Stephen Brobst

Advisor to the CEO at IronWiFi

Speaker

Stephen Brobst is an advisor to the CEO at IronWiFi, a cloud-native network identity platform providing Cloud RADIUS infrastructure, passwordless Wi-Fi authentication, customizable guest captive portals, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) at the network edge. Previously, Stephen co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for several start-ups in the AI/ML and data domains with IPOs on NYSE, NASDAQ, and HKEX as well as acquisitions by IBM, NCR, and HealthEdge. He performed his graduate work in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Master's and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen has dozens of patents and hundreds of publications in the areas of data management and machine learning. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama's first term he was appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) where he worked on development of the Big Data strategy for the US government. At the height of the Big Data phenomenon, he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the USA (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.