Meet the world-renowned experts who deliver our transformative programs and events.
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.
Sophia Symeou is a distinct entrepreneur who believes that businesses can uplift communities. With strong humanist values, she's a staunch advocate for equality. Sophia has pioneered frameworks that enhance individual and organizational capabilities, reshaping talent utilization and team dynamics. A change agent, executive and social worker, she's a recognized leader in offering practical HR and people management solutions. Sophia's innovative approach integrates business potential with societal progress, reflecting her commitment to inclusive growth.
Suzanne Gildert is Founder and CEO of Nirvanic AI, and is obsessed with understanding the depths and power of the human mind. Her current project is focused on creating technologies to understand, expand and network human consciousness. Suzanne also co-founded and was CTO of Sanctuary AI, and founded Kindred AI in 2014. Kindred was acquired by Ocado in 2020. Suzanne also has deep expertise in quantum computing from her time at D-Wave Systems, and has a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Birmingham, UK. She is also a published digital artist and poet, has worked as a graphic designer, and pioneered a technique for creating art using a quantum computer.
Tiago Mattos is considered the most prominent futurist in Brazil. As an entrepreneur, he founded sixteen companies. As a speaker, he has delivered presentations on five continents and was also invited to share his ideas at the UN in Geneva. His current company, Aerolito, has created an ecosystem of online platforms to help leaders adopt a futurist repertoire, build a futurist culture within their organizations, and set a futurist strategy for their roadmaps. This journey has led Aerolito to be recognized as one of the first companies in the world to be considered a legitimate futurestech.
Vanessa Gavan is the visionary Founder & Joint Managing Director at Maximus, an innovative leadership firm in Australia. Her role encompasses shaping the firm's strategic direction, fostering enterprise capabilities, nurturing relationships and curating distinctive offerings. Drawing from extensive experience, strategic partnerships and robust research, Vanessa combines business acumen with empathy. She's an entrepreneur, psychologist and trusted advisor to leaders seeking progressive solutions, advocating for robust leadership and lasting impact. Having witnessed the profound effects of both exceptional and lacking leadership, she considers leadership a privilege and a duty. Vanessa believes in aligning personal purpose with forward-looking visions to build transformative organizations. However, she underscores that this aspiration must be supported by tangible capabilities and disciplined execution to achieve significant impact. Her commitment lies in fostering leadership excellence, driving meaningful change and empowering visionary companies to thrive.
In 2018, Vincent Vuillard embarked on a transformative journey as the co-founder of FutureWork Studio. His mission: to revolutionize work dynamics by crafting innovative collaboration methods and solutions tailored to address complex challenges, while dismantling traditional organizational barriers. Vincent's professional odyssey began as an officer in the French naval forces, honing his leadership skills in demanding environments. Transitioning to McKinsey & Company, a global consulting powerhouse, he delved into comprehensive transformations within corporate landscapes spanning America, Asia and Australasia. This journey culminated in steering the global strategic capabilities of a $20 billion organization. Throughout these roles, Vincent discerned the potential to elevate organizational and community outcomes by unleashing individual and team prowess. His firsthand experiences are the bedrock of his pursuits, manifested both in his research and pragmatic implementations. Vincent's trajectory echoes his conviction that novel approaches to collaboration can shape a brighter future, igniting untapped potential and reshaping the way we work for the better.
Innovation for social good and the use of technology to help humanity are Vivian Lan’s biggest drives, who in addition to studying graphic design at CDMX, majoring in fine arts in New York and being a Montessori teacher, has always been involved in projects of social impact. As a social entrepreneur and consultant with experience in leadership, innovation and design, Vivian believes in tackling global grand challenges through creativity and collaboration; working together to change the world. After several years of working with marginalized communities in Mexico, Israel and Kenya, in 2011 she launched a cost-free social media campaign to help the hunger in Africa caused by the drought, in which she raised $ 100,000 USD in 10 days, brought together 57 international volunteers and delivered 40 tons of food and medical care to 20,000 affected people.
Wolfgang Fengler is the CEO of World Data Lab, a leading player in forecasting consumer spending. With over two decades of experience at the World Bank, Wolfgang has lived and worked in the USA, Asia, Indonesia, and Africa. He has co-authored Delivering Aid Differently and Africa's Economic Boom. Prior to his tenure at the World Bank, he founded and led the Africa Consulting Company. Wolfgang's passion lies in harnessing data to drive positive global change He launched data models like population.io and worldpoverty.io, earning recognition from Bill Gates and the title "big data virtuoso" by DER SPIEGEL. Wolfgang's work has been featured in FT, ECONOMIST and CNN. Co-authoring influential publications, he's known for "Delivering Aid Differently" and "Africa’s Economic Boom". Beyond economics, he's a football enthusiast who organized Kenya's "Nairobi Mini World Cup" for kids. With a PhD from the University of Hamburg, Wolfgang drives economic discourse and data-driven change globally.
Yunwen Tu, who’s also being known as Tutu, is a user experience designer and food designer currently working at The SIX, a business design consultancy dedicated to finding creative solutions for clients through the Design Sprint and Design Thinking process.
Dr. Yvonne Darlene Cagle is an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and consulting professor for Stanford University’s department of cardiovascular medicine and its department of electrical engineering.
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
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
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and business magnate known for founding SpaceX and co-founding Tesla Motors and PayPal. Through SpaceX, he aims to reduce space transportation costs to enable Mars colonization.
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.
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.
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.
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
After 10 years running Second Life as CEO, I started several experimental new companies with two co-founders, including LoveMachine, Worklist.net, and Coffee & Power. In 2013, after experimenting with the mems gyro chips that would enable the Oculus Rift, we started High Fidelity to build a new open-source virtual world platform for VR Headsets. In 2019, with VR failing to gain wide consumer acceptance, refocused High Fidelity on spatial audio.
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.