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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

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

Technology

Artificial Intelligence. 4D Printing. Virtual Reality. Lavin’s technology speakers can explain how the latest inventions, networks, and gadgets will transform the market. But they also speak to technology’s more profound impact—on culture, policy, and society at large—with the critical sophistication of our very best theorists.

24 Technology
Speakers

Susan Hockfield

PRESIDENT EMERITA OF MIT | Author of The Age of Living Machines

We’re entering the Age of Living Machines—when biology and tech converge to transform our world.

Adam Alter

New York Times bestselling author of Drunk Tank Pink, Irresistible, and Anatomy of a Breakthrough

Many of the barriers you're facing are subjective. You can get unstuck—and unlock radical creativity, innovation, and teamwork.

Stephen Marche

Author of first AI-generated novella, Death of an Author | Writer on AI for New Yorker, The Atlantic

ChatGPT is blurring the line between human and machine—which means uniquely human creativity is more important now than ever before.

Martin Ford

New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots and Rule of the Robots

To adapt to machine learning, we'll need to come up with unprecedented solutions.

Nita Farahany

Author of The Battle For Your Brain | Legal scholar & ethicist | Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society

Technology is converging with our bodies, even our minds. What are the dilemmas and opportunities?

Alexandra Samuel

Digital workplace expert | Author of Remote, Inc.

Building a thriving hybrid culture is essential for success in the new workplace.

David Kong

Director of MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative

Making STEM fields inclusive is about maximizing human creativity and building a better world.

Stephanie Mehta

CEO of Mansueto Ventures | Former Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company

Any company can become a Fast Company by pushing their creative boundaries.

Douglas Rushkoff

World-Renowned Thinker | Bestselling Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock, and Survival of the Richest

We can be fully human in a world of technology.

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk | MIT Media Advisor | Author of The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency | Web3 Expert

It’s time to rethink the internet. The blockchain offers us great potential to democratize our digital spaces and bring them back under our control.

Nina Tandon

CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone | TED Senior Fellow

How to revolutionize an industry, one cell at a time.

Ajay Agrawal

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert | Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab | Bestselling Co-Author of Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction

Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every industry. You must act today to turn this disruption into opportunity.

Amber Baldet

CEO of Clovyr | Former JP Morgan Blockchain Lead

Build the systems you want to see in the world.

Tom Wujec

World Renowned Expert on Innovation | Former Chief Disruptor at Autodesk | Author of The Future of Making

An era of continuous disruption is changing, forever, how we design, manufacture, and consume.

Michael Katchen

Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple

In order to grow, we need to weave innovation into the DNA of our organizations.

Nicholas Thompson

CEO of The Atlantic | Former editor-in-chief of WIRED

Technology and science continue to make the world a better place—we can’t lose sight of that core truth.

Shoshana Zuboff

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

We may have democracy, or we may have Facebook, but we cannot have both.

Radhika Dirks

CEO & Co-Founder of XLabs and Ribo | One of Forbes's 30 Women in AI to Watch | Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

Generative AI is changing the tech infrastructure of the world. Your biggest dreams—your most ambitious moonshots—are closer than ever before.

Tarah Wheeler

Cybersecurity veteran | White hat hacker | Author of Women in Tech

Your data, your reputation, your customers’ trust: it’s all on the line in the new age of cybersecurity.

John Maeda

Microsoft VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence | Author of How to Speak Machine

Information is expanding—if we want to use it correctly, we need to represent it visually.

Jessica Green

CEO of Phylagen, Inc. | TED Senior Fellow

An unlikely ally in fairness—the microbiome—may hold the key to a more transparent business world.

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.

Justin Reilly

CEO of Wavelo | Former Head of Product at Verizon

The future of business is AI First. By building Artificial Intelligence into the heart of your business, you can innovate faster than ever before.

Michelle K. Lee

Founder and CEO of Obsidian Strategies | Fmr. VP of the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Solutions Lab | Fmr. Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

7 lessons can help you implement Artificial Intelligence in your company, combining the art of the possible and the art of the practical in AI.