Eric Haseltine

Eric Haseltine

CA, US
Innovation Speaker, Chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council

Eric Haseltine is the Chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council, a government/industry group whose goal is to accelerate innovation in the Defense and Intelligence sectors. A futurist, author, and consultant, Haseltine has over 70 patents and patent applications—most in the last 5 years—in AI, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Optics, and Security.

Eric was the Associate Director of National Intelligence in the George W. Bush administration and Associate Director at NSA in charge of Research and development. Prior to joining the government, Dr. Haseltine was Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering, where he ran R&D for the entire Walt Disney Company.

Dr. Haseltine began writing in 1997 with a popular monthly column on the brain in Discover Magazine, and currently writes about Neuroscience for Psychology Today. His blogs and videos on neuroscience and innovation have garnered over 4 million views. His books include Long Fuse Big Bang, Brain Safari and The Spy in Moscow Station. With his wife, Chris Gilbert MD Ph.D., he wrote The Listening Cure: healing secrets of an unconventional doctor.

Eric earned a BA from US Berkeley in Economics, a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from Indiana University and completed post-doctoral training in Neuroanatomy at Vanderbilt Medical School. He is also an alumnus of UCLA's Anderson School of Business

Eric Haseltine is the Chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council, a government/industry group whose goal is to accelerate innovation in the Defense and Intelligence sectors. A futurist, author, and consultant, Haseltine has over 70 patents and patent applications—most in the last 5 years—in AI, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Optics, and Security.

Eric was the Associate Director of National Intelligence in the George W. Bush administration and Associate Director at NSA in charge of Research and development. Prior to joining the government, Dr. Haseltine was Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering, where he ran R&D for the entire Walt Disney Company.

Dr. Haseltine began writing in 1997 with a popular monthly column on the brain in Discover Magazine, and currently writes about Neuroscience for Psychology Today. His blogs and videos on neuroscience and innovation have garnered over 4 million views. His books include Long Fuse Big Bang, Brain Safari and The Spy in Moscow Station. With his wife, Chris Gilbert MD Ph.D., he wrote The Listening Cure: healing secrets of an unconventional doctor.

Eric earned a BA from US Berkeley in Economics, a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from Indiana University and completed post-doctoral training in Neuroanatomy at Vanderbilt Medical School. He is also an alumnus of UCLA's Anderson School of Business

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Our assertion is that the Russians didn't succeed despite economic deprivation, but because of it. The head of Russia's Rocket program emphasized this to Dr. Haseltine (when Haseltine served on NASA's...

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If your network system hasn't been penetrated yet, it's going to be. No data system is perfect with human behavior presenting the biggest security risk. So if nothing is safe, how can your organization operate on the assumption you've already been hacked? What can you do when your data systems are set up to transmit information to bad actors, such as corporate spies or foreign interests? Sometimes the best cyber defense turns out to be a cyber offense. In this entertaining talk, former...
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