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ISAIL Advisory Council

Roger Spitz

Roger Spitz

Chairperson
Disruptive Futures Institute

Distinguished Expert

Roger Spitz (B.Sc. Econ, MSc., FCA, APF) is a bestselling author and world-leading authority on strategic foresight and systems innovations. Spitz has given hundreds of keynotes globally, is frequently published and quoted, and has guest lectured at many of the world’s most prestigious institutions. He serves on multiple boards focused on anticipatory governance, sustainability, AI & ethics, venture capital (VC), and academia.


Spitz is President of Techistential, the preeminent foresight practice, which advises CEOs, investors, and boards on evaluating strategy under uncertainty, anticipating disruptions, and sustainable value creation. Spitz is also Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco and an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network. He lectures and publishes widely on Anticipatory Leadership, Futures Intelligence & Strategic Foresight. 


Spitz is the author of five books, including the bestselling "Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World" and acclaimed collection “The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption.” His frameworks, adopted by organizations worldwide, have featured in Fast Company, Gartner, Global Peter Drucker Forum, INC, Institute of Directors, Journal of Futures Studies, MIT Technology Review, and World Economic Forum.


Renowned for his pioneering work in climate foresight, with bestsellers on green business and sustainable development, Spitz is a Climatebase Fellow and board member of Lux Carbon Standard (Brazil’s first carbon credit certifier). Spitz’s DFI Sustainability & Climate Academy equips leaders to accelerate the energy transition through transformative change.


A recognized expert in AI, Spitz coined the term “Techistentialism” and founded the Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence.


A strong advocate for startups, he is venture partner at Vektor Partners and advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck’s fund. Spitz previously led Global Technology M&A at BNP Paribas, advising on over 50 transactions totaling $25bn. He launched the bank’s US M&A practice in San Francisco and built its European Technology & Digital Corporate Finance advisory franchise.


Bilingual English & French, Spitz has lived in 10 cities across three continents.

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The Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL.IN) is an artificial intelligence industry forum, founded by Abhivardhan in 2018. Our mission as an independent, not-for-profit industry forum for the analytics & AI industry in India is to promote responsible development of artificial intelligence and its standardisation in India.

Enforcing AI standards in the Indian and Indo-Pacific markets is hard. And yet, ISAIL.IN intends to document data and inputs associated with the market tendencies around three facets of artificial intelligence: its adoption, research around it, and its real-life policy implications across as many sectors as possible.


This is why, the AiStandard.io Alliance, administered by ISAIL.IN, intends to establish an allies of AI entities in India, Asia and the Global South, to develop market-friendly AI standards, with sector-specific, and sector-neutral contexts.

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