ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program and a Distinguished Fellow and professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. He is the author of four bestselling books: Your Happiness Was Hacked, The Driver in the Driverless Car, Innovating Women, and The Immigrant Exodus.

He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and has held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Emory University, and Singularity University.

Wadhwa is based in Silicon Valley and researches, speaks, and writes about advancing technologies that are transforming our world. These advances—in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials—are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security.

In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an “Outstanding American by Choice” for his “commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.”

Alex Salkever is a writer, futurist, and technology leader. He is the co-author with Vivek Wadhwa of three books: Your Happiness Was Hacked, The Driver in the Driverless Car, and The Immigrant Exodus. A journalist both in print and on line, he has written dozens of articles exploring exponentially advancing technologies such as robotics, genomics, renewable energy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars. He earlier served as the Technology Editor at BusinessWeek.com and as a guest researcher at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. He was most recently a Vice President at Mozilla. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, universities, and schools and to corporations and boards of directors. He lives in the Bay Area of California.

Ismail Amla is Chief Growth Officer at Capita, a £4 billion technology-services business based in the United Kingdom. Previously, he was Managing Partner for the $7 billion IBM Services business in North America, with responsibility for all industry sectors and a staff of more than 15,000.

In a career serving industries in all geographic regions, Amla has held executive positions with Fidelity Information Services, Capco, and Accenture.