Singularity Experts
Trusted subject matter experts (SMEs) aligned with our key taxonomy areas. These distinguished professionals are available through our open enrollment program and our Speaker Bureau, offering organizations and event planners the opportunity to engage a Singularity Expert for speaking engagements, conferences, or specialized events.
You'll notice some of our Experts include the title of Fellow. Singularity Fellows are distinguished collaborators within the Singularity Expert community, recognized for their exceptional contributions to their respective areas of expertise. They play a vital role in advancing thought leadership, fostering community engagement, and expanding the network of experts, while also participating in speaking engagements and pro bono initiatives that further Singularity's mission.
NFW Founder & CEO Luke Haverhals, PhD, pioneers circular, low-carbon materials science. Named IPOEF Inventor of the Year & WEF Tech Pioneer, he's reshaping fashion & footwear with renewable, high-performance materials.
Manuel Tânger is a faculty member at Singularity University, specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship with a strong emphasis on exponential technologies. A co-founder of Beta-i, Manuel has been instrumental in developing a comprehensive collaborative innovation methodologies, now applied globally across multiple industries. His leadership in initiatives like the Beta-i Tech Labs for AI prototyping, and pioneering open innovation programs such as Free Electrons and (Re)Set, has established new standards in the energy and sustainability sectors. With a rich international background from living in Brazil, China, India, Europe, and more, Manuel's global perspective enhances his approach to innovation. This diversity is evident in Beta-i's expansion with offices in Sao Paulo, Lisbon, Brussels, and Boston, reflecting its worldwide influence. His academic foundation in Physics, culminating in a top-graded thesis under Nobel laureate Gerard t’Hooft, complements his professional achievements. Manuel's keen interest in complexity theory and complex networks further enriches his understanding of the interconnected challenges modern enterprises face. A committed learner and a father of three, Manuel's personal and professional lives are deeply intertwined with his passion for advancing human and technological potential.
Visionary strategist & educator with 30+ years in AI, blockchain & digital transformation. Leads MIT Sloan & Yale programs, advises Fortune 500s, and pioneered Illinois' "Smart State" vision. Expert in exponential thinking & innovation.
CEO of Shift Thinking, Harvard PhD & MIT researcher. Expert in mental models & exponential thinking. HBR contributor, Singularity University faculty, and keynote speaker helping leaders drive transformative growth.
Mark Jackson: trusted industry authority with proven expertise, strategic insight, and a passion for driving impact. A collaborative leader delivering excellence and lasting contributions across organizations.
Mark R. Hatch is an esteemed entrepreneur and speaker renowned for his expertise in advanced manufacturing, innovation, and digital strategy. He has held pivotal roles in various industries, including packaged goods, healthcare, and retail, focusing on disruptive technology and intrapreneurship. With a track record of raising significant investments, Mark has orchestrated strategic partnerships with major players like Autodesk, GE, and Ford. His insights have been shared at prestigious platforms such as the White House, Singularity University, TEDx, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mark's prominence extends to major media outlets like ABC, CNN, and The New York Times, where he has been quoted. As an author, he has penned influential books on the maker movement, solidifying his reputation as a thought leader. Holding faculty positions at Singularity University and Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business, Mark shapes minds and empowers organizations with his deep knowledge of innovation and strategy.
Chief AI Officer & Innovation expert at Spindox. Author, professor, and ISO advisor shaping global tech standards. Speaker on AI, digitalization & future scenarios. Decades of experience driving innovation worldwide.
CEO of world's first nonprofit cybersecurity firm. "Most Innovative IT Leader of the Netherlands" & EU Women Innovators Prize winner. Pioneering ethical entrepreneurship & cybersecurity innovation.
Tech author, analyst & speaker on AI, 3D printing & autonomous vehicles. Co-author of 2 MIT Press books with 300K+ copies sold. Expert at Singularity University helping leaders navigate emerging tech.
Physician, entrepreneur & AI strategist. CEO of HealthLab, ex-Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Lab founder. Built & sold companies to Microsoft & WebMD. Keynote speaker at The Economist & Singularity University.
