<p>Technology is creating the most exciting innovations the world has ever seen. It is also causing anxiety about our future. Navigating technological change at light speed is much harder if you don't have a trusted Sherpa to be your guide.</p><p>Vivek has 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 effect the core foundations of our economy. </p><p>He 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. Remarkably, he has held as many as six simultaneous appointments at top universities. He<span style="color: rgb(112, 110, 107);"> was also named Silicon Valley Forum's 2018 Visionary award winner. (Past honorees include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Linda Rottenberg, Scott McNealy, Ray Kurzweil, Reed Hastings, Tim O'Reilly, Padmasree Warrior, Anne Wojcicki, Reid Hoffman).</span></p><p>Vivek's syndicated column for <i>The Washington Post</i> is one of the world's most popular columns on all things technology and innovation. In 2018 he released his book, <i>Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back</i>. Previous books include the award-winning, <i>The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future</i>, he also wrote <i>The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent</i>, which was named by <i>The Economist</i> as a Book of the Year of 2012, and <i>Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology</i>. His experience as Vice President of Information Services at investment banking powerhouse CS First Boston (CSFB), spearheading the development of technology for creating computer-aided software-writing systems, was so successful that CSFB decided to spin off that business unit into its own company, Seer Technologies. As its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Wadhwa helped grow the nascent startup into a $118 million publicly traded company.</p>
Technology & Innovation Author, Academic and Futurist
<ul><li><strong>Navigating Technological Change at Light Speed</strong></li><li>Based on his critically acclaimed book <i>The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future</i>, Vivek Wadhwa not only explores the amazing technologies that are just now being integrated into our lives and work, but he also shares both the dilemmas and the solutions of technology advancement. Using his wonderfully vivid storytelling skills, he examines how Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Machines, Robotics, Synthetic Biology, etc. are impacting fields of healthcare, education, transportation, energy development, investment management and more, analyzing the huge benefits as well as the economic and social consequences. He shares a three-pronged assessment that gauges whether a new technology will benefit everyone equally; whether the rewards outweigh the risks; and whether it promotes autonomy or leads to dependency.</li><li><strong>Disruption and Opportunity: How existing industries will be disrupted and new trillion dollar industries will emerge.</strong></li><li>Not long ago, you could see your competition coming. Management guru Clayton Christensen coined the term "disruptive innovation" to describe how competition worked: a new entrant attacked a market leader by launching low-end, low-priced products and then relentlessly improving them. Now Christensen's frameworks have themselves been disrupted...because you can no longer see the competition coming. Technologies are no longer progressing in a predictable linear fashion, but are advancing exponentially and converging. Fields such as computing, medicine, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, robotics, nanomaterials, and synthetic biology are advancing simultaneously, and combining these allows one industry to rapidly disrupt another, before market leaders even know what has hit them.</li><li><strong>How Technology Will Eat Medicine: Future of Healthcare</strong></li><li>When Apple announced that it was developing a watch that had the functions of a medical device, it became clear that the company was eyeing the $3 trillion healthcare industry; that the tech industry sees medicine as the next frontier for exponential growth. Apple isn't alone. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Samsung and hundreds of startups also see the market potential, and have big plans. They are about to disrupt health care in the same way in which Netflix decimated the video rental industry and Uber is changing transportation.</li><li>Vivek Wadhwa will give you a crash course in exponential technologies - such as computing, Artificial Intelligence, sensors, synthetic biology, and robotics - and describe how they will converge and help turn our sick-care system into one that can truly focus on health care.</li></ul>