
Heidi Dangelmaier

About Heidi
Heidi Danglemaier is an inventor + designer + scientist.
She is an expert at creating “Tipping Points” - first to market innovations that become global and mass-market category leaders. Heidi’s innovations generated billions in revenues for the world’s biggest corporations. She has activated exponential growth by inventing first to market products in over 20 industries including the first video games for girls, social media tech, consumer products, fashion, and even the global rebranding of “cheerleading”. Her client list includes the biggest corporations including P&G, Unilever, CBS, Time Warner, Nokia, Sega, AT&T, Walmart, JCPenney, Johnson & Johnson, Bacardi, Samsung and Merck.
Her work has been celebrated by dozens of publications as wide-reaching as New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Women’s Wear Daily, The New Yorker, to trade and technical magazines - IDSA, AIGA, ANA, IEEE, ARF, COMPUTER GAMING WORLD.
Her magnum opus - “A new paradigm of human intelligence, and its applications to economics, marketing, design, and evolution - just won MIT’s 2019 contest on the future models of AI, and will be published by the MIT Press in the spring of 2019.
Heidi has a BSc in Physics and a BSc in Computer Science from Western Washington University, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of British Columbia, spent 4 years in a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Physics at Princeton University. In 2005 she made a radical career movement and started an initiative to reinvent the future of consumerism called Girlapproved. Her mission was to fix the algorithms that run modern economics, consumerism and culture. She left the intellectual and tech community and electing to work exclusively work with young girl artists, scientist, and engineers (ages 15 - 23).
Regarding inclusion and diversity, Heidi is most proud that her experiment was not focused on girls fitting into engineering, economics, design, and marketing but fixing - to the benefit and progress of all.
Heidi is Participating in these Events
- Harnessing AI for the Greater Good: Female Intuition and the Lost Vector of Business Growth - Keynote Session on Tuesday, 4 June, 2019 at 10:13:00
- Harnessing AI for the Greater Good: Female Intuition and the Lost Vector of Business Growth - Breakout Session on Tuesday, 4 June, 2019 at 15:30:00