhittycollins
Twitter @gwhittycollins

Book link
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Men-Win-Work-Inequality-dp-1910022497/dp/1910022497/ref=dp_ob_title_bk