As the daughter of a chemist and an electrical engineer, Anne Griffin grew up immersed in the sciences. However, it was her passion for products and people that led her to tech.

She completed her degree in engineering at the University of Michigan. She started her career as an IT consultant eventually moving into product management, where she could create products that engaged and inspired people.

Anne went on to lead teams at companies like Huge Inc, Red Fuse Communications and OpenLaw, helping the businesses innovate and grow while adapting to their client’s needs. Today, she leads cross-functional product teams at Priceline. At every stage of my career, she witnessed the value of designing products with people in mind. Her focus is fairness: helping teams address bias in product design by integrating awareness into the creative process. Carving out space for humanity and empathy in a field inundated by product and process helps her stand out.

She has gained opportunities to share her talents and perspective on broad platforms for Tech 2025, as well as speaking engagements at conferences and universities. Additionally, she sits on the Rutgers University Big Data Certificate program Advisory Board, where she helps shape the curriculum and advise on industry standards in data science, AI, machine learning, and data analytics.

Anne on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/annetgriffin/

David is a pioneering tech ethicist who paved the way for the hotly-debated issues around Facebook, privacy, ethical design, digital well-being, and what it means to be human in the digital age.

David is a 3-time TEDx speaker and tech writer (IBM thinkLeaders, Quartz, Dell Perspectives) whose has been featured on CBS This Morning, Fast Company, USA Today, AP, LA Times, The Guardian, CNN.com, BBC.com, SiriusXM, AdWeek, New York Post, and countless other outlets. With a background as an attorney and college professor, he transitioned into an advocate for greater thoughtfulness regarding the creation and implementation of technology. David speaks about tech ethics, digital wellbeing, emerging tech trends, and digital citizenship throughout the US and world (Netherlands, Ireland, Slovakia, Latvia).

He is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an initiative to better align tech with the human interests of users and society, and is the co-host of Funny as Tech–a live show and podcast that tackles the thorniest issues in tech. David serves on the advisory boards for Common Sense’s Digital Citizenship Advisory Council, the non-profit #ICANHELP, and Hack Mental Health. In 2015, he co-founded the global Digital Citizenship Summit. David is currently researching the impact that “scaling intimacy” has on human relationships, and whether we are becoming botified (and less authentic) in our communications.

Follow David in social media:  TWITTER: @TechEthicist /  LINKEDIN: http://bit.ly/2uLO0rZ

Richard is an automation expert with years of experience in industrial automated systems. He co-founded Automation Intelligence in 2019 to optimize factories and distribution centers through targeted AI & Digital Twins.

James Jeude is advising Tech 2025’s new Strategy & Consulting Services division.

His career has covered a range of technology-fueled business experiences from large-scale line-of-business management (3,000+ headcount), building and operating a business strategy team, integrating digital signals and experiences into an analytically-driven experience environment, and understanding social and regulatory impact of artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision making.

His most recent work at Cognizant, one of the world’s largest global systems integrators, covered healthcare analytics, strategy, technology alliances, and business operations. He has also worked in business information (Dun & Bradstreet, INQVIA IMS Health, Import.io), search engine and language processing (IACI/Ask.com), and manufacturing and supply chain (Boeing). James lives in New Jersey with his wife, his Ford Mustang, and a room full of musical instruments and electronics.

James on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/james-jeude/

Glenn Rodriguez is an innovative leader and advocate for criminal justice reform and a broad array of social justice issues whose inspiring story of redemption and fight for freedom have captured mainstream media attention and facilitated debate on responsible and ethical use of technology in the correctional system.

Over the past three years, Glenn has held several positions at the Center for Community Alternatives, Inc. (CCA), a not-for-profit organization that promotes reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services, and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights.

Glenn began his professional career as a Case Manager working with justice-involved youth who were court-mandated to participate in CCA’s Youth Advocacy Project, an alternative to incarceration program. In his role as case manager, Glenn was instrumental in helping court-involved teens navigate the complexities of their day-to-day lives. Glenn conducted intake interviews, psychosocial evaluations, needs assessments, and weekly individual counseling sessions necessary to develop client-centered treatment plans and make referrals to community-based resources. Glenn quickly emerged as a leader in his department.

