Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen

CEO + Founder at Openwater

TED Speaker
TED Attendee
San Francisco, California, United States
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About Mary Lou

I am a…

Artist, Atheist, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business leader, Business mentor, Change agent, Doctor, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Industrialist, Inventor, Investor, Philanthropist, Potential employer, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Startup, Technologist

Bio

Mary Lou Jepsen is a techie that doesn't just dream up the future, she actually creates it with over 250 patents and 50 game-changing products to her name. From virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies with multiple multi-billion dollar products. And she's not slowing down. Right now, she's working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases, and stroke that she spoke about in her TED 2018 talk - ask her how that's progressing! (short answer - Astonishingly!) Currently CEO & Founder of Openwater; previously co-founder & CTO of One Laptop per Child & MicroDisplay Corp, CEO & Founder of Pixel Qi, Tech exec at Google, Facebook, Oculus and Intel, Professor at MIT, PhD in Optical Physics, BSEE from Brown Univ.

I'm passionate about

Curing Cancer, Mental Disease, Neuro-degenerative Disease and Stroke

Areas of expertise

Innovative Manufacturing, Neuro, Photonics, Physics, Therapeutics and Diagnostics Devices, VR/AR

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