Jam Forum Hosts are thought leaders with a natural connection to one of the forums.
Jam Forum Hosts will be dropping into the conversations in a particular forum throughout the 60 hours to make sure the discussions stay active and relevant, and to push exploration on key ideas.
Chats are a chance to have a more intimate discussion with a subject matter expert on a particular topic.
Chats happen at a scheduled time and have limited seats allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis. See a full list of chat times and topics below.
VIP guests are notable leaders in the subject matter who will be joining discussions on a schedule date and time.
See the full list of nearly 100 VIPs below and be sure to mark your calendars for the discussions you want to join.
Maryam Alavi
Dean, Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Chair, Professor of Information Technology Management, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
Xiongwen Lu
Dean of the Questrom School of Business, Fudan University
Ambi M.G. Parameswaran
Advisor, FCB Ulka Advertising
Ajit Rangnekar
Dean, Indian Business School
Jitendra V. Singh Ph. D
Dean, School of Business and Management, Michael Jebsen Professor of Business Chair Professor, Department of Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Neil S. Braun
Dean, Lubin School of Business, Pace University
Rick Chavez
General Manager, Advertising Online Services, Microsoft
Seung-Han Lee
Next and Partners Chairman, Former Samsung Corporation President and CEO, Former Homeplus CEO and Chairman
Youngsuk Chi
Chairman of Elsevier, and President of International Publishers Association
Kwei Tang
University Chair Professor and Dean of College of Commerce, National Chengchi University
Vineet Nayar
Founder, Sampark Foundation, Former CEO, HCL Technologies
David Garvin
C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration
Sherif H. Kamel
Former Dean, School of Business at the American University in Cairo
Francisco M. Veloso
Dean, Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Marshall Goldsmith
Executive Leadership Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Group
Jonas Haertle
Head, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) secretariat, UN Global Compact Office
Rebecca L. Ray
Executive Vice President, Knowledge Organization and Human Capital Practice Lead, The Conference Board
Michael Schrage
Research Fellow, MIT Sloan Schools Center for Digital Business
Karl T. Ulrich
Vice Dean of Innovation and CIBC Professor of Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Franklin
President & CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises, Former US Secretary of Commerce
Steve Denning
Former World Bank Chief, Author & Forbes Contributor
Michael J. Fenlon
US & Global Talent Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jonathan Spector
President & CEO, The Conference Board
Martha Josephson
Partner, Digital Media Global Practice Leader, Egon Zehnder
Adolf Ho
CEO, Classic Management Consultants Ltd, Associate Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Past CEO, Campbell Soup Greater China, Vice Chairman, Campbell Soup Shanghai Trading Ltd.
John North
Director of Global Operations, Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative
Della Bradshaw
Business Education Editor, Financial Times
Ashwini Kakkar
Vice Chairman, Mercury Travels, Chairman of Via.com, Ambit Corporation and the Fight Hunger Foundation
Lin Zhou
Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Thierry Grange
President of the Strategic Board, Grenoble Ecole De Management
Ulrich Hommel
Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance & Accounting, Endowed Chair of Corporate Finance & Higher Education Finance, Director of the Strategic Finance Institute, EBS Business School, Director of Research & Surveys, Senior Advisor in the Quality Services Department, EFMD
Assylbeck Kozhakhmetov
Rector of International Business Academy
Jeff Sellingo
Contributing Editor, “The Chronicle of Higher Education”
Richard Straub
President & CEO, Peter Drucker Society Europe, Senior Advisor IBM Global Education Industry, Director of Corporate Services & EU Affairs, EFMD
Pankaj Ghemawat
Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy, IESE Business School, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Management, Stern School of Business, New York University
Lynda Gratton
Professor of Management practice, London Business School, Founder of The Hot Spots Movement
Roger Martin
Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director, Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman Questrom School of Business
Claire Preisser
Senior Program Manager, Business and Society, The Aspen Institute
David Weil
Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor, Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management, Boston University Questrom School of Business (On Leave)
Anant Agarwal
CEO, edX, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Rebecca Taylor
Dean and Professor of Economics, The Open University Business School
Andrea Backman
Senior Vice President & Dean, Jack Welch Management Institute
Rich Lyons
Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California – Berkeley
Mike Wright
Chief Information Officer, McKinsey & Company
Bob Brown
President, Boston University
Marie Wilson
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business and Law), University of South Australia Business School
Bob Brown
President, Boston University
Fernando J. Fragueiro
President, Austral University
Marie Wilson
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business and Law), University of South Australia Business School
Deb Dugan
CEO, RED
Donald Graham
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Graham Holdings
Sean Belka
Senior Vice President and Director of the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, Fidelity Investments
Arthur Brooks Ph. D
President, American Enterprise Institute
Jamie Merisotis
President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Matthew Robb
Partner at Parthenon
Doug Becker
Chairman & CEO, Laureate Education, Inc.
Todd Fisher
Member & Chief Administrative Officer, KKR
Ananth Rao Ph. D
Chief Academic Officer, Professor, University of Dubai
John B. Reid-Dodick
Chief People Officer, Dun & Bradstreet Corp.
Mary Gentile
Director, Giving Voice to Values, Senior Research Scholar, Babson College, Senior Advisor, Aspen Institute
Scott Simon
Former Managing Director of PIMCO
Tamara Erickson
Founder & CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates
Geoge Pappas
Chancellor of Victoria University
Vijay Govindarajan
Coxe Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business
Jacob Chacko
Dean of the College of Business Administration at Abu Dhabi University
David Schmittlein
John C. Head III Dean and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Business
L. Kevin Cox
Chief Human Resources Officer, American Express Company
Ken Freeman
Dean, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Clayton Christensen
Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Paul J. LeBlanc Ph.D
President, University of Southern New Hampshire
Ramon O’Callaghan
Dean, Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University CAMAN – Central Asian Foundation for Management Development
Max Reinhardt
Worldwide President at DePuy Synthes Spine Companies, Johnson & Johnson
John Byrne
President, Editor in Chief Poets & Quants
Mel Horwitch
Dean and University Professor, Central European University Business School
Michael Salinger
Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professorship in Management, Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Former Director of Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
Johan Roos
Dean, CEO and Managing Director, Jönköping International Business School (JIBS)
Giselle Weybrecht
Author, “The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business”
Jeanette Horan
Managing Director, IBM Corp.
Ben M. Bensaou
Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management, INSEAD
Daniel Greenstein
Director – Postsecondary Success Strategy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
John Byrne
President, Editor in Chief Poets & Quants
Pam Norley
Executive Vice President of Fidelity’s Enterprise Relationships and Talent Groups, Fidelity Investments
Sue Siegel
CEO, GE Ventures, healthymagination, & Idea Works
James Ciriello
Associate Vice President, IT Planning & Innovation at Merck & Co.
Guy Pfeffermann
Founder & CEO Global Business School Network
Padmasree Warrior
Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, CISCO