James Ehrlich is Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Founder of ReGen Villages, an impact-for-profit company using machine learning software to design and operate climate-adaptable and resilient residential infrastructure around the world.

A serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over 25-years, James successfully founded and managed technology and media companies with successful exits and has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, World Economic Forum, and countless other major news and media outlets.

Mr. Ehrlich is developing its VillageOS™ software for the integration of clean water, renewable energy micro-grids, high-yield organic food production, and circular nutritional flows at the neighborhood scale. He has won several awards for sustainable design and co-authored two U.N. Sustainable Development Goal Platform Briefs.