Accenture Innovation Forum 2019

Named as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Important People of the 20th Century,” one of the UK’s “100 Greatest Britons” and one of the world’s “Most Influential Thinkers,” Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as software engineer at CERN.

In 2007, he formed the World Wide Web Foundation, an organization committed to ensuring an open, free Web accessible and meaningful to all.

A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim teaches at MIT and CSAIL. He is a professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton and a Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Nancy Clark is senior vice president of Consumer Group customer service at Verizon. She is responsible for executing superior service and delivery to more than 100 million consumers, and transforming the service delivery model and customer journey to meet ever-changing customer needs.

Nancy has held leadership positions in several businesses of Verizon. As senior vice president of marketing and sales operations she led all the marketing operations for Wireless and Consumer Mass Business. She also headed Operational Excellence, focused on driving companywide process improvements. Prior to that she held a number of senior regional roles with Verizon.

She began her telecommunications career with the former GTE, working in finance, marketing and sales within the company’s Texas and California markets. She joined Verizon Wireless when it was formed in 2000.

Nancy holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

She is on the board of Safe Horizon, the largest victims’ services agency in the U.S., which assists more than 250,000 families affected by crime and abuse in New York City each year.

Hugh Herr is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. TIME magazine coined Herr the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of Biomechatronics – technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, he is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities. He is currently a professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the MIT Center for Extreme Bionics.

Herr has received many accolades for his groundbreaking innovation, including two TIME Top Ten Invention awards. Herr is the founder of BionX Inc. Its EmPower Ankle-Foot Prosthesis has been clinically shown to be the first leg prosthesis in history to reach human normalization, allowing amputees to walk with normal levels of speed and metabolism as if their legs were biological once again. Herr’s story has been told in a National Geographic film, Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr, as well as in CNN, The Economist, Discover and Nature.

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert. He has worked at F‑Secure since 1991. Mr. Hypponen has written for The New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He was selected among the 50 most important people on the Web by PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list. Mr. Hypponen sits on the advisory boards of t2 and Social Safeguard and on the advisory panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Dr. Jepsen’s goal with Openwater is to see deep into the body with the detail of a high-resolution 3D camera. This will have broad implications for healthcare and human communication. Previously, Dr. Jepsen was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] and Intel as well as a founder of 4 startups including One Laptop per Child where she was CTO, chief architect and delivered the $100 laptop to mass production. Dr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT, and is an inventor of more than 100 published or issued patents in the last 5 years alone. She has been recognized with many awards including TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world and a CNN top 10 thinker.

Debra King is the Chief Information Officer for Corteva, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont. In this role, she leads the effort to enable the spin-off of Corteva Agriscience from DowDuPont in June 2019. She's also creating a technology strategy that includes an enterprise digitization program, while helping support Corteva Agriscience's purpose of enriching the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come.

Debra joined Corteva in 2017 from Pfizer, where she led IT in varying roles, delivering business transformation programs and running global services and operations.​

Frequently featured for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz and The New York Times, Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. She launched Socos Labs to combine her varied work with that of other creative experts and expand their impact on global policy issues, both inside companies and throughout our communities.

Previously, Vivienne was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, pursuing her research in cognitive neuroprosthetics. In her free time, she has invented AI systems to help treat her diabetic son, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers weeks in advance, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members. She sits on boards of numerous companies and nonprofits including StartOut, The Palm Center, Cornerstone Capital, Platypus Institute, Shiftgig, Zoic Capital, and SmartStones. Vivienne also speaks frequently on her AI-driven research into inclusion and gender in business.

For American TV audiences, Questlove is instantly recognizable as the musical director and drummer in The Roots, the GRAMMY award winning hip-hop group and house-band that provides a musical mainstay for one of NBC’s flagship programs, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

As a Drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, author, and member of The Roots – the 5-time GRAMMY Award winning musician's indisputable reputation has landed him musical directing positions with everyone from D’Angelo to Eminem to Jay-Z. Aside from his musical activities, Questlove is also a best-selling author whose latest book, “Creative Quest”, explores the sources of inspiration and originality in what is described as “a wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity”. Questlove is the author of the New York Times Best Selling books Mo’ Meta Blues, and Creative Quest, and James Beard Award nominated Something to Food About, which also won an AIGA “50 Best Books” design award.

His latest book, Creative Quest, explores the sources of inspiration and originality in what is described as “a wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity”.

Named to the Innovate Finance, Women in Fintech 2016 Power List, Sandra focuses on blockchain for social impact solutions. She cofounded UWINCorp: Unleashing Wealth in Nations, focusing on farmers’ asset registry and collateral management, utilizing mobile and blockchain technologies.

Sandra was appointed to CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) March 2018, focusing on education, advocacy & partnership across over 50 countries. She serves on US Department of State Speakers’ Bureau for blockchain/security, EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum, NYC Blockchain Center Board, and Global Blockchain Policy Council (GBPC), founded by bipartisan South Korean Congress.

She served as founding board of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL), and Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger. Sandra was former Executive Director, Digitization Head, CME Group, where she was responsible for digital assets and blockchain initiatives, including Bitcoin futures and post trade solutions.

Sandra led EMEA M&A FX and IR derivatives group at Morgan Stanley London and worked at Deutsche Bank as a FX structurer. She holds a M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. Degree in History and Studies in the Environment from Yale University.

Paula Tolliver is Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Intel Corporation. Under her leadership, more than 5,000 IT professionals worldwide are providing innovative IT solutions and services to support growth of Intel’s $70B business portfolio across 58 countries. The IT organization drives innovations and value through business capability improvements and automation, artificial intelligence, enhancing workforce productivity, and protecting Intel’s assets and intellectual property. She is also responsible for advancing Intel’s world class factory automation, engineering and product design technologies, and high-performance computing.

Prior to Intel, Tolliver had a 20+ year career at Dow Chemical, most recently as Corporate Vice President of Business Services and Chief Information Officer.

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and a bestselling, award-winning author. She is a Professor of Strategic Foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures.

Webb won the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award. She is a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight, and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where her research received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy.

Webb’s research focus is artificial intelligence, and she has advised three-star generals and admirals, White House leadership and CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies. She is the bestselling author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream, and recently released The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.