Brian Solis

Brian Solis is Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow . He's also an 9x best-selling author, international keynote speaker, and futurist. Forbes has called him “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time" and ZDNet has said that Brian is “one of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers.”

For over 20 years, Brian has studied Digital Darwinism to understand the impact of disruption on businesses, markets and society. In his work, he humanizes technologies and trends to help leaders gain new perspectives and insights and inspire new ideas to thrive in the future.

Brian’s research explores business transformation,innovation, the agentic enterprise, and "the future of" industries, trends and markets.  

His insights on the future of technology and business trends have made him a go to resource among executives, media and market experts. He has published over 60 research papers and also actively shares his work in industry-leading publications including Forbes, ZDNet, CIO, eWeek, Fast Company, Adweek, and Singularity University.

As a keynote speaker, Brian travels the world to help audiences embrace change, learn what’s coming next and why, and to take a leading role in shaping the future they want to see.

Brian’s latest book, Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future was written inspire a new generation of leaders in an era of AI disruption. Mindshift shifts mindsets to challenge the status quo, anticipate the future, inspire teams, and innovate forward.

His earlier best-sellers include...

X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, explores the importance of experiences and how to design them for customers, employees and human beings everywhere. www.xthebook.com.

What's the Future of Business (WTF), which explores the landscape of connected consumerism and how business and customer relationships unfold and flourish in four distinct moments of truth. 

The End of Business as Usual explores the emergence of Generation-C, a new generation of customers and employees and how businesses must adapt to reach them. 

Engage! is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to market, sell and service in the social web.

To learn more about Brian, please visit: BrianSolis.com
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"Top futurist speaker." - ReadWrite

“One of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers” – ZDNet

“One of the greatest digital analysts of our time.” - Antonio Lucio, CMO, HP, Facebook

Head of Global Innovation

Leads vision, strategy, and programming of ServiceNow's global Innovation and Executive Briefing Centers. He also engages with marquee customers and partners on innovation and transformation strategies. Studies disruptive technology and market trends to advise executives on leadership initiatives. Publishes business and technology thought leadership in leading publications to inspire executives to become leaders and innovators. Translates trends into go-to-market strategies for ServiceNow and its customers.

With AI slop becoming the norm, and Google at the front of the line pushing AI at the top of search results, the question becomes, who or what is the web meant to serve? As agents become more and more prevalent, we might be creating a vicious cycle of AI serving, not humans, but AI.

This Bloomberg story explores how food bloggers are warning that Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes. 😱

https://lnkd.in/g3Bfi8DX

Revenue Room™ Connect

Founder and CEO & Founder | Revenue Room Connect
Building powerful revenue networks, one meaningful connection at a time.

As the founder of Revenue Room Connect, I created a curated connection engine for revenue-critical leaders in media, events, and B2B information. Our mission: to accelerate peer-to-peer learning, strategic deal flow, and career-defining relationships. We match high-intent professionals—from RevOps to CROs—for targeted networking, purposeful conversations, and access to a high-caliber community that actually delivers ROI.

Chief Executive Officer

H2K Labs

H2K Labs is a revenue and profitability growth partner that helps clients with high levels of data liquidity including media, events, business information, marketplaces and marketing services. We architect data strategies that fuel revenue growth, reduce costs, optimize processes, and increase margins and EBITDA. Our "force multiplier" equation is our experience in the industries we serve, a relentless focus on revenue growth and cost optimization, and platforms that are purpose-built for highly complex data environments and/or two-sided business models.

Services:
1) Consulting & Advisory
2) Insightify Data Intelligence Platform
3) Revenue Room™ Connect Professional Network: LunchLab, RevvedUP, The Revenue Room™ Podcast, RRC Bootcamp, & The Annual State of Data-Driven Growth Report

CEO and Founder

Events Venture Group

Member

KD New York

Investor. KD New York’s yarns are proprietary plant-based fibers that rival animal-based yarns in their luxurious, completely animal-free makeup, handfeel and durability. The brand and its subsidiaries are sold in over 200 stores and online globally.

KD Knit Corporation, the parent of KD New York, is a B Corporation dedicated to maintaining the highest standards for environmental sustainability, product and business transparency and employee well-being.

