sophie hackford

Sophie Hackford is a multi-talented individual. She is a futurist on the cutting edge of technology. She sits on theJohn Deere Global Technology Innovation Advisory Councilwhere she discusses emerging technology and climate change mitigation strategies. Alongside her role she is theCo-founder and Chair of 1715 Labs, an AI-focused organisation spun out of Oxford University Astrophysics labs serving FTSE 250 companies.

Sophie hasproduced well over 150 talksin her career in her career to audiences like theBank of New York, and DeepMind, EY and Adobe. Her career began to sky-rocket during her time as theHead of Development and Partnerships at the University of Oxfordwhere she led in raising $120m in research funds working alongside some of the best academics in the world. She then developed the Wired Magazine consulting business – a new revenue stream for the business - as theDirector of Wired Consulting and Wired Education, she brought together experts in technology and natural sciences to help solve business problems for organisations. Her experience has helped her in delivering talks to some of the most innovative companies in the world.

Sophie has also held a role as theDirector of Strategic Relationsand is anAmbassadorto the ground-breakingSingularity University in NASA’s research facility. During her time there Sophie worked with world-class experts to solve “exponential technologies” such as robotics, artificial intelligence, genetic sequencing and others, assessing the impact of these technologies on governments and businesses across the world.