Ken Sansom

Ken Sansom has nearly four decades of technology leadership, including a decade at Amazon Web Services as a senior AI executive. Born and raised in Oregon, he has lived in eight US states and eight countries and has traveled to more than forty others-experiences that shaped his global perspective and ignited a curiosity about how technology connects and divides us. He earned his undergraduate degree from Lewis & Clark College and master's degrees from UCLA Anderson and the National University of Singapore. His love of reading and writing was sparked by his mother's summer job as a librarian, while hot summer nights spent sleeping beneath open skies taught him to dream big.