Yuri van Geest is a passionate professional, author, international keynote speaker and serial entrepreneur on exponential emerging technologies. He has a strong background in corporates, agencies, central government and startups and his own innovation company Trend8. Yuri is co-author of the (Amazon) bestselling book called Exponential Organizations with Salim Ismail, Mike Malone and Peter Diamandis. The book is about the fundamentally new ways startups and corporates are organized internally and externally to deal with disruption, strong exponential technologies and accelerated change. This is the first book by Singularity University Press globally.
Yuri is the initiator and founder of Singularity University the Netherlands, the first spinout in the world outside Silicon Valley.
His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Techcrunch, Forbes and Fortune.