Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen

Not just Moonshots - Moon Landings

Dr. Jepsen is Chairman and Founder of Openwater, a breakthrough medical technology developing game-changing treatments for cancer, stroke, mental disease and beyond. She has 50 game changing products to her name from virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies. Right now, she's working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases, and stroke.

She has ~300 patents published or issued to her name. Previously, Dr. Jepsen served as the Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook and she has also held similar roles at Google. Prior to this, Dr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT and co-founded the nonprofit organization "One Laptop per Child," for which she served as CTO and architected the $100 laptop - generating billions in revenue for the industry and evolving to be the fastest growing consumer electronics category ever recorded and most importantly changing access to education in low- and middle-income countries globally. She also serves as a Director on both the Board of Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 automotive components supplier, and Luminar Technologies, a pioneer in LiDAR and autonomous driving.

She has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time 100”), in addition to CNN’s top 10 thinkers in science and technology and has won numerous awards numerous from professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics.

Jepsen is a frequent keynote speaker and has given two highly viewed TED talks. She's also frequently featured in top global press publications.