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.
Entrepreneur at agriculture & tech's frontier. Grew Comex-McKinnon to €203M, founded Cainthus (livestock AI). Advises US DOE & EU on agri-tech. Sought-after speaker on smart farming's future.
Global investor, entrepreneur & thought leader in blockchain, AI & exponential tech. Early Bitcoin & Ethereum adopter. Advised 50+ clients to $4B+ market cap. Singularity University faculty. Author. Keynote speaker for Cisco, Google & more.
Engineering & strategy leader with dual UW degrees + Purdue MS. Expert in operations, portfolio management & business process. Bridges technical complexity with human-centered leadership. Rotary past president & global nonprofit contributor.
Global thought leader, entrepreneur & keynote speaker. Coined "exponential leadership," founded New Disruptive Theory & GEDI. Former Goldman Sachs banker, VP Singularity University, quantum computing chairman. $150M+ raised. UN contributor.
David S. Rose is an Associate Founder of Singularity University, and the founder of SU’s Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program. An Inc. 500 CEO and serial entrepreneur, he is an active investor who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies, and is the New York Times bestselling author of both “Angel Investing” and “The Startup Checklist”.
Quantum & society leader, serial entrepreneur, and former lawyer. Director at Quantum Delta NL & OQI advisor at CERN. Bridging quantum science, ethics, and governance for global impact.
Neuroscientist, anesthesiologist & futurist Dr. Divya Chander founded Lucidify to protect brain health via BCIs and AI. Stanford researcher, TED speaker, and global advocate for neurorights and human deep-space exploration.
Dr. Christyna Serrano is an accomplished educator and entrepreneur affiliated with UC Berkeley and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. With extensive academic credentials, she integrates technology and educational practices to prepare early-career professionals for the global market. Through Critically Conscious Design, LLC, she designs innovative training programs for ongoing development.
Dr. Robert Muggah is an internationally recognized geopolitical expert with specialization in smart cities, cyber security, digital technologies, and climate resilience. He is the founder of several think tanks, companies, and start-ups and advises leading management consultancy firms, tech companies, and international organizations ranging from the UN to the IMF and World Bank. Based in Brazil, Robert has worked in over 50 countries spanning the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. In addition to designing award-winning data visualizations and predictive analytical tools, he is a columnist in leading news outlets, author of 8 books and over 100 journal articles, and has PhD from University of Oxford.
AI & behavioral economics expert. Founded AI company in Silicon Valley & Singularity University faculty. TEDx speaker challenging economic thinking. Building abundance-driven models where machines expand human rationality.
Climate & sustainability expert with 15+ years advising on policy and strategy. Former UNFCCC negotiator, Paris Agreement contributor. Creator of 'Change Game.' Singularity University Expert and speaker on climate innovation.
Global wellbeing strategist & trauma expert, Elie Losleben helps leaders reimagine resilience. Johns Hopkins MPH. Gates Foundation & UNICEF-backed. Keynote speaker for Barclays, EO & YPO. Edmund Hillary Fellow.
Civil engineer & inventor from Pisa, Enrico Dini pioneered D-Shape, a revolutionary large-scale 3D printing technology transforming architecture and construction. Expert in robotics, automation & prototype development.
CEO transforming a 125-year-old tool company with 3D tech & sustainable manufacturing. Bestselling author, Singularity University faculty, SAP ThinkX Award winner & Danish Parliament substitute. 20+ years driving business transformation.
"Godmother of Silicon Valley" Esther Wojcicki is an award-winning educator, journalist & bestselling author. Founder of the US's largest scholastic media program & creator of the TRICK framework for raising successful people.
Anthropologist, futurist & impact catalyst. Founder of Beypond Tomorrow, advising on strategy, foresight & AI/blockchain innovation. Former Santander & Viva Rio executive. Ph.D., Harvard & Singularity University alumnus.
XPRIZE Co-Founder & aerospace innovator. Tsiolkovsky Medal recipient, space policy expert, and educator. Led Lunar Prospector's discovery of Moon water ice. Serves on Lindbergh Foundation & Singularity University.
Silicon Valley engineering leader & Digital Experimentation expert. Former VP/SVP at CNET & NBC. Co-founder of RedCross.org. Sr. Principal Engineer at Farfetch. Bridging engineering, entrepreneurship & innovation.
Hannes Sapiens is a biohacker and tech entrepreneur based in Stockholm,Sweden. He is an internationally recognised thought leader, speaker, media commentator, and professional advisor on biohacking, wearables, human augmentation and the impact of exponential technologies on the human condition. Known for his extensive self-experimentation, he shares entertaining stories and generous insight from the biohacking subculture scene. In his role as Chief Disruption Officer at the innovation hub Epicenter Stockholm he advises companies and organizations on how to navigate accelerating technological transformation. He has co-founded and invested in a range of deep tech startups working with generative AI, health logging chip implants, human longevity, and smart wearables.
Columbia Prof & Creative Machines Lab director. Pioneer in self-aware robots & AI. 300+ publications, 27K+ citations. Co-author of "Fabricated" & "Driverless." TED Talk on self-aware machines among most viewed AI talks.
