Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek is an entrepreneur as well as an academic, author, and keynote speaker. His research focuses on robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials, and how these advances will disrupt companies, industries, governments, and cultures. Vivek returned to Harvard to embark on a major three-year research project into the impact of technology on the future of employment and work. This project, in collaboration with a renowned team at Harvard Law School, will be the first study of how technology will affect the core of the economy. He just received the Silicon Valley Forum's 2018 Visionary Award. s 2018 Visionary Award-Winner. Past winners of this award include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Linda Rotenberg, Scott McNealy, Ray Kurzweil, Reed Hastings, Tim O 'Reilly, Woosley, Anne Wojcicki, Reed Hoffman and others. In June, Vivek will release his highly anticipated new book Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back. Vivek is currently a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Engineering, He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus on the latest in exponential technologies, technology convergence and industrial disruption, risk and regulation, and the new rules of innovation. Vivek is also director of research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and vice president of Innovation and Research at Singularity University. He is also a fellow at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, and Emory University. Notably, he held six positions simultaneously at top universities. Vivek's previous award-winning books, Drivers in Driverless Cars: How Our Technology Choices Will Create The Future: The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future, etc. Why America is losing The global race to attract entrepreneurial talent The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent was named the Economist's 2012 Book of the Year. Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology has placed Vivek at number two on the Financial Times' list of 10 Men to Emulate. Vivek's ability to teach the complexities of global technological progress in a simple and poetic way has made him one of the world's most sought-after keynote speakers. He speaks more than 100 times a year to some of the most prestigious and influential people and organizations, such as global leaders, ceos, industry organizations, universities, entrepreneur groups, and many national academies of science and engineering. In 2012, Vivek was named an American of Distinction by the U.S. government in recognition of his dedication to this country and commitment to his civic values as an American. In the same year, he was named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine; In June 2013, he was featured in Time magazine's Tech 40Tech 40 as one of the 40 most influential people in tech. In September 2015, Vivek was ranked second on the Financial Times' list of 10 Men worth emulating.