Mo Gawdat Keynote Speaker

Mo Gawdat is a leading global expert and entrepreneur in technology and innovation and an outstanding keynote speaker who has spoken to many corporate audiences.

He is Former Chief Business Officer for [X], previously Google [X], Author of ‘Scary Smart – The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World’ (2021), which provides a roadmap on how humanity can ensure a symbiotic coexistence with AI when it inevitably becomes a billion times smarter than we are. He is also the author of ‘Solve for Happy’, ‘Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living’ (2023), a concise, science-based guide to managing stress and living with greater calm and clarity, the Founder of One Billion Happy and the host of the podcast ‘Slo Mo’. His forthcoming book, ‘Alive: A Human’s Guide to Living in the World of AI’, is scheduled for release in October 2026.

Mo joined Google in 2007 to focus on his biggest passion; Emerging Markets. He is fascinated by the role of technology in enabling positive change in communities. Over 6 years, he started almost half of Google’s operations worldwide. In 2013, Mo moved over to Google [X], the company’s renowned innovation arm, which develops new technologies to reinvent existing processes and deliver a tenfold (10X) improvement. This included self-driving cars, Google Life Sciences and Project Loon; an ambitious attempt to use high altitude balloons to provide affordable internet access to the 5 billion people without an internet connection, amongst others.

Prior to working at Google, Mo headed the Communications Sector across Emerging Markets worldwide at Microsoft. He also worked for IBM Egypt, NCR Abu Dhabi and BAT.

Mo is a serial entrepreneur. Alongside his career, he co-founded over 20 businesses. He served as a Board Member for several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies and government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He mentors tens of start-ups at any point in time.

In 2019, he Co-Founded T0day, a project that aims to reinvent consumerism for the benefit of the consumers, retailers and our planet. In 2020, Mo launched ‘Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat’, in which he explores the extraordinary lives of everyday people.

Mo Gawdat authored the international bestselling book ‘Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Uncovering the Joy Inside You’ (2017). Through his 12-year research on happiness, he created an algorithm and a repeatable, well-engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of life’s circumstances, which proved highly effective. He and his family lived by it for a decade. In 2014, it was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali. Mo’s mission now is to share these principles more widely and further the cause of happiness wherever he can, with the aim of reaching one billion people around the world as part of the #onebillionhappy movement.