Scott Hartley Keynote Speaker

Venture capitalist and best-selling author
Global keynote speaker on future of work, automation, and human skills in the era of AI.
Presidential Innovation Fellow, The White House

Scott Hartley's Biography

Scott Hartley is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and best-selling author of ‘ The Fuzzy and The Techie‘ (2017), a Financial Times business book of the month, Axiom Business Book Award winner, and finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company’s Bracken Bower Prize. It was also cited as a Top 10 Business Book of 2021 in Spain.

Scott is co-founder and managing partner of Everywhere Ventures through which he has invested in over 400 startup companies over the last decade.

He is a global keynote speaker on the future of work, automation, and human skills in the era of AI. He speaks on technology as intelligence amplification (IA) rather than AI, and the breadth of ethical questions, intellectual backgrounds, and biases mitigated to navigate our changing tech-enabled world. He served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House under President Obama, and a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a $2 billion dollar venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.

Prior to venture capital, Scott worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard. He has been a contributing author at MIT Press, has written for publications such as The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, and has been featured in USA Today, Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal. He holds three degrees from Stanford and Columbia, is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and has visited 80+ countries.

Prior keynote engagements include the World Bank Annual Meeting, Deloitte, Visa, Google, UBS, and Fidelity, as well as universities like Virginia Tech, Purdue, Arizona, Stanford, convocation addresses, and entrepreneurship summits around the world.

The general themes for his talks include future of work, job automation, and human skills in the era of AI.

Watch Scott speak with PBS Newshour here on the future of work.

IA not AI: Why AI Will Amplify Intelligence, Not Replace It

Future of Work

Venture Capital Trends

Human Skills in the Era of AI

He has invested in over 400 startups as co-founder of Everywhere Ventures, bringing deep insight into innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies.
He translates the impact of AI and automation into clear, strategic insight that helps leaders navigate the future of work.
He brings a distinctive perspective on technology as intelligence amplification, reframing how organisations think about human skills and machine collaboration.
He draws on experience across Silicon Valley, government and venture capital, including roles at Google, Facebook and as a Presidential Innovation Fellow.
His insights help organisations adapt to technological change, invest in talent and build resilient, future-ready strategies.

Videos of Scott Hartley

Strong or Skinny? Scott Hartley Says That's the Crux of the AI Debate

Why Coding Skills Alone Won't Save You From Job Automation | Big Think

Automation will take away from us tasks but not jobs - Scott Hartley

Scott Hartley The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

At the Intersection of Liberal Arts + STEM with Scott Hartley

Panel Discussion with Marissa Mayer at Stanford Business School

Articles, Media & Podcasts

Everywhere Ventures Bucks Trend by Investing Globally

The Wall Street Journal

The Founders Of Apple And Airbnb Combined These 2 Skills To Make Magic

Forbes

Books by Scott Hartley

The Fuzzy And The Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

Comments & Testimonials

"You can’t build a wall to keep the robots out. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed. Scott Hartley does a masterful job going beyond the headlines to explain why the future needs engineers as much as it does philosophers, and why the two need each other.”

Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group

"Scott Hartley’s timely and thought-provoking book is a refreshing and important voice in the era of major technological transformation and advances in our world, led by Big Data, AI, Cloud, genomics, etc. As nature has evolved our brain to be capable of logical reasoning as well as emotional feelings, artistic expressions, and remarkable intuitions, human civilization has always evolved and benefited from the coevolution of arts, literature, engineering, and sciences. Humanity has begun the era of intelligent machines and genomic wonder tools. It has become more urgent and imperative that humanistic thinking and values can help guide the way technologies are designed, experimented, deployed, and communicated. From digital humanities to humanistic technologies, human wisdom should be all in when it comes to designing and defining our collective future. Students, parents, educators, policymakers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs should all read this book.”

Fei-Fei Li, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab