Dr. Ranck has over 30 years of experience working in the global health arena and has his worked has spanned human rights to health technology. Author of two books on digital health, he is a globally recognized thought leader on digital health. He is the Director of the Responsible Tech Program at Topio Networks and a Senior Analyst covering AI and analytics for Chilmark Research. In the past he has been appointed as a member of an Institute of Medicine Committee on ICTs in global health/violence prevention. In 2007 he co-chaired a Salzburg Global Seminar on Animal-Public Health that focused on strategies for pandemic preparedness. He has been a keynote speaker at health IT conferences and chaired the Healthcare Blockchain Summit (2017-18).

Jody's education includes a Doctorate in Public Health (University of California, Berkeley).

I am the CEO of Topio Networks, an industry catalyst accelerating markets by creating communities. Dedicated to making the business of edge computing and IOT  a reality, Topio Networks has built a community of 1.2 million professionals and organizes events such as Edge Computing World and Intelligent Infrastructure.

I have been involved with responsible tech for the last twenty years with Spoke Software. Spoke Software designed early examples of Privacy Policies authored by Chris Kelly, who later became the first privacy officer for Facebook.

Before Topio, I was a General Partner of venture funds and made investments consistently as a Venture Capitalist in data technology with companies such as RIghtpoint (Acq. by e.piphany), Adknowledge (Acq. by CMGI), Inquira (Acq, by Oracle), Vue Technology (Acq. by Sensormatic), Jaspersoft (Acq. by Tibco), Silk Technology (Acq. By Palantir), and Akili Interactive.