Tan Le

Why organisations work with Tan Le

• A working neurotech CEO. EMOTIV’s brainwear is used by researchers and enterprises in over 140 countries and cited across more than 4,000 peer-reviewed studies. Her view of where neurotechnology meets business is built on shipped products and enterprise pilots with companies like Dell and JLL.
• A defined thesis for the next decade. Her book The NeuroGeneration sets out how brain science, AI, and consumer-grade neurotechnology are converging into a new generation of human-machine integration. Leadership audiences leave with a structured way to think about a domain most have only encountered through headlines.
• Credibility at the level boards take seriously. She holds a board seat at ASX-listed QBE Insurance Group, sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science, and writes for the Forbes Technology Council.
• The cognitive workplace, made tangible. EMOTIV’s enterprise products measure attention and cognitive stress in everyday work settings. For leadership teams thinking about productivity and wellbeing as separate questions, she shows how cognitive measurement is starting to bring them together.

Biography highlights

• Founder and CEO of EMOTIV, the Silicon Valley neurotechnology company whose EEG-based brain-computer interface technology is used in over 140 countries and validated across more than 4,000 peer-reviewed studies
• Author of The NeuroGeneration: The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal (BenBella/Simon & Schuster, 2020), endorsed by Klaus Schwab and David Eagleman
• Non-Executive Director of QBE Insurance Group, an ASX-listed multinational insurer with over 11,700 employees across more than 27 countries
• Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science, and a WEF Young Global Leader since 2009
• Three-time TED speaker; her TEDxWomen talk “My Immigration Story” has been viewed more than 1.4 million times
• Recipient of the Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award (2018), Young Australian of the Year (1998), Fast Company Most Influential Women in Technology (2010), Forbes 50 Names You Need to Know (2011), and National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2013); her portrait is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Biography

Wireless EEG technology has crossed out of the research lab into everyday environments. Offices, classrooms, and consumer products are starting to use brain data in ways that were impossible a decade ago. EMOTIV has been one of the companies opening that path.

Tan Le founded EMOTIV in 2011 and runs it today. The company’s headsets and earbuds turn brain activity into usable data for researchers and enterprises in more than 140 countries, with citations across over 4,000 peer-reviewed studies. Pilots with Dell and JLL apply that measurement to attention and cognitive stress in real workplace settings.

Her book The NeuroGeneration (Simon & Schuster, 2020) traces how brain-computer interfaces, neural stimulation, and AI are converging into human-machine integration that reshapes work, healthcare, and learning. The book carries endorsements from Klaus Schwab and David Eagleman. Le sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science. She also holds a board seat at ASX-listed QBE Insurance Group and writes for the Forbes Technology Council.

That biographical arc adds to the institutional credibility. She arrived in Australia as a four-year-old refugee from Vietnam and was named Young Australian of the Year at 21. Today, she runs one of the most cited platforms in mobile EEG research. Her portrait sits in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

Key speaking topics

• Brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnology
• The future of work and human-machine integration
• AI, automation, and cognitive augmentation
• Workplace wellbeing and cognitive performance
• Innovation and entrepreneurship in deep technology
• The ethics and governance of neurotechnology
• Reinvention and outsider thinking

Ideal for

• Boards and CEOs setting long-range technology strategy in financial services, healthcare, technology, and consumer industries
• Chief Technology Officers and Chief Innovation Officers are thinking about the convergence of AI, neurotech, and human performance
• CHROs and Chief People Officers looking for substantive content on cognitive workplace design beyond the wellness category
• Founders and growth-stage entrepreneurs working at frontier-technology intersections

Audience outcomes

• A clear-eyed view of which neurotechnology and brain-computer interface applications are operating today and which are still emerging
• The argument behind The NeuroGeneration, with concrete examples from enterprise pilots and clinical research
• A practical frame for how cognitive measurement is starting to change how leaders think about workplace productivity and wellbeing
• A view of the ethical and governance questions board-level decision-makers will face as neurotechnology moves into enterprise use
• Sharper questions to ask vendors and internal teams making claims about brain-related products