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Chunka Mui
Futurist & Innovation Advisor at the Future Histories Group; Keynote Speaker on Innovation, Disruption & the Future; Award-Winning Author
Chunka Mui, a futurist and innovation advisor, believes we stand at the forefront of the greatest personal and professional opportunity of our time. His optimistic work, captured in his latest book, “A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050,” dives into the immense possibilities of science, technology, and human creativity. This book is a roadmap to a future filled with health, sustainability, and prosperity.
With a career spanning several prestigious advisory firms, where he has advised hundreds of companies and studied thousands more, Mui’s insights are rooted in real-world experience. At Diamond Management and Technology Consultants (now part of PwC), he served as a managing partner and chief innovation officer. At CSC Index (now part of DXC Technology), Mui co-founded the Vanguard emerging technologies research program (now TTI Vanguard). His journey began at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he played a pivotal role in that firm’s Artificial Intelligence group and co-founded its Center for Strategic Technology Research (a precursor to Accenture Labs).
Mui’s voice has resonated through the pages of numerous leading publications, including Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Technology Review. His has co-authored four other award-winning books, including “Unleashing the Killer App” and “Billion-Dollar Lessons.” He also publishes the Future Perfect Newsletter on LinkedIn.
An MIT alumnus, Mui’s academic background in computer science and engineering laid the foundation for his groundbreaking work. His life journey, from his birth in Hong Kong to his upbringing in Chicago, and his current home in the serene Champlain Valley of Western Vermont, informs the diverse perspectives he brings to his work.
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Advancing technologies are driving enormous disruption in every sector of the economy, culture and society. These drivers—in computing, communications, information, genomics, energy, water, and transportation—follow the Laws of Zero; they are improving exponentially in capability while relative cost is collapsing towards zero.
Chunka offers unmatched, provocative insight into these trends. He reminds us that while these technology capabilities are a given, the outcomes for which they can be deployed are not. The future is our choice. Chunka offers an optimistic vision, grounded in science, technology and the lessons of history. He highlights how individuals, companies, and governments all have an awesome opportunity to shape the trajectory of progress towards the world we can proudly leave to our kids. He gives audiences the insight to get ahead of the curve and the essential tools to proactively invent the future.
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