Bohdanna Kesala
Bohdanna is the Director of International Summits at Singularity University. She oversees the execution of Global Licensing SU’s International Summits, growing them from five in 2016 to eighteen in 2018. Bohdanna works with partners from all over the globe, including South Africa, East Africa, India, Western and Eastern Europe, Canada, Central America, and South America.
Bohdanna builds strong global relationships, respects regional traditions and customs, all the while empowering her partners to produce impactful summits, educating thousands of participants on exponential technology, and how to use that technology to solve the world’s largest challenges. Stakeholders who attend the SU International Summits include all sections of government, including Presidents and Prime Ministers, C suite management of Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, NGO’s, students, and youth.
As a leader in the SU community, Bohdanna speaks on Community and Relationship Building and how Exponential Technology can help and hinder those relationships. She has spoken at several of the SU International Summits, private events, and for the Human Rights Foundation.
Bohdanna also owns 10 Forward Events, a full-service event-curation firm specializing in producing innovative and one-of-a-kind events focused on education and collaboration for the science and tech industry, startups, entrepreneurs, and VC firms. Her vision and reputation is as a connector, getting a diverse group of people together to form the links needed to move projects forward.
Prior to Singularity University, Bohdanna worked for Peter Thiel and the The Thiel Foundation as their Event Curator. She was one of the architects of The Thiel Foundation Summit; a bi-annual assembly of young entrepreneurs and visionaries from around the world. Bohdanna also managed dozens of projects including CNBC Transforming Tomorrow, a documentary focused on the Thiel Fellowship and the Wired.com series ‘Teen Technorati’ showcasing Fellows from The Thiel Fellowship.
And, in her spare time, Bohdanna devotes time to her painting career, exhibiting her work in the US and internationally. Bohdanna holds an M.F.A from San Francisco State University, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from California College of the Arts, and a B.S. from Indiana University – Bloomington.