David Orban

David Orban

Entrepreneur

Milan Area, Italy

Current
  • Founder & Chief Evangelist at WideTag, Inc. (OpenSpime)
  • Founder & Director at Singularity Institute Europe
  • Advisory Board Member at Lifeboat Foundation
  • Founder at Vulcano
  • Consultant at davidorban.com
Past
  • Founder & CEO at Questar
  • Co-Founder at Nova Multimedia
  • CEO at Syntrust
  • Product Manager at AISoftware
Education
  • University of Milan
  • University of Padua
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

David Orban’s Summary

Alert analyst of the global high technology landscape, with broad experience in structuring virtual subsidiary deals for companies penetrating the EU, and EMEA markets. Deep understanding of the needs and mechanics of both product marketing, sales development, localization, and globalization.

Futurist, and speaker. My vision is at the crossroads of technology and society as defined by their coevolution. There are times when things change fast, and this is one of them. To be able and act from the position where the perspective on this change is accessible is a true privilege.

"What is the question that I should be asking?" is my motto. Meta-analyses, and meta-rules are the tools of the trade when going breadth first is an advantage. The new renaissance is also about cutting across the limits of deep specialization. Tolerating high levels of pressure, and frequent mistakes, accelerating cycles of invention and innovation build the new worlds ahead of us.

David Orban’s Specialties:

Business case analysis, contract negotiation, strategic market development, partner management. Startup management. Community, and metaverse design.


David Orban’s Experience

  • Fellow

    Questar

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2009Present (1 month)

    Questar is an Italian software publishing and distribution company. Questar aims to enhance channel oriented electronic software distribution services, making them available to developers worldwide.

  • Advisor and European Lead

    Singularity University

    (Think Tanks industry)

    February 2009Present (11 months)

    Singularity University, based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

  • Founder, and Architect

    Order of Cosmic Engineers

    (Think Tanks industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year 5 months)

    The Order of Cosmic Engineers joyfully set out on a cosmic quest to permeate our universe with benign intelligence, building and spreading it from inner space to outer space and beyond.

    The Order is, at the same time, a transhumanist association, a space advocacy group, a spiritual movement, a literary salon, a technology observatory, an idea factory, a virtual worlds development group, and a global community of persons willing to take an active role in building, in realizing a sunny future. As engineers, we aim to build what cannot be readily found

  • Founder & Chief Evangelist

    WideTag, Inc. (OpenSpime)

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2008Present (1 year 11 months)

    WideTag, Inc. is the OpenSpime technology company, providing the infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. As Founder and Chief Evangelist it is my role to shape the strategic vision for the OpenSpime technologies, and develop the policies that ensure a healthy development of the important concepts supporting it.

  • Founder & Director

    Singularity Institute Europe

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 3 months)

  • Advisory Board Member

    Lifeboat Foundation

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

    May 2007Present (2 years 8 months)

    The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. I am a member of its scientific Advisory Board.

  • Founder

    Vulcano

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    January 2007Present (3 years )

    Vulcano, http://vulca.no, is an online community in Second Life, whose aim is to explore the rich opportunities that the metaverse offers in new types of social organization, education, entertainment, and business.

    My role is that of the main instigator of the communities activities, which however develop on their own as well, and are not a priori regulated.

  • Consultant

    davidorban.com

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2004Present (6 years )

    I have strong opinions on a fairly wide variety of subjects, and seldom refrain from expressing them. On top of providing information, analysis, and answers online, I provide strategic consulting services to best leverage ideas, services, and products in a global competitive landscape.

  • Founder & CEO

    Questar

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1993December 2009 (16 years 2 months)

    Questar is an Italian software publishing and distribution company. Questar aims to enhance channel oriented electronic software distribution services, making them available to developers worldwide.

  • Co-Founder

    Nova Multimedia

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)

    June 2004September 2005 (1 year 4 months)

  • CEO

    Syntrust

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    November 1999September 2000 (11 months)

    Syntrust's objective was the development of dependable online trust relationship tools based on highly secure hardware and software components developed by Eutron, an Italian company, of which Syntrust was the US spin-off.

  • Product Manager

    AISoftware

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; AISW.MI; Computer Software industry)

    January 1987December 1992 (6 years )

    Managed AISoftware's Third Party product offerings, mainly the Mathematica symbolic calculation suite from Wolfram Research.


David Orban’s Education

  • University of Milan

    Physics November 1987June 1990

  • University of Padua

    Physics November 1984June 1987


Additional Information

David Orban’s Websites:

David Orban’s Interests:

reading, new technology, memetics (ask me about it), skiing, travel

David Orban’s Groups:

Planetary Society, Lifeboat Foundation, Singularity Institute, The Brights, ETech speakers, maniacal Twitterers

  •    JoiIto
  •    Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN
  •    Link Silicon Valley, LLC
  •    Internet of Things
  •    Florence Festival of Creativity - Festival della Creatività, Firenze (Toscana - Tuscany)
  •    The Singularity Summit
  •    WikiDemocracy.org
  •    Innov'azione
  •    F2F Capturing Creativity
  •    Creative Commons
  •    La Fibra che ride
  •    VirtualWorlds
  •    Virtual Worlds Roadmap
  •    Club dei Media Sociali
  •    Mi.Ne.R.S.
  •    Italian Startups, entrepreneurs, ventures, jobs, networking...
  •    venice sessions
  •    Web of Things
  •    Singularity University
  •    ThinkBalm Innovation Community
  •    Kaspersky Italian Security Group
  •    v-Business
  •    Future of Learning
  •    Fondazione Giannino Bassetti
  •    SESTI - Weak Signal Scanning

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