Corporations & Associations

APB speakers Ken Jennings, the all-time Jeopardy! champion, and Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess players of all time, both have faced head-to-head against artificial intelligence machines. Featured in Forbes, the two challenges are considered to be some of the greatest the world has seen. 

Best known for his groundbreaking research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), APB speaker Alex “Sandy” Pentland and his artificial intelligence (AI) company, Cogito, is featured in TIME.  

Are you more likely to succeed from deliberate practice or by gaining experience in varied areas? Two APB speakers—best-selling author of Range, David Epstein, and Senior Editor-at-Large of Fortune, Geoff Colvin—each argue that one of these paths is the best way to find success.

July 20th, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first moon Landing. On this day, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first humans to ever land on the moon. This monumental event not only pioneered space travel and exploration, but united Americans in the achievement of a near impossible dream.

From Coco Gauff’s triumph on the courts to electrified fans chanting, “Equal Pay!” as TEAM USA took home the gold at the Women’s World Cup, the eyes of the world were on women. Minutes after the USWNT won its second consecutive championship, NIKE aired an ad called “Never Stop Winning” that captured the mood. “I believe,” the narrator said, “a whole generation of girls and boys will go out and play and say things like, ‘I want to be like Megan Rapinoe when I grow up.’” Rapinoe and her teammates Alex Morgan, Rose Lavelle, Tobin Heath and others have fought hard for equal pay and investment in women’s soccer. As tennis legend Billie Jean King tweeted, “These athletes have brought more attention, support, & pride to women’s sport…It is long past time to pay them what they rightly deserve.”

New York Times columnist and CBS correspondent David Pogue was featured on this week’s episode of CBS Sunday Morning where he discussed his article “Seeing Red: Mankind Gets Closer to Mars.” A leading speaker on the impacts of innovation on business and science, Pogue is known for his informative, entertaining and insightful keynotes on trending technologies and how they disrupt life as we know it.

CEO of The MPI Group and former editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek, APB speaker John Brandt will release Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You – and How to Fix It on July 16. In Nincompoopery, Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Using research from thousands of companies, Brandt creates a blueprint for success by sharing how leaders can kill “corporate stupidity,” which is what prevents organizations from getting the value that it and its customers deserve. Says Brandt: “Ill-planned, outdated or ludicrous organizational structures can turn even the most eager employee into a nincompoop—or at least force him or her to seem like one.”

After fifteen years, the Mars exploration mission spearheaded by APB speaker Steven Squyres ended after a planet-wide dust storm destroyed the last remaining rover “Opportunity.” 

John King, CNN’s chief national correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics, comments on Bernie Sander’s 2020 Presidential bid saying, “Don’t underestimate him.” On a segment of Inside Politics, King analyzes polling numbers for the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nominee.

Co-founder of Netflix, entrepreneur and business speaker Marc Randolph is set to release a book this September titled This Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea. A memoir following Randolph’s journey with the streaming service empire, This Will Never Work shares the origins of Netflix, triumphs and failures along the way, and the valuable business—and life—lessons learned.