The Javits Center, 4 & 5 November 2027
World Business Forum
New York 2027
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To lead in 2027, the question is no longer how much you can achieve — it is how far you can go. The limits that once defined what technology, organizations and transformation could do are gone.
Since 2004, the World Business Forum has been the meeting point for leaders seeking this competitive edge. We curate the world’s most relevant business thinkers to help you build what seemed unimaginable.
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World Business Forum NYC 2027 Speakers
LEADERSHIPPat LencioniFounder and president of The Table Group and bestselling author
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INNOVATIONPeter DiamandisFounder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation
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GROWTH STRATEGYRita McGrathLeading strategy expert and professor at Columbia Business School
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FUTURE OF WORKValerie WorkmanFormer VP and Head of HR at Tesla
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The World Business Forum New York 2027 is not just an event. It is a strategic offsite for leaders who want to keep up with the times and face the challenge of constant change.
We curate the world’s most disruptive thinkers to cover every critical angle of the business: from AI and innovation to talent, leadership, and culture.
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Pat Lencioni
Founder and president, The Table Group · Bestselling authorPat Lencioni’s passion for organizations and the people who work in them is reflected in his writing, speaking and executive consulting. He is the author of twelve best-selling books with nearly seven million copies sold. After eighteen years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a fixture on national best-seller lists. His most recent book, The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities, was released in February 2020. He is also the host of the popular business podcast At The Table with Patrick Lencioni. Pat’s latest model, The Six Types of Working Genius, is designed to help people find joy and energy in their work.
- 01The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: overcoming barriers in trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results to build elite team synergy
- 02The Six Types of Working Genius: identifying individual strengths and frustrations to maximize productivity, alignment and joy at work
- 03Organizational health as a competitive advantage: why organizational health trumps intelligence and strategy in driving sustainable business performance
- 04The Ideal Team Player: mastering the three essential virtues (humble, hungry and smart) that accelerate personal and organizational growth
Peter Diamandis
Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE FoundationNamed by Fortune as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Peter Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation and Executive Founder of Singularity University. A serial entrepreneur who has started over 25 companies across longevity, space, healthcare and venture capital, he serves as co-founder of Fountain Life, Celularity, Vaxxinity and BOLD Capital Partners, a half-billion-dollar fund investing in breakthrough technologies. Diamandis is a New York Times bestselling author of landmark books including Abundance, BOLD, The Future Is Faster Than You Think and Life Force (co-authored with Tony Robbins). A global authority on innovation, he equips executive teams with the exponential mindset required to turn technological disruption into sustainable enterprise value.
- 01The convergence of exponential technologies: how the simultaneous acceleration of AI, robotics and biotechnology is redefining global industry standards and corporate management
- 02The next frontier of artificial intelligence: the historic shift from specialized AI systems to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its impact on performance and decision-making
- 03Robotics, automation and workforce transformation: leveraging humanoid robotics and autonomous systems to eliminate repetitive labor, boost productivity and foster strategic adaptability
- 04Longevity and predictive medicine: how breakthroughs in genetics, cellular medicine and early diagnostics are expanding healthy life expectancy and transforming human potential
Rita McGrath
Leading strategy expert and professor, Columbia Business SchoolRita McGrath, professor at Columbia Business School, is widely recognized as a global authority on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has had a lasting impact on the strategy and growth programs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. She is the author of best-selling books like The End of Competitive Advantage and Discovery Driven Growth, cited by Clayton Christensen as creating “one of the most important management ideas ever developed”. She is currently writing her next book on how companies can become more adaptive by pushing decision-making closer to the information, scheduled for release in October 2026. McGrath is also the founder of Valize, an innovation platform whose mission is to help organizations build lasting innovation capability as the basis for long-term shared prosperity.
- 01Tech shifts, new rules: rethink how you organize, build business models and compete for the next wave of growth
- 02Breaking barriers: align teams, foster collaboration and accelerate execution
- 03Empower growth at scale: enable teams across the organization, not just decisions at the top
- 04Get ahead of technological disruption: recognize repeat patterns of change and act earlier
Valerie Workman
Former VP and Head of HR, TeslaValerie Workman is an executive operating at the intersection of AI transformation, global compliance and enterprise workforce strategy. She served at Tesla as Vice President, Head of HR for North America, EMEA and APAC and Head of Global Compliance, where she helped scale the global workforce from 50,000 to over 100,000 employees while modernizing enterprise compliance programs. At Handshake, she served as Chief Legal Officer and later Chief Talent Engagement Officer. She currently serves as Chief Human Resources Officer at Empower Pharmacy, where she leads the design of an AI-powered HR ecosystem. She is a licensed attorney, Trustee of Huston-Tillotson University and author of Quantum Progression: The Art and Science of Career Advancement in the Age of AI.
- 01Responsible AI integration: scaling AI-driven workforce ecosystems while preserving ethics, regulatory integrity and human oversight
- 02Scaling enterprise compliance: lessons from doubling Tesla’s global workforce to over 100,000 while modernizing enterprise compliance programs
- 03Next-generation talent strategy: frameworks for Fortune 500 leaders to attract, retain and develop workforce talent in the AI era
- 04Governance, privacy and M&A: managing complex regulatory risks, data privacy and legal frameworks during periods of rapid enterprise transformation
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