Big Data & Analytics Speakers

Fee: $50,000
Travels From: WA

Chris Barton wanted a way to identify songs he was hearing everywhere around him. There wasn’t one – so he invented an app called Shazam. Chris’s creation is nothing short of pure magic. That was his goal. Chris seeks to delight people by using technology to make seemingly impossible ideas come to life. Shazam, which now has over two billion downloads, is just one of them. In addition to creating Shazam, which Apple acquired for $400 million, Chris holds 12 patents and played key roles in the early days of Google and Dropbox. Despite having dyslexia, incredibly, he didn’t let that get in his way. In fact, it gave him a different way of looking at problems. Chris’s newest venture, Guard, aims to use AI to detect drowning in swimming pools. In his speeches, Chris’s story and storytelling completely captivate audiences. He inspires people to make big things happen in their organizations – to create magic in defiance of the obstacles.

Fee Range: $25,500–$43,000
Travels From: CA

Jeffrey Ma was a member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1994. He was the basis for the main character of the book Bringing Down the House and the film 21.

Fee Range: $15,000–$30,000
Travels From: CA

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing business for the 21st century. He advises leaders on how to thrive in this era of disruptive technological change. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike focuses on the next five years – scanning the near horizon for disruptive technologies and consumer innovations on the verge of hitting critical mass – then translating these into usable business strategies. As a global nomad, speaker and consumer trend scout, Walsh brings a truly global perspective to every event.

Fee Range: $30,000–$40,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $15,000–$30,000
Travels From: WY

Jack Andraka (Stanford B.S/B.A in Electrical Engineering with Honors and Anthropology with Honors) is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer who speaks to audiences of youths and adults all across the globe about his personal story, research, and his ideas for STEM education reform and fostering innovation and creativity. His journey began at age fifteen when, after losing a close family friend to pancreatic cancer, he invented an inexpensive early detection method for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer that costs 3 cents and takes 5 minutes to run. Now completing his MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, Andraka conducts research on nanorobots, inexpensive biosensors, disease diagnostics, and global health interventions while serving as faculty at the Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute. Outside of research, Jack has worked on combining anthropology, engineering, and big data to address pressing global health challenges, particularly in the monitoring of environmental contaminants and disease outbreaks.

Fee Range: $7,000–$19,000
Travels From: CA

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

Fee Range: $20,000–$25,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $16,000–$35,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee: $8,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $25,000–$35,000
Travels From: CA

A renown global futurist, social scientist, author and global advisor to the Fortune 100, James Canton has been forecasting the leading innovations and trends that have shaped our world for 25 years. Canton speaks on a broad range of topics such as trends in innovation, financial services, health care, population, life sciences, energy, security, workforce, climate change and globalization. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a San Francisco based Think Tank. He has advised three White Houses, over ten nations, and over 100 companies worldwide. He was on the founding advisory board of Singularity University, was a Apple Computer executive and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox and NBC. He is the author of Future Smart, Technofutures and The Extreme Future

Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
Travels From: CA

• Named a “Top Woman in Cybersecurity” by Cyberscoop news and voted DEF CON Hacker of the Year in 2020 • Has spent more than two decades in IT and cybersecurity fields • Protects clients against digital theft, hackers, and infections every day and regularly shares her insights with audiences around the world

Fee Range: $7,000–$15,000
Travels From: Intl

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information technology, clinical transformation, and business intelligence. Dr. Chaiken is the author of the recently released Navigating the Code: How Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey, a groundbreaking book on healthcare information technology and its potential impact on quality, access, and cost of care. He currently serves as President of DocsNetwork Ltd. and previously worked with the National Institutes of Health, UK National Health Service, McKesson, Infor, and Salesforce/Tableau. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement, and managed care.

Fee Range: $10,000–$22,000
Travels From: MA

Fee Range: $25,000–$75,000
Travels From: CA

An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Chin is a renowned cancer genomic scientist and a leader in the application of analytical technologies, AI/ML, and big data in medicine. Her groundbreaking work synthesizing terabyte-scale datasets in genomics and oncology research has opened new frontiers in digital medicine. Dr. Chin founded Apricity Health, a next-generation precision medicine company to harness patient data and clinical expertise to develop better drugs and deliver better care for cancer patients.

Fee Range: $8,000–$15,000
Travels From: TX

Timothy Chou has had a career spanning academia, successful startups and large corporations. He was one of only six people to ever hold the President title at Oracle. As President of Oracle On Demand, he grew the cloud business from it's very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud and Teradata. Recently he became the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator focusing on industrial IoT and has invested in a select group of young companies all focused in cloud computing, blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He taught introductory computer architecture for fifteen years at Stanford University and then launched Stanford's first course on cloud computing.

