Manoj Saxena

From successful serial tech entrepreneur to accomplished venture capitalist and now an academic and widely published writer, Manoj Saxena is an innovation agent who focuses on using AI for creation of business value while “doing no harm.” He also teaches a course on “How to design Ethical and Responsible AI Systems” at the University of Texas Austin.

Named one of the Fast Company “Most Creative People” and “Entrepreneur of the Year”, Saxena Saxena explains how to put AI to work in key industries to drive growth, reduce costs while managing reputational damage, revenue losses, regulatory backlash, criminal investigations, and diminished public trust due to AI systems privacy violations, discrimination.

Saxena draws upon his experience leading the world’s first and largest commercial initiative on Cognitive Computing as General Manager of IBM Watson business to provide crucial insights on how machine intelligence is rapidly impacting various industries and prescribes steps businesses will have to take to deploy trusted AI systems.

Saxena has been featured in hundreds of articles for publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Review among others. He has appeared on Television, National Public Radio, and other networks. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully built and sold two companies and an avid endurance race car driver