Senior Director of the Global Office of Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Walmart Inc.

Donald Fan serves as senior director of the Global Office of Culture, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Walmart Inc. In that role, Donald has been responsible for leading various functional areas at different times, including strategy development, marketing & communications, analytics, business insights, program design & implementation, and stakeholder relations. Before it, Donald worked in Walmart Information System Division with various technical and analytical roles.

Donald provides thought leadership in the subject areas like digital transformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, workforce transformation through published articles, public speeches, and panel discussions at various venues.

Donald volunteers his service and leadership by serving on various boards, including the Women Business Collaborative Advisory Board, Leadership Board of Diversity MBA Magazine, Advisory Board of LinkedIn, Business Intelligence Board of the Chief Learning Officer Magazine, and others.

Donald taught college in China before he came to the United States for graduate studies.

Founder and CEO, Kromatic

Tristan Kromer is the founder of Kromatic works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue. (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn) With his remaining hours, Tristan volunteers his time with early stage startups and blogs at Kromatic Blog.

President, Quest Management Inc.

Peter Merrill is a Keynote Speaker on Innovation and has keynoted at conferences in cities such as Dubai, Mumbai and Shanghai.

He began his career in R&D in a major UK corporation and later as Chief Executive of a leading Design Brand in that corporation he led Innovation in one of the most demanding markets.

He is one of North America’s foremost authorities on Management Systems which he has implemented in such innovative companies as IBM, A.I.G., and BlackBerry.

He was founding chair of the ASQ Innovation Division and currently chairs the Canadian national committee to ISO/TC279 the Technical Committee on Innovation Management.

He is author of the books “Innovation Generation,” “Innovation Never Stops,” and his most recent book is “ISO 56000, Building Innovation into your QMS.” He writes the Innovation Column for Quality Progress.

International Business Adjunct Professor, East Los Angeles College

Ruth DePieri is an International Business Adjunct Professor at East Los Angeles College. She started working there in 2009, and before that, she was a teacher in the Montebello Unified School District. She also worked as a Business Communication Instructor of Professional Development at the California State University, Los Angeles. She also has experience working as a Foreign Trade Advisor at Banco do Brasil S.A. When working in Brazil for Banco do Brasil S.A. she met her husband and then moved back to the United States to be an International Trade professor. Her areas of interest include Global Trade/Logistics, Import/Export Procedures, and Compliance. Ruth is also a great patron of the Los Angeles Opera League where she has served as a past President.

Founder & CEO, Innovationedge LLC.

Cheryl Perkins is a thought leader in strategy and a creative catalyst in brand-building initiatives that contribute to rewarding consumer experiences and improved business performance. She was identified as one of the Top 25 Champions of Innovation by BusinessWeek magazine, named as a top executive driving vision within the consumer goods industry by Consumer Goods Technology, and awarded the “Excellence in Innovation Award” from the Asia Pacific’s Human Resource Management Congress for fostering and promoting a culture of innovation throughout businesses to drive revenue and growth.

As President and CEO of Innovationedge, LLC, Cheryl is leading companies across many industries to build strategic capabilities and define sustainable growth and innovation opportunities. Her work involves defining revenue-generating adjacencies that extend brand equities and designing and implementing organizational structures, processes, systems, and tools that enable open innovation and growth. These include but are not limited to growth incubators for new business development, design capabilities, strategic alliances and partnerships, environmental sustainability, safety, and regulatory affairs, disruptive technologies and product brokering, portfolio management, and analytics as an aid to understand user and customer behavior.

Cheryl has many years of experience directing growth and innovation and served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, reporting to the CEO and Chairman of the Board.

She is also a passionate keynote speaker who has inspired audiences all over the world sharing her strategies and insights with C-level executives and innovation leaders.