Pablos Holman
Innovation and Marketing Expert, and Founder, Non-Obvious Co.
Pablos Holman is a hacker, inventor and technology futurist with a unique ability to distill complex technology into practical tools. Always building the future, his projects include cryptocurrency in the 1990s; AI for stock market trading; spaceships at Blue Origin for Jeff Bezos; and the world’s smallest PC and 3D printers at Makerbot. He helped start the Intellectual Ventures Lab for Nathan Myhrvold to support a wide range of invention projects, including a brain surgery tool; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a nuclear reactor powered by nuclear waste; and a machine that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers—part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. A member of the most prolific team of inventors in the United States, he has more than 70 patents.
A world-renowned expert in 3D printing, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, automated manufacturing, and cryptocurrency, Holman has contributed to visions for the future of urban transportation, entertainment, education, energy, manufacturing, health care, food delivery, sensor networks, payment systems and cloud computing.
Currently, Holman is working to rearchitect industries with the superpowers of automation, robotics and machine learning. He is on the faculty of Singularity University, founder of Bombsheller, and an advisor to data.world and Glowforge.