Talk by Chris Fussell

PORTSMOUTH INSTITUTE

The Oldest Conversation:
Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

A talk delivered to the Portsmouth Abbey School community by Chris Fussell
President of Business Operations at Lila Sciences

Friday, October 2, 2026
6:00 pm
RLH Kennedy Classroom Building
Portsmouth Abbey School

Chris Fussell is President of Business Operations at Lila Sciences, the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. Commissioned as an Officer in the U.S. Navy in 1997, Chris spent 15 years on U.S. Navy SEAL teams, leading SEAL elements in combat zones around the globe, before serving as Aide-de-Camp to General Stanley McChrystal at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Prior to Lila, he served as President of McChrystal Group, where he advised senior executives and institutions on building adaptive organizations. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School for Global Affairs. Chris is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Team of Teams and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of One Mission. He holds a BA from the University of Richmond and an MS in Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School, where he received the Pat Tillman Award as the highest peer-rated Special Operations Officer in his program.