Sam Rad

Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia) is The Change Futurist: an anthropologist and entrepreneur who spent two decades inside technology revolutions, founding four companies across AI, blockchain, and connected hardware. Her keynote, Change Has a Pattern, shows Fortune 500s, governments, and associations on five continents how to read the pattern behind every big change.

Sam’s first two companies used AI to map personal taste, starting in 2010. She went on to co-found Chronicled, the San Francisco company that brought trust to global commerce and supply chains, where she served as Chief Product Officer and later Chief Marketing Officer, and where her early blockchain protocol work was open sourced into the Ethereum standards, predating and paralleling ERC-721. She then co-founded NYOUM, a London-based generative AI communication platform. She is the first-named inventor on four granted US patents in identity and provenance.

Trained in anthropology and linguistics, Sam studies technology the way an anthropologist studies a culture: from the inside. She did ethnographic fieldwork inside Second Life in 2009, and in 2020 she built a working AI clone of herself. That work led to her research on perceptual security: what happens to a society when it can no longer agree on what is real.

Today Sam is Co-Founder and CEO of MISTIC Systems, a causal AI platform for strategic foresight and decision intelligence. She also leads RAD Original Creations (RADOC), the studio behind Illicit Shadows, an investigative documentary series on the global illicit economy. She has briefed the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, INTERPOL, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the OECD.

Sam is the author of two #1 bestsellers, Radical Next: Reclaiming Your Humanity in a Post-Human World (2025) and Bitcoin Pizza (2019). She wrote for Forbes, which named her to its 30 Under 30 list in 2017, served on the faculty of Singularity University, and is a member of the Content Authenticity Initiative.

On stages across five continents, she brings the calm confidence of a former competitive skydiver and the energy of a rock star, so audiences don’t just walk out ready for what’s next. They walk out wanting it.

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