
Speaker · SF Tech Week · Oct 6–8, 2026
Athena Aktipis
Director, Cooperative Futures Institute, Arizona State University
Bio
Athena Aktipis is an evolutionary biologist and cooperation scientist who studies the fundamental principles of cooperation across scales - from cells to human communities to AI systems. She's a Professor at ASU, ranked in the top 1% of scientists worldwide. She is also the author of The Cheating Cell and A Field Guide to the Apocalypse, host of the Zombified podcast, and Founding Director of the Cooperative Futures Institute at ASU.
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