Karl A L Smith is the Co-Founder with Sabrina C E Noto of the Agile World, nonprofit. He is a futurist, visionary, inventor and Founder of All me and over 20 other startups, engineer, scientist, polymath and author. All me is a new social media app on iOS, Android and Web at its core it will be private and anonymous as your data belongs to you: you decide who you share it with.
He is polymath and has a wide skill set that he has developed over the years he has a Masters of Science (MSc) in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Design linking high-tech and product design. His educational background from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Middlesex University and later Napier University his knowledge sits across design, engineering, science and the humanities and includes Social Sciences including Psychology and Social Anthropology, Quantitive Data and Qualitative Data for data driven insights and products, Industrial and Craft Design, Education and Enterprise Computer Science. He has been recognised for his eminence in Human Centered Design and Business Leadership by the British Computer Society with a Fellowship (FBCS). Karl is dedicated to finding solutions to everyday human problems and would not describe himself as a technologist.
Karl A L Smith is a technology key opinion leader (KOL) with a focus on ecosystems run by various infrastructure technologies and has been involved in the 5G Forum since 2016. His blog has been going since 2001 and averages 8,800,000 to 12,100,000 views a year, he has over 18,000 followers on LinkedIn. Karl is a qualified High School Teacher and utilises key learning techniques in his corporate work. He also has over twenty years experience in Youth Work, Counselling and has been involved in delivering Aid.
“Education is very close to my heart, through education and training people begin to envision themselves to be more than anyone thought they could be including themselves”
Karl has published several books including, Designing for Human Experience, a short guide to Agile Transformation and been one of ten Authors on Agile an Unexpected Journey. He has always been fascinated by how technology can augment the lives of humans;
“My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience”
Karl A L Smith is based near Edinburgh in Scotland and works worldwide as an independent CDIO Product & Service Strategy, Design and Execution | Organisational Design TOM/ITOM
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AI Effectiveness and Human Eminence by Karl A L Smith
Founder of All me
Premieres Feb 11, 2025