Ali Sohani

Startup Advisor, AI geek, software architect, entrepreneur, seed-stage angel, open source and decentralized systems evangelist, public speaker and futurist.


  • Social Network to Opportunity Network: From Communication to Collaboration, from Collaboration to Achievement

  • Expert/ Crowd Sourcing + Machine Learning (Collective Intelligence) for predictive analytics and better recommender systems.

  • Online Social Niche and Trust Management, Ranking Experts & Influencers

  • Bio-Inspired Adaptive Systems.

  • Edutainment: Games and Movies with purpose of Education

  • Social and Interactive Video Games with purpose to increase collaboration and productivity

  • Innovation and Disruption - Crowd Sourcing and Expert Sourcing - Evolution and Revolution

  • Designing and Architecting Distributed, Decentralized and Fault Tolerant Systems.

  • Big Shift: "Pull Economy"
    . Collaborative Innovation
    . Decentralized Systems
    . P2P/ On the Edge
    . Community Exchanges
    . Local Currency
    . Social Trust & Influence
    . Niche Networks

  • From Freemium to Pay Users.

  • Online Reputation System with Game Mechanics and Incentive System to encourage participation & collaboration.

  • Lean Startup: Agile Product Management with Customer Development

  • Challenging the status quo, stepping out of Local Maxima



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