Yu-kai Chou is a Pioneer and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification, and the Original Creator of the gamification framework: Octalysis. He is the Founder of The Octalysis Group and the Behavioral Scientist at the Israel-based gamification platform Captain Up. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification worldwide, including at organizations like Stanford University, Accenture, Tedx, SxSW, Gamified India, Huawei, the Innovation Center in Denmark, Kingdom of Bahrain, and many more. Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamifcation, starting his work in the industry in 2003. In 2014, Yu-kai received the reward of "#1 Gamification Guru" by the World Gamification Congress based in Spain, as well as the UK-Based organization Rise.Global (not to say that he is actually the best at anything, but something nice to have on a Bio). He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as eBay, Huawei, Fidelity, HP, Cisco, Wells Fargo, and more. Yu-kai is a Board Director for Morf Media, a gamified training and learning platform.. He is also a Board Advisor for many organizations and companies through out North America, Europe, and Asia, including BALANCE Edutainment (creators of Pacha’s Pajamas), Loki Studios (creators of Geomon and sold to a Yahoo), Powzy (mobile game monetization platform) and RedCarpet (Offline Loyalty Platform in India), Plug.DJ, Lucky Diem, and many more.
Yu-kai Chou is a Pioneer and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification, and the Original Creator of the gamification framework: Octalysis. He is the Founder of The Octalysis Group and the Behavioral Scientist at the Israel-based gamification platform Captain Up. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification worldwide, including at organizations like Stanford University, Accenture, Tedx, SxSW, Gamified India, Huawei, the Innovation Center in Denmark, Kingdom of Bahrain, and many more. Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamifcation, starting his work in the industry in 2003. In 2014, Yu-kai received the reward of "#1 Gamification Guru" by the World Gamification Congress based in Spain, as well as the UK-Based organization Rise.Global (not to say that he is actually the best at anything, but something nice to have on a Bio). He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as eBay, Huawei, Fidelity, HP, Cisco, Wells Fargo, and more. Yu-kai is a Board Director for Morf Media, a gamified training and learning platform.. He is also a Board Advisor for many organizations and companies through out North America, Europe, and Asia, including BALANCE Edutainment (creators of Pacha’s Pajamas), Loki Studios (creators of Geomon and sold to a Yahoo), Powzy (mobile game monetization platform) and RedCarpet (Offline Loyalty Platform in India), Plug.DJ, Lucky Diem, and many more.


