Bio:

Bill Duane is the principal at Bill Duane and Associates, an innovation consulting firm with a focus on AI.
He helps organizations execute in ambiguity and rapid change through innovation, managing complexity and resilience. He works with leading for and non-profit organizations including Google, The White House, Genentech, Amazon, Google X, The World Business Dialog, Wonda AI, Cross Labs AI, Roche,The Earth Species Project, and Vigil Neuroscience. He teaches workshops on innovation at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. He is also the Director of Strategy and Implementation at the Center for the Study of Apparent Selves, working on applied AI ethics through a Buddhist lens and holds a Research Fellowship at Kathmandu University as part of this effort.
Previously he was an engineering executive at Google for nine years, leading worldwide production engineering teams for websearch infrastructure and then Google Workspace (gmail, docs, calendar, etc.) responsible for scaling these services globally during hypergrowth. After becoming curious about burnout, performance and culture, he started a second career at Google, establishing the global role of Superintendent of Wellbeing and creating successful programs to explore the intersection of performance and human flourishing for the following five years.