Specialties: Leading cross-functional teams and serving as catalyst for change in complex environments, especially "herding cats" to overcome gridlock within multi-disciplinary multi-organizational project teams or to initiate new projects. Development of effective projects bringing together experts to accomplish environmental, social, and sustainable objectives, utilizing skills in teamwork, change management, project management, marketing, strategic planning, product design, corporate governance, and governmental policy.Bert Holland founded the non-profit AI International Film Festival in December 2021, focused on visions how AI will reshape our lives while also highlighting AI films. The Festival judges 75 international entries monthly, hosting short festivals at regular intervals (see aifilmfest.org).Bert Holland founded the AI Consult in 2020 to assist a variety of clients in real estate, public policy, political campaigns, textile industry, marketing, and strategy. Bert Holland founded the non-profit AI Project in November 2017 to bring together experts from AI to educate the public & define strategies to optimize the wider impact of AI and big data (see theAIproject.org).Bert Holland has been a participant or sponsor in the world conferences TED, Le Web Paris, DLD, and Google Zeitgeist.In a commitment to environmental responsibility, from 2009-2018 Holland co-founded Prancing Leopard Organics, a clothing brand focused on yoga and fitness. Prior to that at BMW North America, Holland authored the marketing budget, coordinated and edited the preparation of board meetings, led the US Hydrogen 7-Series marketing, led the US input for the "car of the future" project (i3 and i7 electric cars), led the US input for the Diesel and Hybrid projects, as well as overall product strategy for current and future car products. He initiated and led the TED.com, TEDtalks, and Le Web partnerships, and the environmental product planning and lobbying efforts.In various roles at both BMW Headquarters in Munich and at BMW North America, Holland proposed and secured approval for the original X5, X3, 6-cyl. M3, and Z3 projects and their variants, proposed and led the market launch team for the X5 (eBay), and the Z3 (James Bond "Goldeneye"), and authored the marketing strategy for the MINI. Holland initiated an inter-divisional competition which resulted in the Z3 project.Earlier, Holland worked at Porsche AG as engineer, project leader, and marketing planner.Bert Holland attended Reed College and received his BSME at University of Utah.