Rakhi Rajani

Rakhi is a Chartered Psychologist, Engineer and Spatial Designer. She cares about creating a new civilisation for space and the future of humanity. Rakhi started her career as a research scientist in Silicon Valley at HP LABS in the early 2000’s bringing psychology and brain science to tech, smart cities and IoT. Areas of expertise include: Interplanetary civilisation, innovation for humanity, and behavioural change by design. She's currently working on: - engineering the new space economy and how you create a civilisation from scratch (protecting space from the climate problems we have here, landing pads, habitats, social norms, education, governance, businesses etc) - supporting female scientists engineering what happens next in space - defining the cultures (identities, levels of regulation vs freedom etc) that will form when we inhabit other planets - the intersection of AI and Space Science Rakhi has extensive experience observing how people behave, monitoring the world for weak signals, patterns and change drivers, subsequently creating normative or exploratory futures that generate new products, services, businesses and experiences. She creates interdisciplinary R&D, Innovation and Skunkworks teams and labs for organisations that want to experiment, think forward and invent the future. Rakhi has created award winning products, and identified new commercial opportunities for businesses spanning digital health, fintech, hospitality, emerging tech etc. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and is qualified as a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol).

Starting over: creating functioning civilisations from scratch - this is about people, culture, environments and tech together. But more importantly about diversity ‘at the core’

Kindness

Being a rebel without looking like a rebel