Ramez Naam is the Managing Partner of PlanetaryVC, which invests in startups addressing the world’s greatest challenges. Ramez has spent the past decade investing in climate and energy technologies and speaking around the world on innovation, exponential technology and the future of energy and climate in particular. He serves as the Co-Chair for Energy and Environment for Singularity University and was among the first people to forecast the exponential cost decline of clean energy technologies such as solar, batteries and electric vehicles.

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Ramez has advised the CEOs and executives of the world’s largest energy companies. He is also the award-winning author of 5 books, including the Nexus trilogy of science fiction novels. Before moving into energy and climate, Ramez spent 13 years at Microsoft, working on AI. He’s the author of more than 20 patents, several co-invented with Bill Gates.