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Futurist and AI Researcher

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

Futurist and AI Researcher

Speaker Profile Thumbnail for Sophie Hackford
Speaking Fee:
$10,000 to $20,000

Travels From:
Available Upon Request

Primary Topic Category:
Technology

Secondary Topic Category:
Futurists

 

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 co-founded 1715Labs: a spinout from Oxford University’s Astrophysics Department and has 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.

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.
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