Fee Range: $25,000–$40,000
Travels From: CA

An internationally renowned expert on the psychology of consumers, Pamela Danziger plugs marketers and retailers into the collective mindset of the consumer. Danziger specializes in the ever-changing high-end marketplace, calling on her expert knowledge of consumer psychology, behavior, and the economy, as well as her in-depth research into the trends and patterns of the American shopper. Danziger is the author of three ground-breaking books on the consumer-mindset. Her first book, Why People Buy Things They Don't Need, was called "a roadmap" for investors in the retail market by USA Today. A highly-sought after keynote speaker, Danziger has recently addressed large conference audiences, speaking in support of ideation, innovation, corporate sales and advertisers’ meetings. Pam brings a passion for data, coupled with a need to understand what drives and motivates consumers to her audiences.

Fee Range: $5,000–$10,000
Travels From: PA

Sameer Dhanrajani is a distinguished and widely recognized analytics and AI business leader and visionary known for his deep knowledge, innovation & topical approaches in the analytics and AI space. Sameer is Chief Strategy Officer at Fractal Analytics. He is responsible for curating strategic roadmaps, driving strategic investment; inorganic growth thru M&A, partnerhips and alliances, open innovation; lead high-priority growth initiatives and help Fractal clients on AI-led transformation of their businesses. In his previous assignment, Sameer was Global Business Leader for Cognizant analytics and data sciences at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He pioneered the Customer, Risk & Operations Analytics framework (CRO) at cognizant analytics and data sciences to help clients realize transformative value from data detonation encircling enterprises and enable accelerated business impact through accentuated customer experience, robust risk management strategies and optimized business operations.

Fee Range: $10,000–$12,000
Travels From: Intl

An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick Espinosa has consulted with clients ranging from small businesses up to the Fortune 100 level for decades. Nick founded Windy City Networks, Inc in 1998 at age 19 and was acquired in 2013. In 2015 Security Fanatics, a Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare outfit dedicated to designing custom Cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations, was launched. A internationally recognized speaker, member of the Forbes Technology Council, TEDx Speaker, strategic advisor to humanID, regular columnist for Forbes, award winning co-author of a bestselling book “Easy Prey,” host of “The Deep Dive,” nationally syndicated radio show, on the Board of Advisors for Roosevelt University’s College of Arts and Sciences as well as their Center for Cyber and Information Security, the President of The Foundation for a Human Internet and is the Official Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition. Nick is known as an industry thought leader and sought after for his advice on the future of technology and how it will impact every day businesses and consumers.

Fee Range: $5,000–$14,000
Travels From: IL

Drilling a hole into a grain of sand, creating a pipe organ out of soda pop bottles and coordinating people around the world to signal to a spacecraft flying past Earth on its way to Jupiter, is all in a day’s work. Despite low grades and little direction early in life, Dan Goods found his passion and created a dream position at one of the most prestigious science and engineering institutions in the world—NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Between his work at JPL and his own large-scale art projects around the world, Dan creates experiences that are beautiful, meaningful and profound. He recently received an International Design Excellence Award and was named “One of the Most Interesting People in Los Angeles” by LA Weekly. A gifted speaker, he uses humor and an unpretentious and approachable style to share his unusual journey, giving insight into multidisciplinary collaborations, creativity, passion and what it means to be human.

Fee Range: $11,000–$17,000
Travels From: CA

Peter Hinssen is a serial entrepreneur, advisor and keynote speaker on the topics of radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. His focus is on the consumer adoption of technology, the impact of the networked digital society, and the alignment between business and IT.

Fee Range: $18,000–$44,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $15,000–$33,000
Travels From: NY

Ari Kaplan is a leading figure in sports analytics and technology. During 34 seasons innovating analytics within MLB front offices, he created the Chicago Cubs and Dodgers analytics departments and served as assistant to the GM of the Orioles, and was a "Top Ten GM Candidate" by Sports Illustrated. He currently is DataRobot's Global AI Evangelist, working with McLaren's Formula 1 and IndyCar teams on AI-driven race strategy and engineering, along with many MLB, NBA, NHL, and Premier League football clubs. In business he was President of the worldwide Oracle users group during a period of high growth including the acquisition of MySQL, Java, and PeopleSoft. He has been the recipient of Caltech's "Alumnus of the Decade" and Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40" awards.

Fee Range: $15,000–$20,000
Travels From: IL