Salim Ismail is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries.

Salim spent the last three years building Singularity University based at NASA Ames and before that built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal incubator. His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010.

He has a unique perspective and track record on how to innovate, how to turn cutting edge ideas into thriving startups and how to apply leading edge thinking to invigorate entire industries.

“Salim spoke at our offsite event and totally electrified the group. His insights on the internet and coming breakthroughs in accelerating technologies were mind-blowing”



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Salim speaks at a State dinner Keynote at LeWeb 2010 on Neuroscience Speaking at Google Zeitgeist 2010


Recent Post

Three Singular Years
POSTED AT Sep 10, 2011  |   Uncategorized | Leave a comment

We just closed out our third spectacular third at Singularity University.  Aaron Saenz has a great summary of the final Team Project presentations. It’s been a hell of a twelve month period for me personally and my primary focus has been … Continue reading →
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Handing over the ‘Rains’
POSTED AT Oct 13, 2010  |   Blogging | Leave a comment

Today we announced that Neil Jacobstein was joining the Singularity University team as President.  This is an incredibly welcome addition and I can’t wipe the smile off my face, as Neil is also a good friend with whom we’ve all … Continue reading →
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Unplugging Internet Identity
POSTED AT May 08, 2010  |   Uncategorized | 1 Comment

We’re coming up to the next Internet Identity Workshop (May 17-19) and with all the hubbub about the dilution in Facebook’s privacy policy (see Cory’s excellent post about it here), I had to add my 2cents to the fray.? Note … Continue reading →
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A most Singular project
POSTED AT Feb 03, 2009  |   Blogging | 20 Comments

NASA Ames Exploration Center Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid Over the last 2-3 months, a lot of people have been watching my tweets and listened to my various conversations wondering what exactly I’m up to. I haven’t been able to … Continue reading →
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Analysis: Blackberry Curve vs. G1 Android
POSTED AT Jan 18, 2009  |   Blogging | 8 Comments

Blackberry Curve vs. G1 Android As part of a new project, our team was donated some G1 Android phones to play with. Already being a T-Mobile customer, it was a no-brainer to play with it for a couple of days … Continue reading →
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