Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat has forged a respectable engineering career, rising through the ranks to become the Chief Business Officer for Google X. In this role, Mo led business strategy, sales and business development for the division of Google famed for bringing radical ideas, such as self driving cars, to life. Now booked as a speaker, Mo focuses on, artificial intelligence, mental health and wellbeing, emerging technology, and business development.

Prior to joining Google, Mo worked at both IBM and Microsoft, holding various senior roles bringing new technology products to life then creating and sustaining commercial viability of those products. Mo is a serial entrepreneur, cofounding over 20 businesses across a variety of industries from health and fitness to real estate and government technology. He also provides his consummate knowledge as a member on various advisory boards.

Following the tragic death of his son, Mo wrote his international bestseller Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. He took an engineering approach to happiness dispelling the biggest myths we have around happiness and how we can overcome them. When booked as a speaker, Mo delivers steps his audience can take to begin a journey of continuous happiness. Offering business leaders actionable tools, Mo supports happiness and productivity in the workplace. There are few speakers who can match Mo's ability to deliver practical steps to achieve happiness.

Most recently Mo authored Scary Smart, the Future of Technology, AI, Robotics and Ethics. Detailing the technological innovations that will shape our world in the next 10 to 20 years. Mo is at the cutting edge of science, his able to deliver insights into Google's 'Dream Factory' - Google X - exploring 'moonshot' ideas and systemising the processes that bring them to life. For conferences themed around innovation and future technologies, Mo is a guaranteed hit with audiences and a speaker not to be missed. As far as mental health and wellness are concerned, Mo has a unique scientific approach and is revolutionising the way thousands of people approach their own mental health and happiness.