Linda Bernardi

Entrepreneur, Author, Co-Founder & CEO of XdMind Inc.; Expert in Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Technology Disruption & Innovation

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Linda Bernardi Biography

Linda Bernardi lives and breathes technology disruption and innovation. She is currently Co-Founder and CEO of XdMind Inc., a revolutionary company using AI to dynamically adapt music to video gaming. Today, technology is evolving like never before, and Bernardi is involved in cutting-edge technologies across all sectors, such as Finance, Retail, Healthcare, High Tech, Logistics, Automotive, Consumer Goods, and others. Her focus is to enable all enterprises to imagine, disrupt, and innovate at record pace, making the impossible possible. She works with startups around the globe, as well as large companies, to enable and inspire enterprises to build a culture of mindful innovation. She loves to practice the beautiful Art of Imagination – the first step towards innovation.

Bernardi believes that the best ideas are the ‘crazy’ ideas, stemming from a keen sense of unbounded imagination, and she works to unleash people’s imaginations. Over the last few years, she has focused much of her work on how to disrupt and innovate in today’s virtual/disconnected world and the art of leveraging the Digital Workforce to enhance innovation in companies. Unless we mindfully and creatively adopt new ways of thinking about innovation, we will not succeed in this new world.

Bernardi’s background is equally focused on her history as a highly successful serial entrepreneur and a high-level executive. She is a very active technology disruptor and a passionate innovator. She helps clients imagine, develop a vision, build products, reshape, and re-imagine their future. As a well-known author in technology disruption and innovation, she reaches thousands of people each year, helping reshape companies. Today, she is embarking on her most ambitious startup—connecting the world of video gaming and music dynamically via AI and machine learning. Like many other ideas, she is told this is ‘crazy’ and impossible, and she welcomes the challenge!

Bernardi’s academic and professional background is in data and AI, focused on understanding large-scale data to build the best (and always evolving) customer experiences and products. She was the founder and CEO of the first IoT company in the world, where she helped people imagine and realize a world where everything would be connected to the internet and how this would change the world. She was told it was impossible! Her other startups have disrupted numerous areas of technology. In her role as Chief Innovation Officer at IBM, she was involved with introducing Watson to the world and enabling IBM’s Fortune 100 companies to disrupt and innovate at a rapid rate. She was SVP and head of products at Element AI in Montreal, building AI products for enterprises. In her role as Head of Strategy at Consensys, Bernardi was involved in blockchain and cryptocurrency (Ethereum) adoption, especially by the financial sector. She also built the largest clinical trial software product used by all pharmaceutical companies today and large-scale satellite detection and pattern recognition systems used by Aerospace and Defense today. Bernardi purposefully works across all sectors, never limiting the possibilities of disruption and innovation, and always practicing the art of imagination.

To further promote the concepts of disruption and innovation, she authored her first book, ProVoke (2011), discussing the necessity of cultures of innovation. Her second book, The Inversion Factor (2017), received the Best Business Theory Award at MIT in 2018 and high praise from the WSJ. The Inversion Factor discusses how technologies such as AI, IoT, and blockchain, along with an open mindset, can allow us to build experiences, not just products. ‘Customer Experience’ is now at the core of all companies’ innovation agendas.

Bernardi’s graduate degree is in Applied Mathematics from UCLA. She is an avid learner, a relentless innovator, and excited to be part of your disruption and innovation journey.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/05/2024.

Linda Bernardi Speaking Topics

  • Linda Bernardi: Speaker, Innovator, Tech Entrepreneur

    Speaking Topics:

    • Disruption & Innovation
    • Emerging Technologies
    • AI-Enabling & Future-Proofing your business
    • Building sustainable innovative cultures
    • Leadership in highly competitive landscapes

    Industry Sectors:

    • Financial Services
    • Healthcare & Pharmaceutical
    • Technology Companies
    • Retail & Consumer Products
    • Hospitality & Industrial Products/Services

Linda Bernardi Videos

  • Linda Bernardi - Imagine, Disrupt, Innovate, Lead.
    Linda is on stage at a live event in 2024 talking about imagination, disruption, innovation, leadership, and limitless capacities for change!
  • Linda Bernardi - Professional Speaker | Disruptor | Tech Entrepreneur
    Linda Bernardi - Professional Speaker | Disruptor | Tech Entrepreneur
  • Linda Bernardi: Digital Disruption and Futureproofing Your Business
    Former IBM Chief Innovation Officer and Watson co-lead, Linda Bernardi, on digital innovation. By adopting disruptive technologies now, you are...

Linda Bernardi Books

  • Provoke: Why the Global Culture of Disruption is the Only Hope for Innovation
    Provoke: Why the Global Culture of Disruption is the Only Hope for Innovation
  • The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
    The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy

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