Elizabeth Hunter is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Treeswift, a company using AI and robotics to create the information platform for land assets – starting with forests. As an operations and GTM leader, she works with landowners in the scaling of Treeswift’s technology enabling them to unlock new forest insights to better manage and market their timberlands. As a technologist, she has put robotics to work in some of the most complex forests on the planet - driving the most accurate and actionable land datasets possible. Prior to co-founding Treeswift, Elizabeth had a career in academia. She is an internationally recognized academic and roboticist and an expert in microrobots and synthetic biology. Elizabeth is the pioneer of “robotic wetware” - a new paradigm to design and make tiny robots akin to insects or cells which mesh synthetic and biological materials. These robots have been featured in environmental, medical, and dental applications. Elizabeth is also the co-inventor of the Titan Arm, a physical therapy exoskeleton. Elizabeth has been honored with recognitions including: Forbes 30 Under 30, CNN 10 Inventions, Popular Science Invention Awards, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame “Women in Innovation.” She is an advocate for women and girls in STEM and has led programming and demonstrations to inspire and empower young women to pursue STEM professions. Elizabeth holds an M.S. in robotics and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.