Duffey was born to John and Diane Duffey in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother is an elementary school teacher. His father, a reading specialist. Since a very young age he was interested in the fusion of human creativity and technology.
Career
Duffey started his career as a content creator and designer of digital customer experiences. There, he closely observed human interaction with artificial intelligence and how AI has the power to amplify human creativity beyond bounds. He worked for several years in the 2010s for healthcare communications networkSudler & Hennessey, eventually becoming a senior vice president and group creative director. Duffey has been a creative consultant with more than thirty-five advertising agencies across all the major global marketingholding companies; WPP, IPG, Havas, Publicis and MDC, and has worked across all major industry vertical., he leads the strategic development department at Adobe. He has been featured by Business Insider and Yahoo as one of "The industry's leaders on the top issues, challenges, and opportunities in the fast-changing world of mobile."
Public speaking
Duffey is a five-time Cannes Lions speaker. In 2017, he spoke at Cannes Innovation about Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Creativity. He has also shared the stage with Kim Kardashian at Cannes Lions on How To Connect With Audiences Through Mobile Gaming. Also that year, he extolled the use of chatbots as a means of disseminating information between stakeholders in healthcare, in an interview with PharmaVoice. In 2018, he co-presented with Microsoft on the role of Human and Machine. In 2019, he spoke with IBM on the future of Cognitive Creativity.
Publications
Duffey has written on the increasing relevance of AI & mobile, particularly in designing experiences for the health, wellness and fitness space. In 2019, The Guardian named his piece, "How Mobile Became Mighty in Healthcare", to their Top Ten Best Healthcare Stories of the Year. Chris Duffey was honored with the Boldest Digital Health Influencer Agency Guru Award. Also in 2019, Duffey published Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence, where he provides his insights about human interaction with artificial intelligence. The book was co-authored by artificial intelligence, Aimé. Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence was selected as CES 2020 Top Technology Book of the Year, the world's largest business of consumer technologies conference. TechRepublic named the book as one of their "45 books every techie should read". His work has been featured by platforms such as Google, McKinsey, and Wharton15 in their digital marketing books.
Personal life
Duffey is married and has two children. He and his family live in New York City.
