Scott Kirsner
CEO and Co-Founder, Columnist
InnoLead, Boston Globe
Scott Kirsner is CEO and Co-Founder of InnoLead, a Boston-based media and events company that focuses on helping innovators in large organizations deliver results. Scott has spent two decades as a business journalist, columnist, and contributing editor at the Boston Globe, Wired Magazine, Fast Company, Variety, The New York Times, BusinessWeek and other publications. His focus on how innovations that matter get introduced to the world has taken him to the White House, the Sundance Film Festival, the United Nations, and the innovation labs of Google, Disney, General Motors, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, Marriott, and many other companies. Scott is the author of several books on innovation and technology, including a highly-acclaimed collaboration with George Lucas, “Inventing the Movies,” which explores the challenge of bringing new ideas to a century-old, change-resistant industry: Hollywood. He has been a speaker or moderator at Harvard Business School, the MIT R&D Conference, South by Southwest, the Consumer Electronics Show, HubSpot Inbound, New York Internet Week, the Churchill Club, Tijuana Inovadora, the Connected Health Symposium, and the NAB Futures Summit. Scott has also appeared on NBC's Today Show, NPR's Science Friday, the Discovery Channel, and WBUR's Radio Boston. He is the co-founder of a new nonprofit that is changing the way Boston is perceived by visitors, The Innovation Trail. It won a 2023 “Best of Boston” award from Boston Magazine: theinnovationtrail.org.