Glenn’s passion for working with inner-city youth derives from his personal experience. Following the tragic loss of both parents by the age of 4, Glenn was raised by his maternal grandmother in a single-parent household. Glenn grew up in Inwood, a crime-riddled sector of Manhattan, at the height of the War on Drugs. During his sophomore year of high school, at the age of 16, Glenn joined five other teens and partook in a robbery that resulted in the death of a young used car salesman. Following his arrest in 1990, Glenn was charged, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to 26 ½ years to life in prison.

Having served more than 25 years behind bars with a near-perfect record of rehabilitation and a passion to help people and society, to everyone’s surprise, Glenn was denied parole due to a problematic, biased software used by the parole board (COMPAS) to decide the fate of incarcerated people and whether they are ready to be reintegrated into society.

With unwavering determination, and the support of Cynthia H. Conti-Cook, in the Special Litigations Unit at the Legal Aid Society, and Rebecca Wexler, Yale Public Interest Fellow, who authored the Washington Monthly article featuring Glenn’s story, Glenn fought to overturn the erroneous decision by software that would’ve kept him incarcerated for another two years. In 2017, despite all odds, and with letters of support from correctional and political leaders, Glenn convinced a panel of parole commissioners that his decades of rehabilitation prepared him well to reintegrate into society. Glenn was released from Eastern N.Y. Correction Facility on May 11, 2017.

Since obtaining parole in 2017, Glenn has been a leading critic of the flaws inherent in risk assessment technology (including biased algorithms like the one that denied him his freedom) and an outspoken advocate and thought-leader for criminal justice reform at the Center for Community Alternatives. Glenn’s story has been featured in articles in the Washington Monthly, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, NPR Radio, and ABC News. Glenn story also appears in the VPRO documentary entitled “Algorithms Rule Us All,” and the podcast series entitled “The Watchmen: Sleepwalkers,” episode 3.

Yo! My name is Joe Toscano, but my last name is hard to say so you can just call me @realjoet.

I used to be an Experience Designer at R/GA on our Google team, which was embedded on campus in Mountain View. It was cool. Lots of perks. Great perks. But I didn’t care. That’s not what I signed up for. I signed up to make a meaningful impact on the world, and as time went on I felt that just wasn’t an option.

I left in early 2017 because of ethical concerns within the industry. I decided my time would be better spent helping make change from the outside. Since then, I’ve written a book called Automating Humanity. I’ve traveled to more than 19 different states and nations across four different continents to speak about ways to resolve technology’s ethical dilemmas. And I’ve launched the Better Ethics and Consumer Outcomes Network (BEACON) to help inspire purpose driven innovation within the industry.

BEACON’s purpose is to create a better future, through technology. Our day to day is spent helping companies proactively identify issues and translate those issues into positive-sum business—solutions that improve both the situation for consumers and the company’s bottom line—before they become headline news.

Lawrence is a speaker, entrepreneur, and technologist. Lawrence’s role at VaynerMedia places him squarely at the intersection of Advertising, Culture, and Technology. VaynerMedia, is a full-service digital agency founded by Gary Vaynerchuk, venture capitalist, best selling author and one of the most sought after public speakers today.

Before joining VaynerMedia, Lawrence served as the Chief Communications Officer at Opus AI, a software platform that uses AI to reduce bias in the hiring process.

For the past two decades, Lawrence’s career has been deeply rooted in Advertising and Technology, where he has worked with agencies such as RGA, Huge and JWT. Lawrence is the connective tissue between Technology, UX, Design, Systems, and Strategy.

Since winning his battle for parole in 2017, after being wrongfully denied parole by COMPAS risk assessment software, Glenn Rodríguez has worked with court-involved and at-risk youth in various positions at the Center for Community Alternatives (a leader in the field of community-based alternatives to incarceration that promotes reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights).  Glenn is currently Program Director at Horizon Juvenile Center, (a juvenile detention center in the Bronx). His areas of expertise are research, case management, program development, community outreach, and public speaking. Glenn also speaks on the impact of automation on the criminal justice system to bring awareness to the growing problems biased and opaque algorithms are causing real people.

Henry L. Greenidge is an experienced attorney and policy advisor who has focused on urban policy related to broadband, transportation, energy and sustainability. Currently, Henry leads East Coast Government & Community Relations for Cruise Automation, a subsidiary of General Motors focused on developing self driving cars.

