Steve Harmon

The browser. The smartphone. Cloud computing. AI. Every one of these shifts created trillions in new value and destroyed companies that saw it coming too late. The pattern is always the same — and it is always visible in advance if you know where to look. Steve Harmon has spent thirty years identifying these shifts before they reached consensus, advising companies from startups to the Fortune 500, and investing at the earliest stages of platform transitions. In 1999, he led the investment in the company whose technology became Google AdSense. This talk introduces the seven-signal Blueshift Framework — the same system he uses to advise AI companies navigating the current shift right now — and gives every person in the room a way to read what's coming next.

Based on his book "Blueshift," with a foreword by Vint Cerf, co-creator of the internet, and endorsements from Steve Jurvetson, Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, and Tim Draper.

"Platform shifts are obvious in hindsight. Blueshift makes them visible in real time." — REID HOFFMAN, co-founder of LinkedIn, bestselling author of Superagency

Attendee Results:

• Identify structural market shifts months or years before mainstream consensus
• Apply a seven-signal framework to any industry or investment thesis
• Understand why incumbents hesitate and how to exploit that window
• Recognize the control point in any emerging platform before it locks in
• Move from reactive to predictive in competitive strategy