Brandon Barnett is a pioneer in strategy development through a hands-on process involving big data and systems transformation. His goal is to reveal the hidden forces that reshape industries and discover actionable levers that steer transformation for the good of the organization and society. Currently, Brandon is Director of Corporate Strategy at Intel Corporation where he drives strategy across the company in areas ranging from the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence. He leads diverse teams to adopt big data, ethnography, and complex adaptive systems techniques to find unseen solutions in uncertain and rapidly changing ecosystems.
Over his 20 year career, Brandon has worked at the forefront of technology, driving the advancement of Moore’s Law in Intel’s most advance fabrication facilities or fabs. He has led new corporate initiatives as an intrapreneur and launched startups such as NorthShore Biosciences, a chip-based sequencing company, as an entrepreneur. Brandon co-founded the open innovation Vibrant Data Project (WeTheData.org) to identify the system levers to create a data economy that benefits people and communities. His team sponsored the National Day of Civic Hacking (hackforchange.org), the US’s largest hackathon combining private and public data resources for social good. Brandon works with a variety of US government agencies to adapt the systems transformation strategy framework to the country’s most complex challenges.