Welcome to North America’s top leadership conference

Passionate, dynamic, inspiring, and coach of Duke University men’s basketball team who led Team USA to three Olympic gold medals, Mike Krzyzewski (known by fans as Coach K) is a master motivator – not only of teams, but of individuals and organizations, spurring them on to succeed beyond even their own expectations.

Coach K maps out a clear game plan for achieving success—motivating, leading, and providing powerful strategies for building confidence, trust, communication and teamwork. Like any elite coach, he scouts organizations to discover how to best inspire and renew your people. He is the author of two New York Times best-sellers including Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords for Success. His most recent book is The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team.

A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Coach K shows audiences how they, too, can compile winning numbers in both their professional and personal lives. Perhaps the most accomplished basketball coach in history, Coach K’s journey in the sport was unparalleled in many ways as he accumulated the following career milestones: 

•Most NCAA Division I Victories (1,202)

•Most Final Fours (13; five NCAA Championships, second all-time) 

•Most Decades with Final Four Appearances (five; 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) 

•Most Olympic Gold Medals as a Head Coach (3; 2008, 2012, and 2016) 

•Most World Championship Gold Medals as a Head Coach (2; 2010 and 2014) 

•Most NCAA Tournament Victories (101) 

•Most NCAA Tournament Appearances by a Coach (36)

In addition to being a Co-Founder of the Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, Krzyzewski serves as a Professor of the Practice of Leadership at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. The Coach K Center at Duke has directly influenced the leadership development of more than 6,500 MBA students and executives since 2004. The Board Chair of the Emily Krzyzewski Center in Durham, N.C., Krzyzewski founded the center that has served more than 7,500 students since its inception in 2006. Coach K has been on the Board of Directors at the V Foundation since the beginning in 1993. Annually in Napa Valley, he and his wife Mickie host the V Foundation Wine Celebration, an event that has raised tens of millions of dollars in the fight against cancer.

K. Krithivasan is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT solutions and consulting firm. In FY23, TCS generated US $27.9 billion in revenues with over 600,000 associates across 50 countries

In his prior role, Krithi was the Global Head of Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) Business Group and  played a key role in building deep customer relationships and mindshare as well as market positioning across geographies. He has been with TCS for over 3 decades helping customers with their growth and transformation journeys and technology strategies.

Krithi has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras and a master’s degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He is also an avid reader and a fitness enthusiast.

As Chairman of North America for Tata Consultancy Services, Suresh Muthuswami oversees TCS’ largest market in driving business growth, strengthening customer relationships, and helping clients in their digital transformation journeys. An advocate of STEM education, Suresh leads TCS’ comprehensive efforts across North America to provide underserved communities and the next generation of talent with the foundational computer science skills for 21st century careers.

Prior to becoming Chairman of North America, Suresh was president and global head of Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Platforms at TCS. In this role, he was responsible for creating a vision, driving digital and business strategy, overseeing business and digital transformation efforts for clients, and leading TCS global service delivery across financial services and insurance.

Suresh also previously served as the global insurance and healthcare leader for TCS. He worked extensively with C-Suite leaders at Global 1000 clients, helping design and oversee key transformation programs. During his tenure, he successfully steered these businesses and grew them manyfold – building agile units focused on innovation and meeting client needs by championing investments in initiatives and ideas to drive growth and differentiation.

Prior to joining TCS, Suresh led a technology group in India, ran the global program management for a large engagement in the U.K., and worked at a start-up consulting company, helping it grow revenues to more than $15 million in two years.

Suresh is a member of the State of Connecticut Governor’s Workforce Council, and serves on the Board of Directors of Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) as well as the American Red Cross Greater New York Region. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in computer applications from PSG College of Technology in India and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

As part of the TCS global executive leadership team, Amit Bajaj is President of TCS North America, the company’s largest market, and reports to the TCS CEO. Under his leadership of North America, TCS transformed its markets function through a unique agile operating model and digital go-to-market strategy. With more than 53,000 employees, TCS North America generated $14.9 billion in revenues in the 2023 fiscal year, an increase of 15.3% over the prior year. TCS was also named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies in 2023 by Fortune Magazine, one of LinkedIn’s 2023 Top 50 U.S. Companies, one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023 by Forbes Magazine, and a number one Top Employer in the United States in 2023 by the Top Employers Institute.   

Prior to being appointed to his current role, Amit was Chief Executive of TCS Europe, a region spanning more than 15 countries, generating $3 billion in revenues and supported by over 50,000 associates. Under his leadership, TCS emerged as the industry leader in Europe with top ranking growth, the highest customer satisfaction, and the distinction of being named a Top European employer. Passionate about contributing to society, Amit launched TCS’s goIT program in Europe, which has helped more than 2,500 teenagers across 10 countries develop STEM skills. In addition, Amit’s commitment to health and wellness drove TCS’ sponsorship of high profile running events such as the Amsterdam Marathon and Sweden’s Lidingöloppet, the world’s largest cross country race. He was also instrumental in supporting the EU’s GDPR guidelines for data privacy. 

Earlier in his career, Amit managed TCS’ Consumer & Retail industry unit in Europe, where he spearheaded the founding of TCS’ European outsourcing practice. Prior to moving to Europe in 2005, he spent more than five years in the U.S. in a variety of industry and service line roles where he positioned TCS as an integrated service provider, winning the company’s first integrated IT-business process outsourcing engagement.

