Nick Davis holds a diverse array of roles that span the realms of innovation, entrepreneurship and social impact. He serves as the Faculty Chair of Corporate Innovation at Singularity University, where he leads the charge in researching and shaping the landscape of corporate innovation. Simultaneously, he's a Venture Partner at Bold Capital, a vital player in the venture capital scene. As Chief Platform Officer at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank, he also makes a tangible impact on addressing food scarcity issues in America.Nick's expertise extends beyond titles. He's an influential author, with his Amazon #1 Best Seller "Future Ready: A Changemaker's Guide to the Exponential Revolution" shedding light on the rapidly changing business and technological landscape. Over the past 15 years, Nick's career has encompassed roles in Executive Education, Corporate Innovation, Venture Capital and the founding and leadership of high-growth startups.Nick's comprehensive insight encompasses fields like corporate innovation management, social innovation and entrepreneurship. His focus areas include identifying trends that offer new customer value through technology platforms, future-proofing strategies against market disruptors, concept and prototype development and establishing corporate innovation labs and incubators. His academic journey includes studies at The Ohio State University, UCLA Anderson School of Management and The Esade Business School, in addition to his past service in the US Navy's Military Intelligence.
Linear vs. Exponential , Machine Learning, Corporate Innovation, Digital Transformation
Advanced emerging technologies are changing the world at blinding speed. At the same time humanity is facing unprecedented challenges across business and society. These advanced technologies, like AI/ML, Quantum Computing, and CRISPR have the potential to either solve global challenges or drive further disruption and societal issues. In this talk, drawn from his #1 Best Seller - Future Ready, Nick explains how the latest emerging technologies are impacting the world and how leaders and organizations can leverage these technologies to navigate their way to the future successfully. In this future, leaders must be able to both create waves of opportunity leveraging advanced technology and be able to ride those waves successfully before being disrupted. Nick will leverage Future Ready’s W.A.V.E. Leadership Framework (Wonder, Adapt, Value, Evolve) to help the audience understand how to create these opportunity waves and the mindsets leaders must obtain to get and stay Future Ready.