Dr. Lior Zoref

Blogger, Connector, Consultant, Foodie, Idea generator, Jewish, Marketer, Parent, Performer, Technologist

Lior Zoref is a researcher, advisor, keynote speaker and author of the bestselling book, Mindsharing – the art of crowdsourcing everything. Mindsharing was translated to many languages and was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the best books for entrepreneur leaders along with books by Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Tony Hsieh. He gave a talk at TED 2012 in Long Beach California. Lior has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT Media Lab, Columbia University, The White House, Nike, Microsoft and LinkedIn. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including TED, TEDMED, Biomed, TechEd where he shared the stage with figures like Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jeff Bezos and more. Lior worked for fourteen years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of marketing for consumer and online services. He studies towards his PhD in the area of crowdsourcing. He lives in Israel, married and a proud father of 3 kids.

Crowdsourcing, crowd wisdom, the future of social networking

The next step in human evolution might be related to how wisdom of the crowds help us think together using social networks

It all started with one status on facebook in which I told my friends that I dream that one day I'll speak at TED. Then, my friends decided to make my dream come true. I went to first TED auditions and was chosen to speak at TED 2012. I'm going to deliver the first ever crowd sourced TED talk...

Cooking :-) I make the best lasagnia