Ari Popper

Chief Executive Officer, SciFutures

Ari is the Founder and CEO of SciFutures, a foresight and innovation house that uses sci-fi prototyping to help their clients create meaningful change in the Exponential Age. SciFutures works in a wide variety of industries with Fortune 500 clients such Hershey, Ford, Brocade, and Pepsi.

Ari has over 20 years' experience as a marketing, consumer research, and innovation consultant. He is a passionate sci-fi fan and amateur sci-fi writer who was inspired to start SciFutures during a creative sci-fi writing class at UCLA. He says that: “Science Fiction is a powerful tool because it helps businesses understand the human potential of emerging technologies to develop human-centered strategies that the whole organization can learn and be inspired to rally behind. This provides a significant competitive advantage.”

When Ari isn’t running SciFutures and reading sci-fi, Ari is marathon training and living in the California sunshine with his wife and three pets.

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