John Maeda

An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Vice President of Engineering, Head of Computational Design for Microsoft AI Platform. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Named by Esquire as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century, he has appeared as a speaker all over the world, from Davos to Beijing to São Paulo to New York, and his TED Talks have received millions of views. He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership, all published by the MIT Press.