Vivek Wadhwa

Acclaimed Tech Pioneer and Influential Leader on Change

Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur, academic, author, and renowned keynote speaker. His research is focused on the critical advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials, and how these advances are creating disruptive changes for companies, industries, governments and the culture at large.

"One of the most influential minds in technology"

Topics

Navigating Technological Change at Light Speed
Disruption & Opportunity: How Existing Industries Will Be Disrupted & New Trillion-Dollar Industries Will Emerge
How Technology Will Eat Medicine: Future of Healthcare
Future Trends
Innovation

Languages

He presents in English.

How he presents

Highly inspiring and thought provoking, Vivek Wadhwa’s remarks are of great interest for business leaders, organisations and governments around the globe.

Publications

2020
From Incremental to Exponential
2018
Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain - and How to Fight Back
2017
The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
2014
Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology (with Farai Chideya)
2012
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

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In Detail

Vivek was named Silicon Valley Forum’s 2018 Visionary Award-Winner. He just rejoined Harvard as a Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor, and Worklife Program, where he will help lead a critical three-year research project on the effects of technology on future employment and work. This will be the first study on how technology will affect the core foundations of our economy. Vivek is also currently a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, he teaches on CMU’s Silicon Valley campus about the latest exponential technologies; technology convergence and industry disruption; risks and regulation; and the new rules of innovation.

What he offers you

In his presentations Vivek Wadhwa shares with audiences how technology will transform our world, disrupt entire industries and create new ones. An observer and researcher on the trends shaping globalization and innovation around the world, he also shows decision makers the keys to remain competitive in the globalised world focusing on business in India and China.