Bob Duffy Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for driving education, evangelism, and advocacy of new AI product use cases and experiences leveraging client GPU both internal and external to Intel.Product Manager and Architect of AI Playground, an innovative AI PC starter application that launched July 2024 as an open-source project and consumer application supporting a broad set of AI features such as Stable Diffusion, image generation, image editing, as well as a chatbot LLM with RAG functionality. This is a showcase solution designed to build confidence and relevance in Intel's client GPU products for AI workloads that was show in Intel's Computex keynoteBroader role involves working with external communities and partners to source early usage and adoption of client GPU for AI and graphics workloads, refine usage workflows, communicate to internal stakeholders and products teams, and generate strategies, content and advocacy to educate and champion strategic usages externally to partners, customers and scale audiences.Bob has since established multiple client workflows and solutions for locally run GenAI useages for Stable Diffusion, LLMs, and Graphics Rendering to assist business management teams in comprehending capabilities and usages of client graphics and AI workloads across the full line of Intel Arc GPUs. Just 6 months into the role outcomes include the launch of AI Playground beta open-source project with strong press and partner engagement, development of new training materials/presentations for specific Arc skus, strategic customer demonstrations on using AI on Intel AI PCs, AI Summit and Intel Vision demos and keynote content, as well as a regular series of social media content and videos to amplify and marketing new emerging use cases for Intel's new AI PC and Intel Arc dGPUs

Santa Clara, California, Us

Director of Graphics Community Engagement supporting worldwide outreach and community advocacy for client graphics products. Responsible for establishing strategy, programs, platforms, systems and processes for scaling and cultivating community tech advocacy among PC enthusiasts, gamers, digital creators, and developers through the Intel Insiders Community Program, and inspirational proof points from indie game developers under the Intel Graphics Innovator program. Responsible for Intel's Discord strategy for client engagements (discord.gg/intel), and Intel's community portfolio platforms which power Intel Insiders Hub (insiders.intel.com) and Intel DevMesh websites (devmesh.intel.com). Defined and managed client GPU community support process and monitoring and escalation plan. Defined and executed event and promotional plan to excite and activate the community around our GPU products including a scavenger hunt program, Intel Graphics Gaming truck, Intel Graphics Odyssey program, and Intel Insiders programBob also acts as a lead business group advisor to Intel's newly formed Community COE, providing governance, platforms, and operational guidance for Intel to scale community programs across business groups.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Bob established and drove the strategy and capabilities for Intel's worldwide Developer Affinity Programs. These programs include the Intel Software Innovator Program, Intel DevMesh Community Portal, and the Intel Student Ambassador Program. Bob's programs cultivate leadership and proof points with external software developers across areas of software such as AR/VR, AI, IoT, GameDev, Computer Vision, Networking, HPC and Code Modernization. As owner and manager of these programs, Bob is also responsible for the community engagement model across Intel DRS (Developer Relations Services) to drive adoption, and activate developers toward advocacy and affinity of Intel hardware and software.Bob provides direction to Developer Program Community Managers, program leads in each Geography, and business unit and product team stakeholders on the best ways to adopt, manage, incentivize and measure a community model for developer engagements. Key Responsibilities- Manages all developer community programs strategies, governance, and oversight, worldwide- Responsible for program-wide capabilities, budgets, systems, and plans needed for the Affinity Program operations and strategic growth- Consulting resource, advocate, and strategist for new and emerging areas of developer community building

Santa Clara, California, Us

Bob was promoted to the Manager of the world wide Community Team and lead the team to adopt and foster community leadership engagements through the Intel Software Innovator program Bob had created. Bob also drove efforts to drive proof of concepts and sharing of developer projects through the Developer Mesh project sharing website as well as defined the process and guidelines for Community Managers worldwide to be successful in fostering voluntary activities that share innovative work using Intel Architecture. These programs included the Early Innovation micro-funding initiatives, regular monthly non-disclosure meetings with external community leaders, hardware seeding practices and policies, a centralized reputation recognition and rewards, and annual Innovator Summits that gathered the top Innovators in for training and collaboration. As a result, Intel fostered community advocacy and evangelism with hundreds of developers across dozens of countries worldwide, freely volunteering their time in the community. More than an online influencer program these developers attended activities to met other developers face to face and share their expertise and innovative use of Intel Architecture, each training and engaging 1000 or more developers each year on average, at a program cost of a few dollars per developer trained.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Bob transitioned into Intel's Developer Relations Division to help define and manage developer engagements for the new AppUp application store. Bob established and executed an online vision for AppUp to support the entire developer's life cycle. Bob established and built a highly engaging and responsive community with the launch of programs like the Intel AppUp Show for Developers where Bob hosted conversations with developers and showcased best practices on YouTube every two weeks. Bob also established a developer think tank called AppUp Fellowship comprised of innovative software developers who meet each month under NDA to the AppUp road map and industry trends. Bob also established a responsive communication policy for all new features and changes to the program where blogs, articles, and forums followed a rule to explain what is new, how it's different and what if anything is actionable for developers. Bob also managed the community engagement plans for industry events, where he established a new best practice for Intel to define sessions and demos directly from the developer community. When the AppUp Program closed Bob shifted to support a variety of community programs including the Ultrabook Developer Program, Windows Developer Program and RealSense Developer Program and the new Intel Software Innovator leadership program. Bob's leadership and pioneering efforts to drive active engagement, speakerships, and demos from external developers became the model for Intel Developer Programs with Bob acting as the lead community developer on the team.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Bob was hired to Intel's new Web Strategies team to support Business and Enterprise strategies for the Web Marketing team in Intel's Corporate Marketing Group. Bob was responsible for defining and executing plans to increase traffic and engagement with the business audience on the intel.com website. Bob established a Community Marketing plan for Intel's business site and launched Open Port, Corporate Marketing's first online community for the Business and Enterprise audience. In the process Bob authored Intel's company wide online communities policies and guidelines that are in practice today. In addition to working policies, Bob also defined the Community Manager role as well as the resources, technology and business requirements needed to define, launch and sustain active online communities for Open Port. Bob also pioneered content aggregation capabilities and projects like "Experience Intel" which drove custom web experiences and custom trade show experience like the "Cube", an interactive content experience for CES 2010. Bob actively engaged the technical and social ecosystem to learn and share best practices, being an active member of SocialMedia.Org, Jive Advisory Council, BlogTalkRadio and speaker at events like Web2.0 . Before transitioning out of the Corporate Marketing Group, Bob managed and defined the business requirements to deliver an expanded social platform, content aggregation and search platform for intel.com

Bob launched WiredByDuffy out of the ashes of the DotCom bubble to establish a business that can provide corporate quality digital marketing & web development services for small to medium businesses. Bob's projects include rapidly delivering a secure web commerce solution for Susan G Komen Society, Porting server-side PHP to ColdFusion and MySQL web applications, and redesign, new UX and architecture of popular online dating service and outsourcing management of Intel's small business website. WiredByDuffy closed after a contract with Intel turned to full employment

Lead technical architect & co-founder of Onsite Broadband. Designed low cost, easy to deploy wireless and 2wire network architectures for aggregating broadband for resale to multi-tenant apartments and hotels. Business was dissolved a little over a year in operation as it could not get enough momentum while the market was shy of telecommunications after the dot.com bubble.

Lead technical architect for deploying low cost broadband to multi-tenant office buildings. Company funded by AMB Property Corporation, (former employer) and started based on business plan Bob created on broadband aggregation. Business failed and assets were sold to Prologis REIT in summer 2001