Community
The people affiliated with, and supportive of, the work on this site — colleagues, co-authors, and friends across the fields it touches.
One Degree Dispatch
One Degree Dispatch helps industrial leaders — and the technology and service providers that sell to them — reduce decision latency, redesign authority and operating models, and build organizations that can adapt faster without losing control. Mike, Ryan, and Sudeep frequently work together on conceptual development, thought leadership, and open dialogue to help people across industries think about decision architecture and technology adoption.
Enterprise AI Strategist · New York
David Borish is an independent Enterprise AI Strategist, keynote speaker, and author based in New York. He created the Open-Prem Inflection Point framework and partnered with IBM to deliver the Open-Prem Strategy Accelerator workshop, and advises Fortune 500 organizations on AI deployment. He serves as a guest lecturer and mentor at New York University, holds two patents, and has multiple successful exits across 25 years building at the edge of what's possible — from co-creating the first VR headset sold on television with Shark Tank's Daymond John, to developing the first high-speed 360-degree camera technology adopted by the NFL and NRL.
Ecosystem Leader & Field CTO, IBM
Matt Konwiser is Ecosystem Leader and Field CTO at IBM, where he works with executives and boards on which AI use cases are worth pursuing, which risks are worth taking seriously, and which governance frameworks separate projects that deliver from ones that quietly fail. His career spans network engineering, marketing, technical, partner, sales, services, and product roles — breadth he sees as core to how he evaluates technology decisions. Beyond IBM, he serves as a board advisor to three companies, co-hosts the AI Diatribe podcast, writes a regular AI column for CFO Intelligence Magazine, and sits on the AI Advisory Council at GTIA. He writes and speaks on AI governance, agentic AI, workforce transformation economics, and the physical cost of AI infrastructure — arguing that AI bullishness and AI risk awareness aren't contradictory positions.
Human-Centered AI Strategist & Executive Educator
Liz Ngonzi is a global human-centered AI strategist, executive educator, platform architect, and leadership advisor, helping leaders and institutions navigate AI-driven transformation with greater clarity, accountability, and human-centered leadership. Her work integrates leadership, governance, executive education, strategic communication, and AI-enabled transformation to move institutions from experimentation toward responsible, real-world implementation — spanning executive education, strategic advisory, AI-native leadership experiences, collaborative intelligence environments, and human-centered AI ecosystems designed to strengthen communication, decision-making, workforce transformation, and institutional capability.
Senior Director, Boston Consulting Group (formerly S&P Global)
Nathan Hunt is an industry leader in content marketing who created the content marketing function at S&P Global, building a team that integrates social media, podcasting, video production, events, strategic partnerships, digital marketing, and SEO. His focus on analytics, optimization, and innovation drives continuous improvement in content performance.
Retired Security, Risk & Technology Executive · Industry Analyst
Martin Whitworth is a retired security, risk, and technology executive — CISO, CTRO, and equivalent roles — and industry analyst, with more than 40 years working in information and cyber security, IT, cryptography, and enterprise and technology risk across multiple industries. He is also a start-up and board advisor, public speaker, and a steady advocate for plain language in a field too often without it.
Institutional Governance & Organizational Design Advisor
Shalini Rajoo works on institutional coherence — the operating foundations, accountability structures, and trust systems that determine whether an organization holds together under pressure. Drawing on a career across government, high-stakes litigation, and senior in-house roles at global corporations, she has seen a consistent pattern: institutions erode not for lack of talent or ambition, but because leadership behavior drifts from institutional expectations, accountability becomes selective, and trust is built heroically instead of systematically. She holds an LLM from Northwestern University with a Certificate in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, an LLM, LLB, and B.Soc.Sc. from the University of Natal, and is admitted to the bar of New York.
Founder, Virtue · Author & Podcast Host
Reid Blackman, Ph.D., is the author of The Ethical Nightmare Challenge (2026) and Ethical Machines (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022), and host of the Ethical Machines podcast. He leads Virtue, the AI ethics consultancy he founded, building responsible AI programs and training for organizations including Amazon, Etsy, Kraft Heinz, Merck, US Bank, and Nationwide. He has advised the Canadian government on federal AI regulation, was a founding member of EY's External AI Advisory Board, and served as an external senior advisor to the Deloitte AI Institute. A keynote speaker to the FBI, NASA, and the World Economic Forum, his work has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, CNN, the BBC, Forbes, and Fox News, with writing in Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. Before founding Virtue, he was a professor of philosophy at Colgate University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Founder, The Future Solving Company · Author & Keynote Speaker
Brian Evergreen is the author of Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of AI, named a Next Big Idea Club “Must-Read” and one of Thinkers50's Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2024. In 2025 he was named one of Edelman's Top 50 AI Creators You Need to Know and one of Thinkers50's Top 30 Thinkers Redefining Leadership. He advises some of the world's most valuable companies on positioning for the AI era, drawing on experience at Accenture, AWS, and Microsoft, and guest lectures at the Kellogg School of Management on frameworks that have supported over $20B of investment. He is founder of The Future Solving Company, advisor to more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies, President of The Future Solving Club, and host of the Future Solving podcast. His work has been featured on Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, CIO, VentureBeat, the Next Big Idea Club, and Thinkers50.
Organizations
Councils, advisory boards, and institutes Sudeep is formally affiliated with.
The Conference Board is a global nonprofit think tank and business membership organization founded in 1916. It serves more than 2,000 member companies — including most of the Fortune 500 — through research, economic data, executive networks, and events, operating through five specialized centers and more than 150 councils that facilitate peer-to-peer learning among senior executives.
Council Member, Innovation Leadership Council
Sudeep is a council member of The Conference Board's Innovation Leadership Council, currently led by Nick Davis and formerly led by Rita Shor and Anne Greer.
Board Advisor, Global Innovation and Transformation Institute
Sudeep serves as a board advisor for the Global Innovation and Transformation Institute, led by John Metselaar.
The World Economic Forum is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, with a stated mission of “improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders.” Headquartered in Switzerland, it convenes roughly 3,000 members annually in Davos each January, alongside regional meetings, research publications, and ongoing initiatives connecting corporate leaders, government officials, academics, and civil society around global challenges.
Member, AI Transformation of Industries Initiative
Sudeep is a member of the WEF's AI Transformation of Industries Initiative, part of the WEF's AI Global Alliance.
Founding Member, Transitioning Materials Systems Initiative
Sudeep is a founding member of the WEF's Transitioning Materials Systems Initiative, part of the WEF's Centre for Energy and Materials.
LNS Research is a membership-based advisory firm that serves chief operating officers and industrial leaders seeking to optimize their operations. It provides data-driven research, benchmarking, and strategic advisory support focused on industrial transformation and productivity improvement, combining proprietary research frameworks, exclusive executive events, and tailored analyst guidance to help member companies improve margins, throughput, and product development success.
Board Member, The COO Council
Sudeep is a board member of The COO Council, an exclusive peer network for chief operating officers and senior operational executives from leading manufacturing companies, convened through LNS Research to collaborate on operating models, safety, M&A integration, and organizational culture.