Synthetic Biologist turned VC, turned
Futurist, SF Author & Keynote Speaker
The mission
Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis, aka The Biofuturist, is a synthetic biologist turned biotech VC turned futurist, SF author and...cyborg.
The Biofuturist is a new (bio-)futures prototyping factory with the mission to make the future more evenly distributed.
How? By re-thinking how we build the world with the most powerful design language there is: Biomimicry, the code of life itself.
This means helping companies adopt biotech and EmTech innovations, fostering bridges between science and science fiction and harnessing the power of narrative to turn us into empathetic explorers and co-creators of better, more sustainable futures.
Using the Biofuturist's proprietary approach, we can bring the benefits of breakthrough innovation to all of humanity - and to all the people whose names get underlined in red.
Elsa is an experienced and popular international keynote speaker and innovation consultant on the disruption between biology and technology, delivering highly tailored keynotes for corporate and public events as well as bespoke workshops and consulting services.
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About:
Elsa helped invest in, build and launch 25 ground-breaking biotech startups as a VC investor, founded a cancer moonshot for her Ph.D. (Imperial College London & Hong Kong University), helped 'biologize' one of the world's biggest tech companies as The Biofuturist and she was named one of 15 women in biotech by Silicon Republic. Technology goes under her skin - she became a 'cyborg' live on stage to tweet just by hand swipe.
In her early career, her quest to use deep tech for a more sustainable world led her from ETH Zurich across Europe, to Harvard University, an astrobiology meeting at NASA's Ames Research Centre and into the early-stage startup ecosystem as strategy consultant.
On the side, she writes speculative fiction and her debut novelette Replicon won an honorable mention at the Writers of The Future competition in LA. She is Swiss-Greek, grew up as a half-orphan, often fails at crossfit and lives mostly in London and sometimes in Switzerland.
For consulting projects, the team is assembled around project needs.
What clients say about consulting and speaking:
The Biofuturist is a new (bio-)futures prototyping factory with the mission to make the future more evenly distributed.
How? By re-thinking how we build the world with the most powerful design language there is: Biomimicry, the code of life itself.
This means helping companies adopt biotech and EmTech innovations, fostering bridges between science and science fiction and harnessing the power of narrative to turn us into empathetic explorers and co-creators of better, more sustainable futures.
Using the Biofuturist's proprietary approach, we can bring the benefits of breakthrough innovation to all of humanity - and to all the people whose names get underlined in red.
Elsa is an experienced and popular international keynote speaker and innovation consultant on the disruption between biology and technology, delivering highly tailored keynotes for corporate and public events as well as bespoke workshops and consulting services.
Topics include:
- Biohacking, the next great software revolution
- Synthetic biology, our magic power: From CRISPR, cyborgs and climate change to resurrecting the dead
- From sci-fi to reality: How innovative companies can harness tech moonshots to future-proof their business
About:
Elsa helped invest in, build and launch 25 ground-breaking biotech startups as a VC investor, founded a cancer moonshot for her Ph.D. (Imperial College London & Hong Kong University), helped 'biologize' one of the world's biggest tech companies as The Biofuturist and she was named one of 15 women in biotech by Silicon Republic. Technology goes under her skin - she became a 'cyborg' live on stage to tweet just by hand swipe.
In her early career, her quest to use deep tech for a more sustainable world led her from ETH Zurich across Europe, to Harvard University, an astrobiology meeting at NASA's Ames Research Centre and into the early-stage startup ecosystem as strategy consultant.
On the side, she writes speculative fiction and her debut novelette Replicon won an honorable mention at the Writers of The Future competition in LA. She is Swiss-Greek, grew up as a half-orphan, often fails at crossfit and lives mostly in London and sometimes in Switzerland.
For consulting projects, the team is assembled around project needs.
What clients say about consulting and speaking:
Working with The Biofuturist helped us understand the innovation potential of digital biology from an ICT perspective, both strategically and technically and find practical ways and contacts how we can deliver value to our customers in the future.
Derrick Nirmalan, Director - Research Planning
A Top 3 Tech/ICT Company
Elsa has been incredibly receptive to our suggestions and managed to weave a red thread throughout her inspirational opening keynote, presenting a motley of exciting biological technologies and visions of future to our astounded attendees. |
The Oxford University Scientific Society was delighted to host Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis as our speaker. Dr. Sotiriadis joined our elite list of speakers (which includes numerous Nobel Prize winners) as she enthralled her audience by combining her technical rigour with her sci-fi inspired visions of the future of humanity. As seen or read on: |
Elsa is a superb speaker with an amazing ability to distil the most complex scientific ideas into easy to follow talks. Elsa kindly agreed to talk at the Imperial College London Fringe Festival where she spoke about biohacking. |
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Latest Releases
BBC's flagship eco-science fiction thriller starring Dr. Who's Pearl Mackie.
The Writers of the Future Honorable Mention Winner is a novelette about a trauma-plagued geek battling for survival in a bioengineered future.
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