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NASA engineer and Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson traces his path from childhood rocket fuel experiments in Alabama to developing the iconic water gun while working on the Galileo spacecraft at JPL, revealing how parental support and rigorous engineering principles shaped his prolific invention career.
Paul Mockapetris transitioned from aspiring physicist to computer scientist at MIT before inventing the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983. His distributed naming architecture replaced ARPANET's centralized host table, creating the essential infrastructure that enabled the global scalability of the modern internet and World Wide Web.
Secret Level founder Jason Zada reveals that Coca-Cola's controversial AI holiday ads required a team of 20+ artists and frame-by-frame human craftsmanship, arguing that the backlash stemmed from AI's 'PR problem' rather than quality issues, while marking a fearless milestone for brand adoption of emerging technology.
Coca-Cola CMO Manolo Arroyo explains how the company remade its iconic holiday campaign using generative AI as a 'creative partner' to human storytellers, prioritizing creative quality and brand growth over efficiency while navigating the risks of evolving a 140-year-old heritage brand.
Creative legend PJ Pereira reveals how Silver Side AI's experimental Coca-Cola holiday film—initially scoped as a minor YouTube clip—became the brand's global campaign, arguing that generative AI's true power lies not in efficiency but in unleashing creative ambition previously constrained by budget and logistics.
Journalist and 'story hunter' Josh Davis analyzes Coca-Cola's AI advertising experiments and his own telephonic AI project to argue that resistance to AI is temporary, while the technology's real value lies in eliminating repetitive labor and democratizing storytelling by removing traditional gatekeepers.
Former OnlyFans CEO Amy Gan discusses her unconventional path from the cannabis industry to leading the creator platform during its pandemic surge, and how she's applying lessons about creator-first business models to her new venture Violet—a platform positioning itself as the 'HBO of social media' that allows risqué content while prohibiting explicit material.
At just 29, Miami Grand Prix President Kathy Novak reveals how the event evolved into a marquee F1 destination through luxury branding, operational innovation, and strategic differentiation from other U.S. races, while managing the complex logistics of building a temporary circuit at Hard Rock Stadium.
Kalshi co-founder Lana Lopez Lara discusses how the prediction market platform achieved regulatory victory over the CFTC to legalize election trading, scaled to a $1.5B+ revenue run rate with $3-4B in weekly volume, and why she believes these markets provide superior forecasting data without the ability to influence electoral outcomes.
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada explains how she transformed the company from a $50M developer tool into an AI-powered enterprise resilience platform serving Fortune 100 companies, while arguing that chaos is inevitable in the age of agentic AI and requires proactive leadership preparation rather than reactive response.
Axiom Math CEO Karina Hong explains how their AI mathematician 'Axiom Prover' achieved a perfect score on the Putnam exam and produced eight peer-reviewed research papers in 100 days, while commercializing through high-stakes code verification using synthetic data and self-verification to create a self-improving loop of mathematical reasoning.
UFC CEO Dana White details the massive logistical and financial undertaking of staging UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn, a $60 million production marking America's 250th anniversary that he views as a transformative brand moment despite potential losses and significant weather risks.