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Disruptive Innovation

Disruption often begins where established companies are not looking: with a simpler solution for an overlooked market. Stellant’s disruptive innovation speakers unpack that pattern, the innovator’s dilemma and the business model shifts that allow new entrants to move upmarket. A disruptive innovation keynote speaker can help leaders identify vulnerabilities, question legacy assumptions and explore new paths to growth. Their perspective is especially valuable for executive audiences deciding whether to defend against disruption, create it or redesign the organization to do both.

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Azeem Azhar
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Azeem Azhar

Founder, Exponential View

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Hal Gregersen
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Hal Gregersen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Andrew McAfee
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Andrew McAfee

Principal research scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Erik Brynjolfsson
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Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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Speakers

Disruptive Innovation Speakers

Azeem Azhar

Azeem Azhar

Founder, Exponential ViewBestselling author, The Exponential AgeExecutive fellow, Harvard Business School

Hal Gregersen

Hal Gregersen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementAuthor, Questions Are the Answer and The Innovator's DNAThinkers50 top 50 management thinker since 2015

Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee

Principal research scientist, MIT Sloan School of ManagementCo-author, The Second Machine Age, and author, The Geek WaySix-time Thinkers50 honoree

Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy LabNYT bestselling co-author, The Second Machine AgeFive-time Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker

Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly

Co-founder and Senior Maverick, WIREDNew York Times bestselling author, The InevitableEditor and publisher, Cool Tools

Scott D. Anthony

Scott D. Anthony

Clinical Professor, Tuck School of Business at DartmouthAuthor, Epic Disruptions and Dual TransformationNo. 5, Thinkers50 Ranking of Management Thinkers, 2025

Ann Christensen

Ann Christensen

President and CEO, Clayton Christensen InstituteExpert on Disruptive Innovation in Health Care and Education

Larry Keeley

Larry Keeley

Co-Founder and Former President, DoblinCo-author, Ten Types of InnovationOne of Bloomberg Businessweek's 27 Most Influential Designers

Mark Esposito

Mark Esposito

Professor of Strategy & Technology Policy, Northeastern University, Faculty Associate, Harvard University, Chief Economist, micro1Co-Author, The Great Remobilization and Becoming AI NativeShortlisted, 2023 Thinkers50 Strategy AwardThinkers50 Radar, 2016 (30 most prominent rising thinkers in the world)

Ari Wallach

Ari Wallach

Founder and executive director, Longpath LabsHost of PBS's A Brief History of the FutureAuthor of Longpath

Lyle Berkowitz

Lyle Berkowitz

Founder and Executive Chairman, KeyCareClinical Associate Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineEditor-in-Chief, Telehealth and Medicine Today

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

Author, The Shallows and SuperbloomFormer Executive Editor, Harvard Business Review2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Guy Hoffman

Guy Hoffman

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell UniversityHead, Human-Robot Collaboration & Companionship LabTED talk viewed more than 3 million times

Christian Stadler

Christian Stadler

Professor of strategic management, Warwick Business SchoolCo-author, Open StrategyShortlisted, 2021 Thinkers50 Strategy Award

Julia Freeland Fisher

Julia Freeland Fisher

Director of Education Research, Clayton Christensen InstituteCo-author, Who You Know

Hod Lipson, PhD

Hod Lipson, PhD

James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation, Columbia UniversityCo-author, Fabricated and DriverlessNamed among the world's seven most powerful data scientists by Forbes

Dava Newman

Dava Newman

Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MITFormer NASA deputy administrator and MIT Media Lab directorCo-chair, WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies

Nathan Furr

Nathan Furr

Professor of Strategy, INSEADCo-Author, The Upside of Uncertainty and Innovation CapitalNo. 2, Forbes Best Business Books of 2022

Jason Pontin

Jason Pontin

General Partner, DCVCEditor in Chief, MIT Technology Review, 2004-2017TED talk viewed more than 1.6 million times

Michael Horn

Michael Horn

Co-Founder, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive InnovationAdjunct Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationAuthor, Job Moves and Disrupting Class

Spiros Michalakis

Spiros Michalakis

Manager of outreach, Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and MatterFirst to solve the quantum Hall effect with Matthew Hastings (Microsoft, 2009)Science advisor, Marvel Cinematic Universe (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp)

Olaf Groth

Olaf Groth

Professional Faculty, UC Berkeley Haas School of BusinessFounding CEO, Cambrian Futures and Cambrian LabsLead Co-Author, The Great Remobilization and Solomon's Code

Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus

Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryAuthor, The Mind's MirrorMacArthur fellow and co-founder of Liquid AI

Efosa Ojomo

Efosa Ojomo

Director of Global Prosperity, Clayton Christensen InstituteCo-author, The Prosperity ParadoxThinkers50 Radar Class of 2020

Rebecca Henderson

Rebecca Henderson

John and Natty McArthur University Professor, HarvardAuthor of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on FireFinancial Times best business book of the year

Ed Boyden

Ed Boyden

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, MITInvestigator, McGovern Institute and Howard Hughes Medical InstituteBreakthrough Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award winner

Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz

Chief Futures Officer, SalesforceAuthor of The Art of the Long ViewFounder of scenario consultancy Global Business Network

Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MITCo-founder of iRobot and Robust.AIWinner, 2023 IEEE Founders Medal

Kelly Peters

Kelly Peters

Global Behavioural Economics Leader and Partner, DeloitteCo-founder and founding CEO, BEworksLifetime Achievement Award, Consulting Magazine, 2022

Isha Datar

Isha Datar

Executive Director, New HarvestCoined the term cellular agricultureCo-Founder, Perfect Day and Clara Foods

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education, NYUAuthor of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive SurplusNamed to Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers

Jamie Paik

Jamie Paik

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyFounder and Director, Reconfigurable Robotics LabInventor of Robogami robotic origami

Jessica Rosenworcel

Jessica Rosenworcel

Executive director, MIT Media LabFormer chair, U.S. Federal Communications CommissionNamed to The Verge 50

Books

Books on Disruptive Innovation

Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World cover

Scott D. Anthony

Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World

The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society cover

Azeem Azhar

The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society

Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization cover

Scott D. Anthony

Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives cover

Steven Kotler

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty cover

Efosa Ojomo

The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks cover

Julia Freeland Fisher

Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future cover

Scott D. Anthony

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market cover

Scott D. Anthony

The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market

Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools cover

Michael Horn

Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think cover

Steven Kotler

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Building a Growth Factory cover

Scott D. Anthony

Building a Growth Factory

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It cover

Scott D. Anthony

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It

Keynotes

Conversations on Disruptive Innovation

Azeem Azhar

MWC26 Barcelona Keynote

  1. Azeem AzharMWC26 Barcelona Keynote
  2. Scott D. AnthonyScott Anthony - MASIC Annual Investment Forum 2019
  3. Efosa OjomoA Counterintuitive Solution to Poverty: Stop Trying to Eradicate It | Efosa Ojomo | TEDxBYU
  4. Ari Wallach3 ways to plan for the (very) long term | Ari Wallach
  5. Ben NelsonBen Nelson - TEDxSF - Taking on the Ivy League (Video)
  6. Hal GregersenHow Innovators Transform Industries: Mastering the Skills of Disruptive Innovation
  7. Efosa OjomoThe Poverty Paradox: Why Most Poverty Programs Fail And How To Fix Them | Efosa Ojomo | TEDxGaborone
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