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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.

29 Technology
Speakers

Marcus Bullock

Founder and CEO of Flikshop | Justice Reform Advocate | TED Speaker

How can we leverage personal challenges into positive social change?

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.

Alex Kantrowitz

Reporter and Founder of Big Technology | Author of Always Day One

To stay on track with the future, we must remain obsessed with reinvention.

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

Novelist and Culture Writer | Author of The Next Civil War

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.

Neil Hoyne

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

Great leadership means getting involved in data—and not just the numbers, but the big picture ideas that come out of it.

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.

András Tilcsik

Co-Author of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

Immense complexity means our systems—from the macro to the domestic—are prone to collapse.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

New York Times bestselling author of Everybody Lies & Don't Trust Your Gut | New York Times Op-Ed Writer | Former Google data scientist

For big decisions, don’t trust your gut—we can use data to get happier and find answers to life’s biggest questions.

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.

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.

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.

Yaël Eisenstat

Former National Security Official | Former Facebook Elections Integrity Head | Berggruen Institute Future of Democracy Fellow | Anti-Defamation League VP

We can—and must—realign technology to better serve democracy.

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.

Shivani Siroya

Founder and CEO of Tala

Radical trust is the currency driving the future of our financial institutions.

Andrew Marantz

New Yorker Writer | Author of Antisocial

Social media is what we make it—here’s how we can use it to create a kinder, more imaginative world.

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 | Quantum computing expert

Generative AI offers us a whole new world of possibility: one which can help us land our moonshots and make our most ambitious dreams a reality.

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.

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.

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.

Jake Porway

FOUNDER OF DATAKIND | AI ENGINEER + SOCIAL CAUSE “MATCHMAKER”

AI can be a powerful force for social good when we connect it with the human causes that need it.

Steve Wozniak

CO-FOUNDER OF APPLE COMPUTERS

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

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.

David Rowan

Founding Editor-in-Chief of WIRED UK | Bestselling author of Non-Bullshit Innovation | Advisor to and investor in 150+ tech startups

To stay relevant, you cannot ignore the new rules of technology, business, or innovation.

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.