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Former Chief Business Officer of Google [X]; Founder of One Billion Happy; Author of ‘Solve for Happy’ & ‘Scary Smart’; Host of the ‘Slo Mo’ Podcast
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Made the case in Scary Smart, in 2021, for teaching AI human values, years before alignment became an urgent global conversation.

About 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.

Leadership in the Age of AI

Mo Gawdat keynote topics

Leadership in the Age of AI

Drawing on three decades at IBM, NCR, Microsoft and Google, including leading business at Google [X], Mo shows how leaders can navigate a fast-changing world, how teams can upskill to thrive in it, and how happier, more ethical and more innovative organizations turn anxiety about intelligent machines into excitement about the future.

Ethical AI

The argument at the heart of Scary Smart: intelligent machines learn from the example we set, so the outcome turns less on the code than on the values people model. Mo sets out where the trajectory of AI is heading and what leaders, builders and everyday users can do now to steer it toward a future worth living in.

The Future of Work

How roles, skills and careers change as intelligent machines take on more of what people do. Mo pairs an engineer’s view of where the technology is going with practical guidance for leaders on helping employees adapt, upskill and stay engaged, so a workforce meets the age of AI prepared rather than anxious.

Becoming Unstressable

Based on Unstressable (2024), the international bestseller Mo wrote with Alice Law. Stress is a leading driver of disengagement, attrition and executive burnout, yet it is rarely measured. Mo shows teams how to understand and manage it, turning pressure into a source of focus, creativity and endurance instead of exhaustion.

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