Larry Keeley is a world renowned speaker, innovation consultant, and president and co-founder of Doblin, the innovation practice of Monitor Group, which was founded by Michael Porter and is one of the world's leading global consulting practices. BusinessWeek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus who are changing the field, and cited Doblin for having many of the most sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness. Larry also teaches innovation strategy at Illinois Institute of Technology and at the Institute of Design in Chicago, the first design school in the U.S. with a Ph.D. program.

Helen Walters is a writer and editor at Doblin and Monitor Group, and was previously innovation and design editor at BusinessWeek. She is the TED conference’s official on-site blogger and has some 13,600 followers on Twitter, while her daily blog of innovation-related updates, Thought You Should See This, has over 20,000 subscribers. She is still a regular writer on innovation and design, is a contributing editor to her alma mater, Creative Review, and contributes opinion pieces to publications including Design Observer, Fast Company and Core77.com.