Michael Steep Biography

Disruptive technology is growing at an exponential rate, but few people know how to transform disruption into exponential opportunity. Based upon decades of operations and innovation experience at companies including Apple and Microsoft, Mike engages with executives to show 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 -- experiencing first hand some of the greatest breakthroughs and transformations of entire industries, all of this change powered by the invention of the digital camera, cloud computing, mobile devices, IoT, meta-materials, and privacy preserving analytics. His passion for practical innovation now extends to working with CEO's and R&D executives from companies including BMW, Google, P&G, L'Oreal, and AirBus to transform technology disruption of their industries into exponential opportunity.

"One thing we can count on, Mike says "is the source of technology disruption is no longer confined to Silicon Valley - it is global. Innovation can no longer be conceptual - it must be harnessed as the pragmatic engine for growth."

As a Silicon Valley executive working with Fortune group companies, a global speaker, and a contributing editor to Forbes, Mike reveals the process companies use to transform disruptive technology into exponential opportunity. What led AirBus to design and fly the world's first electric airplane? How did BMW re-event material science "weaving carbon fiber car bodies from modern day looms and robotics"?

How should we think about artificial intelligence, and the creation of thinking machines, or autonomous cars? Is there such a thing as privacy? How do all of these companies transform disruption into growth opportunity?

Mike believes 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. Just as Apple transformed the mobile industry through the introduction of the iPhone, emerging technologies will offer exponential opportunities if we know how to capitalize on them. As Mike explains, "innovation is not a drawn-out process or the result of a "light bulb" moment, but rather the ability to apply the right idea, technical expertise, and business model to a strategic problem." Mike, who is exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, speaks passionately and with great insight about the importance of making disruptive technologies trump company culture and legacy competencies— not the other way around.

Mike has had an exceptional career - more than two decades of global operating experience in companies including HP, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and now PARC's world-renowned innovation center. Mike earned his MBA from the University of Virginia, and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Resident Scholar at the Stanford University Engineering School and Adjunct Professor of Digital Business at Imperial College London. He also serves on Smart Board London and advises commercial clients on the impact of emerging technology in their industries.

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