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.
Patricia Suflita Wilson is a highly successful chief executive, evangelist, chief marketing officer, board member, and public speaker committed to making the world a better place. Over two decades, Patricia has earned a reputation for her integrity, sound business judgment, demonstrated financial acumen, and superior communication skills. Formerly, she was CEO of Make-A-Wish, responsible for leading the overall direction of one of the largest chapters nationwide, and created a permanently restricted endowment for future sustainability. Her work helped to build one of the most recognized and respected brands. Prior to joining Make-A-Wish, Patricia held leadership roles at PBS/NPR stations WHRO and KQED, the 5th largest public broadcaster. She also produced several educational public TV series before serving as executive director of a science and wildlife environmental museum. Currently, Patricia is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant to several startups (marketing, branding, web architect, social media, community engagement, publicity, philanthropy plans, etc.) She also serves on the board of directors for Illuminate (Bay Lights) and Friends of the Urban Forest.
Finland-based international business leader specializing in AI, drones & mobility. Advises investors & boards on exponential tech. R&D partnerships across Europe. Speaker, author & YouTube creator.
Paul is an exponential guide helping organizations see the future and find their place in it. He is a sought-after consultant and international speaker, guiding thousands of executives globally.
Silicon Valley futurist & tech forecaster advising global leaders. Stanford Adjunct Professor, Atlantic Council Fellow & Royal Swedish Academy Fellow. Harvard, Cambridge & Stanford alumnus shaping the future of technology strategy.
World's first Happiness Hacker teaching 10M humans to future-proof happiness. Creator of the Intentional Adaptability Quotient™. TEDx speaker. Partner to Google, Microsoft & more. Founder of BKindred.
Political Scientist & global authority in Urban Mobility, Smart Cities & PPPs. Pioneer in Sharing Economy; launched Latin America's first bike-sharing. Singularity University faculty, speaker, author & AI/Big Data advisor.
Silicon Valley veteran with 30+ years in strategy & product marketing. Led $1B+ revenue at 3dfx & Trident. Patent holder, IEEE author, educator & founder of FutureResolve.com. Speaker on exponential tech & leadership.
Microsoft AI & Data Specialist | Keynote speaker on transhumanism & emerging tech | Co-founder, Transhumanism Australia | Ex-KPMG & Deloitte Global Director | Bridging AI, longevity science & the future of humanity.
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Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. Called the “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc.magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.”
Scientist, engineer & biotech pioneer. Principal of Exponential Biosciences, Chair of Digital Biology at Singularity University. Co-founder of BioCurious. Featured in Wired, Forbes & Nature. Making biology accessible to all.
Global tech author, innovation strategist & Singularity University faculty. 7 books, MIT Thought Provoker, Discovery Channel host & CEO of Makers consultancy. Hall of Fame marketer driving exponential innovation in Latin America.
CEO of DVX & former McDonald's Chief Digital Officer, Rob Gonda drives exponential value via data. 25+ years leading digital transformations, advising top global brands, Forbes columnist & keynote speaker.
Technologist, entrepreneur & futurist. Former CEO of Singularity University, Rob advises startups, Fortune 500s & governments on exponential tech, AI, robotics & social impact. Angel investor, engineer, Stanford & UC Davis alum.
Geostrategist & defense futurist at Naval Postgraduate School. PhD in Geopolitics, JD, Singularity U faculty. Trains senior security leaders in strategy & innovation. Expert in asymmetric warfare, cybersecurity & border security.
Deep Tech Investor & Experience Economy Expert. Founder/CEO of MESMR. Singularity Group Expert. Board member, Beacon Media. Oxford MBA, LSE, Sciences Po. PhD Public Policy. US Dept. of Commerce Star Partner Award.
Climate tech expert, investor & entrepreneur. Co-founder of D3, world's largest climate tech accelerator. Founder of New Energy Network. Published author. Driving global clean energy innovation & transition.
Pioneering data economist & future synthesist, Dr. Sabine Seymour coined "Fashionable Technology" and leads MOONDIAL & PONY EARTH, driving regenerative finance, digital health, and biodiversity. Featured in Wired, Forbes & NYT.
Sahra-Josephine is an expert on converging technologies and how these are applied in learning contexts to design personalized and adaptive learning experiences that empower end-users to improve their lives.
Futurist, inventor & educator Sally Dominguez drives moonshot thinking & resilience strategies. Creator of Adventurous Thinking™, she's trusted by NASA, SONY & IKEA. Faculty at Singularity University. Based in SF Bay Area.
Entrepreneur & innovator Samantha Snabes co-founded re:3D, advancing affordable 3D printing in 50+ countries. NASA alum, IEEE Global Chair, Air National Guard Reservist, firefighter & EMT-B driving tech, sustainability & global access.
Sharron is co-founder and executive director at The Centre for Disruptive Technologies which leverages an impressive Africa-wide and global network of experts in disruptive technologies to advise government and businesses on the implementation of digital transformation strategies. In addition, she is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Project Finance at the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business where she focusses on smart city technologies and sustainable, nexus investing for development. Sharron is also an enterprise development expert having launched some of the first impact investment funds in Africa. She is co-founder & shareholder of Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE). WINDE is one of the largest and most impactful women’s infrastructure investment consortiums in Africa. She is also a founder of the Adventure Capitalists Network which invests in game changing ideas being developed by teens and university students.
Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she focuses on early stage venture investments in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Singularity University. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newson to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California's Mental Health Commission (as the first Asian American Commissioner), which includes overseeing ~$2.6 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy.
Global AI investor & futurist with 20+ years in tech. Founder of HumAIn Capital, bridging human & AI systems. Former Morgan Stanley banker turned serial entrepreneur, now shaping Australia's AI ecosystem.
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.