Pablos Holman

Pablos Holman is the bestselling author of Deep Future, published in 2025 by FORBES, and a technology futurist known for his work across AI, robotics, manufacturing, data, emerging technology, blockchain, and cyber security.

An inventor with over 70 patents, Pablos has helped build breakthrough technologies with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Nathan Myhrvold, and his TED talks, speeches, and interviews have earned more than 35 million views.

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Inventing the Future

Pablos Holman is one of the most renowned innovators, inventors, and good hackers in the world. For more than two decades, he has used a builder’s mindset to solve large scale problems through emerging technology, invention, and systems thinking.

At Nathan Myhrvold’s lab in Seattle, Pablos led 150 scientists and engineers working on world level problems. His projects included a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste and a device that shoots mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers to help eradicate malaria, part of a mission with more than $100 million in funding from Bill Gates.

Pablos was also one of the original minds building spaceships at Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos. He created the first 3D printer to ever print food and helped create MakerBot, described in the source as the number one selling 3D printer in the world.

Deep Future Thinking

Today, Pablos leads Deep Future Investments in startups that use emerging technologies to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. He also hosts the Deep Future podcast, where he interviews leading minds in technology.

Pablos has spoken at major global events including The United Nations, The Davos World Economic Forum, Fortune’s CEO Initiative, Singularity University Summit, SXSW, and Google’s Zeitgeist. In 2025, he appeared on four stages at Davos and appeared on The Tim Ferriss Show.

His keynote “How To Not End Up Pets for A.I. Robots” was delivered at Fortune’s CEO Initiative and described in the source as viral. His work has also been featured in the critically acclaimed documentary Machine, where he appeared as a featured expert throughout the film.

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The cost to book Pablos Holman depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Pablos Holman’s speaking fee ranges from $30,000 to $40,000. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

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Hire Pablos Holman

Pablos speaks expertly on a variety of topics. Below, you will find the descriptions of his two most popular speaking topics. Additionally, he also expertly delivers compelling speeches about: The Future of Technology, IOT, Industry 4.0, Cyber Security, Invention/ Problem Solving, and 3D Printing. Pablos always customizes his presentations for every audience’s themes, topics, issues, and industry.

Innovate or Die Trying – From the Mind of World Renowned Hacker

How many taxi companies could have made their own iPhone app but didn’t? Everyone knows they need to innovate, but what does that really mean? How do you know if Silicon Valley is going to come after your industry? Can we learn to innovate faster than our competitors? If computers can do the job of a truck driver, what about a factory worker, or a chef, or a doctor, or you?Pablos is one of the rare technologists who can both understand and explain these new technologies and their potential. Working with them every day at his lab, his team has taken on problems ranging from hurricane suppression, brain surgery, disease eradication, and nuclear energy.A futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies, Pablos works on invention projects that assimilate new technologies – making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the world’s smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; spaceships with Jeff Bezos; Mosquito zapping lasers with Bill Gates; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a Wi-Fi seeking robot. He is also an advisor to the biggest crowdfunding campaign in history, raising $27 Million in 30 days, for the 3D printer – Glowforge.

Key Takeaways:

• Get into the mindset of the words most innovative people.
• Glimpse into the next generation technologies nobody has seen yet.
• Understand how to have a practical relationship with innovation.

The Future of Technology and Innovation in Health Care

Health care is one of the most important frontiers for innovation, but the industry often struggles to keep up with technologies driving the change.

Armed with deep experience in creating new technologies, Pablos is one of the extraordinary few who can demystify them and the process of innovation needed to bring them into the world.

Pablos answers only to Nathan Myhrvold, the creator of Windows at Microsoft, at an innovative Lab in Seattle, where all kinds of futuristic invention projects are underway. Collaborating with Bill Gates to develop technologies for humanitarian impact, the Lab has invented a reactor powered by nuclear waste; an AI powered microscope to automate malaria diagnostics; a super thermos that can keep vaccines cold with no power for months & a laser that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky.

Having worked on a brain surgery tool; a cure for cancer; health care data architecture; low cost medical devices for the developing world & 3D food printers, Pablos has a unique point of view on the future of health care. Whether inspiring institutional audiences at Humana & Kaiser Permanente or groups like the American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine & the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Pablos offers a relevant mix of education, entertainment, vision & inspiration.