Rod Brown

Bio

Rod has spent 30+ years studying why organizations fail to measure what people truly contribute and what to do about it. He is the creator of the Contributive Value framework and author (with co-author Charles Donly) of the forthcoming Don’t Let AI Eat You Alive (Globe Pequot / Prometheus, 2027). He has held leadership roles at Xerox, Dell (contract), and Oracle (PeopleSoft), and has served on the boards of Greater MSP and MnSCU–MSU Mankato.

And -Charles Donly is CEO of F2 AI, which is digitizing and modernizing U.S. shipbuilding using AI, machine learning, and edge computing. He's spent 20+ years building and leading global engineering teams across defense, med-tech, and enterprise AI and has a rare gift for making complex systems legible to anyone in the room. He is also Head of Technical Advisory Board in Austin, Texas.
Together: one built the human framework for measuring contribution. The other builds AI systems that operate at the edge of what's technically possible. This session brings both perspectives to a question every worker and leader needs to answer right now.