Jordan Brandt is a technology futurist at Autodesk, with an educational and professional background spanning the architecture, aerospace, cloud computing, and composites manufacturing industries. Jordan came to Autodesk through the acquisition of Horizontal Systems, where he was co-founder and CEO, and oversaw the creation of Glue (now BIM 360 Glue), a 3D cloud-collaboration platform.
Jordan received dual degrees in architecture and Italian from the University of Kansas. His doctoral dissertation at Harvard University developed the concept of distributed manufacturing systems (mobile factories) for composites. He has consulted extensively for the Air Force Research Laboratory and Office of Naval Research to develop next-generation additive manufacturing technologies and materials, as well as for the GSA on their laser-scanning program.
The Creativity Code: Boon or Bane of Digital Society
Collaboration has never been easier. More people than ever can express their creativity and share the result, be it a product, information, or art. Will a new tech-tool-powered Renaissance drive innovation and benefit us all, or is digital collaboration a real threat to true inspiration that just drags us all closer to the mean? Where does co-creation work best? And from what should we protect it? Jordan Brandt of Autodesk, Yale's David Gelernter, Reid Genauer of Magisto, SoundCloud's Alex Ljung, John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design, and moderator Doreen Lorenzo of Quirky discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
(Unfortunately) Not Everyone is a Maker
Jordan Brandt discusses his role in the growing maker movement. Watch video and read the full transcript here.
Conferences
Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
