Ayesha Khanna is Founder and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group focused on human-technology co-evolution, geotechnology and innovation. She is a Partner at K2S Advisors which provides strategic and financial advisory services in smart and sustainable cities, technology and infrastructure. She is also a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University and directs the Future Cities group at the London School of Economics. A technology and innovation strategy expert, Ayesha has over ten years of experience advising clients and cities on scenario analysis, product development, digital branding and customer experience. Her clients have included Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, American International Group, and Deutsche Bank. Ayesha is frequently interviewed in the media and was featured by the New York Times. She is a regular speaker at industry, marketing, and academic conferences related to emerging technology trends and intelligent cities.
Ayesha is the author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (TED Books, 2012) and Straight Through Processing (Reed Elsevier, 2007), and was series editor of The Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services published by Reed Elsevier. She has written for diverse publications such as BusinessWeek, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Strategy+Business, and Foreign Policy. She also blogs on human technology co-evolution at Big Think. She is currently working on the book The Generative City.
Ayesha is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, on the Board of Advisors of Humanity+, and co-curator of TEDxGotham. In 2010, she co-chaired the Innovation Advisory Board for the New York City congressional campaign of Reshma Saujani.
Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University and is writing her PhD in Information Systems and Innovation at the London School of Economics.
CONTACT: ayesha@hybridreality.me
For speaking engagements, please contact American Program Bureau and London Speaker Bureau.
TWITTER: @ayeshakhanna1
EVENTS:
April 23, 2012: Oxford, UK
December 8, 2011: INK, Jaipur
October 11, 2011: World Knowledge Forum, Seoul
October 8, 2011: Humanity+, London
September 23, 2011: TEDxGotham, New York
September 14-16, 2011: World Economic Forum Annual Summit of the New Champions, Dalian
August 3, 2011: Singularity University, San Francisco
July 22, 2011: South Asian Diaspora Convention, Singapore
June 30, 2011: Fahrenheit 212, New York
June 29, 2011: OpenPlans, New York
June 23, 2011: THE Evergreen/Brickworks, Toronto
April 8, 2011: PSFK Conference, New York
March 29, 2011: Deloitte CIA Conference, Washington DC
March 19, 2011: Left Forum, New York