Mickey McManus is a pioneer in the field of strategy, innovation, pervasive computing, human-centered design and education. He holds 12 patents in the areas of connected products, vehicles, and services. He is a leadership coach to high-potential executives, a senior advisor at BCG, and research fellow emeritus at Autodesk. At Autodesk he was a key member of their corporate strategy, future of learning, and strategic foresights teams and helped pioneer and build their team of c-level visiting fellows. While exploring creative authoring tools he helped them explore how teams would use creative AI, embedded sensing and generative design tools to explore a vastly larger landscape of potential solutions, and close the loop between designing, making, using and evolving the things and places that make up our physical world. He co-created their learning engine initiative where machine learners help human learners thrive over their lifetimes. He was the CEO and later chairman of MAYA (now a foundational part of BCG.X), one of MAYA's startups is now a part of Nielsen, another is a part of General Dynamics Mission Systems, another formed the basis of Idealab NYC, and the educational institute, LUMA Institute (now the underlying co-creation operating system for Mural) has taught over 70,000 people globally how to co-create with people and make the right thing, right. Mickey co-authored Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology (Wiley 2012). The book is a field guide to the future, where computing will cease to be confined to any particular "box," but instead be freely accessible in the ambient environment. John C. Abell, former New York Bureau Chief of Wired and founding editor of Reuter.com noted that, “With Trillions authors Lucas, Ballay and McManus belly up to the bar alongside futurists Alvin Toffler, Kevin Kelly and Arthur C. Clark, offering a vision so compellingly argued you’ll only be surprised if it doesn’t happen.”Trillions was awarded the Axiom Gold Award for best business book about technology and the Carnegie Science Award in the Science Communicator category. During Mickey’s tenure as CEO at MAYA the company won numerous Consumer Electronic Association (CEA) awards for product innovation, was selected multiple times as a top 20 “best small company to work for” in America by Fortune, Inc, and Entrepreneur magazines and spun-out, launched, or incubated five new MAYA organizations.