| Dan Chu is the Chief Product Officer at Waymo, a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. In his role, Dan leads all of product management, UX design, UX research, and technical program management for Waymo.
Prior to Waymo, Dan led the Google Maps platform product team, which reaches more than a billion active users every month. He also launched Google Coordinate and Google Hangouts. Dan is keenly interested in the intersection of technology and social impact having worked on Benetech’s effort to improve human rights reporting technology, United eWay’s effort to streamline charitable donations, and Technoserve’s effort to accelerate socially impactful mobile apps including mobile payments in Kenya. Before Google and Waymo, Dan led software engineering initiatives at early players in SaaS including Icarian (Kleiner Perkins), Catapulse (Benchmark) and Open Harbor (Menlo Ventures, NEA). He holds a B.S. in Computer Science/AB in Economics from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MPA in Technology Policy and Energy/Natural Resources from the Harvard Kennedy School. |
Dan Chu on Driving Into the Future
Waymo’s chief product officer on how autonomous vehicles will change cities and our lives, and what that could mean for the environment.
Conferences
Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
Speakers & Participants
Techonomy 19 – Speakers & Participants
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
