Speakers

4x-Emmy winner. 3x-author. Global speaker. Charity auctioneer. Proud mom.

Molly Grantham is the founder of the Bet On Yourself movement. She hosts sold-out Summits and Retreats and created The Wave, a thriving online community for professionals committed to personal growth. Delivering more than 100 keynotes each year, Molly blends humor, candor, and practical insight to help audiences embrace reinvention and lead with greater confidence.

Her work has made her one of the nation’s most experienced live communicators, speaking, interviewing, and leading conversations in front of millions over nearly three decades.

In 2024, Molly walked away from a 27-year journalism career at the height of her profession—leaving her role as the #1-rated anchor in a top-20 U.S. television market, where she anchored 20 live broadcasts each week—to build a national platform inspiring others to bet on themselves.

Living the message she teaches, Molly also became a professionally trained charity auctioneer, helping nonprofits across the country raise record-breaking funds. (She raised more than $10 million in just the past 18 months!)

She is adept at speaking live to audiences of 100,000, interviewing Hollywood celebrities, CEOs, and NFL stars, and has appeared on CNN, the Today show, CBS News, CBS Mornings, People, and HuffPost.

Her three books have been praised as “raw and relatable,” exploring the realities of building a meaningful career while raising a family.

Molly and her husband, Wes, have three children under the age of 15.

In her next life, Molly says she’d like to be a mermaid.

Manisha Khanna is a recognized thought leader and an established voice in artificial intelligence, leading global product marketing for SAS’s AI portfolio spanning Generative AI, Agentic AI and Analytics. She drives market strategy and evangelizes cutting-edge AI technologies while championing responsible AI implementation across industries and regulatory landscapes.

Manisha’s unique academic foundation – a double Master’s from two of India’s top-ranked institutions (an MBA from IIM, often called “the Indian Ivy League,” and an MS in Computer Science from IIT Madras, India’s equivalent of MIT), both with a specialization in AI – positions her as a rare voice bridging deep technical expertise with strategic business insight. This combination enables her to speak authoritatively to both engineering teams and boardrooms.

At SAS, her contributions were recognized with the CEO Award of Excellence.

As a published voice in outlets like The New Stack, TechTarget, and SAS Voices, Manisha has contributed thought leadership on agentic AI, trustworthy AI, and AI governance. She is also a published author in IEEE, ACAMS, Singapore Computer Society journals where she has contributed seminal research on predictive analytics and generative AI topics. Her writing spans practical and strategic ground – from ethics and autonomy in agentic AI systems, to algorithmic trust and ROI, to building foundations for enterprise AI success.

Earlier in her career, she demonstrated transformational leadership in analytics at Standard Chartered Bank, where she spearheaded digital transformation across 30+ markets and established a Global Centre of Excellence for risk management – an initiative that earned the bank the ‘Best Data Analytics Initiative’ at the MEA Innovation Awards 2022.

Today, Manisha collaborates with analysts, customers, and industry stakeholders to solve complex business challenges while ensuring ethical AI deployment. A passionate advocate for talent development, she champions pragmatic applications of AI that supplement human capabilities – making her an influential voice in shaping the future of responsible, sustainable AI adoption.