About Brett King

Brett King started life as a coder but has spent his life working with and advising organizations on how technology impacts the world. He has written 7 international bestselling books, translated into a dozen languages, with 3 more in the pipeline. Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane (2015) was a top-10 best seller in North America and ended up on President Xi's bookshelf during his 2018 national address. Brett King visited the White House to advise on Fintech, and NASA re the world of 2050. He’s made regular appearances in the media including CNBC, BBC, CNN, FOX, Economist, WSJ, NY Times, FT talking about the disruption of banking, AI, robots, and technology impact in general. In 2010, he founded the first mobile app-based bank account in the US called Movenbank - today Moven is a Banking as a Service platform that serves more than 25m users around the world. Brett King built websites and apps for some of the largest banks in the world. During the dotcom era, Brett King led the e-Business practice for Deloitte (Asia), and then ran a premier digital agency based out of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and China. In 2013, he started Provoke Media (Provoke.fm), launching Breaking Banks, the #1 Fintech podcast/radio show (180 countries/10m+ downloads). These days, alongside Robert Tercek, Katie Schultz, and Brian Solis, Brett King cohosts The Futurists - the world's top podcast about future thinkers, engineers, and leaders. Over the years, he's interviewed names like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Peter Diamandis, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others. As an investor/board-member, he's advised several high-level unicorns, Fintechs, AI, robotics, longevity, and climate-tech related companies. Brett King meets with Central Bankers, Ministers, and policymakers all around the world to inform on the broader implications of technology and the future. He speaks at 100 events a year. Brett King is also currently working on several sci-fi, futurism, and docuseries projects. The Rise of Technosocialism, is an intensely philosophical book on how AI, climate change, and inequality will forever change the direction of the human species - it's his latest bestseller. Bank 4.0 has been a #1 bestseller on Amazon's Banking bestsellers list for the past 5 years and the Best Foreign Non-Fiction Book of the year in 2019 (Russia). The future is what we make it #OptimalHumanity