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Innovation Leadership: Embracing Curiosity, Collaboration and Speed in the Age of AI 

Steve Lerch 

In this high-energy, inspiring, and practical session, Steve Lerch, a former Google Executive and Innovation Evangelist, reveals the human strategies driving the most innovative teams. Strategies to prioritize collaboration, maximize feedback, and embrace new tactics and tools like artificial intelligence. Regardless of your role in the food service industry, we'll explore practical strategies to help you and your team build an innovative culture that can thrive in a quickly changing and increasingly technical world. You'll leave this session feeling inspired, motivated, and capable of embracing innovation and more fully utilizing AI. 

Unleashing Passion, Purpose & Performance in Younger Generations

Mark Perna

Join dynamic performance expert Mark C. Perna as he unveils the groundbreaking innovations for working with today’s younger generations. Educators, employers, parents, and community leaders will benefit from these proven strategies to bridge the generational divide, engage and retain young people, and equip them with a powerful competitive advantage. 

Purposeful education is the heartbeat of this inspiring call to action. Students who experience education with purpose can then pursue passion-driven employment at all levels of learning and experience. Though they’re often painted in a negative light, they have incredible potential to change the world. We just have to unleash it. As the skills gap widens, we must tap into the vast creativity, intelligence, and potential of the next generation. 

A father to two successful young people, Mark delivers: 

  • Key insights on how they think, what makes them tick, and how they make decisions 

  • Tools to connect, engage, and answer why to inspire their greatest effort 

  • Clear action steps you can implement immediately both in your home and professional life 

  • Strategies to move young people from static purpose to active purpose so they can achieve at a higher level 

Your organization can attract, engage, and empower the best young talent today. With practical generational insights, innovative best practices, and signature inspiration, Mark’s nationally acclaimed methods will open your eyes to the amazing promise of the younger generations. Supersize your outcomes with the younger generations and engage them in learning like never before!