David A. Cohen is internationally renowned for his work in the Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain and Crypto industries. He is currently Founder/CEO of Taekion building trusted networking solutions for Fintech, Defense, SmartGrid and other Enterprise applications. He is a founding executive for Hedera Hashgraph. David works with advanced decentralized technologies to support Enterprise deployments of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) to deliver solutions around information assurance, asset tokenization, Artificial Intelligence, Verifiable Web, Edge Computing, and advanced consensus algorithms. David was founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered the “Grid Edge” unlocking multi-billion dollar Smartgrid markets creating the first artificial intelligence-based software platform - GridAgents™.David was named in the "Top 100 Movers and Shakers" in SmartGrid by Greentech Media and a founding member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council. After selling Infotility to Pacific Controls in 2011, as COO, he launched the world’s first machine-to-machine (M2M) software platform, Galaxy™. As co-founder of Silicon Energy, he pioneered the world’s first Virtual Power Plant based on Silicon Energy’s EEM Suite™ which was sold to Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI). As Chief Strategy Officer for the Car Charging Group, he assisted in the M&A of Ecotality and the Blink Network which became the largest electric vehicle charging services company in the world. As co-founder and COO of ZipPower, he was the creator of a social media platform to engage energy prosumers and enable peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading. David is a thought leader and has spoken at many venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, and Singularity University.