Byron Reese is a serial entrepreneur with a quarter-century of experience building and running successful technology companies, with multiple acquisitions and IPOs along the way. In addition, he is an award-winning author and speaker, as well as a futurist with a strong conviction that technology will help bring about a new golden age of humanity. Byron holds many technology patents and has started two podcasts about artificial intelligence. He talks around the world about how technology is changing work, education, and culture. He has spoken about technology all over the world to combined audiences well in excess of 100,000. He currently serves as the CEO of JJ Kent Incorporated, a venture-backed technology company that recently launched Scissortail.ai, a proprietary artificial intelligence tool set to inform new product and listing strategy, and delight consumers. He is the author of The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, a book that tackles artificial intelligence, robots, automation, and the future of work. The book was both described by The New York Times as "entertaining and engaging," and was selected by JP Morgan to appear on their summer reading list. Byron's most recent book, released by Random House in 2021, is "Wasted: How We Squander Time, Money, and Natural Resources-and What We Can Do About It". It is a science book about the world's systems and how they inadvertently produce waste.Bloomberg Businessweek credits Byron with having “quietly pioneered a new breed of media company.” The Financial Times of London reported that he “is typical of the new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head.” Byron and his work have been featured in hundreds of news outlets, including New York Times, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, NPR, and the LA Times Magazine.