David Wood

David W. Wood, D.Sc., was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now a futurist writer, consultant, and speaker. As Chair of London Futurists, David has organised around 300 public meetings since March 2008 on futurist and technoprogressive topics. Membership of London Futurists now exceeds 9,000, making it the world’s largest meetup with a focus on foresight. David is also the co-host of the highly rated London Futurists Podcast. David is the author or co-author of 13 books about the future, including The Singularity Principles, Smartphones and Beyond, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, The Death of Death, and Sustainable Superabundance. His present roles include being Executive Director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor to SingularityNET, Board Director of the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies), and Principal at the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom. David has a triple first class mathematics degree from Cambridge and undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science. He has an honorary Doctorate in Science from Westminster University.