David Orban

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  • Actioneer
    Chief Executive Officer
    Actioneer
    Oct 2023 - Current (8 months)
    Actioneer is an AI-powered startup coaching and data-driven investor platform. It overcomes the lack of scalability and accessibility of traditional coaching, as well as the absence of reliable early-stage indicators for investors. Actioneer seeks to make high-quality advice and mentorship affordable and accessible to founders globally, helping unlock entrepreneurship and enable more people to find solutions, create jobs/wealth, and design exciting, satisfying lives.
  • CheetahX
    Advisor
    CheetahX
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (1 year)
    CheetahX Emancipates and Empowers All Indians Through Crypto Technology. The CheetahX Product Suite brings the ability to generate wealth and achieve financial freedom through the power of DeFi to all of India in one user-friendly mobile application.
  • Beyond Enterprizes
    Managing Advisor
    Verified experience
    Beyond Enterprizes
    Jul 2021 - Current (2 years 11 months)
    Beyond Enterprizes offers strategic and technical leadership, advisory, and support capabilities to projects in all stages of blockchain and new technology implementation and development.
  • Torre
    Coach
    Torre
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 (5 months)
    Actors and athletes have talent agents. So should you. How it works: Meet your agent and your coaches. Your career partners become your dedicated team. Get a career plan. We build a customized roadmap every quarter. Grow your career. Every day, we work for you with coaching, job opportunities, and negotiation. We handle everything. Job placement. We help you find jobs (full-time, flexible or freelance), get offers, and negotiate on your behalf. Networking. We introduce you to experts, leaders, and fellow professionals. Coaching. Provided by your dedicated talent agent and other experts. Personal branding. We help you write a great résumé and build a strong online presence. 24x7 support. On-demand help from the entire Torre Coach team. https
  • Torre
    Vice President Corporate Development
    Verified experience
    Torre
    Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 (4 months)
    Torre is building a global platform that automates recruiting using artificial intelligence to match jobs and candidates, and assemble teams. First launched in the remote global market, it is growing exponentially.
  • Emma Group
    Advisor
    Emma Group
    Jul 2020 - Current (3 years 11 months)
    The Emma Group is a Venture Studio creating high-growth startups in the space of remote work.
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    Advisor
    The Singularity Group
    Apr 2020 - Current (4 years 2 months)
  • SingularityNET
    Chairman of the Supervisory Council
    SingularityNET
    Jul 2019 - Oct 2023 (4 years 4 months)
    SingularityNET is a decentralized marketplace for AI algorithms. The future will be run on AI: automation is already improving more than 700 job types, lowering costs and increasing output. SingularityNET lets anyone monetize AI algorithms, allowing companies, organizations, and developers to buy and sell AI at scale. Learn more & subscribe to our newsletter at our website: http://singularitynet.io Join our Telegram channel: http://t.me/singularitynet
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    Member of the Board of Directors
    The Singularity Group
    Aug 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 10 months)
    The Singularity Group AG aims to make the long-term theme of "Singularity"​ investable. The Singularity is the moment when machines will exceed human intelligence. On the path to Singularity, exponential progress will result in unprecedented rates of change to human civilization and the economy. For successful investors, it is essential to anticipate the effects of Singularity on the world and allocate capital accordingly. The team has identified twelve "Singularity Sectors"​ (including Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Robotics, Neuroscience) that are expected to experience exponential change. The Singularity Group AG was founded in Zug (Switzerland) by a team of three investment professionals with a t
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    Founder & President
    SingularityU Italy
    Dec 2016 - Aug 2020 (3 years 9 months)
    SingularityU Italy Summit was held in Milan on October 2-3, 2018. http://singularityuitalysummit.com We live in a globally connected world, where our infrastructure for learning, experimentation, and implementation of the most successful ideas is available to nearly everybody. The increasing impact of exponential technologies and decentralized networks is the driver of the massively transformative change of our era. Singularity University studies and teaches about this transformation in its courses. It also invest in these technologies via the Singularity University Labs Accelerator Seed Fund, and launches ventures based on them in its startup accelerator. SingularityU Global, an innovative expansion initiative of SU, began the creation o
  • Network Society Ventures
    Founder & Managing Partner
    Network Society Ventures
    Dec 2015 - Current (8 years 6 months)
    Network Society Ventures is a global venture firm, seeking to deliver superior returns by capitalizing disruptive technology-based companies that are leading the transformation from the post-industrial age to the Network Society. Network Society Ventures is focused on making investments in the sectors that are driven by the Eight Pillars of Change promulgated by the Network Society Manifesto: Energy, Manufacturing, Food, Health, Learning, Finance, Security, Policymaking.
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    Chapter Ambassador
    SingularityU Milan
    Nov 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years 1 month)
    The SingularityU Milan chapter is part of the SingularityU Global program of Singularity University. SingularityU Global embodies the alumni community of Singularity University. Our alumni are at the forefront of driving ideas, impact, and change using exponential technologies to address humanity's grand challenges in their communities. Singularity University is a platform for education and action that is focused on understanding how exponential technology can be leveraged to drive global impact. Singularity University aspires to create a global community of doers. SingularityU activities are designed in the spirit of Singularity University’s mission to empower our alumni community across the globe.
