As an entrepreneur, researcher and developer, Adam Cheyer has a track record of pioneering many important technical innovations. As co-founder of Siri (sold to Apple), he originated the first popular voice assistant, resident on more than 2B devices. As co-founder of Sentient (sold to Cognizant), he helped build one of the first truly large scale distributed machine learning platforms, running neural networks and genetic algorithms on more than 1M CPUs. As founding member of Change.org, he helped create the first social network for social activism, today with more than 500M members.