Kent Langley
4040 Civic Center Drive
Suite 200
San Rafael, CA 94903
United States
Twitter
@kentlangley
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/kentlangley
Blog:
medium.com/41st-square
Short Biography
Kent is a serial entrepreneur, investor, international speaker, and experienced technology executive. He is a hands-on leader and technology visionary with extensive business experience and deep technology background. Kent's Massive Transformative Purpose is to Apply Technology for Humanity on projects that educate, feed, clothe people. He is co-Founder of The Fastrack Foundation, faculty at Singularity University teaching Data Science and Exponential Organizations, and Chief Science and Technology Officer of the Fastrack Institute.
Long Biography
Kent’s personal massive transformative purpose is to Apply Technology for Humanity. He is an entrepreneur, sought after speaker, teacher, mentor and advisor. Kent has an intense focus on all things technical, data and exponential. He works with clients globall. Kent runs his own company providing Data Activation as a Service, is faculty at Singularity University, and is the Chief Science and Technology officer of the Fastrack Institute, a global 501(c)3 private foundation. Kent also teaches the live online ExO Master Course series with Salim Ismail.
Kent is a deep technologist and builder of distributed systems. From complex large scale web applications to live stream based analytics solutions, Kent has been building such systems from the ground up at scale for over 15 years. He's a recognized thought leader in cloud computing, distributed systems, technology operations, and data science enablement for organizations.
Kent's keynote talks have been requested by some of the most successful public, private, and academic institutions in the world. He has spoken in Asia, South America, The United States from Silicon Valley to New York. He has addressed crowds from 10 to 10,000 people including live simulcasting of events. The talks have been delivered to a diverse audience from boards, F50 Global organizations, and students. Audiences and clients have included The Fastrack Institute, Ahold-Delhaize, YPO, Coca-Cola, Sodexo, AGUIABRANCA, Leonisa, Autodesk, Dell, Premex, APEX Leaders, Singularity University, Zignal Labs, Revinate, CA Lottery, nScaled.
Main Talk & Workshop Descriptions
Data Driven Revolution - Data is a powerful driver of transformation and innovation for any organization. It is a strategic asset and has a unique combination of attributes that make it powerful. This talk is about how organizations can be transformed via Data and Data Science using a Data Activation framework. It will inspire you with case studies and knowledge to transform your relationship with data and data science. The knowledge you gain will help you put data to work for your organization. You will gain insights into data’s attributes, key processes, and technologies needed. Then, you will have the next steps you need to transform your organization using the power of data. This talk is generally 45 minutes in length.
Exponential Organizations Applied – Exponential Organizations, the Book, was published in 2014. Since then, it has been used as a methodology to create multiple Frameworks. This talk is not about why Exponential Organizations. It is specifically about the how. It draws from Kent’s personal experiences building ExO Works and The Fastrack Institute from scratch as ExO’s themselves as well as many experiences in traditional and startup organizations around the globe. It’s about how to take the methodology in the book and translate it into function frameworks that bring agility and scalability to organizations of any size. This talk includes a primer on Exponential Organizations as well in case audience members have not had exposure. Observers of this talk will leave motived to transform their organization into an exponential organization with very specific steps and tools do begin that journey and succeed. This talk is generally 45 minutes in length.
Blockchain and Distributed Systems - Description Coming Soon! New Talks based on the last several years of work in the space.
Additional Topics to Main Talks
Big Data, Innovation, Cloud Computing, The Fastrack Institute, Introduction to ExO
Current Speaker Introduction Material
- Serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits.
- Co-Founder, Fluid Chains Blockchain Accelerator
- Chief Science and Technology Officer of the Fastrack Institute
- Founders Advisor to ExO Works
- Chief Scientist at The ExO Foundation
- Advisor, Mentor, Facilitator, and Coach to many startups and F50 companies
- A recognized and pioneering expert in Cloud Computing, Big Data, Technology Operations, and Related areas
- Decades of experience building scalable software and companies with a focus on stream based analytics
- Faculty at Singularity University Data Science, Blockchain, & Exponential Organizations
- Author of the blog The 41st Square
Introduction Summary – Kent is a hands-on leader and technology visionary with extensive business experience and deep technology background.
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