Corporations & Associations

Former Chair and CEO Emeritus of BET Networks, Debra Lee is joining AT&T’s board of directors, becoming its fourth female member. Her appointment recognizes her position as an influential leader in the entertainment and media industry. During three decades at BET Networks, Lee saw it become the first African-American company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and later, acquired by Viacom for $3 billion in 2001. Along with her work at BET, Lee founded Leading Woman Defined, an annual gathering of prominent African-American women, and served on the board of prominent organizations such as Twitter, Marriott, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and Paley Center.

Best-selling author of The Sports Gene, APB speaker David Epstein published his new book, the #1 NYT best-selling Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World to rave reviews from Malcolm Gladwell, The New York Times, NPR and more.

CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, anchor of Inside Politics and speaker John King addressed President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking Congresswoman Elijah Cummings and Baltimore. King urged viewers to see the “pattern in the President’s attacks,” specifically the underlying themes of racism followed by the subsequent backtracking on his comments. He stated that the President’s retraction of his statements does not mask the “original intent of the message.” 

Are you a Shark Week fanatic? APB's Paul de Gelder will be hosting shows that you won't want to miss! An Australian Navy diver who lost two limbs in a brutal shark attack that changed his life, de Gelder has inspired audiences around the world with his riveting story of triumph over tragedy.

APB speakers Ken Jennings, the all-time Jeopardy! champion, and Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess players of all time, both have faced head-to-head against artificial intelligence machines. Featured in Forbes, the two challenges are considered to be some of the greatest the world has seen. 

Best known for his groundbreaking research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), APB speaker Alex “Sandy” Pentland and his artificial intelligence (AI) company, Cogito, is featured in TIME.  

Are you more likely to succeed from deliberate practice or by gaining experience in varied areas? Two APB speakers—best-selling author of Range, David Epstein, and Senior Editor-at-Large of Fortune, Geoff Colvin—each argue that one of these paths is the best way to find success.

July 20th, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first moon Landing. On this day, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first humans to ever land on the moon. This monumental event not only pioneered space travel and exploration, but united Americans in the achievement of a near impossible dream.

From Coco Gauff’s triumph on the courts to electrified fans chanting, “Equal Pay!” as TEAM USA took home the gold at the Women’s World Cup, the eyes of the world were on women. Minutes after the USWNT won its second consecutive championship, NIKE aired an ad called “Never Stop Winning” that captured the mood. “I believe,” the narrator said, “a whole generation of girls and boys will go out and play and say things like, ‘I want to be like Megan Rapinoe when I grow up.’” Rapinoe and her teammates Alex Morgan, Rose Lavelle, Tobin Heath and others have fought hard for equal pay and investment in women’s soccer. As tennis legend Billie Jean King tweeted, “These athletes have brought more attention, support, & pride to women’s sport…It is long past time to pay them what they rightly deserve.”

New York Times columnist and CBS correspondent David Pogue was featured on this week’s episode of CBS Sunday Morning where he discussed his article “Seeing Red: Mankind Gets Closer to Mars.” A leading speaker on the impacts of innovation on business and science, Pogue is known for his informative, entertaining and insightful keynotes on trending technologies and how they disrupt life as we know it.