Kes Sampanthar
Cynergy - The Experience Agency Director of Strategy and Innovation
Albany, New York
Kes Sampanthar is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Cynergy where he leads research into the future of digital experience and engagement. He is a world-renowned innovator and the inventor of ThinkCube, an innovation tool used by some of the top companies around the globe. He is a leading thinker and speaker on innovation strategy and the science of engagement, as well as one of the first researchers to use game-design principles to create engaging enterprise systems.
Kes is a sought after consultant and has worked with industry leaders like Viacom, Verizon Wireless, Callaway, GE Healthcare and Bank of America developing breakthrough products and services. He has over 20+ years of experience working in all aspects of technology innovation - from R&D into artificial intelligence to game design, internet architecture and software design. Most recently, he’s imagining the future of products, services and technology based upon the latest in research into neuroscience, anthropology, sociology and behavioral economics.