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Julian Bleecker

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Julian Bleecker

Chief Imagination Officer

Near Future Laboratory

  • United States
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About

Julian Bleecker, Ph.D., is a designer, engineer, entrepreneur, and author with degrees from Cornell University, the University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz. He founded Near Future Laboratory in 2005 and OMATA in 2014, leading the company from first prototypes to a successful sale in 2022 while working across industrial design, engineering architecture, iOS app development, manufacturing oversight, and brand-building. He is the author of It's Time To Imagine Harder and co-author of The Manual of Design Fiction.

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  • 11:15 AM

    11:35 AM

    19 Nov 2026

    Speaker

    The Future Is too Important to Be Boring

    The Big Stage

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