David Ryan Polgar
DAVID RYAN POLGAR
Founder & President
David Ryan Polgar is a pioneering tech ethicist, Responsible Tech advocate, and expert on ways to improve social media and our information ecosystem, along with increasing the ethical considerations regarding emerging technologies. He specializes in uniting a diverse range of stakeholders in order to tackle complex tech & society issues, cultivating conducive environments for forward progress.
David founded All Tech Is Human is 2018, seeing an immense need to strengthen the nascent Responsible Tech movement and ecosystem in order to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. While there were ample organizations focused around building awareness around complex tech & society problems and understanding root causes, David felt there was a strong need to develop a conducive environment for knowledge-sharing and collaboration and build a strong ecosystem that welcomed more perspectives, disciplines, and lived experiences. This has since evolved in All Tech Is Human’s unique grassroots-power model to rapidly distribute power and ideas across an interconnected multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network. (Read about it here)
An international speaker with rare insight into building a better tech future, David has been on stage at Harvard Business School, Princeton University, Yale School of Management, Notre Dame, Statcom Summit (Istanbul), The School of the New York Times, TechChill (Latvia), The Next Web (Netherlands), FutureNow (Slovakia), Infoshare (Poland), NATO, and many more. His commentary has appeared on CBS This Morning, TODAY show, BBC World News, MSNBC, Fast Company, The Guardian, SiriusXM, Associated Press, LA Times, USA Today, and more.
In March 2020, David became a member of TikTok’s Content Advisory Council, providing expertise around the delicate and difficult challenges facing social media platforms to expand expression while limiting harm. He appears in the newly-released documentary, TikTok, Boom. David is an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum's Global Coalition for Digital Safety.
David is a monthly expert contributor to Built In (writing about the Responsible Tech movement), and an advisory board member for the Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM) program, and a participant in multiple working groups focused on improving tech and aligning it with our values.
The main throughline throughout David’s work throughout the past decade is that we need a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach in order to build a tech future that is aligned with the public interest.