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Frequently featured for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz and the New York Times, Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, a mad science incubator. Previously, Vivienne was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, pursuing her research in cognitive neuroprosthetics. In her free time, Vivienne has invented AI systems to help treat her diabetic son, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers weeks in advance, and reunited orphan refugees with extended family members. She sits on the boards of numerous companies and nonprofits.
For relaxation, she is a wife and mother of two.
Dr. Ming speaks regularly for conference keynotes, company events, and day-long advisory consulting. If Dr. Ming is traveling out of the Bay Area for an engagement, we often encourage our clients to set up multiple events to make sure that they are getting the most out of the visit. This can include having Vivienne connect with teams for a forum-style discussion around an important company topic or presenting more than one keynote to address different groups within the company.
Sample Speaking titles include, but are not limited to:
Named #5 on the Financial Times list for top LGBT executive
Featured as one of the BBC’s 100 influential women
Featured in a profile by Deutsche Welle
Apollo Project Award from the Interlaw Diversity Forum and Financial Times
Awarded a Berkeley Visionary award
“10 Women to Watch in Tech”, Inc. Magazine
The Most Influential Women in the Bay Area - San Francisco Business Times
"Can you see the real me?" - O Magazine
Invented Jitterbug, which predicts optimal insulin dosing, when her son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
Published in scientific journals like Nature, Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Computation, and the Public Library of Science.
If Kids Were Bonds They’d be the Backbone of the World Economy, Techonomy November 2015
There is a tax on being different, Financial Times July 2016
The Workforce of the Future TEDMED June 2016
I Built a Superpower to Treat My Son's Diabetes Aspen Ideas Blog April 2016
Founder & Executive Chair, Socos Labs
Distinguished Scientist, ShiftGig
Vice-Chair, StartOut
Chief Science Advisor, Cornerstone Capital
Board Member, The Palm Center
Board Member, enGender
Advisory Board, Platypus Institute
Advisory Board, Smart Stones
Advisory Board, SmartSpark
Mother of two