Faisal Hoque is a Wall Street Journal # 1 bestselling author and his books have also appeared on the USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. He is the founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter and serves as a transformation and innovation partner for CACI, an $8 billion Fortune 500 company focused on U.S. national security. With thirty years of experience enabling sustainable growth for organizations like MasterCard, PepsiCo, American Express, GE, Home Depot, French Social Security Services, and the U.S. Department of Defense, Mr. Hoque is a globally recognized management thinker and technologist, contributing to MIT’s IDEAS Social Innovation program and the Swiss business school IMD. His latest book, Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI, was an instant bestseller and was named a Financial Times business book of the month. Mr. Hoque has authored ten award-winning books, including Reinvent, Everything Connects, and LIFT. He has won three Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards, more than thirty awards for his publications, and has been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology by Ziff Davis. Blending Eastern philosophy with American entrepreneurial spirit, his work has appeared in major publications like Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, and on broadcasters such as Yahoo Finance, Fox, CBS, and others. Mr. Hoque is an active and passionate supporter of cancer research.Erik Nelson is the Senior Vice President leading CACI’s $2 billion Enterprise IT Line of Business, delivering network modernization, cloud, end user/mobility, IT service modernization, and active cyber defense solutions across DOD, IC, and civilian customers within the Federal Government. He develops and implements innovative strategies to drive significant and rapid growth and executes a transparent and collaborative leadership approach for customer engagement and talent development. Mr. Nelson is passionate about building, mentoring, and challenging leaders to perform at their highest capacity with a focus on leaders creating leaders. His thought leadership is rooted in his experience as a chief technology officer and drives the development of innovative solutions designed to achieve customer mission objectives. Nelson joined CACI from CSC, where he was General Manager for Federal Financial Agencies in CSC’s North American Public Sector. Prior to CSC, he worked for Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he progressed through executive positions that included program manager, Chief Technology Officer, and Operating Unit Director of Civil Information Solutions. Mr. Nelson has also held leadership positions at the United States Senate and the United States Department of the Army.Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Program. In 2024–25 he served as the Bodily Bicentennial Professor of Analytics at the UVA Darden School of Business. He pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article and his 2007 book by the same name. He has published 25 books and over 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other publications. His most recent book is All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution, co-authored with Ian Barkin. He writes columns for Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been named one of the world’s “Top 25 Consultants” by Consulting magazine, one of the top 3 business/technology analysts in the world by Optimize magazine, one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff Davis magazines, and one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine. He has also been a LinkedIn Top Voice for both the education and tech sectors.
