Dr. Mihaela Ulieru is a technology alchemist and is an innovator at the edge of the impossible with a solid background as a “rocket scientist” backed by a PhD in robotics and an illustrious academic career. She is founder and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. IMPACT stands for ”Innovation Management and Policy Accelerated with Communication Technologies”- a spinout from her multiple awarded academic research in “eSociety” aiming at policy reforms for the adoption of the latest digital technologies in all areas of society and sectors of the economy. Since her early career she kept inspiring and supporting young entrepreneurs – one of her first MSc students was Garret Camp, co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon, and one of her last PhD students, Alexis Morris is the recipient of the Canada Research Chair in “Internet of Things. Dr. Ulieru currently advises several startups aiming to put the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” technologies (AI, Blockchain, IoT) to work to make the world a better place.
Highlights of her career include appointments to the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada by the Minister of Industry; appointment to the Science and Engineering Research Council of Singapore by the PM; Awarded the prestigious Industrial Research Chair and the Canada Research Chair including a tenured professorship; founder of the Adaptive Risk Management Research Lab; Inducted Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the New York Academy of Science; Expert Adviser to the Aspen Institute and to the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development where as part of her work she proposed Blockchain to be added to the Top 10 Future and Emerging Technologies. She led several large-scale projects targeting the management of complex situations through more organic ways of governance and fostered major multi-stakeholder programs leading the scaling-up of operations through strategic partnerships and networks in Industrial Informatics, the Future of Medicine, Self-Organizing Security, the EnergyWeb, Global Manufacturing Systems, and Sustainable Personal Living Technologies.
Dr. Ulieru is a world traveler to promote the advantages of leveraging Blockchain and its potential to create equality and a fairer society through the inclusion of the 99% in the economy. She has authored over 200 scientific articles, and still has time to write poetry in several language, for which she received several awards, including from the International Society of Poets and the American Society of Poetry.
