Scott Hartley Keynote Speaker

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.