Manouchehr Shamsrizi (*1988) is “among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany’s younger generation” (Washington Post) and “everywhere where the improvement of political conditions still has considerable scope for improvement” (re:publica).

He is a co-founder of gamelab.berlin at the Humboldt University Cluster of Excellence and its Digital Health Spin-offs RetroBrain R&D, Ariane de Rothschild Fellow on Innovative Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, Global Justice Fellow of Yale University, and is among the “Young Elite – 40 under 40” of CAPITAL and on the “Watchlist2018” of Business Punk.

In 2014, he founded the startup RetroBrain from a study project at Yale University to create scientifically-based video games for seniors to fight dementia. The games are controlled by motion and RetroBrain relies on Microsoft Kinect technology. The team is supported by experts from Humboldt University, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Max Planck Institute and Microsoft and supported by the InnoRampUp program of the City of Hamburg.

On top, Shamsrizi is a member of various think tanks on issues of digitisation and justice, including the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT Foundation, and the Grameen Creative Lab of Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus. He was a speaker at the Bellevue Forum of German President Joachim Gauck and an invited participant of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit of former US President Barack Obama in Stanford.

Manouchehr also teaches on the “Future of Everything: Blockchain, Gamification, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence as Social Drivers” at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he belongs to the faculty of the “Digital Transformation Masterclass”.

Impressed yet? We sure are. Come to his Open Lecture at GTEC to learn exactly what it took to get this incredibly accomplished 30-year-old to where he is today. See you there!