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Chairman, OpenExO | Best-Selling Author – Exponential Organizations, ExO 2.0, and The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0) | Board Member – XPrize Foundation | Founding Executive Director – Singularity University | Former VP – Yahoo | Co-Host – Moonshots Podcast
Salim is a sought-after business strategist who presents globally to the leaders of many of the world's largest companies and Heads of State. His book "Exponential Organizations" is considered by many to be the go-to guide for 21st century organizations. The data shows that corporations that follow the ExO attributes deliver 40x shareholder returns compared to those that don't.
He is the co-host of the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis, where he provides weekly insights on emerging technologies, AI, exponential growth strategies, and the future of innovation to over 1 million entrepreneurs and innovators worldwide. Recent guests include Elon Musk, Tony Robbins, Ray Kurzweil, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt.
He has been featured across a vast array of media outlets, including The New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, Fox Business and the BBC.
He is the Founder and Chairman of OpenExO, which helps companies to implement the lessons from Exponential Organizations by emulating the world's fastest growing companies. They inspire innovators to replace incremental innovation with 10X improvements, implement groundbreaking technologies and profitably achieve large-scale social impact. They have created billions of dollars of return on investment over the past 4 years for clients, including Procter & Gamble, HP, Visa, BHP, and Stanley Black & Decker.
Salim is the author of Exponential Organizations, published originally in 2014, followed by the much-anticipated second edition, Exponential Organizations 2.0, released in 2023. His third book, The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0), explores how leaders can rebuild their organizations around AI — redesigning them around intelligence, purpose, and autonomous execution so they can sense, decide, and adapt at unprecedented speed. Both Exponential Organizations and ExO 2.0 are global best-sellers. Learn more at www.organizationalsingularity.com.
Salim is a serial entrepreneur, having founded several technology companies including Ångströ, which was acquired by Google. As a VP at Yahoo, he led Brickhouse, Yahoo!'s internal incubator. He was the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and serves on the Board of the XPRIZE Foundation. These associations give him extraordinary access to the most influential innovators of our time, plus technologies and business ideas while they are in stealth mode.
Salim's breadth of work experience combined with his global outlook (he has lived in eight countries for at least a year each) give him a uniquely macro vision of how the institutions that underpin our society and economy are broken and should be fixed. His epiphany-inducing presentations are known for impressing even the most skeptical listeners.
As the Chairman of OpenExO and a global best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and ExO 2.0, Salim is one of the world's most sought-after business strategists. His latest book, The Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0), explores how leaders can rebuild their organizations around AI. He co-hosts the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis, reaching over 1 million entrepreneurs weekly with insights on emerging technologies and exponential innovation. He has shown that organizations adopting his ExO attributes deliver 40x shareholder returns. Formerly a Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and VP at Yahoo, Salim provides a unique, macro vision of how to implement 10X improvements for both massive business success and large-scale social impact.
Keynote topic descriptions.
The firm is being rewritten. AI is collapsing the coordination costs that made hierarchy necessary — and a new organizational architecture is emerging in its place. In this talk, Salim introduces the Organizational Singularity: the inflection point at which traditional structures give way to Intelligence-Stack-native companies built on ten ExO 3.0 characteristics. Five make you fast and smart. Five keep you tight and resilient. This is the operating model of the next decade — and the companies that adopt it first will define their industries.
Salim describes major breakthroughs occurring in a series of accelerating technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, sensors, neuroscience, medicine, and even energy. He describes the implications of these breakthroughs on both society and business, and will give a perspective on their impact tailored to each specific audience.
Drawing upon insights from his latest book, "Exponential Organizations 2.0," Salim emphasizes the critical role AI plays in the rapidly evolving business landscape. He provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's seismic impact across various sectors, underscoring the urgent need for organizations to understand and harness this disruptive technology for survival and growth.
As a result of accelerating change, a new breed of businesses is scaling ten times faster than established organizational structures. Salim describes the characteristics and attributes of these exponential organizations, and finishes with how to implement these ideas into established companies.