Dave King


Dave King stands with grey hair, white button down and black jacket. Dave King is the Founder and CEO of Exaptive, a software company based out of Oklahoma City. He is an MIT engineer and software architect who has spent the last two decades building software tools that combine data science, network science, and social science to facilitate team science and co-produced innovation. Particularly interested in the innovations that occur at the intersection of disciplines, Dave has served on the Oklahoma Governor’s science and technology advisory board and chaired NSF review panels of convergent research programs. Dave speaks internationally about the importance of using software to augment human intelligence, not automate it, and how doing so can produce more aha moments. He is also a published author and photographer.