A dean’s scholar from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India, Amit graduated with an engineering degree and an MBA. His professional interests include agile management, organization behavior and operating model design. A leading advocate for growth and competitiveness, Amit frequently represents TCS at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and at the BusinessEurope conference.

Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. In both 2022 and 2023, The Atlantic earned the top honor for magazines, General Excellence, at the National Magazine Awards. Under his leadership, the magazine received its second Pulitzer Prize and was named Digiday’s Publisher of the Year, 2022.

Previously, Thompson was editor-in-chief of WIRED where he helped transform the business model and had a front-row seat covering some of the most important technological stories of our time. Thompson wrote many features for the publication, including a cover story on Facebook that became one of the most read pieces in the magazine’s history and has been cited multiple times in Congress. He also wrote a story about a missing hiker who erased his digital identity, which will soon be a movie on the Discover Network.

He began a daily series of videos called “The Most Interesting Thing in Tech” that has gained him two million followers on social media and led him to be named the fourth most influential person on LinkedIn, between Richard Branson and Justin Trudeau. He has spoken to audiences about technology all over the world and in 34 states.   

Thompson is a former contributor to CBS News, where he regularly appeared on CBS This Morning and CBS Sunday Morning. He is a cofounder of The Atavist, a National Magazine Award–winning publication and content management system that was sold to WordPress in 2018. He is currently building SpeakEasy.ai to encourage people to engage in positive and productive conversations.   

Thompson previously served as editor of NewYorker.com. Before The New Yorker, Thompson was a senior editor at WIRED, where he assigned and edited the story that was the basis for the Oscar-winning film Argo. In 2009, his book “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” was published to critical acclaim. Thompson has long been a competitive runner; in 2021, he set the American record for men 45+ in the 50K race. He is currently writing a book about the ways the mind of a runner works.

Jessica Brandt is policy director for the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology. Her research interests and recent publications focus on foreign interference, disinformation, digital authoritarianism and the implications of emerging technologies for liberal democracies.     

Her work has been widely published and quoted in the Washington Post, Associated Press, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, Vox, Slate, and Wired, among others. She was the lead author on “Linking Values and Strategy: How Democracies Can Offset Autocratic Advances,” the report of a bipartisan task force of 30 leading national security practitioners across parties and sub-disciplines, which developed national strategy for the United States in non-military domains of competition.     

Jessica was previously head of policy and research for the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, special adviser to the president of the Brookings Institution, and an international and global affairs fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She received her bachelor's from Johns Hopkins University and Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.   

Jessica is a member of the advisory council of the American Ditchley Foundation and a David Rockefeller fellow of the Trilateral Commission. She was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Next Generation Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

Joseph B. Keller is a visiting fellow in Foreign Policy, affiliated with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. His research interests include global governance strategies for machine learning and artificial intelligence, policy implications for emerging technologies in the global south, and the geopolitical consequences of climate change.

Keller was previously a senior director of congressional and federal relations for the American Psychological Association, managing an advocacy portfolio of legislative and executive branch policy issues areas including climate change, artificial intelligence, and the future of work. Prior to the association, he served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. National Science Foundation for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

At the foundation, Keller facilitated the administration of multi-lateral, international grant-making programs within the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems and supported the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes competition. He was formerly an executive search consultant in the civic sector, where he consulted with institutional committees and recruited leaders for higher education, biomedical research, and environmental conservation.

Keller received a bachelor’s in biological sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, a master’s in computational neuroscience from Boston University, and a doctorate in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, and his work and expertise have appeared in Foreign Policy, Nature, and The Washington Post, among other platforms.

The go-to expert on disruptive tech and science in a fast-changing world, David Pogue is a New York Times best-selling author, beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, NOVA host on PBS, and New York Times contributor. Whether he’s covering AI, autonomous vehicles, the future of technology in healthcare, a post-robot world, or climate change, David is a master communicator who brings even the most non-technical audiences up to speed. His highly entertaining keynotes prove that science and technology blend brilliantly with storytelling, humor, and, frequently, music and song. David Pogue provides invaluable insights on how technology impacts our work, businesses, health, society, and connections with each other — now and into the future. 

David has been at the forefront of new and emerging tech trends for decades. For 13 years, he wrote the weekly tech column for the New York Times; for a decade, he wrote a monthly column for Scientific American. His work CBS Sunday Morning has won him six Emmy awards. 

David is one of the world’s best-selling “how-to” authors, with more than 120 titles and 3 million copies in print. These include seven books in the For Dummies series, his New York Times best-selling Pogue’s Basics series of essential tips and shortcuts, and the Missing Manual series of computer books. His 2021 book, How to Prepare for Climate Change (Simon & Schuster), provides practical advice on preparing for an era of extreme weather events and other climate-caused chaos. His podcast, Unsung Science, features episodes which tell the origin story of an innovative science or technology achievement — as told by the characters themselves, from their first inspiration to the times they almost gave up. 

With broad appeal to general, business, healthcare, and tech audiences alike, David Pogue brings expansive knowledge, engaging wit, and an occasional song to center stage. Audiences leave as informed as they are entertained, with an enlightened perspective of the state of science and technology today — and how it’s shaping everyone’s tomorrow.