Bio

Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer. Her belief that technology must serve humanity is the thread across her work in the private, public, and non-profit sector. She is the co-founder of Sudden Compass, a consulting firm that redesigns the way companies leverage data to serve their customers. She is currently focused on personal data, blockchain, and crypto + blockchain accessibility. Her expertise in tech adoption amongst marginalized communities from the US to China to South America is leveraged by companies and startups. She is a pioneer in bringing the human voice to data science and AI with what she calls Thick Data, which she describes in her TED talk. Tricia has spent 20 plus years researching the social evolution of the Chinese internet. She was the first Western scholar to work at China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China’s equivalent to the USA’s FCC (Federal Communications Commission). She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Data Council, fellow at Geo Tech Atlantic Council, and affiliate at Data & Society. She was also a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow. Follow her on twitter/instagram @triciawang. www.triciawang.com