Previously, Henry served as Assistant Director of External Affairs in the New York City Mayor’s Office where his portfolio included press, communications, and legislative affairs for the City’s $20 billion dollar sustainability program. During the Obama Administration, Henry held policy, budget, and legal roles at the Federal Communications Commission, U.S. DOT, and the White House Office of Management & Budget. Henry has been recognized by New York University as an Emerging Leader in Transportation, by City & State Magazine as a 2016 40 Under 40 Rising Star, and by the New York Urban League as a 2017 Trailblazer. Henry holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore, and a Bachelor of Arts from the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University where he graduated with honors.

Randi Williams is currently pursuing a a PhD in Media, Arts, and Sciences with a concentration in Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction at MIT. She plans to use her research to develop assistive devices and collect behavioral information for well-being and educative applications. Her recent research, Hey Google, is it OK if I eat you?: Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction (June 2017), co-authored with Stefania Druga, explores how children perceive and interact with autonomous technologies that are becoming more embedded in their daily lives.

She has worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT’s Media Lab, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, and Jawbone. At MIT Lincoln Laboratory she worked in the Decision Support and Informatics Group doing video analytics through machine learning. At MIT’s Media Lab she worked for the Fluid Interfaces group and developed web and mobile applications to help busy individuals automatically track key aspects of their day such as sleep, commute, movement, and location. She conducted research in the robotics department of NASA JPL as a Caltech Southern California Edison Company MURF Fellow. Additionally, she worked at Jawbone as a CODE2040 Fellow in the Tools Team (web development). At UMBC, Randi founded and led hackUMBC, an organization that brought hackathons to UMBC’s campus.

She is passionate about helping others learn, and exploring other cultures and the experiences that shape people into who they presently are.

Deborah Bryant, Senior Director of Open Source and Standards at Red Hat. Deborah is an acknowledged international expert in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models as well as open source community health. Her personal interests include the ethical use of AI and Machine Learning as well as industry accountability for use of personal information.

Prior to her deep involvement in open source, Deborah helped build Oregon emerging technology start-up; parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the 80s, commercial wide area networks, advanced telecommunications and data/voice convergence in the 90s.

Deborah’s public sector background includes ten years in state government; as a civil servant in Oregon’s executive branch as Deputy State CIO; in public office as an elected official in coastal Oregon; at Oregon State University building the Open Source Lab.

Deborah serves on numerous boards with a public trust agenda and an emphasis on open source software as enabling technology. She currently serves as Board Adviser for the Open Source Elections Technology (OSET) Foundation and is Board Director Emeritus for Open Source Initiative (OSI), the international standards organization for open source software.

She has authored and contributed to numerous published studies related to open source in the public sector, the adaptation of new collaborative models for economic development, and the use of open source software in the US energy sector for cybersecurity.

Deborah received the prestigious industryOpen Source Award in 2010 in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and for her pioneering advocacy of the use of open source software in the public sector.

Dr. Andrew Maynard is Director, Risk Innovation Lab, School for the Future of Innovation in Society Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society at the University of Arizona, and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. The Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University is a unique center focused on transforming how we think about and act on risk, in the pursuit of increasing and maintaining “value”.

He was previously Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department in the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Maynard’s research and professional activities focus on risk innovation, and the responsible development and use of emerging technologies, including nanotechnology and synthetic biology. He is widely published, has testified before congressional committees, has served on National Academy panels and serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Technology, Values and Policy.

Maynard writes widely on the intersection between emerging technologies and society, including regular articles on the news website The Conversation and is the author of, Films from the Future. Courses taught by Maynard have included risk assessment, risk innovation, science communication, risk and the future, environmental health policy, and entrepreneurial ethics. He also lectures widely on technology innovation and responsible development. Maynard a well-known science communicator, and works closely with and through conventional and new media to connect with audiences around the world on technology innovation and the science or risk. He is the creator of the YouTube channel Risk Bites, and blogs at 2020science.org. His Twitter handle is @2020science. Maynard is currently working on the book The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future.

John Suh is the Vice President & Founding Director, Hyundai CRADLE, Hyundai Motor Group  of Hyundai Ventures, which focuses on making strategic investments and business partnerships in the United States for the Hyundai Motor Group.

