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Michael Walters
Chief Human Resources Officer
Samsung Semiconductor
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Michael Walters is the CHRO for Samsung Semiconductor, a multi-billion dollar provider of leading edge memory solutions and chip manufacturer that powers the critical industries such as smartphones, electric vehicles, and hyperscale datacenters. He leads all talent related functions for this business and oversees their community relations initiatives. Michael has served in HR leadership roles in a wide variety of industries to include United Health Group, Microsoft, Roper Technologies, and Nielsen Entertainment
Michael has taught HR management at the University of Washington for twelve years and is a frequent speaker at SHRM events across the country. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Human Resources Management from Loyola Marymount University and a bachelor's in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jonah Berger
James G. Campbell associate professor of marketing
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
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Jonah Berger is the James G. Campbell associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies social influence and social epidemics, or how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on and become popular. Berger explains the key emotional and societal factors that push people to share a link or mail a video – the basic human drivers that power sharing and word of mouth, one of the most credible and influential forms of advertising. He believes we are too focused on the medium – Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter only serve as tools that amplify this very human process. The author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Berger examines how decision making and social dynamics generate collective outcomes such as social contagion and trends. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, he is an exciting and fresh voice on viral marketing.