Jason Silva · Global keynote speaker · Filmmaker
Jason Silva transforms AI, exponential change and disruption into awe, agency and creative possibility.
Emmy-nominated host of National Geographic’s Brain Games · Creator of Shots of Awe · 100M+ views
Email mejasonsilva.studio@gmail.com
01 The proposition
In a moment dominated by AI anxiety, Jason offers a different emotional operating system: curiosity over fear, imagination over paralysis, awe over alienation.
He connects exponential technology to our oldest human capacities—wonder, creativity and the impulse to transcend what we thought possible.
This is not prediction. It is a cognitive reframe for people living inside change.
Views across the world
Countries reached
Seasons of Brain Games
Of global keynotes
02 In the room
Jason’s cinematic talks combine story, philosophy and visual montage—turning complex technological change into an emotional event audiences can carry with them.
03 Keynote experiences
One animating thesis, tuned to your audience: technology is not an external force happening to humanity. It is imagination made material—and we can learn to meet it with greater creativity and wisdom.
01 / AI & cognition
Human cognition in the age of intelligent machines
AI makes answers abundant. The advantage moves to imagination: asking better questions, connecting distant ideas and learning to collaborate creatively with machines.
02 / Awe & innovation
Wonder as a public—and organizational—utility
In an age of automation, attention and awe become scarce resources. The organizations that cultivate them unlock deeper engagement, meaning and creative energy.
03 / Agency & responsibility
Exponential power requires exponential wisdom
Our tools grant powers once reserved for deities. The defining challenge is not whether innovation will continue, but whether our maturity can keep pace.
Cultural deep dive · For daring audiences
From acid tests to algorithms, from meditation to machine intelligence—the human journey has always been about expanding the mind. A provocative cultural history connecting counterculture, Silicon Valley and the technologies of transcendence.
Technology is imagination made material.
04 Shots of Awe & beyond
Before “creator” became a job description, Jason built a cinematic philosophy channel exploring creativity, consciousness, flow and the science of awe.
Original series · 100M+ views
Rhapsodic dispatches from the edge of the possible—films designed not merely to communicate an idea, but to induce a state.
Explore the channel05 Field guides to aliveness
Two visual manifestos for outrageous creativity, radical self-expression and living in awe.
Full-color manifesto
What if consciousness itself were a frontier—and the next territory to explore was not land, but experience?
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A field guide to living in awe
On the holy madness of creation and the art of staying ecstatically alive.
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Amsterdam · 2025
06 About Jason
Jason Silva is an Emmy-nominated host, filmmaker, futurist and author. He hosted five seasons of Brain Games on National Geographic—seen in 171 countries—and created Shots of Awe, the cinematic series on creativity and consciousness that has passed 100 million views.
His work lives at the intersection of exponential technology and the human search for meaning. Drawing on thinkers from Marshall McLuhan and Stewart Brand to Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil, Jason brings the kinetic energy of a born presenter to stages around the world.
“Part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from The Matrix.”
— The Atlantic
07 Start a conversation
Tell us what you are building, who will be in the room and where you want to take them. We’ll continue the conversation from there.