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Former Chief Business Officer, Google [X] | Author of 'Scary Smart' & 'Solve for Happy'
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The former Chief Business Officer of Google [X] whose 2021 book Scary Smart was among the earliest works to warn of unregulated AI — and whose predictions have largely been borne out. Gawdat argues AI is not, at its core, a technology problem: it is a parenting problem.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
The argument that the values we teach our machines matter as much as the code we write, from one of the earliest voices to make it. Gawdat shows why the machines mirror us — and why that makes their future our responsibility.
How to lead people and organizations through a moment of rapid, anxiety-inducing technological change. Gawdat speaks the language of the technologist and the humanist at once, addressing engineers and executives alike.
The framework from his bestseller Solve for Happy, drawn from both an engineering career and a personal journey through loss. Gawdat treats wellbeing as something that can be built deliberately, not left to chance.
Why the same exponential technology that creates anxiety can be steered toward human flourishing — but only with intention. Gawdat gives audiences a way to meet accelerating change with clarity rather than fear.
Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X] — Google's "moonshot factory" — and one of the world's most in-demand voices on artificial intelligence and human wellbeing. Over a career spanning nearly three decades at IBM, NCR, Microsoft, and Google, he helped launch close to half of Google's global operations before leading business strategy at Google [X], home to projects like self-driving cars and Project Loon. He is the author of the international bestsellers Solve for Happy, Scary Smart, That Little Voice in Your Head, and Unstressable, and the founder of the One Billion Happy movement.
An Egyptian engineer by training, Gawdat combines the logic of a technologist with hard-won human insight. His 2021 book Scary Smart — named one of the Times and Sunday Times' best business books of the year — was among the earliest works to warn of the risks of unregulated AI and to argue that the values we teach our machines matter as much as the code we write. With the arrival of the modern AI boom, many of its predictions have been borne out, cementing his standing as one of the most respected voices bridging technology, ethics, and the human condition. Today he serves as Chief AI Officer at Flight Story.
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