Stephen Larson is the CEO of MetaCell, global leaders in neuroscience software, with clients ranging from top-20 academic institutions to big pharma. He is a cofounder of the international OpenWorm project that is constructing a detailed digital simulation of a whole animal in an open science fashion. He has and co-developed a patent, presented at more than two dozen forums and published over a dozen articles in academic journals such as Nature and Frontiers in Neuroscience. Stephen has had his work featured in the Economist, the New York Times, Wired, the Atlantic, at two TEDx forums and a Science Channel show with Morgan Freeman. He holds a Bachelor and Masters from MIT in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego. He previously served as the Chief Information Officer of One Mind for Research, a non-profit dedicated to eradicating brain disease through innovative public-private partnerships. He has worked as a professional software engineer for a major global investment bank He has served as a mentor in the Google Summer of Code program, a volunteer leader in the Startup Leadership Program, an entrepreneurial incubator, and the INCF, an international organization for coordinating the information science of neuroscience.