Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Werbach has spent three decades exploring major trends in emerging technology, including legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence; regulatory and financial implications of blockchain and digital assets; application of digital game design principles to business; and the evolving societal impacts of the internet.
He served on the Obama Administration’s Presidential Transition Team and founded the Supernova Group, a technology consulting firm, which organized the CEO-level Supernova technology conference. He also created one of the most successful massive open online courses, with nearly half a million enrollments.
He directs the Wharton Accountable AI Lab and the Blockchain and Digital Asset Project. He was named Wharton’s first-ever Iron Prof in 2010.
Werbach has published four books, including The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust, For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, and After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity. He is the host of the podcast The Road to Accountable AI, and academic director of Wharton’s executive education program Strategies for Accountable AI.
Earlier in his career, he edited the influential technology newsletter Release 1.0, and helped develop the U.S. Government’s Internet and e-commerce policies in the Clinton Administration.