Prior to joining Hyundai, John worked at General Motors, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and several Silicon Valley startups where he had roles in corporate investing, product management, and R&D. John has a BS degree in electrical engineering from Kettering University as well as MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

John has numerous technical publications and has 5 patents and patents pending in the fields of robotics, artificial nose technology, and location based services. Read more about John HERE.

Richard Velazquez is a nationally recognized leader in the Hispanic community and in business. Velazquez leads international marketing for Amazon Alexa for Latin America and Australia/New Zealand, and the Smart TV segment. Prior to this, Velazquez was the Global Head of Denon at Sound United, an automotive designer, President of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) Seattle Chapter,^[1] Sr. Global Product Planner / Product Manager for Xbox with the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, and an executive at PepsiCo leading Emerging Technologies and Innovations in Marketing and Global R&D. He was recognized in October 2000 as the 1st Puerto Rican automotive designer for Porsche in Germany.

Velazquez began his career as an automotive designer for Honda R&D Americas, Inc. followed by Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany.^[6] After receiving his MBA, he switched industries and careers, focusing on marketing and Product Planning beginning with Procter & Gamble in Puerto Rico, followed by Microsoft and PepsiCo.

Tony O’Driscoll is Global Head of DukeCE Labs and Lecture Fellow at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. This dual role affords Tony the opportunity to operate at the intersection of cutting-edge academic research in business and the design of groundbreaking development interventions that get leadership ready for what’s next.

During his 18-year corporate career, Tony held several strategic leadership positions. He was a founding member of IBM Global Service’s Strategy and Change consulting practice where he consulted  at the highest level with business executives on creating sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly global, networked and knowledge-enabled economy. He also served as a member IBM’s Almaden Services Research group where he investigated the changing roles of leadership, innovation, and collaboration as enterprises become more global, virtual, open and digitally mediated. At both IBM and Nortel Networks, Tony had responsibility for crafting and implementing learning and human performance strategies at the enterprise-level.

Tony has authored and co-authored articles for business periodicals such as Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, Strategy and Business, CLO Magazine and Dialogue. He also writes a regular column for Training Magazine entitled“ Learning Matters.” Tony has also published two books on Organization Performance and Learning: Achieving Desired Business Performance, and Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration.

 Dr. O’Driscoll serves on the faculty of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and previously served on the faculty of North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management. At Fuqua, Tony played a key role in redesigning the Cross Continent MBA (CCMBA) program and served as Executive Director of Fuqua’s Center for Technology Entertainment and Media (CTEM), a research center dedicated to understanding the strategic, structural, and business-model issues with these vibrant and volatile industry sectors. At Poole, Tony was a founding member of NCSU’s Technology, Education, and Commercialization (TEC) Program established to educate graduate engineering and management students in the areas of new product and service development via the incubation and commercialization of emerging technologies.

Dr. O’Driscoll has authored and co-authored articles for academic journals such as Management and Information Sciences Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Performance Improvement Quarterly, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Tony’s current research and practice examines how emerging technologies are rapidly disrupting existing industry structures and business models. He is focusing specifically on how to develop leadership systems that enable organizations to adapt and evolve in increasingly unpredictable and turbulent business environments.

Ed Maguire brings more than 17 years of Wall Street experience in equity research and investment banking to his role as Insights Partner at Momenta Partners, with deep domain expertise in enterprise software.  He has proven success identifying strategic opportunities and articulating actionable insights based on rigorous analysis of technology, operations, competition and markets.

Most recently he was Senior Analyst and Managing Director at CLSA Americas, LLC, covering the software industry, technology and innovation. Prior roles include CEO of strategic consultancy firm MAGNet Strategies, Director at Merrill Lynch’s technology investment banking group, Senior Director at Merrill Lynch’s equity research department, and Research Associate at CIBC World Markets.

Prior to Wall Street, he was Senior Sales Manager for Twinbrook Music Distribution and worked extensively performing and recording as a professional musician. Mr. Maguire holds a B.A. in music from Columbia University and an MBA in finance and management information systems from Rutgers Business School.  He has appeared extensively in major media including CNBC, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BNN, NPR and other outlets.

Johannes Winkelhage has been a technology enthusiast since the 80s and was – as a journalist – heavily involved in the beginnings of the Internet.