  • Dotsub
    Advisor
    Dotsub
    May 2015 - Apr 2023 (8 years)
    Dotsub is a browser based, one-stop, self contained system for creating and viewing subtitles for videos in multiple languages across all platforms, including web based, mobile devices, and transcription and video editing systems. It's easy to use, nothing to buy or download, and it's fun. You can upload your videos, transcribe and time caption them, translate them into and from any language, and share them with the world. You can also embed the Dotsub player onto most websites and blogs with full Dotsub functionality.
  • Network Society Research
    Trustee
    Network Society Research
    Oct 2014 - Current (9 years 8 months)
    A set of simultaneous technologies is growing exponentially, with the common feature of being decentralized, and organized in a network. This contrasts with the centralized and hierarchical organization of today’s traditional society and its basic functions. The shift from the old to the new structure will subject the Nation State to an unprecedented pressure. The Network Society project creates a vision and analytical tools to allow individuals, enterprises and the society at large to deal positively with this unstoppable change.
  • Futuroid Ltd
    Founder
    Futuroid Ltd
    Oct 2014 - Current (9 years 8 months)
    Futuroid analyses and implements winning strategies for itself and its clients to understand exponentially changing technologies, the power of networks, distributed and decentralized organizations, and their impact on the lives of individuals, enterprises, and society at large.
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    Founder
    Dotwords
    Oct 2014 - Current (9 years 8 months)
    Dotwords executes high quality translation and localization of documents, websites, apps, videos, and more. Promotes translation between all languages, defending linguistic diversity. Using modern project management and translation memory tools it creates affordable and reliable workflows for the benefit of its clients in all industries.
  • Axelerant
    Founder & President
    Axelerant
    Jan 2012 - Current (12 years 5 months)
    The purpose of Axelera is to spread a clear understanding of exponential dynamics and technologies and to aggregate, inspire and encourage the development of a new Italian leadership in order to leverage the value of the Italian potential to address major challenges of our time.
  • Dotsub
    CEO & Member of the Board of Directors
    Dotsub
    Mar 2011 - May 2015 (4 years 3 months)
    Driving the technology, client, and investor strategy of Dotsub, as it gets ready to roll out its next generation platform for crowdsourced, and professional translation of online video.
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    Mentor
    Thiel Fellowship
    Feb 2011 - Current (13 years 4 months)
    The Thiel Fellowship brings together some of the world’s most creative and motivated young people, and helps them bring their most ambitious ideas and projects to life. Thiel Fellows are given a no-strings-attached grant of $100,000 to skip college and focus on their work, their research, and their self-education. They are mentored by our network of visionary thinkers, investors, scientists, and entrepreneurs, who provide guidance and business connections that can’t be replicated in any classroom.
  • Singularity University
    Faculty & Advisor
    Singularity University
    Feb 2009 - Current (15 years 4 months)
    Singularity University, based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.
  • Lifeboat Foundation
    Advisory Board Member
    Lifeboat Foundation
    May 2007 - Current (17 years 1 month)
    The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. I am a member of its scientific Advisory Board.
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    Speaker and Consultant
    davidorbancom
    Jan 2004 - Current (20 years 5 months)
    I have strong opinions on a fairly wide variety of subjects, and seldom refrain from expressing them. On top of providing information, analysis, and answers online, I provide strategic consulting services to best leverage ideas, services, and products in a global competitive landscape.
Education 0% verified
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    Physics
    "Esperto di Marketing Digitale" - Formaper, CCIAA Milano Università degli Studi di Salerno
    Jan 1987 - Dec 1990 (4 years)
  • Università degli Studi di Padova
    Physics
    Università degli Studi di Padova
    Jan 1984 - Dec 1987 (4 years)
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    Videum
    Feb 2012 - Dec 2019 (7 years 11 months)
    Videum, is a video portal to access health and wellness video content in any language. Translation in based on a crowdsourcing approach powered by dotsub.com
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  • Hoepli
    Singolarità: Con che velocità arriverà il futuro
    Hoepli
    Oct 2015
    Da quando l'uomo si è affacciato sul pianeta, con un impatto sempre più ampio e profondo sulla sua evoluzione, ci si chiede se rappresenta un elemento unico e irripetibile. La sua intelligenza potrà essere replicata? E se questo avvenisse, sarà una novità sconvolgente, pari alla discontinuità dell'arrivo dell'uomo? Che cosa succederà all'umanità? Sono domande diventate oggetto di studio nella Silicon Valley, dove è nata la Singularity University. La singolarità tecnologica è il momento in cui l'intelligenza artificiale potrebbe prendere il sopravvento. Previsto per 20-30 anni da oggi, per molti esperti è uno dei momenti più promettenti ma anche più pericolosi della storia dell'umanità. Questo libro espone in modo accessibile quali potrebber
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    Uomini sensori e interfacce
    Formiche
    Feb 2015
    With the rapid increase in the number of objects around us that are able to communicate, it is fundamental that these don't need our decisions to continue to operate, otherwise we'd drawn in their constant demands constant. The nodes that make up the Internet of Things should be autonomous and decide for themselves which 1% of the information that is collected can be aggregated and correlated with the corresponding parts of the data acquired from other nodes and warn us of what is happening only when it really matters. (In Italian.)