Jim Carroll is a futurist, trends and innovation expert that shares strategies to combat high-velocity change impacting organizations across every industry. His insight helps to transform growth-oriented companies into innovation leaders. Carroll’s insight has been covered in countless global publications, including the UK Telegraph, Dubai’s Capital Magazine, South Africa’s The Star, the BBC, Reuters and AP News, among others. In addition to being named one of BusinessWeek ’s four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity, he was also a featured expert on the primetime CNBC series, The Business of Innovation. Carroll also authored numerous books including Now What?, Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast, Surviving the Information Age, The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast, Ready, Set, Done: and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas.

Greg Buzek is the founder, president and chief AI officer of IHL Group, a Franklin, Tenn.-based global research and advisory firm specializing in technologies for the retail and hospitality industries. Buzek’s 30-year career in focused on retail market analysis, business planning, product development and consulting Fortune 500 companies. He is frequently quoted in BusinessWeek, CIO Information Network, Information Week, Supermarket News, Chain Store Age, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post, and has shared his retail technology insight on NBC Nightly News, CBS News and CNBC. Buzek is also one of the founders of the Retail Orphan Initiative (www.retailROI.org), a charitable foundation that seeks to help the 400 million orphaned and vulnerable children around the world. In 16 years, RetailROI has been involved in over 300 projects in 29 countries, helping an estimated 325,000 children through clean water, education, computers, language training and care.