Imagine a room full of 300 CEO’s and senior executives, and you get the McKay CEO Forum, one of the pre-eminent

An accounting and professional services firm! My keynote took a look at the disruptive trends which are and will

This is a new group — 3 years old — that represents the 1-800 toll free service industry, and the invited me

This is the biggest manufacturing conference in Canada, organized by SME (previously, the Society of Manufacturing

This is a company that builds a software platform that helps companies to manage complex supply chains and

This event draws the CIO’s and strategy executives for a vast number of the largest grocery and consumer product

Sadly, one week before the horrific Las Vegas shootings, I spoke at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for

You have to love it when a client invites you back – and in this case, SAP was bringing me back in for about the

This company is a software vendor to the community bank and credit union industry – and naturally, that’s what

Another CEO led leadership meeting, in this case for this company which is one of the world’s leading

This agricultural company is the largest global supplier of French fries to McDonalds and other food companies, as

It was a busy year for keynotes in the manufacturing space! This talk was for Legrands North American leadership

This company is one of the major players in the dental, medical and veterinary products industry, serving well

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers has had me keynote some major events in the past — 2,000 manufacturing

This was certainly a highlight – I shared the stage with Astronaut Chris Hadfield (best known for his rendition

This event had several hundred CIO’s and IT executives for cities and towns from across the province. My keynote

Now this was cool! I was invited in by Nasscom, which represents the global software and business process outsourcing

This event took a look at the future of automotive lending with a particular emphasis on the credit union sector, which

This was a repeat engagement — the company, along with its parent Ulker from Turkey, had me headline a global

Sometimes, you get a keynote that goes beyond the issues of disruption, business model change and other issues. In this

This is one of the leading players in the healthcare insurance and group benefits market in Ohio, and they invited me

I love it when I get repeat gigs! Back in 2010, I was invited into this annual event, to speak to 250 cattle ranchers

The CEO saw me speak last year at an event in Chicago on the trends impacting and disrupting the financial services

My talks don’t just involve events on massive stages in Las Vegas : I also do an ever increasing number of small,

This event was for 550 executives from this pharma-tech company — it’s owned by French pharmaceutical giant

This is a software and logistics company in the fast moving trucking industry – my keynote was all about the future

This company is a long time pioneer in the world of telecom and hi-tech. They know everything is changing with

This was a huge amount of fun! I love overseas trips! And what an organization — Pladis is new, with three separate,

For this event I had about 300 farmers in the room — and truth be told, I love working with these folks.

Again, in New Orleans — in this case, the finance/leasing end of the automotive industry, including financing

This was a smaller conference than the others, but equally important! It was a leadership meeting for this major

This is a company that is making a transition from being a company that sells appliances, to being a computer

More disruption — business models, the rapid evolution of technology, new competitors with PayPal, Google and

This was my final event of the year, just two days ago, and it was just plain fun! It was an end of year “town

Essentially, agriculture is about science, and science is exponentiating. Essentially, agriculture is about science,

What do you do when you are a foundry-based manufacturing organization with 125 year old processes involving metal

This was an internal leadership meeting; this organization is a manufacturer in the rail industry. This wasn’t a big

I drove my family crazy with the lead-up to this keynote. It would take a lot of hard work. My keynote

Another manufacturing themed event; this one with 500 manufacturing execs from throughout the region. There was a

Genomics, connected medical devices, change-aggressive millennial doctors, gene therapy, hyperconnected pharmaceuticals

Alignex provides 3D manufacturing and engineering solutions - and given the absolutely massive acceleration of these

So if you are selling a product, but is transforms into some highly-connected, intelligent, Internet-of-Thing device,