David W. Wood, D.Sc., was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry. He is now an internationally renowned futurist writer, educator, facilitator, consultant, and speaker.

As Chair of London Futurists, Wood has organised and hosted over 350 public meetings since March 2008 on futurist and technoprogressive topics. Membership of London Futurists exceeds 9,000, making it the world’s largest future-oriented meetup.

He is co-host of the highly rated London Futurists Podcast (130 episodes and counting) which has the theme “Anticipating and managing exponential impact”.

As Executive Director of the LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation, Wood organises and supports the LEVF team with their mission of “conducting and inspiring research to comprehensively cure and prevent human age-related disease”.

As Principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, Wood helps clients around the world to anticipate and manage the dramatic impact of rapidly changing technology on human individuals and communities. This includes the NBIC technologies and the possible rapid emergence of AGI (artificial general intelligence).

Previously, Wood spent 25 years designing, implementing, and trailblazing the use of smart mobile devices, including ten years with pioneering PDA manufacturer Psion PLC, and ten more with smartphone operating system specialist Symbian Ltd, which he co-founded in 1998. His executive responsibilities included software development, technical consulting, partnering and ecosystem management, and research and innovation. By 2012, his software for UI and application frameworks had been included on 500 million smartphones from companies such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Fujitsu, LG, and Panasonic.

From 2010 to 2013, Wood was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative.

Wood is the author, co-author, or lead editor of 12 books about the future. These include Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, The Singularity Principles, The Death of Death, Smartphones and Beyond, Sustainable Superabundance, and Transcending Politics. For more details see https://deltawisdom.com/books/.

Wood has a triple first class mathematics degree from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science. He has an honorary Doctorate in Science from Westminster University, in recognition of his services to the smartphone industry. In 2009 he was included in T3’s list of “100 most influential people in technology”. He is co-chair of the UK node of the Millennium Project, Foresight Advisor to SingularityNET, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and of the International Centre for Sustainability. He sits on the Board of the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). In addition to his Board roles at Psion Software (1996-1998) and Symbian (1998-2009), he also served on the board of the Open Mobile Alliance (2002-2008) and Humanity Plus (2015-2019).

He blogs at dw2blog.com and tweets as @dw2. He is a seasoned internationalist, and has been married for over 40 years to a native of South Korea. His book Smartphones and Beyond contains many candid biographical notes.