This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Bad actors are deploying AI to exploit vulnerabilities faster than human defenders can detect them, creating a speed-wisdom paradox: organizations need machine-speed responses but cannot afford to sacrifice human judgment on consequential decisions.
As work shifts from collaborative to intelligent, what becomes more important: speed or velocity? The dominant message of SmartSheet ENGAGE was the declaration that its future would be focused on Intelligent Work Management (IWM).
While Davos leaders debate cooperation, corporate Boards face immediate, high-stakes threats: hardware vulnerabilities exploited by 15-year-long systematic campaigns, fragmented AI policies creating competitive gaps, and gray-zone conflicts that turn companies into invisible targets.
