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Salim Ismail Brings Exponential Ideas to MODEX 2026

Salim Ismail Keynote
April 14 | 9:00 AM
Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta
MODEX 2026
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You can view the current tsunami of technological change with fear, or if you’re like Salim Ismail, you can embrace it as a positive vehicle for disruption. “It’s allowing anybody in the world to innovate anywhere,” Ismail explained while making a speech in Barcelona. This April, you can connect with Ismail in Atlanta during his MODEX 2026 keynote “Exponential AI Supply Chains: Transforming Logistics with AI and the ExO Methodology.”

Meet Salim Ismail

Ismail is a sought-after business strategist, who presents globally to the leaders of many of the world’s largest companies and Heads of State. He is the Founder and Chairman of OpenExO, which helps companies to implement the lessons from Exponential Organizations by emulating the world’s fastest growing companies. Salim is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several technology companies including Ångströ, which was acquired by Google. As a VP at Yahoo, he led Brickhouse, Yahoo!’s internal incubator. Ismail was also the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and currently serves on the Board of the XPRIZE Foundation.

The ExO Methodology Explained

Ismail popularized the Exo Methodology through his 2014 book Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper than Yours (and what to do about it).  In it, he states that the traditional method of companies growing through tremendous capital investment is unfit for current times. “This is neither a tenable nor an acceptable situation, especially when the challenges that face mankind in the twenty-first century will take every bit of the imagination and innovation we can muster,” Ismail writes.

The ExO framework is built around 11 key attributes that help organizations tap into outside resources, stay nimble, and make faster, smarter decisions. TED, Tesla, and GitHub are a few examples of companies that Ismail cites as ExOs.  He argues that any organization, large or small, can apply these principles to achieve results far beyond what traditional approaches allow.

The Limitations of Linear Thought

Ismail further expounds upon the challenges of our time and the need for ExO principles in an interview on startups.com with Jonathan Low. He explains that although humans are biologically programmed in a very linear way, world leaders must be able to recognize exponential growth and pivot to a different mindset. “We want to make sure that all business leaders wake up and realize the exponentiality of the problems and figure out ways of solving them,” he said.

Applying ExO Methodology to Logistics

The supply chain industry is facing exactly the kind of exponential disruption Ismail has spent his career studying. At MODEX 2026, he will show how applying ExO principles to logistics unlocks agility, efficiency, and resilience at scale — and how AI, IoT, blockchain, and autonomy are converging to create adaptive networks that can sense demand, self-optimize, and deliver with greater speed and precision than ever before.

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