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Mo Gawdat has forged a respectable engineering career, rising through the ranks to become the Chief Business Officer for Google X. In this role, Mo led business strategy, sales and business development for the division of Google famed for bringing radical ideas, such as self-driving cars, to life. Now booked as a speaker, Mo focuses on, artificial intelligence, mental health and wellbeing, emerging technology, and business development.
Prior to joining Google, Mo worked at both IBM and Microsoft, holding various senior roles bringing new technology products to life and then creating and sustaining the commercial viability of those products. Mo is a serial entrepreneur, co-founding over 20 businesses across a variety of industries from health and fitness to real estate and government technology. He also provides his consummate knowledge as a member of various advisory boards.
Following the tragic death of his son, Mo wrote his international bestseller Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. He took an engineering approach to happiness dispelling the biggest myths we have around happiness and how we can overcome them. When booked as a speaker, Mo delivers steps his audience can take to begin a journey of continuous happiness. Offering business leaders actionable tools, Mo supports happiness and productivity in the workplace. There are few speakers who can match Mo’s ability to deliver practical steps to achieve happiness.
Most recently Mo authored Scary Smart: the Future of Technology, AI, Robotics and Ethics. Detailing the technological innovations that will shape our world in the next 10 to 20 years. Mo is at the cutting edge of science, his able to deliver insights into Google’s ‘Dream Factory’ – Google X – exploring ‘moonshot’ ideas and systemising the processes that bring them to life. For conferences themed around innovation and future technologies, Mo is a guaranteed hit with audiences and a speaker not to be missed. As far as mental health and wellness are concerned, Mo has a unique scientific approach and is revolutionising the way thousands of people approach their own mental health and happiness.
Mo Gawdat is regularly booked to engage audiences at events, read their latest feedback below:
“Mo Gawdat is the expert guide you need to help decipher the realities of a complex subject”
“Rather than simply focus on the future impact of AI on people’s lives, he highlights the importance of the values we impart to it, rather like parents”
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