David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and instructor at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on making the physical environment an interface to digital information. David is the CEO at Ditto Labs an image-recognition software platform which scours social media photos to find brands and products. His new book, Enchanted Objects, focuses on the future of the internet of things, and how these technologies will impact the ways we live and work. Prior to Ditto, David founded and was CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging now distributed by CVS, Walgreens, and Express Scripts. He founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered glanceable technology: embedding internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, and umbrellas. David holds patents for photo sharing, interactive TV, ambient information displays, and medical devices. His work has been featured at the MoMA, and covered in The New York Times, WIRED, and The Economist.

As a Design Strategist and Principal running the Tech practice area with Gensler in San Francisco, Randy helps influential companies and institutions in the Bay Area and around the world achieve their organizational goals through new approaches to workplace design, user experience, and service delivery. With a professional background in management consulting, architecture, and interior design, Randy has helped clients such as Facebook, Google and HP create environments that enhance organizational performance, achieve measurable business goals, enrich people and communities, and enhance everyday experiences. Randy is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post where we writes on Urban Planning topics specific to the San Francisco Bay area. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-howder/

Randy holds a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan.