Mind-blowing insights on the digital biology revolution
UK
Scientist turned VC investor, entrepreneur and science fiction writer on a mission to accelerate disruptive innovation for a brighter, sustainable future.
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As an award-winning researcher, venture capital investor and bestselling science fiction author, she draws from an unparalleled blend of experience. Her talent as a keynote speaker is to filter out the noise, break down complex science & technology into captivating stories and put it in the global business context that matters the most for leaders.
Dr. Elsa Solaris (formerly Sotiriadis) is a former venture capital investor at a renowned US-American firm, who helped fund, build and launch over two dozen pioneering startups to transform the food, tech and healthcare industries. As program director, she ran the accelerator that brought forward multi-billion dollar companies like Perfect Day.
She now manages her own investment portfolio, including digital assets, and consults on innovation and emerging technologies with leading corporations and international organizations.
She’s a a biotech leader recognized by Silicon Republic and an expert advisory committee member to the WHO on human genome editing. For her PhD at Imperial College London, she won a full merit-based scholarship to develop DNA-based ‘nanobots’ in London and Hong Kong that fight cancer cells.
As a gifted futurist storyteller, she has appeared on BBC’s flagship thriller show Forest 4040, won an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in Hollywood and was longlisted for the Young Storyteller Award 2022 (20 out of 1120) by a literary jury. She has published speculative fiction, critically acclaimed poetry and wrote popular articles for Singularity Hub and O’Reilly. She regularly publishes articles, interviews, requested statements or speculative stories.
Elsa has conducted a mix of academic, laboratory and business intelligence research on emerging technologies like synthetic biology, 3D printing, AI, big data, robotics, climate tech and novel materials and she is uniquely positioned to assess how they are poised to shape industries. She is multilingual, has lived in ten countries, and worked in over twenty on four continents. This adds a global perspective to her work.
She honed her craft as an engaging and dynamic speaker with audiences around the world at over 30 events and co-headlined with Imogen Heap, Adam Cheyer, Tim Draper, and Prof. George Church.
See keynotes with Elsa SolarisThis keynote was premiered in London, UK at a flagship event of a leading financial firm.
The Biofuturist helps you see past the hype of the most-talked about technologies and zoom in on the developments that are quietly upending what we eat, wear and how we manufacture products. The Biofuturist presents science’s answer to the computer chip revolution: The Bio-revolution.
The quest to master the operating system of life used to be reserved to well-funded institutions. Now, however, biology has become democratized, decentralized and digitized just like other technologies. The boldest founders are therefore not hacking software but wetware and investment in the space is exploding.
We can grow our clothes in a bioreactor, help save the climate with lab-grown meat and next-gen medical devices let us build new data empires. What’s next?
This entertaining TEDx-style talks dives into the break-throughs that could shape the world to come, i.e. Silicon Valley’s mission to transform food. Uncover how science fiction is turning into science fact in this uplifting digital biology crash course for business leaders. Humorous anecdotes, mind-boggling tech spotlights and examples from industry leaders around the world will take you on an unforgettable journey that helps you expand your mindset and catalyze value creation.
This keynote was premiered at a private event in Riyadh, SA, to senior governmental, media and industry stakeholders. This talk explores how disruptive technologies like AI, XR, metaverse, blockchain, holograms and big data will transform the future of work.
Experience a sizzling, mind-teasing journey into the future of business and empower your organization to capitalize on new technologies ahead of everyone else. Will we all be cyborgs soon? We already are! Will AI help us unleash our humanity or will it replace us? Both! How will our future workplace look like? You’ll be wearing your smart contact lens and walk into your office in your living room. Walls become interactive surfaces, you type into thin air with a holographic keyboard, manipulate data streams with haptic interfaces on your hands, control smart devices with metal ink tatoos, and get training on an augmented reality platform inspired by Minority Report. Science fiction is coming to upend your work desk!
Elsa captures the deep tech breakthroughs that move the needle and translates them it into insightful and actionable keynotes that celebrate pioneering spirit. She delivers business intelligence with a dynamic, uplifting impact.
Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis was an absolute enrichment for our Children of Doom Festival debut, and we are very happy and proud to have found such a top-class cast in her for our keynote speech on biotechnology. A vivid, inspiring lecture, which at the same time inspires reflection. The entire Children of Doom team including the visitors are absolute Elsa fans.
Josephine Ruhp
An absolute enrichment for our festival we are very happy and proud to have found such a top class act
Superb speaker with the ability to distill the most complex scientific ideas into easy to follow talks [] a highly gifted speaker [] the audience were gripped from start to finish
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