Jamie Metzl Speaker Biography
Technology and Healthcare Futurist, Global Affairs Specialist, Science Fiction Novelist, and Genetic Engineering Expert
Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists. He is the Founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a faculty member of NextMed Health, and a Singularity University expert.
Books and Publications
His new book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World, was recently released. Jamie is author of the bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, the acclaimed science fiction novels Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata, and other books. He appears regularly on national and international media and his syndicated columns and other writing on science, technology, and global affairs are featured in publications across the globe.
COVID-19 Whistleblower
In 2019, Jamie was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. Called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower,” Jamie’s pioneering work raising common-sense questions about the origins of COVID-19 and advocating for a full investigation has been featured in 60 Minutes, the New York Times, and most major media around the world and he was the lead witness in the first congressional hearings on pandemic origins in March 2023.
Affiliations
A former partner in a global private equity firm, he sits on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies and helped establish the WisdomTree BioRevolution Exchange Traded Fund (ticker: WDNA). He previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia.
Education
Jamie holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Brown and is an avid ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.
Jamie Metzl Speaking Topics
Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech & AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work & World
The keynote is squarely targeted at any person, business, or other organization trying to figure out what the AI and other technological revolutions mean for their futures. (Short answer: these transformations will be as profound as the agricultural, industrial, electrical, and information revolutions, providing many new challenges and almost unfathomable opportunities.) Metzl will also make many very practical recommendations for steps we can each and all take to optimize benefits and minimize harms.
The Great Biohack: How the Overlapping AI, Genetics & Biotechnology Revolutions will Transform our Healthcare, Lives, Work & World
The rapid growth of new AI systems like ChatGPT have made most people realize significant change is on the horizon. But while most people still think of these AI capabilities as improved internet search tools, the implications are far more profound. Just like the industrial and computer revolutions, the AI revolution will transform most every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Along with our new capabilities in genetics and biotechnology, it will change how we live and work, our economies, our healthcare, the foods we eat, and our interactions with the world around us. In this both far-reaching and highly practical talk, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores the big picture implications of this transformative moment in human history and how individuals, companies, and societies can best ride the wave of this change rather than be subsumed by it.
Cracking the Code of Pandemic Origins
Jamie Metzl has been called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower” for his pioneering work probing the origins of the pandemic, which has been covered by 60 Minutes and in most every major newspaper across the globe. Understanding how the pandemic began has massive implications for preventing the next one, but efforts to just that have been hampered at every turn. In this pioneering talk, Jamie opens up about the epic and ongoing struggle for a full investigation into the origins of Covid-19 and what it will take to build a safer future for all.
The Biology Revolution Will Change Everything. Are You Ready?
The miraculous synthetic mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are just small, early examples of how the genetics and bioengineering revolutions will transform our world. Faster than most people understand or appreciate, our growing, superhuman capabilities to restructure the building blocks of life will fundamentally alter the way we prevent and treat disease, make babies, generate energy, grow food, store data, and create materials. But while this process had already begun before COVID-19, the pandemic has catapulted the biology revolution to a new phase just like World War II supercharged electronics and space travel generations ago. And just like the information technology revolution started small then “ate the world,” the biology revolution is about to change much of everything – and we are not ready. Visionary futurist Jamie Metzl describes how the biology revolution will play out over the coming years and decades and what we can all do on a personal, professional, and global level to prepare and thrive.
ChatGPT, Technology, Innovation & the Exciting Future of Healthcare
ChatGPT has quickly become the fastest growing application in history. The implications of this and other AI systems will soon extend to most every aspect of our lives and every sector of our economy, not least healthcare. The transition from today’s system of generalized medicine based on population averages to the new model of precision healthcare based on each person’s individual biology is already well underway. But the use of the precision medicine tools of genome sequencing, big data analytics, and targeted gene therapies to treat cancer and other diseases are paving the way for a further transition to more predictive and preventive healthcare. In this talk, Jamie Metzl elucidates how the tools and capabilities of the intersecting artificial intelligence, genetics, and biotechnology revolutions are transforming healthcare and lays out key principles for how health industry professionals, the business community, governments, and individuals can prepare for a revolution that is coming far sooner than most people recognize.
Beyond the Blue Zones: What the Revolutionary Science of Human Life Extension Means for You
Most everybody knows we should exercise, eat well, build meaningful communities, and reduce stress to live healthy longer. But the revolutionary new science of human life extension is creating enticing new possibilities for using technology to extend our lives far beyond what nature intended. While the quest for immortality has been the stuff of fairy tales, the new science of life extension will soon be pushing the limits of aging and unlocking human potential in ways our ancestors never could have imagined. Technology futurist Jamie Metzl explores the latest breakthroughs in the science of human life extension that promise to gain us more of life‘s most precious commodity: time. Jamie explains what individuals, companies, and governments must do now to prepare for this revolutionary future that will fundamentally reorganize our societies and global economics.
Jamie Metzl Books
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
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Jamie Metzl Speaker Testimonials
We invited Jamie to give a keynote address to 500 doctors at a major medical convention. His brilliant talk simply blew people’s minds and made them think differently about where medicine is heading and what that means for all of us. With tremendous thoughtfulness, energy, creativity, and skill, Jamie helped participants imagine how they might ride the wave of exponential change toward greater success rather than be crushed by it. The positive response was overwhelming. Jamie is a superstar.
- Co-Founder and CEO, TMRW Life Sciences |
Jamie was the closing keynote at our global CEO conference. He had an uncanny way tying together all of the themes from the previous sessions, into a masterful and thought provoking closing. No canned script, no death by PowerPoint, but an engaging, entertaining and intelligent talk worthy of our audience. Jamie's keynote had the energy and enthusiasm of a rock star, and left our audience wanting more. I would most certainly book Jamie again for another YPO event!
- President, Silicon Valley YPO |
Jamie’s compelling discussion and deep insights into the intersection of assisted reproductive medicine, genomics, stem cell tech and human genetic engineering were truly compelling and generated a tremendous amount of interest and engagement from our diverse group of healthcare providers. In a very short time he was able to capture the imagination of the audience and bring them face to face with the profound implications of our very near biomedical future.
- Director, Division of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center |
Jamie Metzl spoke to a captivated audience about a fascinating and complicated subject. Bio-engineering and its impact upon the future of mankind was the topic Dr. Metzl aptly articulated in an enthralling yet relatable style. From the start, he built a genuine rapport with the audience as he communicated so that each person understood as clearly as possible the subject matter. Jamie’s presentation was amazingly fluid and perfectly paced as he spoke effortlessly without notes or prompts. ‘Jamie is the best speaker we’ve ever had.’ ‘This event was a home run because of Jamie Metzl!’ ‘Jamie is engaging and smoothly breaks it down.’ These are just a few samples of the positive comments received from the audience after the presentation. Our community is excited about Jamie’s return for an encore
- Kansas City Jewish Federation |