John Whaley is Founder of Inception Studio, a nonprofit accelerator for AI-native founders. He also founded three cybersecurity companies: Moka5, UnifyID, and Redcoat AI. He is an expert in computer security and has spoken at numerous conferences and industry events, including RSA Conference four times. He holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University, where he won the Arthur L. Samuel Thesis Award for Best Thesis. He was named to the Forbes AI 50, worked at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and Tokyo Research Lab, and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from MIT.
