Stephen Roloff

I see what emerging technologies make possible, and act on it. I predicted intelligent buildings in my university thesis, pioneered CGI in film and television, built AI-driven collaboration tools a decade before the market was ready, and now lead strategy at Kelvin Thermal Energy, electrifying industrial heat below the cost of gas.

My path runs through engineering, architecture, film and TV (producing, designing and writing for Lucasfilm Television, the BBC, IMAX and Alliance Atlantis, with Emmy and Gemini nominations) and digital media in Silicon Valley. For the past decade I've studied the energy transition closely: who the real players are, where the misdirections lie, and which economics and business structures will survive it.

Underneath all of it is one fascination: what is emerging. Our species is in the middle of a transition, and I intend to be a catalyst. That means backing technologies that make the old, unsustainable ways uneconomic, helping changemakers connect and gain the scale to move entrenched systems, and telling the stories that help people see where we're headed.

Ask me about:

- Which emerging technologies are real and which are hype - The economics of the energy transition, and who's positioned to win - Designing products and business models for markets that don't exist yet - How changemakers can compete with the scale of multinationals - Rethinking capitalism so it rewards what we actually need - What storytelling teaches about strategy and change