Andrew Zolli
Curator and Executive Director, PopTech

Andrew Zolli is an acclaimed leader in the fields of global foresight, social innovation and resilience. He serves as Curator and Executive Director of PopTech (poptech.org), a global innovation network which brings together scientists, technologists, engineers, designers, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, ecologists and others to collaborate on new approaches to the world’s toughest challenges.

Under his leadership, PopTech has incubated breakthrough collaborative innovations in mobile healthcare, education, sustainability, and a number of related fields. It has also identified and trained dozens of the world’s leading social innovators and scientists; and its annual thought-leadership conferences have become one of the most recognized and influential in the world.

Andrew has served as a Fellow of the National Geographic Society, and his work and ideas regularly appear in dozens of leading publications and media outlets. In July 2012, Andrew’s next book, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, will be published by Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster.