🗄️ State of the Exponential
The archive of all SOTE briefings to date
🍃 Energy and climate:
Bill Gross, inventor and founder of Energy Vault: The Tipping Point in Renewable Energy: Innovation in Storage
Emily Shuckburgh, OBE, Director of Research at University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow at British Antarctic Survey: Climate Change, A Scientific Update
Dr Myles Allen, Lead Author of the IPCC’s 1.5 Degrees Special Report: Modelling Climate Change
Aldyen Donnelly, Co-Founder and Director of Carbon Economics at Nori: Storing Carbon in the Ground: Does it Work?
Hannah Tucker and Catherine Tubb, Researchers at RethinkX: The Future of Food and Agriculture
Ajay Kochhar, CEO and co-founder Li-Cycle: Towards a Sustainable Battery Industry
Auke Hoekstra, Founder ZEnMo Simulations: The Future of the Electric Car
🤖 AI/ML, automation and compute:
Louis Rosenberg, CEO and CSO at UnanimousAI: Swarm Intelligence: Harnessing Collective Human Intelligence
Penny Mealy, Research Assistant at Oxford University and Cambridge University: What Complexity Science Can Tell us About Job Automation Risk
Rumman Chowdhury, Managing Director, Accenture AI: Defining and Deploying Algorithmic Fairness
Phil Fersht, CEO HfS Research: Hyper-Connecting the Enterprise: The End Game for Integrated Automation
📈 Economics and finance:
Stian Westlake, author ‘Capitalism Without Capital’: What the Rise of the Intangible Economy Means for Business, Society and Investing
Kyle Samani, Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital: Beyond Digital Gold, How Can We Use Blockchains to Allocate Scarce Resources?
Huw van Steenis, Senior Advisor to the CEO of the UBS: The Future of Money
🚴 Mobility:
Horace Dediu, leading industry analyst: Micromobility and the Future of Transportation
Reilly Brennan, Founding General Partner at Trucks Ventures: The Future of Autonomous Transportation
Auke Hoekstra, Founder ZEnMo Simulations: The Future of the Electric Car
🗯️ Politics, governance and society:
Dev Lewis, a researcher at Digital Asia Hub and a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, Untangling China’s Social Credit System
Karen Stenner, renowned behavioral economist and author: The Authoritarian Dynamic
Paul Nemitz, Lead Architect of the GDPR: Can AI Blossom with Stronger Regulation?
Sarah Hunter, Director of Public Policy at X: How to Deploy New Technologies to Solve Some of the World's Hardest Problems?
Nina Schick, political commentator and advisor: Brexit, Where to Next?
Richard Muirhead, founder and Managing Partner at Fabric Ventures: The Emergence of Web 3.0.
State of the Exponential briefings are regular hour-long live briefings with some of the leading experts in a multitude of industries. The briefings are open to members only.
