David Rose | Speaker Profile
David Rose, MIT lecturer, inventor, and five-time entrepreneur, draws on culture, design, travel, and music to envision future products and businesses sparked by the next generation of technology. He is known for translating complex technologies into delightfully intuitive new products and consulting with businesses on how to thrive during digital disruption.
Featured keynote and workshop: SuperSight
Over the next decade, what we see and how we see it will no longer be bound by biology. Instead, our everyday vision will be blended with digital information, to give us what spatial computing pioneer David Rose calls “SuperSight.” This workshop offers an insider’s guide to how our lives are about to change while also unpacking the downsides of this coming world—what David calls the hazards of SuperSight, from equity and access issues to bubble filter problems—and proposing rational, actionable ways around them.
The SuperSight workshop will preview the SuperSight revolution, and help your team understand some profound implications for your business. Typically, these workshops are for 10-20 people, hosted at MIT, on a corporate campus, or offsite location. Attendees dive into augmented reality experiences and prototyping tools like Adobe Aero and Apple Reality composer to make something relevant to the business. David then facilitates a whiteboard discussion about future timelines for these technologies and when each can bring meaningful value to customers. Your team will come away inspired, empowered, and informed–with tangible ideas for new services with “magic moments” that differentiate the business with immersive technology.
Testimonials
“David Rose is the quintessential futurist. Based on his research role at Warby Parker and his career as a technology entrepreneur, David’s latest contribution expertly and entertainingly peers into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing world of augmented reality. Like it or not, our future includes a data overlay on everything we see. David helps prepare us for it, including the business opportunities and challenges it will present all of us.“
Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO, Cambridge Innovation Center
Speaker background
His last book, Enchanted Objects, is the definitive book on designing the Internet of Things. David wrote the seminal patent on photo sharing, founded an AI company focused on computer vision, and was VP of Vision Technology at Warby Parker.
David’s work has been featured at the New York Museum of Modern Art, covered in The New York Times, WIRED, and The Economist, and parodied on The Colbert Report. His home was featured in a New York Times video “The Internet of Things” about inventions that incorporate magic into everyday objects: a Google Earth coffee table that responds to gesture, Skype cabinetry in the living room, and a doorbell reminiscent of Mrs. Weasley’s clock that rings when a family member is on their way home. He even got John Stewart to belly laugh when he was a guest on The Daily Show!
Download speaker assets
Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
Book this speaker
Contact us to inquire about booking this speaker for a keynote, panel, or workshop, or contact Kaelah Shimonov at kaelah.s@quantumrun.com
