Renowned as an outlaw within the tech industry, Mike Pell is an unapologetic disrupter, having spent over three decades pushing the tech industry’s boundaries well past innovative design and technologies into the realm of true breakthroughs.

Today, many of those breakthroughs are imbedded in our everyday lives – Apple’s stylized Font menu (1984), pioneering 3D work on the original Metaverse (1995), and most significantly, inventing Adobe Acrobat’s PDF (1990) – which Pell hacked together in a matter of days, bridging what was considered at the time the great insurmountable tech divide between Apple and Microsoft.

As one of the industry’s most dynamic presenters, Pell delivers impactful and entertaining talks on today’s most important topics—such as the nature of True Innovation, the Metaverse, AI and Mixed Reality, and Notes from the Future of Business. Pell’s unique approach to the work of rapidly bringing new ideas to life gave rise to his “Fast Design” methodology—an easily taught set of innovation principles used by teams around the world.

Widely recognized as a world-class designer and prolific thought leader, Pell currently leads The Microsoft Garage in New York City, part of the company’s worldwide innovation program for moving ideas forward quickly to foster a culture of experimentation. An attractor for the city’s brightest minds and bravest explorers, this unique space designed by Pell, enables a new kind of envisioning and rapid prototyping to turn promising ideas into reality, every day.

Pell’s first book, Envisioning Holograms (2017) is considered a must-have for tomorrow’s most influential storytellers and explorers. His second book The Age of Smart Information (2019) details how the fundamental nature of communication is transforming with the combination of AI and Metaverse technologies. Mike’s third book, Visualizing Business (2022), shows our most complex and dynamic businesses in an entirely new light.

Blaine Raddon serves as The Channel Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Across his 30+ years of leadership experience in the IT channel, Blaine has held numerous executive positions: Vice President of NA Channels and Commercial Sales for Juniper; General Manager of North America for Acronis; Senior Vice President for Clear Center; Sr. Director of Channel Strategy and Partner Enablement for HPE; and 20 years at IBM, where he held several channel management roles, including Director of Distribution Sales. Blaine’s leadership experience also includes eight years of service in the United States Army.

Michael Veltri is a leadership expert, battle-hardened business executive, and Nationwide Bestselling author. Recognizing that success in business and life is created by the daily decisions we make, Veltri elevates teams, fuel-injects leadership, and improves business performance through better decision-making practices.

From ancient Japanese warriors to brain science, from business titans to academic research, Veltri tapped wide-ranging resources to develop a groundbreaking model for better decision making that leads to exponential leadership growth and peak performance with balance, not burnout. Simple, elegant, and effective, Veltri‘s approach has positively impacted some of the world’s most successful organizations, brands, and leaders.

Veltriis also a cancer survivor, decorated U.S. Marine veteran, and master-instructor in classical Japanese martial arts. He brings his business savvy, martial arts discipline, and Marine Corps leadership to every keynote speech inspiring, motivating, and educating audiences worldwide.

Jason Wright is widely regarded as a powerful voice in the IT industry representing how to best deliver business outcomes driven by technology. A noted thought leader, industry veteran and Entrepreneur in the ever evolving field of technology, Wright was a founding partner and Vice President of Sales with Techcess which was “early to market” pioneering the business model for Managed Service Providers (MSP) nationally. Techcess quickly became one of the fastest growing MSPs in the country with over 10,000 endpoints under management and generating over $1 million in monthly reoccurring revenue.

In early 2015, All Covered, the IT Services division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, and one of the nation’s leading IT Services companies, acquired Techcess Group of Houston. Wright was named Managing Director for the Texas region following the completion of the acquisition. Responsible for P&L, he also helped set and execute the go to market strategy and led sales and service delivery efforts for one of the nation’s largest Managed Services Providers. Wright was then tapped to lead business development efforts for the TOLA region for RSM US LLP – the nation’s leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services to the middle market. Most recently, Wright acquired Avatar Computer Solutions, an MSP with deep roots in Texas, with the goal of disrupting the industry by building the next generation managed service provider. In his new capacity, Wright will serve as President & CEO.

An Entrepreneur with direct sales and marketing, alliance, business and channel development experience, Wright is accomplished in critical start up, turn around and fast track growth opportunities with a diversified background in software and technology solutions for Fortune 500 companies throughout the US and abroad. Wright has held sales and leadership positions with other global integrators such as Wil-Tel, NetVersant and Nextira One. Wright is founder and President of Houston Hunters, a recognized network association of sales professionals and is an active board member with The Entrepreneurship Institute (TEI) and CRN Magazine.