Oren ETZIONI

Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He now serves as Technical Director of the AI2 Incubator. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington as of October 2020 and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group. His awards include AAAI Fellow, Seattle’s Geek of the Year, and several Test of Time and Best Paper awards. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft). He has written over 200 technical papers, as well as commentary on AI for The New York Times, Wired, and Nature. He helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and Open Information Extraction.