Amit Pradhan
PRESIDENT, SILICON VALLEY BLOCKCHAIN SOCIETY
Chairman, Zero.AI / Rainfall ; President, Silicon Valley Blockchain Society ; GP, JetVentures ; Responsible Leader, BMW Foundation ; Board Member, Norwegian Refugee Council USA
I am a seasoned startup founder, investor and speaker. I spend my time creating, evangelizing and investing in the future of responsible AI and decentralization. A 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley, I'm specifically focused on technology, startups and systems that have a positive impact on the humans they serve. I travel around the world speaking at events, to evangelize the need and the path to future society that is driven by responsible AI, around Privacy, decentralization of power/control, recognition of bias and the economic agency in a world that is losing jobs to AI-driven automation at a rate and scale that is faster than ever before.
I am the co-founder & President of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society (SVBS), a network of some of the largest Investors, Thinkers, Practitioners and Creators, with Chapters around the globe – with a core mission to ‘Fund the Revolution’ and bring with it a thoughtful and responsible approach to the impact, value and culture in the Decentralized Ecosystem and its convergence with AI and other exponential tech. The SVBS approach is built on the principle that a 10-year lens should be applied to any endeavor in this space, whether for Consensus and Governance, the underlying technology stack, models of financing or tokenization models.
As the Executive Chairman at Zero.AI and Rainfall, my team and I, are pioneering the idea of privacy focused AI – thereby changing the way the world thinks about and monetizes the digital existence of humans around the world.
Through JetVentures, a cross-stage international fund, I invest in startups that use the power of exponential technology, to become a positive part of the daily life of humans around the world.
I serve on multiple Boards (including the Norwegian Refugee Council USA), Advisory Boards and act as a mentor to startup founders around the world. I am also a Responsible Leader at the BMW Foundation. In my spare time, I can often be found playing, talking or writing about my love for football (soccer) or on my bicycle riding the beautiful trails around San Francisco.
