Andy Hickl

The Arch Mission is building a billion-year backup of humanityUsing nanofiche, 5D quartz memory crystals, and synthetic DNA. We’re building a real-life Encyclopedia Galactica from Issac Asimov's Foundation series.

Andy Hickl is currently the Principal Group Program Manager for Cognitive services at Microsoft's CloudAI group. Previously he was Chief Product Officer for the Intel® Saffron™ Cognitive Solutions Group in Hillsboro, Oregon. He was a Senior Director for Innovation at Vulcan Inc., where he led teams that tackled some of the world's most important problems, from climate change and clean energy to biodiversity and global health.