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Alistair Croll (he/him)

Chair, STARTUPFEST - Elevator World Tour - FWD50

Alistair makes early-stage companies improve their go-to-market strategies, and works with some of the world’s largest firms on business model innovation. He also helps governments understand the impact of technology on society, ethics, and resiliency.

As an entrepreneur, Alistair co-founded Coradiant; the Year One Labs accelerator; and a variety of other startups. He has also launched and chaired some of the world’s leading conferences on emerging technology, including Startupfest, Strata, Cloud Connect, FWD50, Bitnorth, Scaletech, and more.

Alistair is the author of four books on technology and entrepreneurship, including the best-selling Lean Analytics, which has been translated into eight languages and is in its tenth printing in China. He speaks internationally on topics such as data science, innovation, scaling startups, digital government, AI, and applying critical thinking to technology. A graduate of Dalhousie University, he has also been a visiting executive on data science and critical thinking at Harvard Business School.

Sessions

Startupfest

Workshop: Subversive Marketing

How to craft novel go-to-market strategies that give you an unfair advantage and put your competitors on the defensive. See More.
Startupfest

Right Here, Right Now: What Comes After the Attention Economy?

Right here, right now is where you consume Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. We live at the receiving end of endless information, a flood that's about to become a torrent thanks to Generative AI. See More.
Startupfest

That's a Wrap on Day 1!

Join Alistair as he recaps the day and tells you what we have instore for day 2! See More.
Startupfest

Welcome Back!

Welcome back! Join us as we kick off day 2! See More.
Startupfest

That's a Wrap on Day 2!

Join Alistair as he recaps the day and tells you what we have instore for our final day! See More.