A host with technical substance and a history of bringing people together.

Howard Pearlmutter's work crosses software, architecture, research, media, environmental systems, business, learning, and advisory.

That range can make a live encounter more substantive. He can explain a mechanism, connect it with another responsibility, and help people see why a different perspective matters.

His creative, co-creative, and eco-creative gatherings began in 1980. By 2006, he had organized more than forty community events. He chaired the 1984 SIGGRAPH “Microcomputer Graphics” session, an occasion joining emerging personal computing, graphics, and interactive experience.

Read creative gatherings and SIGGRAPH.

In 1995, David Brower convened a conference for environmental leaders to hear Howard on organizing for an ecologically healthy economy. Brower offered an emphatic endorsement of his vision. Read the occasion.

Howard's professional learning has reached audiences across five continents, including professionals from IBM, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays.

At Telos Alliance, a custom AI-for-product-development engagement involved developers, product and project leaders, executives, and skeptics, together with practical AI-assisted prototypes. John Schur wrote: “I felt that Telos received multiple times the value of our investment.” Read Telos.

His development and consulting clients separately include NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, Fujitsu, CSC, Capital One, Symantec, and the Financial Times. More than 200 engagements, primarily through his own companies, supply practical work behind the explanation.

The relevant part of that range depends on the occasion. You may want a learning experience, peer conversation, guided exploration, or group working session.

Shape an encounter, choose a room, or begin with the people and purpose. The next meeting should have a reason to happen and something worth carrying forward.