DisrupTV Episode 449

Brian Solis serves as the Head of Global Innovation and Futures at ServiceNow, 9x best-selling author, Infinite: How Visionary Leaders Transform Today’s Businesses into AI-Forward Companies with Dave Wright.

Brian is world-renowned digital futurist and international keynote speaker. He has published over 60 influential research reports that explore the future of business and industries, disruptive technologies, executive strategy, and how digital and AI affects human behaviors.

Brian is published in industry publications such as Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, CIO, Forbes, and Worth. And he has consistently been recognized as one of the world's leading thinkers in innovation, business transformation, and leadership for almost three decades. His online network reaches over 700,000 executives worldwide.

More on Brian here and on LinkedIn here.

As the Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow, Dave Wright explores how AI and emerging technologies can reshape business and work. He is passionate about putting people at the center of workplace innovation and helping organizations leverage technology to boost productivity, streamline operations, optimize costs, and enhance both employee and customer experiences. Innovation is not just part of Dave's job title; it’s the foundation for every conversation he has with customers. Dave’s superpower is getting to the core of a customer’s challenges, questioning business as usual, and imagining a future where enterprises create new value through business transformation.

Over his decade-plus tenure at ServiceNow, Dave has held various leadership roles, including Chief Strategy Officer and Global Vice President of Solutions Consulting. With nearly 30 years in the IT industry, his expertise spans virtualization, cloud infrastructure, service management, performance management, data center automation, and software development.

Before joining ServiceNow in 2011, Dave spent over six years at VMware as Vice President of Technical Services for EMEA. He also held a leadership position at Mercury Interactive and spent six years at Peregrine Systems.

Throughout his career, Dave has collaborated with thousands of customers to help them address persistent challenges and reimagine how they work. As he continues to foster innovation at ServiceNow, Dave is committed to co-creating a vision for the future that enables customers to not only tackle today's challenges but also to inspire tomorrow's strategies.

John Nosta is the founder of NostaLab and writes the "Digital Self" column at Psychology Today. Generally regarded as one of the leading thinkers on what happens when artificial computation meets human cognition, he has advised organizations from Google Health to the WHO. His new book, The Borrowed Mind, argues that borrowing intelligence, even temporarily, changes the mind doing the borrowing.