Daniel Barcay

Daniel Barcay is a technologist who is passionate about the immense power and promise of technology. A builder at heart – Daniel’s career has focused on creating global-scale technologies while driving wise and responsible practices around the rollout of new tech. Daniel was a Product Vice President at Planet Labs, where he led teams building a planetary-scale platform enabling users to extract actionable insights from a deep stack of global-daily satellite images. Prior to that, the Chief Technology Officer of Thiel Macro, where he focused on building predictive models of global-scale market phenomena. Daniel started his career as a software engineer at Google, helping build several prominent projects including Google Earth and Latitude, as well as conducting machine learning research. He has studied leadership development, team dynamics, and adult-developmental psychology. In his leadership development practice, he teaches fellow leaders the cognitive tools to embrace complexity and thrive amidst uncertainty. Daniel was recently a research fellow in the Antikythera Program at the Berggruen Institute - a think tank reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force. In his spare time, he loves to fly various forms of powered and unpowered aircraft.

The gaps between our language, our mental models and the true complexity surrounding us

Making our institutions of collective decision-making resilient to this technological shift

Paragliding