Whether you work with chatbots, programmatic advertising, artificial intelligence, or any other emerging field, it's hard work being an innovator. That's part of why I launched Innovation Congress, a conference July 18th-19th in New York - for some of today's top innovators to get together and discuss innovation.
But, who inspires the inspirational among us? I wanted to get a sense of who today's top innovators look to when they want to get inspired, so I asked some Innovation Congress speakers. Some of the responses were expected; others surprised me. Here's what I found.