Scott Penberthy

Pioneering the use of AI data-driven initiatives to evolve health care, diagnosis and treatment. Scott focuses on the transformation of healthcare to a consumer-first, data-driven, experience powered by AI, next generation sequencing, and cloud computing. Scott believes cancer will soon be a manageable condition, powered by our ability to understand, debug and repair the source code of life. Therapeutics also become code, customized to the individual, powered by nanoscale physics that are analyzed by hyperscale AI and IR. This is the Age of Phenomics. Scott is a member of Google Cloud’s CTO office (OCTO), a team of industry ex-CTOs who co-innovate with top customers and product teams. Scott reframes scientific processes as “tensors in, tensors out,” extracts data before and after a complex system, then builds and trains ML models to replicate, improve and optimize our best human efforts. He currently leads a broad team across Google Search, Research, and Google Cloud focused on precision healthcare experiences. Scott has demonstrated efficacy in applying AI and information retrieval to science.  Examples include reverse engineering mainframe systems in healthcare claims processing, searching for exoplanets and minerals on the moon with NASA, and cutting the costs in millions of customer chat & voice interactions. Scott was blessed with the opportunity to build an amazing AI team within the CTO Office, where the team instigated call center AI, document AI, AI notebooks, and many of Google’s largest AI-first cloud deals. Scott holds a PhD in AI with multiple degrees from MIT and the University of Washington. Previously, Scott landed public cloud at PwC for 200k employees in 2014, moved a video site for 5m users to AWS in 2008, sold a social photo site with 50M users in 2007, built mobile phone “widgets” in 2005, and launched a $13B web middleware and $4B web hosting business in the 90s. Scott enjoyed working directly with the CEO of IBM, Lou Gerstner, during Lou's turnaround of Big Blue. Years later he had a similar role with Bob Moritz, CEO and Chairman of PwC.