Founder, EVP, Embedded Technology - David Rose is a technology visionary and serial entrepreneur. At Ambient Devices he is pioneering the new consumer category of glanceable technology: embedding Internet information in everyday objects (lamps, mirrors, watches and wearables) to make the physical environment an interface to digital information.

Previously, Rose founded Viant’s Innovation Center, an advanced technology group for Fortune 500s including Sony, GM, Schwab, Sprint, Compaq and Fleet. He helped build Viant to over 900 people, $140M in revenues and a successful IPO (NASDAQ:VIAN). In 1997 Rose patented online photosharing and founded Opholio (acquired by FlashPoint Technology). Before the Internet he founded and was President of Interactive Factory (acquired by RDW Group) which creates museum exhibits, educational software and smart toys, including the award-winning LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System.

Rose teaches Information Visualization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a frequent speaker for corporate research departments and conferences. He received his BA in Physics from St. Olaf College, studied Interactive Cinema at the MIT Media Lab, and earned a Masters Degree from Harvard University.

Professor Hiroshi Ishii
Director, MIT Media Lab's Things That Think (TTT) Consortium

Thomas Manning
Senior Partner. Global leader of IT practice, Bain & Company

Richard Saul Wurman
Information Architect, Bestselling Author of Information Anxiety, Founder TED Conferences

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Tim Andrews
Technology strategy

Hani Asfour
Design

Richard Bergin
Business strategy

Alex V Chachkes
Patents and licensing

Karen Donoghue
Ethnographic research and design

Steven D. Eppinger
Product development process

Dan Katcher
Financing and Operations

Neil Mayle
Technology strategy

Johanna Schlegel
People strategy

David Tames
Consumer psychology