Greg Sherwin, an esteemed Singularity University authority in Digital Experimentation, is a standout engineering luminary renowned for his leadership roles. With a remarkable track record, he has held VP/SVP of Engineering positions at prominent Silicon Valley startups and established entities like CNET Networks (now CBS Interactive), NBC Internet, and Singularity University.Greg's journey includes co-founding LearnStreet, an edtech startup backed by Khosla Ventures, and establishing the national website for the American Red Cross. His expertise was honed in university research labs, including pioneering work in satellite communication control systems at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and contributions to high-energy research in theoretical and experimental particle physics at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.Currently, Greg is a senior principal engineer at Farfetch, where he constructs retail ecosystem platforms. He's dedicated to mentoring Lisbon startups and sits on the Advisory Board for the House of Beautiful Business. Drawing from his extensive experience, Greg is the ultimate authority to elucidate Digital Experimentation's significance and guide its implementation, enabling businesses to flourish in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
3D Printing, Generative Design, Nanotechnology, GGC: Environment, Organizational, Design Thinking
Accelerating technological disruption is increasingly the defining force of our world today, creating profound impacts to our world, our organizations, and ourselves. Today we face the prospect of AI that will challenge human intelligence, robots that will take our jobs, and gene editing that could lead to a world of designer babies. It’s enough to make anyone anxious and at least a little fearful, putting us on the defensive.Participants will learn how these exponential forces work, enabling them to adopt new models of thinking. They will learn how to apply Moore’s Law, Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, and the 6 D’s of Disruption, shifting their mindset to harness these forces and create possibilities of future abundance. Participants will learn how to establish new relevance for their organizations and themselves by addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges.This talk is suited to C-suite, Business leaders, product and technology leasders, decision-makers, entreprenuers and change-makers
Successful Leadership, Personal Development, Lifelong Learning, Leadership, Change Management, Education
Yesterday’s tools of reductionist scientific thinking and overly centralized command-and-control organizations are breaking down in the face of the new grand challenges among business, government, and society: ones involving complex systems, networks, and mass customization over mass production.Participants will learn the mindset and organizational transformations required to address challenges in this new, seemingly incomprehensible operating environment. They will reevaluate the leadership values and skills required to reorient themselves and their organizations around challenges of complexity, uncertainty, sustainability, entangled ecosystems, technological disruption, and the need for resilience and not merely efficiency.This talk is suited to C-suite, business leaders, civic leaders, technology entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, change-makers and Human Resources
Disruption, Linear vs. Exponential, Corporate Innovation, Lifelong Learning , Digital Transformation
Today digital platforms are disrupting markets, innovating supply chains and business collaborations, and powering some of the world’s most valuable companies. The global economics of standardized mass production have given way to multi-sided networks enabling mass customization. Unlike the days of User-Centered Design and two-sided marketplaces, today’s platforms are designed to service entire ecosystems. Do you join, partner, or build?Participants will learn ecosystem value chain mapping, platform design principles, governance models, designing for emergence and disobedience, how to leverage network effects for growth and adoption, and how the efficiencies of transaction and learning engines are essential to platform success. By learning proven platform design practices, they will be empowered to probe the right questions and inform their own platform strategies.This talk is uited to C-suite, business leaders, entrepreneurs, product and technology leaders, service and experience designers, change-makers, systems thinkers
Machine Learning, Disruption, Change Management, Lifelong Learning, Digital Transformation
Whether its impacts are your business or our planet, the world’s complexity and its systemic limits are defining the existential crises of our era. We can no longer depend on our assumptions and trusted tools based upon predictable plans and futures, independent and isolated impacts, and linear thinking. The modern world requires us to create, experiment, and learn as fast as we can.Participants will engage with this new paradigm by learning how to employ the practice of digital experimentation. They will learn the necessary elements of establishing a curiosity-driven culture of organizational learning. Participants will explore the mindset, values, and practices they need to take enlightened safe-to-fail risks and create more adaptive and resilient organizations for the future and the planet.This talk is suited to C-suite, Business leaders, product and technology leasders, decision-makers, entreprenuers, data scientist and change-makers