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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

Data

Technology has put a treasure trove of data at our fingertips—but what do we do with it? Our speakers will show you how to avoid the pitfalls and take advantage of data in this digital age, using it ethically to scale your business up, determine what customers want, and even get happier.

13 Data
Speakers

Jer Thorp

Author of Living in Data | Former Library of Congress Innovator in Residence | Former NYT Data Artist-in-Residence

The future of data is about to be written—and it’s up to us to imagine a more just data democracy.

John List | Chief Economist at Walmart | Economics Professor at the University of Chicago | Author of The Voltage Effect

John List

Economics Professor at the University of Chicago | Author of The Voltage Effect

Data is human: when we understand how people behave, we'll give our good ideas the voltage to be great.

Karen Hao

Instant New York Times Bestselling Author of Empire of AI | TIME100 AI Honoree | Lead Designer of The Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series

Will AI produce broad-based societal benefit for all? Or return us to an age of empire? The path forward is in our hands.

Neil Hoyne

Author of Converted | Chief Strategist at Google | Senior Fellow at Wharton

Companies have more data than ever—yet feel less data-driven. You need to learn how to turn overwhelming numbers into value faster than ever before.

Shalini Kantayya | Award-Winning Filmmaker | Director of TikTok, Boom. and Coded Bias | TED Fellow

Shalini Kantayya

Award-winning filmmaker | Director of TikTok, Boom. and Coded Bias | TED Fellow

A digital world comes with digital dangers—here’s how to protect ourselves and our rights.

Shoshana Zuboff

Bestselling author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Harvard Business School Professor Emerita | Activist and scholar

We may have democracy or we may have surveillance society, but we cannot have both.

Kate Crawford

Professor | Author of Atlas of AI | Leading scholar of AI and society

We’re at a critical crossroads in the spread of AI. We can use it to oppress and exploit, or we can chart a course towards a more just and sustainable future.

Jacob Ward

Author of The Loop: How A.I. is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back | NBC News Technology Correspondent | Former Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science Magazine | AI Strategic Advisor to Fortune 500 Companies

The trick to working well with AI—and avoiding its most dangerous outcomes—is learning to spot the risky forms of psychosis it can produce in us all.

Jordan Ellenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Shape and How Not to Be Wrong

Math is the science of not being wrong. It touches everything we do.

Katy Milkman

Wharton Professor | Choiceology Podcast Host | Bestselling Author of How to Change | One of the Thinkers50

The world has changed overnight. Learn the science-based blueprint for how to change with it.