Drawing on 35 years of experience driving innovation and leading operations at companies including Apple and Microsoft, Mike Steep shares valuable insights on how to leverage emerging technology into bottom-line business opportunities. Throughout his career, Mike has worked in the presence of industry legends including David Packard, Bill Gates, and Satya Nadella, witnessing first-hand some of the greatest breakthroughs and transformations within organizations and entire industries. All of this change has been powered by the invention of the digital camera, cloud computing, mobile devices, IoT, metamaterials, and predictive analytics. 

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Author of the critically acclaimed book First Light of Day: A Cautionary Tale of Our Future, Mike is the founder of Stanford’s Engineering Program for Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities. In this role, he built a bridge between Stanford’s disruptive technologies labs and 30 corporate partners – including Amazon, Cushman & Wakefield, Hitachi, and Visa – to create new opportunities for innovation and monetization. He reveals the specific process companies can use to transform early-stage technology into growth and how to recruit and train talent, and he is the speaker for groups asking themselves: “What can I do now to understand how new technologies will impact my company? How do I acquire the right leadership, organization, and structure to drive innovation more effectively?”

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Mike is the former SVP of global business operations at PARC, where he worked with CEOs and R&D executives from companies including Cushman Wakefield, IBM, BMW, Google, P&G, L’Oréal, Airbus Group, and others to transform technology disruption of their industries into new lines of business. We are at the beginning of a new golden age – where emerging technologies define who we are, what we can accomplish, and how we can redefine entire companies and industries. Innovation is not a drawn-out process or the result of a “lightbulb” moment, but rather the ability to apply the right leadership, vision, technical expertise, and business model to a strategic problem faced by a company and by an industry. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Mike speaks passionately and with great insight about the importance of how to address change focused on innovation and addressing how companies resist change to their own detriment. 

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Mike has had an exceptional career with more than two decades of global operating experience at companies including HP, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and PARC’s world-renowned innovation center. He earned his MBA from the University of Virginia and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on numerous corporate boards and digital city planning organizations, including Smart City London and the Saudi NEOM project.