Taylor Black
Director of AI & Venture Ecosystems, Office of the CTO, Microsoft
Taylor Black directs AI & Venture Ecosystems at Microsoft's Office of the CTO and serves as Inaugural Director of the Leonum Institute for AI & Emerging Technologies at the Catholic University of America.
He teaches entrepreneurship both there and at UW's Foster School. His two decades of venture building—including corporate venture studios and deep tech incubation—inform his intellectual project: understanding how innovation actually happens and what AI means for human cognition and flourishing.