Dr. Vivienne Ming

LGBQTIA Keynote Speaker, Professional Mad Scientist Co-Founder & CEO, Socos Labs Director, OptoCeutics Chief Scientist, Dionysus Chair Emeritus, StartOut

Ming is a top theoretical neuroscientist, top entrepreneur speaker, and author. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. She launched Socos Labs to combine her varied work with that of other creative experts and expand their impact on global policy issues, both inside companies and throughout our communities. Ming is transgender and speaks frequently on issues of LGBT inclusion and gender in technology.

  • Dr. Vivienne Ming Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $40,001 - $50,000

  • Dr. Vivienne Ming Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $40,001 - $50,000

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

How to Robot-Proof Your Kids: AI, Education, and The Future of Work

During a visit to the Department of Education a few years ago, some of the world’s top education researchers posed this question: “How do we robot-proof students?” The simple truth is that there is no skill or knowledge that is robot-proof. Still, every major ...

During a visit to the Department of Education a few years ago, some of the world’s top education researchers posed this question: “How do we robot-proof students?”

The simple truth is that there is no skill or knowledge that is robot-proof. Still, every major government in the world has a policy paper about AI and the workforce. They are all wrong. None of them seem to understand anything about the most important component of the future of work: people.

How to Robot-Proof Your Kids is about people. We are the complex, flawed, central characters in this story, one that explores what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world. Insightful, engaging, hilarious, vulnerable, and shocking, Dr. Vivienne Ming undertakes a truly fun and unusual tour through how natural and artificial intelligence will co-exist in the future.

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How to Robot-Proof Your Kids: Improving Life Outcomes through Meta-Learning

The Tax on Being Different: Inclusion & the Value of Difference

There is an unspoken tax that we all pay. It is a tax that impedes growth and stagnates economies, a tax that causes massive amounts of money and productivity to be lost every year. This tax is collected around the world and often targets those least able to pay it. It is the ...

There is an unspoken tax that we all pay. It is a tax that impedes growth and stagnates economies, a tax that causes massive amounts of money and productivity to be lost every year. This tax is collected around the world and often targets those least able to pay it. It is the tax on being queer, POC, or female. It is the tax on being different.

Dr. Vivienne Ming provocatively addresses this tax by making it tangible. Leveraging massive amounts of HR data, she rewrites issues of bias and discrimination in order to understand and quantify what your differences are costing you. Simultaneously didactic and richly autobiographical, The Tax on Being Different combines vibrant life stories with profound insights about people and, more importantly, how we can change them for the better.

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Mad Science Solves: Using AI for Good

I’m Turning My Son Into A Cyborg: Emerging Neurotechnologies

Not the Industrial Revolution: The Future of Work

Jitterbug: Innovation and AI technologies in Healthcare

Messy Human Problems: Innovation and Problem Exploration

One GPU, One Vote: AI & Civil Rights

SexyFace: AI & Bias

Small Sacrifices: Research and Insights into Purpose for Companies & Individuals

Education as Lift: The Future of Education

The Fanatic: Understanding Creativity and Motivation

COVID-19: Data-Science Insights into the Information around Coronavirus

Remote Work: What Science Reveals about Innovating with a Distributed Workforce

About Keynote Speaker Dr. Vivienne Ming

Dr. Vivienne Ming explores how to maximize human capacity as a theoretical neuroscientist, serial entrepreneur, demented author, and mother of two. Socos Labs, her fifth company and second co-founded with wife Dr. Norma Ming, is a mad science incubator. It explores seemingly intractable problems—from a lone child’s disability to global economic inclusion—for free.

Vivienne’s previous companies have applied machine learning to bias in hiring and education at home and in school. She started her professional life as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience pursuing her research in cognitive neuroprosthetics.

In her free time, Vivienne works to design AI systems to help treat her son’s diabetes, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members. She sits on the boards of numerous companies and nonprofits. For relaxation, she writes science fiction and spends time with her wife and children.

Vivienne was named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017. She is featured frequently for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz Magazine, and the New York Times. Vivienne also speaks frequently on issues of LGBT inclusion and gender in technology.

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