Harper Reed Keynote Speaker

Harper Reed is a technologist, entrepreneur and hacker – he predicts the future for a living.  He travels widely showing people the possibilities of tech and sharing his experiences to propel the greater good, all while raising the level of fun in the room.

Harper’s role as Head of Commerce and as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence allowed him to guide teams into the thrilling future of e-commerce. The technology that Harper developed as co-founder at startup Modest Inc. had initially garnered the attention of PayPal, which led them to acquire Modest only a few years after launch.

Harper also believes the talent of a great bunch of humans can transform an organization like nothing else, and he uses that belief to strengthen, deploy, and inspire every team he works with. Previously, Harper was the Chief Technology Officer of the Obama 2012 campaign, where he was the first to bring the mentality and connective capabilities of tech to the political stage. He was also the CTO of Threadless.com, where he pioneered crowdsourcing and grew the company from a 12 person startup to a multi-million dollar enterprise.

Harper is a fellow at the MIT Media Lab and he also sits on the advisory boards for IIT Computer Science, the Royal United Service Institute, and Cornell College.