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Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree helps leaders make better decisions under uncertainty. A decision-making and game theory speaker, she is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion, an astrophysics graduate, and a TED speaker.
Liv Boeree is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion who applies game theory and probability to the decisions leaders make every day. She speaks on strategic decision-making, risk, and thinking clearly under uncertainty.
Liv won more than $4 million as a professional poker player, becoming one of the most successful women in the game. She holds a degree in astrophysics from the University of Manchester, co-founded the non-profit Raising for Effective Giving, and has given TED talks on poker strategy and the risks of artificial intelligence.
Poker is a game of incomplete information, which makes it a useful model for business. Liv shows how tools from the poker table, such as thinking in probabilities, separating the quality of a decision from its outcome, and spotting cognitive bias, apply to strategy, investment, and risk. She also hosts the Win-Win podcast, where she explores game theory and coordination problems with leading thinkers.
Audiences learn practical ways to make better calls with incomplete information, to judge a decision by its process as well as its result, and to recognise the biases that skew group thinking. Her examples come from high-stakes tables and frontier science alike.
For events on strategy, risk, innovation, or AI, Liv brings a rare mix of scientific training and real-world proof from one of the most demanding games of skill.
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Liv Boeree draws on her background as a professional poker player and astrophysics graduate to frame talks on decision-making through the lens of game theory and probability, using poker as a concrete model for strategic thinking under uncertainty.
Liv Boeree speaks on strategic decision-making, game theory, and the application of probability and statistics to business and philanthropy. She is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour winner with over $4 million in winnings and holds a degree in astrophysics from the University of Manchester, and co-founded Raising for Effective Giving, a non-profit applying rational decision-making to charitable giving.
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