is the founder of Synthetic Insights, a startup aiming to revolutionize progress in early-stage research with the use of artificial intelligence. With a background in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, she worked in several research labs in Germany and at USC before she turned to technology and knowledge engineering R&D at Bosch and management consulting and forecasting at McKinsey and Company. She founded Synthetic Insights after being involved in several startups and after completing the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University for exponential technologies. Besides her startup, Julia serves as the president of Foresight Institute, a leading non-profit for transformative technologies such as nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
Talks
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future — BIL Oakland 2016
- Forecasting or How I stopped worrying about the future and starting thinking about the future — BIL:Los Angeles 2016 ▶ video
- Resilience Thinking: How humanity might survive the next 100 years — BIL:Davos 2017