Featured speakers
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of The United States
As a transformative First Lady, Mrs. Obama launched and led four key initiatives: Let’s Move!, to address the challenge of childhood obesity; Joining Forces, to support veterans, service members and their families; Reach Higher, to inspire young people to seek higher education; and Let Girls Learn, to help adolescent girls around the world go to school.
Before becoming First Lady, Michelle Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm, Sidley & Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She later worked in the Chicago mayor’s office, the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Mrs. Obama also founded the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an organization that prepares young people for careers in public service.
Mrs. Obama was born on January 17, 1964. She married Barack Obama in 1992. They currently live in Washington, DC and have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Satya Nadella
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
Satya oversees all aspects of Microsoft business and leadership - from cloud and mobile development to digital and IoT implementation. His strategic vision leads innovation through transforming company culture, empowering employees and helping customers digitally transform by optimizing business operations with data intelligence.
Beth Comstock
Vice Chair, GE
Beth Comstock leads GE’s efforts to accelerate new growth. She operates GE Business Innovations, which develops new businesses, markets and service models; drives brand value; and partners to enhance GE’s inventive culture. Since 2008, she served as GE’s chief marketing and commercial officer. From 2006, she was President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, overseeing ad revenue and the company’s digital efforts, including early development of hulu.com and Peacock Equity. In 2003 she was named the company’s first chief marketing officer in more than 20 years. Beth is a member Nike’s Board of Directors and Trustee president of the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
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Amy
Hood
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft
Amy leads Microsoft’s worldwide finance organization, including acquisitions, treasury activities, tax planning, accounting and reporting, and investor relations. She has been instrumental in leading the strategic transition to cloud services like Office 365 and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer.
Brad
Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft
Responsible for Microsoft’s corporate, external, and legal affairs, Brad leads a team of more than 1,300 professionals working in 55 countries. His team’s work in intellectual property, cybersecurity and piracy has established the legal foundations for cloud computing.
Chris
Capossela
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft
Chris leads Microsoft’s global product marketing, advertising, brand, research, and communications functions for businesses and consumers. His leadership helps position Microsoft as a mobile first, cloud first brand, telling the innovation stories of our people and products.
Harry
Shum
Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft
Harry Shum is Microsoft’s resident visionary, pioneering the company’s strategic efforts towards Artificial Intelligence and R&D. In addition to leading Microsoft Research, he oversees AI-focused product groups as well as the Ambient Computing and Robotics teams.
Judson
Althoff
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft
Judson leads Microsoft’s commercial business strategy, including enterprise, public sector, small and mid-market, services, developer and partner. His organization helps commercial customers and partners digitally transform and transition to the cloud to realize greater business value through technology.
Kathleen
Hogan
Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Microsoft
Kathleen empowers over 100,000 global employees to achieve Microsoft’s mission by creating a culture that attracts the world’s most passionate talent. Customer obsessed and motivated by how technology changes the world, Kathleen pushes the company’s diversity and inclusion initiative to ensure Microsoft remains a workplace leader.
Laura
Olin
Founder, author, and digital strategist
Laura Olin is a digital strategist who works with campaigns, companies, and causes making meaningful change. She ran the social media strategy for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and helped set the editorial voice for the campaign’s digital communications as the first member of its digital team.
Sir Ken
Robinson
Acclaimed Expert on Creativity and Innovation
Author, Finding your Element, The Element, Out of Our Minds
An internationally recognized authority in creativity and innovation in education and business, Sir Ken Robinson is also one of the world’s leading speakers. Videos of his TED Conference talks are the most viewed in the history of the organization, seen by an estimated 300 million people in over 150 countries.
Daily Agenda
Time | Description |
|---|---|
8:00 - 9:00am | Meet and network with business leaders over breakfast |
9:00 - 10:00am | Vision keynote with Satya Nadella |
10:30 - 11:00am | Keynote |
11:30am - 12:15pm | Fireside chats with top business and industry leaders |
12:15 - 1:30pm | Continue networking over lunch |
1:30 - 5:00pm | Fireside chats and a variety of topical industry discussions for business executives |
5:00 - 8:00pm | Networking and Happy Hour |
See how Microsoft enabled digital transformation for Rolls-Royce, Special Olympics, and Temenos.
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