Isabel is an experienced healthcare technology innovator and purpose-driven entrepreneur, committed to ensuring innovations reach their full potential to improve human health and improve societal outcomes. In 2016, Isabel founded Immersive Rehab, a digital therapeutics startup focused on creating engaging and personalised neurorehabilitation programmes using virtual reality with the aim to improve patient outcomes and to enhance patient assessments by healthcare professionals. Isabel has also led a number of strategic research and technology transfer projects at Imperial College London and University College London, she has been in charge of global innovation and policy projects at several international nonprofits, NGOs and intergovernmental organisations like UNESCO and the Global Disability Innovation Hub, and has worked in academia as a scientist, lecturer and adjunct professor. As an Innovation Consultant and Fractional Executive, Isabel is currently advising purpose-driven organisations of all sizes - with a particular focus on healthcare technology - on their business, innovation and product strategy. With a background in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (MSc) and as a Biomedical Engineering Scientist (PhD), Isabel is passionate about healthcare technologies, digital health, immersive technologies and its applications in healthcare, using tech for good, social entrepreneurship and innovation, and promoting diversity in science & tech.
"Mr. Toilet" Jack Sim: Singaporean entrepreneur turned global sanitation champion. Founded World Toilet Organization in 2001, inspiring UN's World Toilet Day. Award-winning advocate, professor & author driving systemic change through humor & impact.
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.
Kieran N. Blanks (pronounced Ky-ren) is an ecosystem architect and innovation strategist specializing in the design of human-centered systems for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As CEO of The Blankslate Group and Head of Product & New Ventures at Opportunity Hub (OHUB), he works at the intersection of technology, talent, and institutional design—helping organizations translate emerging technologies into durable economic and societal value.
Reynolds has spent much of her career in two different worlds that both center their business around foresight. Whether working with scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory or strategists at BMW Designworks, she has used design to create new pathways and find untapped opportunities in new and non-traditional places.
Founder of SINAI Technologies, Maria Fujihara drives global decarbonization with 15+ years in climate tech. Bridging business strategy & environmental science to advance net-zero emissions at scale.
Martine Rothblatt is an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. She is the founder and former CEO of SiriusXM Satellite Radio and the current chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she founded to save the life of one of her daughters.
Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive who co-founded MicroStrategy, a company providing business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor is known for his strong advocacy of Bitcoin, having transformed his firm's cash reserves into a substantial Bitcoin portfolio starting in 2020
Visionary entrepreneur & futurist, Mic Mann is CEO of UBU (Africa's first metaverse) & Co-CEO of SingularityU SA. Expert in AI, Web3, XR & exponential tech, he champions Africa's digital future.
Mustafa Suleyman is a British entrepreneur and activist from London. He co-founded DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company bought by Google in 2014. Suleyman has led DeepMind's applied AI division, which uses AI to solve real-world problems, including energy use reduction and medical research.
Pioneering technologist & virtual world innovator, Philip Rosedale founded Linden Lab & created Second Life. Now back as CTO, he brings decades of expertise in immersive tech to drive the platform's next chapter.
Raj Gokal is Co-founder of Solana, a highly functional open source project that banks on blockchain technology’s permissionless nature to provide decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, a research organization that aims to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Previously, he was the president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator known for its part in the rise of companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe.
Actuary & social entrepreneur Dr. Taddy Blecher co-founded MII—named by Stanford as a top-12 global innovator—empowering 25,480+ South Africans via free education, generating $5B+ in career earnings. Skoll Award winner & WEF Young Global Leader.
Tony Robbins is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist, known for his self-help books including "Unlimited Power" and "Awaken the Giant Within." As a life and business strategist, Robbins advises and counsels Fortune 500 executives, athletes, and world leaders.
Tristan Harris is a former Google design ethicist and a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. His work focuses on the ethical and humane use of technology in society. Harris has been a vocal critic of the ways social media manipulates users by exploiting their attention, dubbing himself the "closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience."
Vinod Khosla is an Indian American billionaire engineer, businessman, and venture capitalist. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla is known for his wide range of investments in various sectors, particularly in clean technology and biomedicine.
Theoretical neuroscientist & entrepreneur Dr. Vivienne Ming cofounded Socos Labs to unlock human potential through AI. Her work spans cognitive neuroprosthetics to social impact, making her a leading voice on AI, inclusion, and gender equity.
Ying grew up in Las Vegas and discovered her love for plants when she moved from the desert to California. She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford, studying the genomics and physiology of salt and heavy metal tolerant extremophytes. As a postdoc at the Salk Institute, she identified genes related to altering root morphology to engineer bigger, deeper roots that capture carbon for the Harnessing Plants Initiative. She has traveled all around the world observing how plants adapt to extreme environments, and loves weird and wacky plants! Ying is passionate about harnessing the power of Rare Flora to pave the way for a climate-resilient future, where plants, people, and our planet thrive together. Phytomining, an eco-friendly approach, has tremendous potential to revolutionize our impact on the environment.
Zack Abbott, PhD, is cofounder & CEO of ZBiotics, creator of the world's first genetically engineered probiotics. From Pre-Alcohol to Sugar-to-Fiber, he's making cutting-edge biotech accessible for everyday wellness.