AI & data science executive, global keynote speaker, and Wharton PhD. Built 5+ AI startups, advised Fortune 500s, published in NYT & WSJ, featured in Freakonomics. Lecturer at UT Austin's McCombs School.
Aerospace engineer & founder of Free Flight Research Lab. Ex-Airbus, NASA PI, CTO of Outpost Technologies. Pioneering robotic paragliders & atmospheric sensing for climate science, wildfire research & flight safety.
Visionary entrepreneur Naveen Jain founded Moon Express, Viome & InfoSpace, tackling humanity's greatest challenges through bold innovation in health, space & education. Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year & UN Humanitarian Innovation Award recipient.
Cybersecurity executive & corporate director. Helped scale Magnet Forensics to a $1.8B acquisition. Senior Fellow at CIGI, faculty at Singularity University. Bridging tech leadership & public policy.
AI & robotics pioneer, Stanford scholar, Singularity University Chair. Ex-CEO of Teknowledge; advisor to NASA, DARPA & Fortune 500s. Venture Partner, Aspen Fellow, and trusted voice on AI ethics and exponential tech.
Stanford HAI Research Manager leading the AI Index. Cited by NYT, Bloomberg & more; his work shapes AI policy across 7+ nations. Oxford MPhil, Harvard AB. Fellow at CIGI & sought-after speaker on AI governance.
AI & human potential expert, SHRM Executive-in-Residence, Co-Founder of Niremia Collective & TransformativeTech.org. Former Epic Games, Activision-Blizzard exec. Wharton MBA. Faculty, Singularity University & Stanford.
Chief Solution Officer & innovation leader. Amazon #1 bestselling author. Faculty Chair at Singularity University. 15+ years in corporate innovation, venture capital & startups. US Navy veteran driving mission-led change.
PhD mathematician turned global tech CEO. Founder of Feebe AI advisory. Former Capgemini ANZ CEO. Pragmatic optimist exploring AI's impact on work, business & society—championing human-centered innovation.
Entrepreneur, executive coach & innovation expert with 20+ years across hospitality, music & marketing. Certified by Tony Robbins, Gallup & Singularity University. Empowering leaders to scale businesses while optimizing human performance.
Entrepreneur & thought leader in tech, finance & impact. Co-founder of a DeFi quant fund, 3x startup founder, ex-Singularity University Fellow, Stanford lecturer. Advises mission-driven startups on strategy & growth.
Onicio Leal has dedicated 14 years to developing data-driven innovation projects focused on exponential technologies and Artificial Intelligence across 15 countries on all continents. He is a certified global faculty member at Singularity University, specializing in data and digital health. Onicio holds a PhD in Epidemiology and serves as a professor at the University of Arizona’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, researching, and mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students. Previously, Onicio was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Zurich’s Department of Economics and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science. He served as Director of Research and Development for the govtech Colab.re for two years and spent seven years as CEO of Epitrack. Onicio has also worked as a consultant and speaker for prominent national and international institutions, including Wired, Itaú, Braskem, SwissNext, Pernod Ricard, UNICEF, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the Institute for Scientific Interchange (Italy), among others.
Internationally celebrated speaker & strategist, Ozioma Egwuonwu founded BurnBright International & World Dream Day. Former Fortune 100 advisor. Featured at UN, TEDx, SXSW & Oxford. Reaching 1B+ people globally.
Lawyer, tech entrepreneur & CEO of GLASS, revolutionizing government procurement. Co-founded Matternet, pioneered U.S. drone regulation. Fulbright Scholar, Forbes Next 1000, CNET Top 20 Latin in Tech.
Co-Founder of be radical, Chair at Singularity University & Venture Partner at BOLD Capital. Former Google.org, Mozilla & eBay leader. Entrepreneur, investor & keynote speaker at the edge of exponential tech.
Guest Speakers
Guest contributors are industry professionals and thought leaders not formally affiliated with Singularity. While they may be invited to share valuable insights in specific programs, they are not part of Singularity's official Speaker Bureau and cannot be booked through our channels for external engagements.
Dr. Amber Straughn is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where she serves as the Deputy Project Scientist for James Webb Space Telescope Communications.
Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician known for his 2020 presidential campaign as a Democrat, which was centered on a proposal for Universal Basic Income (UBI) dubbed the "Freedom Dividend."
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder of Prodea Systems, a technology firm. She gained fame as the first female private space explorer when she flew to the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-9 in 2006, a journey she funded herself.
Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She co-founded The Huffington Post, a popular news and blog site in 2005, which quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked, and cited media brands on the Internet.
Caroline Yap is the co-founder of Dryad Networks, an environmental IoT startup aimed at mitigating wildfire risks through ultra-early detection systems installed in forests. She has a background in business administration and has dedicated her career to sustainable environmental solutions through technology.
Cathie Wood is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Invest, an investment management firm that focuses on disruptive innovation and offers investment solutions to investors seeking long-term growth in the public markets
Dr. Daniel Wangpraseurt is an interdisciplinary marine biologist whose research bridges coral reef science, engineering, and biophysics. He leads the Coral Reef Ecophysiology and Engineering Lab at Scripps and also serves as the co-founder of Hybrid Reef Solutions, a startup that aims to address the need for effective and sustainable solutions to protect coral reefs.
David Sinclair is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for his research on aging and lifespan extension. His work focuses on understanding why we age and how to mitigate age-related diseases.
Deblina Sarkar is a nano technologist and an Assistant Professor at MIT Media Lab where she leads the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group. Her work innovates at the nexus of technology and biology, creating new ways to interface with the human brain
Dimitri Deheyn is in the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Deheyn is a marine biologist who has been studying ecotoxicology for more than six years. Originally from Belgium, he received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the Free University of Brussels where he first became involved in research on marine organisms producing bioluminescence.
Dr. Haven Baker is a co-founder of Pairwise, a technology company pioneering the application of gene editing (CRISPR) in plant breeding. Accomplishments include a significant number of technology and research deals with academic and commercial entities including Harvard, Broad Institute, Mass General Hospital, Bayer, and a range of other ag companies.
Keolu Fox Ph.D., Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) is an assistant professor at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Fox’s multi-disciplinary research interests include genome sequencing, genome engineering, computational biology, evolutionary genetics, paleogenetics, and Indigenizing biomedical research.
Dr. Tamsin is an evolutionary biologist known for her original research on baboon social evolution, and a leading author in the field of Biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature. She has provided leading-edge Biomimicry innovation to a global and Fortune 100 clientele for the past 15 years, and is the Founder of TEEM Innovation Group LLC, a company providing developmental tools and experiential education to life-minded leaders.
Eric Schmidt is best known for being Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011, helping grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.
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Eriona Hysolli completed her PhD work at Yale University working on derivation and characterization of human induced pluripotent stem cells and the role of micro RNAs during reprogramming. She then went on to do postdoctoral training in George Church’s lab where she published studies on Genomically recoded bacteria - mammalian co- culture systems, multiplex genome engineering approaches for human genome recoding. Furthermore, in his laboratory she derived the first reprogrammed African elephant iPSCs and led the woolly mammoth de-extinction efforts, work that she carried forward at Colossal Biosciences as head of biological sciences. There she led the efforts to de-extinct the woolly mammoth, working on Proboscidean comparative genomics and reference genome assemblies, multiplex editing in embryo for de-extinction, Asian elephant iPSC derivation and stem cell technologies, as well as biobanking efforts for elephant conservation. In 2023, she was selected as one of Time100 Next luminaries for her work on mammoth de-extinction.
Jared Kaplan is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Kaplan, who holds a PhD in physics from Stanford University, has focused his career on developing scalable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
John-Clark Levin is research lead for Google AI visionary Ray Kurzweil. At Kurzweil Technologies, he conducts foresight about the roadmap to artificial superintelligence, including focus on applications to the life sciences.
Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese-born American computer scientist, businessman, and writer, renowned for his work in artificial intelligence (AI). He has been a key figure in shaping the AI landscape in China and globally.
CEO & co-founder of Savor, pioneering carbon-neutral fat production to decarbonize food systems. PhD from MIT. Former Orca Sciences project director. Driving scalable climate solutions through science and entrepreneurship.