Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia) is a student of humanity — a futurist, technology pioneer, and best-selling author who combines the mindsets of an anthropologist and technologist.Sam is the founder of Radical Next, a meta-media studio and strategic consultancy creating transformative stories, experiences, and media productions that shape the future. Her upcoming book by the same name explores how radical next ideas and technologies will transform societies in the decades to come.A charismatic speaker and compelling storyteller, Sam delivers keynotes globally at industry events, Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, national governments, international organizations, and NGOs — empowering individuals, leaders, and organizations not only to survive, but to thrive through radical and accelerating change.Sam is trained in anthropology and symbolic systems, studying simulated and virtual realities, cognitive dimensions, and metaverses — pushing the bounds of human consciousness and social organizations through her research. Her early work focused on virtual world economies, and she was amongst the first anthropologists to live in the virtual world “Second Life” in 2009.As a futurist, this work has led Sam on a journey working with with a range of frontier technologies, emerging social structures, people, places, and practices. She refers to herself as an archaeologist of the future, as Fredric Jameson coined -- applying a traditional anthropological ethnographic approach to envisioning and illustrating future possibilities.A four-time deep tech entrepreneur and tactical technical leader, Sam holds several patents linking the physical and digital worlds, and has served across multiple founding executive roles across the C-Suite. An early AI, blockchain, and applied cryptography pioneer, she previously was co-founder of NYOUM, a London-based AI-driven decentralized video communication platform, and Chronicled, a San Francisco-based blockchain company bringing trust to global commerce and supply chains. Prior to Chronicled, Sam founded two companies leveraging AI to map personal taste.Sam is the author of the #1 Best Seller, Bitcoin Pizza: The No Bullshit Guide to Blockchain, wrote as a contributor to Forbes, and was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List. She’s deeply passionate about decentralization and believes technology is a tool to empower not entrench. Sam is no stranger to risk and has accumulated hundreds of jumps as a competitive skydiver.Follow Sam @SamRadOfficial