Futurist & AI Researcher

Sophie Hackford Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Futurist & AI Researcher

Speaking Fee:

$10,000 to $20,000

Travels From:

LON - London (All Airports)

Primary Topic Category:

Futurists

Secondary Topic Category:

Technology

Sophie Hackford Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Sophie Hackford is a futurist. She has given 160 provocative talks to boards and exec teams on novel science and tech. Clients come from every industry – Adobe, Bank of New York, DeepMind, EY, Vogue – although the best questions have so far come from audiences of schoolchildren. Sophie is an advisor to John Deere &, Co, on the future of food, climate, and technology. Sophie co-founded 1715Labs: a spinout from Oxford University’s Astrophysics Department, labelling data to train algorithms. She is on the board of two growth-stage startups. Sophie previously worked at WIRED Magazine, at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, and Oxford University where she raised $120m for frontier-bending research. Despite very real threats, Sophie is an optimist about the future. She is not on social media.

Data

As we increasingly live, work and play inside giant robots (factories, warehouses, offices, airports, Alexa-enabled homes), we need to learn to speak ‘data’: the language of the machines. Sophie will explore how the world is turning into a computer that is processing information about us all the time. Our data identity (like our face, or our fingerprint) serves as a login, to both physical and digital spaces. Privacy, personal sovereignty, security, ethics, and technical limitations, are balanced with the opportunities this depth of data provides.

AI

Sophie will demystify artificial intelligence, an emerging set of technologies promising to transform our lives, and even give us (digital) immortality. As the bot economy proliferates, Sophie will explore how personal avatars might empower consumers to autonomously find deals, jobs, diagnoses, or even love. Beyond autonomous avatars, Sophie will also discuss autonomous companies, entirely digital entities selling services or products to us, and to other autonomous companies. If AI is a system, many of the pieces are still missing, so Sophie will weave in the social, economic and existential possibilities of this overheated technology space.

Virtual Technologies

Sophie will discuss the increasing blend of real and virtual, using examples from computer games like Pokemon Go. She will take us from fake news to fake worlds. As we digitise more virtual objects and virtual experiences, Sophie will demonstrate we have only taken our first steps in the 3D internet.

Private Space Industry

What can we learn for Earth, from those innovating in space? In the past decade a whole new industry – and economy – has emerged in off-Earth. Sophie will describe how manufacturing and mining in space, medical research in space, travel to/from space, satellites in space, data centres in space, even terraforming far-off planets, will change our lives here on Earth.

Quantum Computing

Without a new compute architecture, our AI dreams might remain firmly in the future. As ‘quantum supremacy’ nears, quantum machines offer not just enhanced power, but the ability to ask machines new questions we couldn’t ask before. Quantum technologies represent a new industry, where overnight, current systems could break (like encryption, communication). New opportunities will emerge, but only if you are 'quantum ready'

Man and Machine

Where do we end and the robots begin? How comfortable are we with synthetic friends? How - and where? - to tax the robots? Sophie will explore the uneasy ambivalence we feel about these machines, as we flip haphazardly between compassion and fear. She illustrates these big questions with wonderfully creative projects by artists and hackers designed to provoke our thinking

What is Sophie Hackford's speaking fee?

Sophie Hackford's speaking fee typically ranges from $10,000 to $20,000. The lower end usually applies to virtual engagements, while the higher end is for in-person events in the US. However, fees may exceed this range for a variety of reasons, like extended activities or international travel. Other factors such as popularity, career stage, and current demand can also influence the final fee.

For an accurate and up-to-date quote based on your specific event details, please contact Gotham Artists. We will provide detailed information and assistance to ensure you have the latest fee structure.

Why Book Sophie Hackford with Gotham Artists?

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How Far in Advance Do I Need To Book Sophie Hackford?

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Sophie Hackford Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Travels From:

LON - London (All Airports)

Primary Topic Category:

Futurists

Secondary Topic Category:

Technology

Sophie Hackford Speaker Profile: At A Glance

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