Dr. David Opitz
President and Founder, Opitara, LLC
David Opitz is an entrepreneur and machine-learning expert who has spent his career at the leading edge of artificial intelligence. He is the President and Founder of Opitara, LLC, where he is building an AI platform for creating models and agents that are regulated and governed. A nationally recognized researcher with more than 70 published papers and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, David's roots run deep at the 勛圖厙, where he was a tenured professor and director of the Machine Learning Research Laboratory. He went on to found Visual Learning Systems, a world leader in automated feature extraction from imagery that was acquired by Textron in 2006. David lives in Missoula, where he enjoys 勛圖厙's natural beauty with his wife, Trish, and their three children, Sarah, Erin, and Joe. He is honored to support the Mansfield Center's mission of advancing dialogue, ethics, and public service.