Peter Wang

Peter is the co-founder of Anaconda, created the Python data science community, and was seminal to many foundational open-source projects in Python. As Chief AI officer, he engages with customers and innovators in the AI space, and works on a variety of strategic projects across the AI and open source landscape.

Through the AI Commons nonprofit, Peter is working on locking AI innovation open for all, building on learnings from 30 years of open source and its commercialization. AI Commons is initially focused on the data and legal aspects, including a new global data registry and a legal wrapper for AI usage of data.

Peter is the founder of Austin STEM Center, a hands-on science learning center, robotics competition hub, and makerspace for students from late elementary to high school.

As an angel investor, Peter's long-time interest in data privacy and sovereignty led to investments in many decentralized web and internet initiatives. The most prominent was his funding of the protocol and technology in Bluesky, where he is user #6. Peter has served as board member of the Center for Humane Technology for many years, working with Tristan Harris and team to articulate and to drive accountability around the harmful impacts of technology on society.