Omar Yaghi
2025 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Inventor of Reticular Chemistry & MOFs | Founding Director, AIMATRY Institute, Tsinghua University | Founder, Atoco & H2MOF
Geoff Parker
Professor of Engineering Innovation, Dartmouth | Faculty Director, Irving Institute for Energy & Society | Co-Author of Platform Revolution | Platforms, Networks & Energy
Geoffrey Parker is a leading authority on platform strategy and the economics of the energy transition. A Dartmouth professor of engineering innovation and MIT Sloan visiting scholar, he co-developed two-sided market theory and co-authored the definitive book Platform Revolution. On stage, he brings an engineer's clarity to how platforms, data, AI, and clean-energy markets are reshaping business and society.
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Geoff Parker biography
Geoffrey Parker is a leading scholar of platform strategy, network economics, and the innovation challenges of the energy transition. The Charles E. Hutchinson ’68A Professor of Engineering Innovation at Dartmouth College, where he also serves as Faculty Director of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, he co-developed the foundational theories behind the platform economy and now applies that thinking to some of the most important problems in technology and energy.
Technology speaker Geoffrey Parker, with Marshall Van Alstyne, co-developed the theory of two-sided markets and the concept of the “inverted firm,” ideas that reshaped how economists and executives understand digital platforms like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, and Apple. Together they identified the “chicken-and-egg” problem at the heart of every platform, how to attract two interdependent sides of a market at once, and the strategies that solve it. He is the co-author, with Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary, of Platform Revolution, the definitive guide to platform business models, and a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School and researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
From Platforms to the Energy Transition
Parker brings a distinctive engineer’s perspective to strategy, shaped by early roles in engineering and finance at General Electric before his academic career. Today his research extends platform and network thinking into new domains: data sharing and governance, the role of data and AI in industrial energy efficiency, and how to build markets that accelerate the decarbonization of energy systems. As Faculty Director of Dartmouth’s Irving Institute, he works at the intersection of technology, markets, and the clean-energy future. His research has been supported by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and numerous corporations, and he advises senior leaders across government and business.
As a speaker, Geoffrey Parker helps leaders navigate two of the defining forces of our era: the platform economy and the energy transition. He speaks on platform strategy and network effects, how established firms can compete in a platform world, data and AI governance, and the market design and innovation needed to decarbonize energy. Audiences gain a rigorous, systems-level understanding of how networked markets and emerging technologies are reshaping their industries.
Geoff Parker Speaking Videos
Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose - Geoff Parker
Platform Revolution - Lecture at MIT Platform Symposium by Geoff Parker
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As a co-creator of platform theory and co-author of the field's defining book, Parker explains how two-sided markets connect producers and consumers, why network effects make platforms so powerful, and how organizations can build and launch platforms of their own, including how to solve the "chicken-and-egg" problem every new platform faces.
Most established companies weren't built as platforms, but they still have to compete with them. Parker shows incumbent leaders how to think about network effects, ecosystems, and complementary innovation, and how traditional firms can adopt platform strategies to defend and grow their position in a networked economy.
As platforms and AI reshape entire industries, questions of data sharing, governance, and value distribution become critical. Parker explores how organizations and policymakers can design the rules, data-sharing arrangements, and governance structures that let digital ecosystems thrive while remaining fair and competitive.
As Faculty Director of Dartmouth's Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Parker examines one of the century's greatest challenges: decarbonizing our energy systems. He explores how market design, data, and AI can accelerate the clean-energy transition, and what business and government leaders must do to build the markets that make it possible.
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FAQs on Booking Geoff Parker
Why Geoffrey Parker?
Booking Geoffrey Parker gives audiences a rare thinker who bridges two of the most important forces shaping the future: the platform economy and the energy transition. A Dartmouth professor of engineering innovation and MIT Sloan visiting scholar, he co-created the theories that explain how digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb work, and co-authored Platform Revolution, the field's definitive book. He now applies that systems thinking to data governance, AI, and the decarbonization of energy. With an engineer's precision, real-world experience at General Electric, and advisory work across government and business, he turns complex economic and technological forces into clear strategy. He is an ideal speaker for events on technology, innovation, strategy, energy, and sustainability. To bring Geoffrey Parker to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Geoffrey Parker?
Geoffrey Parker is the Charles E. Hutchinson '68A Professor of Engineering Innovation at Dartmouth College and Faculty Director of its Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, as well as a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School. With Marshall Van Alstyne, he co-developed the theory of two-sided markets and the concept of the "inverted firm," and he is a co-author of Platform Revolution. His research spans platform strategy, network economics, data governance, and the energy transition.
What did Geoffrey Parker contribute to platform theory?
Geoffrey Parker, with Marshall Van Alstyne, co-developed the theory of two-sided markets, which explains how platforms create value by serving two interdependent groups of users at once, with costs and revenues on both sides. They also identified the "chicken-and-egg" problem of launching a platform and originated the concept of the "inverted firm." These ideas are now foundational to how businesses and regulators understand the platform economy.
What topics does technology speaker Geoffrey Parker cover?
Geoffrey Parker speaks on platform strategy and network effects, competing in the platform economy, data and AI governance, and the market design and innovation behind the energy transition and decarbonization. His keynotes suit technology, strategy, innovation, and energy or sustainability events, as well as organizations navigating platform competition or the clean-energy shift. To book Geoffrey Parker as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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