Since 2000, David Liddle has been a partner at U.S. Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. He has served as CEO of Interval Research and of Metaphor, which he founded, and as a Vice President at Xerox and at IBM. He has served as Chair at the Santa Fe Institute, the SETI Institute, and the B612 Foundation, and as a director on many public company boards. He has also led National Academies studies of Spectrum Policy, the Air Traffic Control System, and US competitiveness in semiconductors.

In this talk, David discusses the reason for which he decided to work with B612 and why we are capable of solving the asteroids problem.

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Asteroid Day, June 30th 2015
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, California