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Keynote SpeakerTony Seba

World-renowned expert, thought leader and speaker on technology disruption and transformation at the product, sector and societal levels

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Tony is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation – How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by... Read more

Biography

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Tony is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation – How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030” and co-author of “Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom”.

Tony’s work focuses on the science of change, disruption and transformation. He is the creator of the Seba Technology Disruption Framework: the complex patterns of change (including cost-curves, S-curves and convergence) that have helped to accurately predict the ongoing phase change disruptions of transportation, energy, information and food & agriculture, as well as implications for society and geopolitics.

In 2006, Tony foresaw the rise of Apple, Google, Netflix, and Salesforce. In 2010, Tony foresaw the rise of a trillion-dollar solar industry. And in 2014, Tony accurately foresaw the trillion- dollar rise of solar, batteries and electric vehicles.

He has been featured in several movies and documentaries including Bloomberg’s “Forward Thinking: A Sustainable World”, 2040, and SunGanges. Tony is a recipient of many awards; including the Savvy Award, Solar Future Today’s Visionary Influencer Award, Clean Energy Action’s Sunshine Award and the inaugural ASES Solar Transformation Recognition.

Tony has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of global events and organizations including Google, Conference on World Affairs, the Global Leaders Forum, Intersolar, China EV100, the European Commission, Davos, COP21, CLSA, J.P. Morgan, Nomura, and the National Governors Association.

He has taught thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders at Stanford Continuing Studies. Tony has a Stanford MBA and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Popular Talks by Tony Seba

  • Rethinking Today and the Future — The Great Transformation
    The ongoing Phase Change Disruption of Energy, Transportation, Food & Agriculture, Labor and Intelligence are turning the 2020s into the most disruptive decade in history — Implications for the Economy, Land Use, Climate Change and Society. 
 The ongoing Disruptions of the Five Foundational Sectors of the Economy are enabling...
  • The New Economics of Energy — How SWB Superpower will Transform the Global Economy
    Solar, Wind and Batteries (SWB) will not just disrupt energy; they will radically transform the architecture, patterns and behaviors of our energy system. The SWB energy system will generate Superpower, probably the most transformative energy to emerge on the planet since the steam engine. SWB Superpower will generate several times...
  • The Phase Change Disruption of Transportation
    The On-Demand, Electric and Autonomous Disruption – Implications for Peak Oil Demand, Re-Design of Cities and Geopolitics. 
 The Transportation as a Service (TaaS) phase change disruption will have dramatic implications for industries including auto, oil, shipping, logistics, parking, real estate and insurance. Implications for society, from local politics to...
  • The Disruption of the Food System

    The Precision Fermentation / Food-As-Software Disruption will create a dramatically new food system — a transformation not seen in 10,000 years. 


    This Phase Change Disruption will have dramatic implications for industrial agriculture, geopolitics, climate change, health, materials, investments while enabling the largest land use transformation in human history. 


  • Solving Climate Change by 2035

    The ongoing Disruptions of Energy, Transportation, Food & Agriculture and Information mean that society can choose to reduce emissions 90% by 2035 and go net-negative by 2040 with technologies we already have.

  • Clean Energy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Market Disruption
  • Technology Trends
  • Transportation