Marc Davis

San Francisco, California, United States

Marc Davis

San Francisco, California, United States

Marc Davis invents mobile, social, media, and personal data technologies that connect people, the web, and the world. With a twenty year career of technology research and development spanning the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, UC Berkeley, Yahoo!, Invention Arts, and Microsoft, he has done pioneering work in context-aware computing, computer vision, mobile media metadata, social media, social search, mobile and social advertising, and personal data technologies and applications. Marc has transformed his ideas into over 200 patent applications, as well as numerous research prototypes, products, and publications. Marc Davis is a founding member of the World Economic Forum Rethinking Personal Data Project, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Data-Driven Development. Marc’s current focus is working to create the technical, legal, and business foundations for our digital society and digital economy, so we can all benefit from having the right and ability to control the uses of our personal data.