Areas of Expertise
● Innovation Guru ● Strategic design ● Smart manufacturing

About Larry

Larry Keeley is an innovation expert who has studied and analyzed companies for nearly four decades, developing the most efficient innovation methods. Larry is the President and co-founder of Doblin Inc, an innovation strategy firm known for pioneering comprehensive innovation systems that materially improve innovation success rates and innovation return on investment. Doblin is now a unit of Deloitte Consulting LLP, where Keeley serves as Managing Director.

Together with his colleagues, Larry has determined the Ten Types of Innovation that provide insight into corporate transformation. He is known for urging his clients to see their role as not to compete in a “winner takes all” environment but rather cooperate for mutual business benefit.

Since 1979 Keeley has worked with many global companies on innovation effectiveness, among them Abbott Labs, American Express, Apple, BlackRock, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Coty, Diageo, Ford, Gillette, GE, GM, Hallmark, Lloyds Banking Group, Mars, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Motorola, Novartis, P&G, Pfizer, Shell, Sony,Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, Zurich Financial Services and many others.

Keeley’s lectures and publications explain the strategic aspects of innovation and his books Ten Types of Innovation, the Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, codify much of the research and tradecraft that drives effective innovation, available in ten languages. Bloomberg Businessweek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus that are changing the field, and specifically cited Doblin for having many of the most sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness. They also separately selected Keeley as one of the 27 most influential designers in the world.

Keeley teaches graduate innovation strategy classes at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He lectures in executive education programs at Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also lectures at many other business schools worldwide. Collectively, Keeley has helped educate more than 5,300 Masters or PhD level innovation specialists worldwide. In 2016, Keeley was named one of the five global Deloitte Creative Tigers, used to deepen and shape the firm’s most valuable IP and client relationships.

Keeley was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Business Innovation in Boston. He was also a long time board member for Chicago Public Radio, where he worked to make it one of the most innovative public radio stations in the US.

Areas of Expertise
● Future of Work ● Artificial intelligence ● Exponentials ● Policy ● Law ● Ethics ● Robotics

About Neil

Neil Jacobstein chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View California. He served as the former President of Singularity University.

Neil is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Stanford University Media X Program, where his research focuses on augmented decision systems. He Chaired AAAI’s 17th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and continues to review technical papers for IAAI’s. In 2016, he became a founding member of the editorial board of AAAS Science Robotics. Neil has served as a technical consultant on AI research and development projects for DARPA, NSF, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army and Air Force, GM, Ford, Boeing, Applied Materials, NIST, and other agencies.

He was the CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a pioneering AI company, where he worked on AI industry and government application systems. He worked as a graduate research intern in Alan Kay’s Learning Research Group at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and was a consultant in PARC’s Software Concepts Group. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He has moderated Aspen Institute Socrates Programs on the technical and ethical implications of advanced technologies, and he coaches Socrates moderators.

Neil is deeply interdisciplinary and has a keen sense of how the arts and sciences can integrate. Since 1992, he has served as Chairman of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a 501c3 nanotechnology R&D organization. Neil contributed to the 2005 National Academy of Sciences workshop on the feasibility of molecular manufacturing, and the 2007 Foresight Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems. He is the primary author of the Foresight Guidelines for the responsible development of nanotechnology. Neil is in demand as an engaging speaker who can make complex topics clear to diverse audiences. He has given invited talks worldwide on the technical, business, and ethical implications of exponential technologies, such as AI, robotics, and atomically precise manufacturing. He is a member of AAAS, AAAI, IEEE, and ACM. Neil has served in a variety of executive and technical advisory roles for industry, nonprofit, and government organizations.

Areas of Expertise
● Augmented Reality ● Exponential Organizations ● Exponentials ● Virtual Reality ● Disruption

About Aaron

Aaron Frank is a researcher, writer, and lecturer at Singularity University. He is focused on the intersection of emerging technologies and accelerating change and is fascinated by the impact that both will have on business, society, and culture.

As a writer, his articles have appeared online in Vice’s Motherboard, Wired UK and Forbes. As a speaker, Aaron has lectured for audiences and organizations including the CIA, The Department of Defense, The Coca-Cola Company, AAAS, Under Armour, Headquarters Air Force and more.

In his talks, Aaron concentrates on Exponential Organizations and on the fact that in the past few years, the business environment has seen a radical shift in the way organizations navigate the digital age. This has led him to "Exo", the Exponential Organization, which uses information technologies to rapidly scale and accelerate growth. Also, he focuses on the topic referred to as The Experience Machine, where he explores worlds of augmented and virtual reality. As we know, virtual and augmented reality technologies have witnessed an extraordinary pace of development in recent months and years. Beyond obvious gaming applications, everything from education, healthcare, training and development, and more will be enhanced by these new media tools. Aaron takes on the challenge and strives to show us how will the society change in the coming decades, as we create these new digitally mediated realities.

Prior to joining SU, Aaron worked at a Washington DC-based life science firm. There, Aaron managed patient advocacy campaigns, programs to expand awareness for HIV/AIDS cure research, and assisted the announcement for the first ever ethics guidelines for the bioengineering of trees.

Areas of Expertise
● Cybersecurity ● Policy ● Law ● Ethics ● Cryptocurrency

About Marc

Marc Goodman is a New York Times Best-Selling author, global strategist and consultant focused on the profound change technology is having on security, business and international affairs. He is the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and has spent his career diving deep into the digital underground, advising industry leaders, global policy makers and heads of government on transnational cyber risk and intelligence. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in international cyber crime and terrorism working with organizations such as INTERPOL, the UN Counterterrorism Task Force, NATO, the FBI and the US Government.

Goodman frequently advises industry leaders and global policy makers in more than 70 countries around the world and provides unique insight into the risks and opportunities associated with newly emerging technologies. His professional experiences include working as a street police officer, undercover investigator and counter-terrorism strategist, as well as briefing myriad cabinet ministers and heads of government, including the White House. Mr. Goodman’s current areas of research include the security implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, crypto-currencies, synthetic biology, virtual reality, Internet of Things and the future of financial crime. Mr. Goodman holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University and a Master of Science in the Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics. In addition, he has served as a Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s MediaX Laboratory. He is on the advisory board of The AI Initiative, part of The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on International Security.

Goodman is the author of Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World, from Random House/Doubleday. Future Crimes is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best-Seller, was selected as Amazon’s Best Business Book of 2015 and has been named one of The Washington Post’s Top Ten Best Books of 2015. Future Crimes is in its ninth printing and has been translated into 14 languages.

He has published widely on a variety of emerging technology issues including articles with the The Economist, Forbes, Oxford University Press and the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and has conducted interviews with BBC, CNN, Fox News, the Washington Post, LA Times, Larry King, and many others.

Areas of Expertise
● Biotech ● Exponentials ● Medicine ● Neuroscience

About Daniel

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, entrepreneur and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as Faculty Chair for Medicine at Singularity University since SU’s inception as well as founding and being chair of Exponential Medicine. Exponential medicine represents a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential use in biomedicine and healthcare.

Following his undergraduate degrees from Brown University and the medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Paediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital and fellowships in haematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.

He has multiple patents on medical devices, immunology and stem cell related patents through his faculty positions at Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the paediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California, San Francisco. Daniel was selected as a fellow of the inaugural 2016 class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Daniel’s academic research has focused on stem cell biology, regenerative medicine, stem cell derived immunotherapies for cancer, bioengineering human T-cell differentiation and humanized animal models. His clinical work has concentrated on bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for malignant and non-malignant diseases in adults and children, developing medical devices enabling stem cell based regenerative medicine, including marrow derived stem cell harvesting, processing and delivery. Dr. Kraft has recently founded IntelliMedicine focused on enabling connected, data driven and integrated personalized medicine.

He is also the inventor of MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for a minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow and has founded RegenMed Systems; a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies. Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for an astronaut selection.

Areas of Expertise
● Corporate Innovation ● Entrepreneurship ● Exponential Organizations ● Future Forecasting ● GGC-General ● Facilitator ● Disruption ● Ethics

About Pascal

Pascal is Singularity University’s chair of Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation and the Co-Founder of radical Ventures. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, global impact and culture; inspiring, educating and empowering entrepreneurs, corporate irritants and change makers to tackle the most intractable problems of our time.

He has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believed it can profoundly impact the betterment of humankind.

He got started on the net even before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology start-ups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations and has invested into early-stage tech companies. Pascal led Mozilla’s Open Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD and headed up Mozilla’s Office as the Chair. As Principal at Google.org, he invested into social impact organizations around the globe. Furthermore, he founded the non-profit organization Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the “GyShiDo” (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, “The Heretic”, which is read by tens of thousands of change-makers globally. He is the author of the published book “The Heretic – Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs”.

Pascal frequently speaks and writes about the magic and potential that happens at the intersection of technology, culture & global impact. He is also a trained Co-Active executive coach working with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. Most of all – Pascal loves to work with change makers who want to, and can, make things better.