Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker, and the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X] — Google’s legendary “moonshot factory.” Across a career spent at the frontier of technology, his work pairs rigorous engineering thinking with a deep focus on human happiness, resilience, and wellbeing.

He is the bestselling author of Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy (2017), which reframes happiness as a solvable equation, and Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (2021), which made the case for teaching AI our values years before it became an urgent global conversation. He is the founder of the One Billion Happy mission and the host of the chart-topping Slo Mo podcast, where he explores life’s biggest questions with leading thinkers.

On stage, Mo helps audiences navigate the trajectory and alignment of artificial intelligence, the future of work in an age of intelligent machines, and the science of happiness and wellbeing. His keynotes combine the precision of an engineer with the warmth of a storyteller, leaving organizations better prepared for — and more hopeful about — the future they are building.