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Sly Spencer-Lee

Co-Chair of Metaverse and AI Future Council
World Economic Forum
Country or state 
United States (California)
Available to 
Global
City 
Los Angeles
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
No
Timezone 
America/New_York

Personal Details

Bio

Sly Spencer Lee is a first generation Asian American entrepreneur, co-founder & co-CEO of Emerge, an LA based company building a new communication platform to bridge distance and time—by leveraging sight, sound, touch and brain activity, all powered by an emotion AI platform.  He has spent a decade working in sensor fusion technologies, is a former co-founder of The Hydrous, a 3D mapping company backed by Google, Autodesk, Nat Geo and the United Nations.

He grew up playing in a national acoustics laboratory where his father worked, learned soldering at age 13, and has been obsessed with consumer products and the concept of digital presence since his teens.  He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Metaverse & AI, a Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2018 recipient, a recent student of Daoism, and can be found surfing and climbing the coast of southern California occasionally. 

Presentations/ Appearances at:

- Jeff Bezos' MARS

- Skoll World Forum

- Google's Sci Foo

- TEDx Boston

- World Economic Forum Meeting of New Champions

- World Economic Forum Meeting of Global Councils

Current position (3)

Co-Chair of Metaverse and AI Future Council

World Economic Forum

Co-Founder | Co-CEO

Emerge

Board Member

The Hydrous

Degrees (2)
Master of Science (M.S.), BioMolecular Sciences - Young Alumni Award 2019
University of Mississippi
2007 to 2012
Exponential Technologies
Google X & NASA Incubator
2015 to 2016

Presentations

Past talks (6)
Emerge Multisensory Technology Demo
MARS (Jeff Bezos)
USA
Leapfrogging Development: How New Technologies Will Accelerate Change
Skoll World Forum
Oxford, UK
Global Shapers LA
World Economic Forum Meeting of New Champions
Tianjin, China
A new language of touch in the metaverse
TEDx Boston
Boston, USA
Global Future Council Annual Meeting
World Economic Forum Global Future Council
Dubai, UAE
PANEL: Empathic Interfaces: Exploring Intersection of Emotions, AI, & Spatial Computing
Augmented World Expo
Long Beach, CA, USA
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Books & Articles (2)

Software is eating the world; Hardware is creating new ones
Individuality is a Transient Reality

Expertise (11)

Technology
Telecommunications
Leadership
Health & Well-being
Design
augmented and virtual reality Tech Forecasting AI Ethics AI Computer Hardware Fundraising

Clients

World Economic Forum
University of Mississippi
Forbes
LionTree Media
Google
Autodesk
NASA

Awards & certifications (5)

WEF Tech Pioneer
World Economic Forum
2022
Young Alumni of the Year
University of Mississippi
2019
Forbes 30 Under 30
Forbes Magazine
2017
Skoll World Forum Speaker
Skoll World Forum
2016
Fast Co. Innovation by Design Award Nominee
Fast Co
2015
Recommendations
Why choose me? 

World Economic Forum, Forbes30U30, Google, NASA, Ethics and Techno-Ecology

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