Public Intellectual Work
Hoffman is a frequent attendee of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland and attended the Bilderberg Meetings in 2011 and 2012.
Hoffman co-organizes The Weekend To Be Named Later, “a Ben Franklin-inspired gathering of ambitious friends, to brainstorm ways to change the world.” He has spoken at the XPrize Foundation’s conference and the TED conference in Long Beach in 2012. He is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University, Oxford University, Harvard University, MIT’s Media Lab, and others. He’s appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square on CNN and other current affairs television programs.
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