His first e-mail address was s=ext/winkelhage ou=kmx P=gmd a=dbp c=de (X.400 standard) and he paid a fortune for his first computer and the access to the evolving WWW. During the first ten years of his career, he worked as a freelance journalist for magazines, press agencies and all nationwide German daily newspapers.

In 1996, he became business editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. From here he covered the rise of the Internet and the disruptive changes in telecommunications coming along with the digital revolution. He was also responsible for the newspaper coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos for almost 10 years. In 2009, he joined Deutsche Telekom and heads a small Think Tank located in the CEO’s office. The unit is responsible for special projects including the annual CEO-Conference called “24 Hours”.

Joyce Shen is a business executive, investor, and educator in emerging technologies and innovation. She is also a published author, public speaker, board member, and entrepreneur. Her books include From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success and The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain.

Joyce is the investment director and operating partner at Tenfore Holdings where she invests in enterprise software, big data, and emerging technologies. Joyce is also an adjunct faculty of data science at UC Berkeley where she teaches applications of machine learning and AI in product development and innovation. She previously guest lectured on blockchain and innovation at University of Oxford.

Previously, Joyce was the global managing director of emerging technologies and venture investments in the CTO office at Thomson Reuters where she built and led global emerging technology group and the corporate venture fund. During her tenure, she led new technology strategy and product innovations in fintech, IoT, and emerging data solutions, established the global blockchain program, and made strategic investments in early-stage technology companies in big data and AI, digital identity, blockchain, and alternative data.

Prior to Thomson Reuters, Joyce was the founding global CFO of IBM Cloud Platform and managed $1B P&L. She also spent several years in IBM Corporate Development leading acquisitions and divestitures exceeding $6B in total transaction value.

Joyce received her undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Chicago.

Chick Foxgrover leads the outreach to digital professionals in advertising, focusing on the discovery of important advances in digital marketing technology and practices. He also develops digital strategy for the 4A’s, overseeing the management of the association’s important knowledge assets and serves 4A’s members with digital insights and best practices.

Foxgrover joined the association in 2008 as Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, with responsibility for information technology, digital strategy and practice as well as overseeing the upgrade and modernization of the association’s technology and digital presence.

He brought together the expanding community of creative and digital technologists with the creation of the 4A’s Creative Technology Committee and in 2011, spearheaded the launch of CreateTech, the premier annual conference focused on the rapidly advancing field of creative technology. Foxgrover also speaks at other technology conferences and works with technology and future-oriented organizations on behalf of the association and the industry.

Previous to joining the 4A’s, Foxgrover was senior vice president and managing director of Interactive, Wechsler Ross & Partners; vice president and director of Creative Technologies, Foote Cone & Belding, New York; and manager of Desktop Publishing Technologies for Citibank. He also cofounded Foxpath IND, a digital publishing consultancy.

Victoria Yampolsky, CFA, is President and Founder of The Startup Station, an educational and consulting company for modeling and valuing early-stage startups. Victoria helps early-stage founders master the necessary finance skills to evaluate the financial feasibility of their business models, translate them into comprehensive and actionable financial plans, and use those plans to gauge the effectiveness of their strategy as they plan for the launch of and launch their companies. In 2015 she launched The Startup Station’s educational program. Since then, more than 1,000 founders have completed the curriculum and learned the basics of financial modeling, valuation, and startup financing.

Victoria is an advisor to DreaMe, Opkix, and Stringflix, as well as a founder of several ventures in media and entertainment. Previously, Victoria worked for Deutsche Bank and was a technology consultant with CapGemini’s Financial Services Division. Victoria holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics, from Cornell University and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia Business School. Victoria is also on the Advisory Board of the Computing and Information Science (CIS) Department of Cornell University.

Ariel Conn is the Director of Media and Outreach for the Future of Life Institute, where she leads collaborations with various organizations and oversees outreach and communication efforts. Her work covers a range of fields, including the safety of artificial intelligence (AI), AI policy, autonomous weapons, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change. She’s recently focused on bridging the gap between technical experts and policy makers, both in the U. S. and internationally, and she has presented on the floor of the United Nations.

She holds a B.A. in English, a B.S. in physics, and an M.S. in geophysics, and she has nearly two decades of experience mixing advertising, marketing, and scientific research. She’s worked with NASA, the Idaho National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, MIT, and Virginia Tech.