Dr. John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown is a prominent technologist with connectivity across Fortune 500 corporate decision makers and strategic acumen. He has held board positions at Amazon, Polycom, Corning, and In-Q-Tel. Previously, John was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Managing Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

John is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a trustee for the MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education. He also served as Independent Co-Chairman for Deloitte’s Center for the Edge.

John holds a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan as well as Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Brown University.