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13th percentile
MIT professor and author redefining how humans relate to technology
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 67th percentile
- Wikidata/Wikipedia entity exists for Sherry Turkle, confirming her public notability.
- Identified as a researcher with an h-index of 34 and 14,183 citations across 125 works (OpenAlex).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata/Wikipedia entity exists for Sherry Turkle, confirming her public notability.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past founder of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a research center she established at MIT.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Identified as a researcher with an h-index of 34 and 14,183 citations across 125 works (OpenAlex).
What you likely need
Your strongest Festival moves are rooms that translate your MIT/TED credibility into verifiable operator and investor signal — think intimate dinners with AI founders actively seeking ethics advisors, and closed-door VC roundtables where your research authority fills a real gap. You'll get the most traction from events that bridge your book launch and public platform into concrete advisory relationships and angel deal flow rather than general networking.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA dinner with 8-10 Series A/B responsible-AI and human-centered-tech founders (think Inflection, Character.AI, Replika-era alumni) actively seeking credible academic advisors to formalize board or advisory roles
- introsA closed-door roundtable with AI-focused VCs at Andreessen a16z Bio + Ethics, Omidyar Network, and Mozilla Ventures who are actively sourcing credible public intellectuals as LP advisors or portfolio thought-leaders ahead of your generative-AI book launch
- fundraisingA small angel syndicate onboarding dinner with experienced academic-turned-investors like Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito alumni to demystify your first public angel checks in responsible-AI companies and build a verifiable investor track record
- tacticalA tactical roundtable with founders and executive directors who have successfully spun MIT or Stanford lab initiatives into standalone nonprofits — like the Partnership on AI or AI Now Institute — to map a funding and governance path for the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
- positioningA TED top-viewed-talks alumni happy hour with other 4M+ view speakers who have converted their platform into paid executive-education or consulting practices, to reverse-engineer a commercial model alongside your academic profile
- introsA pre-launch dinner with 10 AI founders and operators building in the artificial intimacy and generative-AI space — including Character.AI, Replika, and Hinge Labs alumni — to seed your book's ideas and establish direct thought-leadership positioning before publication
- tacticalA builders night with academic researchers who have successfully launched high-star GitHub repos and open-source datasets — think Hugging Face research team and AI2 Allen Institute contributors — to help you architect a public research repository that adds discoverable builder signal
- positioningA speaker dinner with CTOs and technical VCs from top AI labs where you can explicitly workshop how to foreground your h-index of 34 and 14,000+ citations in pitch and consulting contexts to reinforce domain authority with skeptical technical audiences