Speaker John Ash is a machine learning engineer and full stack developer with a commitment to producing technology that can influence and transform societal and economic systems. As a speaker he aims to educate and inspire coherence through an exploration of ideas including machine learning assisted quantification of collective truth and socioeconomic system redesign to reward behaviors for common good instead of the capitalistic profit incentive. His musical performance at Planet Home featured a number of songs from his 2019 album Strange Hymns, which is a collection of strangely spiritual yet secular songs about uncertainty, our visions of the future and how they change.
