Vishal Punwani

Athlete, Business leader, Connector, Doctor, Entrepreneur, Student

I'm the CEO and co-founder of SoWork, founded at Harvard's Innovation Labs. SoWork has built the world's first generative AI-enhanced virtual workplaces, transforming productivity and team culture for thousands of teams around the globe. See more at www.sowork.com. Besides being a CEO, I'm is a medical doctor, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, a Mentor at the Oxford and MIT, and Alumni Advisor at MassChallenge Boston. In my prior life, I worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and became one of the highest rated Teaching Fellows at Khan Academy in Health and Medicine. I like traveling, playing videogames and hockey, and building things with smart people.

Human relationships. So we are moving work from our beautiful lovely earth up to the cloud so that our planet can be used for purely human things and not...work.

Being the hero of your own story is really, REALLY important. The belief in yourself has to start in childhood too - leads to much more confident, impactful people.

AI, CEO, data, fitness, gaming, Health, Leadership, Love, Medicine, Medtech, Metaverse, Startups, Workplace

Came to TED for the first time in 2022. Was good, met plenty of beautiful souls. Gave a TEDx talk called 'How saving our culture saved our company' in Feb 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5VyP3Gee_k A MainStage TED talk in the future.

Gaming. Medicine. Building a world-class team. Accents.