The art of movement, animal welfare and the environment are central to KD New York’s core beliefs. Ten percent (10%) of annual profits are donated to support Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Wolf Conservation Center and The Nature Conservancy.

Investor

Sales Enablement Society

Kickback

Strategic Advisor

Pavilion

Executive Member

Feathr

Advisor

Edflex

Head of Global Alliances NA/Consultant

Gleanin

Gleanin helps exhibition organisers leverage the social web to increase attendance. A fully integrated marketing, website and registration tool built specifically for event organisers with embedded sociability.

Head of North America (Consultant)

CEO at H2K Labs | Helping business leaders scale up their revenue potential and achieve profitable growth faster | Data-Powered Revenue Acceleration

I've lived through every major disruption in media, events, and data businesses since the dawn of digital. Here's what I know: the old playbooks are broken. The CEOs I work with aren't just trying to hit numbers anymore. They're reimagining what their businesses MUST become in an AI-powered world.

I'm genuinely obsessed with these industries. While others see struggling legacy businesses, I see untapped potential. I've always pushed for what's next, championing data monetization before it was trendy, architecting new revenue models when print was dying, and now helping leaders navigate AI. I've built my career on seeing around corners during turbulent times.

I was the first to connect the dots between data liquidity and enterprise value in our industries, and remain the only one who's built a proven methodology to solve this challenge. While others talk digital transformation in abstract terms, I've spent years perfecting the blueprint for turning data into revenue, profitability, and measurable value creation. This isn't theoretical. It's battle-tested.

At H2K Labs, I wear two hats. First, I build communities where real conversations happen. Through Revenue Room™ Connect, I've created spaces where CEOs & C-suite leaders drop the corporate speak and dig into what's really keeping them up at night. Whether it's an intimate Revenue Room™ Salon, an immersive RevLab, or our flagship RevvedUP conference, these aren't networking events. They're strategic accelerators where breakthroughs happen.

Second, I lead our Strategy Group, partnering with select media, events & information companies whose leadership teams are ready for bold moves. We don't work with everyone. We work with CEOs and boards who understand incremental change won't cut it. Together, we transform complex data ecosystems into competitive moats, turning data liquidity into revenue velocity and enterprise value.

Today's reality? Your data is either your biggest asset or your biggest liability. AI isn't coming; it's here. The gap between leaders who get this and those who don't is widening daily. My philosophy: embrace complexity, invest in relationships, and never stop questioning what's possible.

Leading a media, events, or information business and wrestling with turning disruption into opportunity? Let's talk. The future belongs to those brave enough to build it.

Heather Holst-Knudsen

✨ If you’re a CEO, CMO,, revenue-critical C-suite leader, or Chief Event Officer looking to build real, durable attendee growth while driving down CAC, this Revenue Room™ podcast is essential listening.

The fastest most cost efficient path to high-value event attendees is hiding in plain sight: referrals.

I just sat down with Michael B., CEO of InGo, to unpack why referral-driven attendee acquisition is quietly outperforming every traditional channel. Context: we’re talking about the most cost-efficient, highest-intent pipeline an event leader can generate. Full stop.

A few points from the conversation that should make any CEO or revenue owner rethink their acquisition mix:

🟠 Referral attendees convert at dramatically higher rates because they arrive pre-qualified by people they trust.

🟠 Informa and RX Global found that 17% of the time the person has a higher title than the average attendee.

🟠 The lift isn’t just volume. Referred attendees show up more, engage more, and drive materially higher downstream revenue.

🟠 Most teams leave the majority of referral potential untapped because they bolt it on at the end instead of designing for it from day one.

If you're responsible for event P&L, this episode is worth your time. And if you want to see referral economics applied inside a real business community, take a look via your preferred platform:

♦️ Watch the full episode on YouTube:
https://lnkd.in/eb3GAHvX

♦️ Listen to the podcast on:
- Apple: https://lnkd.in/epQYEMiA
- Spotify: https://lnkd.in/epZxTg6n
- Amazon Music: https://lnkd.in/emJ8CAH5

♦️ Read on The Revenue Room™ Blog: 
https://lnkd.in/ew34U8HH

CEO & Founder H2K Labs, Revenue Room™ CXO, RevvedUP and Host of The Revenue Room™ Podcast

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