Beau Lotto

Beau Lotto is founder and CEO of the Lab of Misfits, a neuroperception creative studio, professor of neuroscience at the University of London, and visiting scholar at New York University. His research explores how the brain adapts to uncertainty at the cellular, computational, and perceptual levels, with the aim of understanding the fundamental principles of biologically inspired innovation. Lotto is also founder and CEO of the augmented reality company Ripple. Lotto has given mainstage TED talks and spoken at the G8, Google's Zeitgeist, Wired, Davos, Canne Lions Creativity Festival, Burning Man, and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He has contributed to programs for the BBC, National Geographic, PBS, and others, and is a frequent keynote speaker at major corporations on the fundamental barriers to thriving.