Brainstorm Speaker Series: Aza Raskin

Presented by:

Teton County Library, Teton County Library Foundation & Friends, and Jackson Hole News&Guide

The Brainstorm Speaker Series is a series of free events presented by Jackson Hole News&Guide, Teton County Library, and The Center featuring trailblazers who are renowned in their fields and are known for sparking ideas and inspiring conversation. Support for the series comes from Teton County Library Foundation and Friends.

Aza Raskin is a National Geographic Explorer and co-founder of Earth Species Project, an international nonprofit dedicated to using AI to decode animal communication and transforming how human beings relate to the rest of nature. He is also the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, was an architect and subject of the Emmy award winning documentary “The Social Dilemma,” and is the co-host for the popular podcast “Your Undivided Attention.”

Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, has been a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Al, briefs heads of state, and helped found Mozilla Labs in addition to being named FastCompany’s Master of Design and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30.