Episode 85 : Flow, Burning Man and Decentralizing our Economy - Debi Stack

Debi Stack retired from IBM as one of the first female AI Consultants. Along with colleagues from EDS and HP, she co-authored the book, “NextGen Smart Cities”.  Currently, Debi is the founder of Digital Ascension, with a mission to become a trust fund for an ecosystem of transformative wellness tech companies with roots in New Orleans, collaborating around the world to solve the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.

Debi continues to honor the mission she accepted at IBM; "Save lives among U.S.Veterans", where she joined a fin-tech intrapreneurship team to develop the Trust platform. Essentially, we derived from our research that veterans need more than talk therapy and medicine to heal from PTSD. They need an AI-driven, Blockchain secured, personal privacy platform to address all of their needs from finance, to healthcare, education, and housing, career, shopping, travel, and all vertical solutions. Also, the value of their personal data, transaction fees and interest would be returned to a digital, community bank.

As a woman in tech, Debi started her career at AT&T, rotated through 5 Fortune 100 companies, founded 3 start-ups, and consulted on full-stack technology from deep network architecture and security through innovative applications in AI, AR, VR, and Blockchain. She serves on the Board of Advisors for several stealth startups.