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Biography of David Orban
Updated February 2009

David Orban is an entrepreneur and visionary. In recognition of his lifetime contribution to exponentially advancing technologies, he has been honored with the position of Advisor and European Lead to the prestigious Singularity University.

He is a Founder and Chief Evangelist of WideTag, Inc., a high technology start-up company providing the infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. David shapes the strategic vision of its technologies by developing the policies and communication steps necessary to enable constructive progress.

David is also a Founder and Architect of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, a transhumanist association on a cosmic quest to permeate the universe with benign intelligence. The Order represents a growing movement of people willing to proactively engineer and realize a positive future.

He is further a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks. The Foundation creates mechanisms to discourage the misuse of increasingly powerful technologies such as nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.

David is also a Founder of the Open Government Data working group. The group promotes a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The group utilizes increased civil discourse in order to make Government more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives.

In addition to these endeavors, David is the Founder and CEO of Questar, an Italian software publishing and distribution company. Questar aims to enhance channel oriented electronic software distribution services, making them available to developers worldwide.

His educational background includes studies in Physics at both the University of Milan and the University of Padua. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he and his family currently live in northern Italy, near Milan.

David cuts across the limits of deep specialization to contribute to the new renaissance. He explains, “My vision is at the crossroads of technology and society as defined by their co-evolution.” David Orban’s personal motto is, “What is the question I should be asking?” This concept is his vehicle to accelerating cycles of invention and innovation in order to build the new world ahead.

You are always welcome to contact me:

Email: david@davidorban.com
Skype: davidorban

I am on several networks, where you can follow at different levels of granularity what I do at any time: LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, Dopplr, FaceBook, FriendFeed, etc.