Lisa Dyson
CEO & Entrepreneur | Transforming Carbon Emissions Into Sustainable Products
About
Lisa Dyson is the CEO and co-founder of Kiverdi, a startup pioneering technologies to transform carbon emissions into sustainable fuels, chemicals, and consumer products. Dyson's work has been featured in The New York Times and Forbes, and she has delivered impactful TED talks on reinventing the carbon cycle.
With a PhD in physics from MIT, Dyson previously led research teams at X, the Moonshot Factory, and worked at the intersection of biology, technology, and sustainability. Her keynotes inspire executives to rethink waste as a valuable resource and adopt innovative circular economy solutions.
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A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food
We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
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Lisa Dyson at Aspen Ideas Festival 2022
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