Close Modal SOAR AI: An Evening with Founder Paul Allen Join us for a fireside chat with Paul Allen—tech entrepreneur and founder of Ancestry.com and SOAR AI. Explore how emerging technologies can be shaped by empathy, purpose, and ethical design to unlock human potential and strengthen human connection. What if technology could help us become the best version of ourselves? Join us for a powerful conversation with Paul Allen, as he shares his mission to develop AI that uplifts rather than replaces humanity. Allen will discuss how emotional intelligence, belonging, and purpose can be built into technology—and how his latest initiative, SOAR AI, aims to transform the way we live, work, and grow.From his early efforts to digitize the world’s knowledge to launching one of the internet’s most enduring platforms, Allen’s career has centered on using innovation to empower people. Now, with SOAR AI, he envisions a future where every individual can access a personalized AI assistant designed to foster learning, growth, and connection across all aspects of life.Don’t miss this thought-provoking evening at the intersection of innovation, identity, and what it truly means to be human. Register for the Event Date and Time Tuesday, October 28 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Tuesday, October 28 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English What if technology could help us become the best version of ourselves? Join us for a powerful conversation with Paul Allen, as he shares his mission to develop AI that uplifts rather than replaces humanity. Allen will discuss how emotional intelligence, belonging, and purpose can be built into technology—and how his latest initiative, SOAR AI, aims to transform the way we live, work, and grow.From his early efforts to digitize the world’s knowledge to launching one of the internet’s most enduring platforms, Allen’s career has centered on using innovation to empower people. Now, with SOAR AI, he envisions a future where every individual can access a personalized AI assistant designed to foster learning, growth, and connection across all aspects of life.Don’t miss this thought-provoking evening at the intersection of innovation, identity, and what it truly means to be human. Featuring Paul Allen Founder of Ancestry.com and SOAR AI Paul Allen is a tech entrepreneur driven by a lifelong mission to help individuals live their best lives. He has founded eight companies, including Ancestry.com, which has helped over 100 million people discover their family history.With a deep interest in personal growth, emotional intelligence, and the role of technology in human development, Allen founded SOAR.AI—an AI studio dedicated to building PURE AI: Personalized, Uplifting, Responsible, Ethical AI. His vision includes launching dozens of startups that apply this model to positively impact fields such as education, healthcare, faith, government, and the workplace.A self-described “platform entrepreneur,” Allen builds products on the latest technological waves, from CD-ROM and the World Wide Web to mp3 audio and social platforms like Facebook. For the past several years, his focus has been on using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help individuals and organizations reach their full potential. In 1990, he founded Infobases, a company with a mission to digitize and publish the world’s most important books on CD-ROM with a full-text search engine. That endeavor led directly to Ancestry.com—Allen’s best-known company—which set out to gather and publish the world’s genealogy records, family trees, and memories online to help people explore their heritage.His latest venture, Soar.com, continues his mission to uplift humanity. A strong advocate for using AI in positive and ethical ways, Allen believes that pairing high-quality training with AI-generated feedback can help leaders, managers, and individuals achieve excellence faster than ever before. SOAR.AI plans to form more than fifteen companies to bring PURE AI to key sectors including education, health, finance, law, and beyond. Eventually, the platform will allow users to build and customize their own AI assistants—akin to Jarvis from Iron Man or Janet from The Good Place—to help them learn, grow, make better decisions, and maximize their time on Earth.Allen and his wife, Christy, live in Missouri. They have eight adult children and five grandchildren. Image Dr. Patti Fletcher - Moderator Best-selling author, international speaker, and award-winning business strategist Dr. Patti Fletcher is a leadership futurist, best-selling author, and global authority on the intersection of technology, humanity, and innovation. With over 25 years of executive experience in enterprise software and digital transformation, Dr. Fletcher has held leadership roles at SAP, IBM, Workhuman, Limeade, and IHS, and advised Fortune 500 companies and government agencies including Salesforce, NASA, EY, AIG, and Kaiser Permanente.A frequent contributor to publications such as Fast Company, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, and Inc., and a sought-after media expert for outlets such as Bloomberg, NASDAQ, The Guardian, and CNBC, Dr. Fletcher explores how emerging technologies like AI are reshaping leadership, equity, and the human experience in the future of work. She is deeply embedded in the AI ecosystem—helping organizations detect, prevent, and eradicate bias while designing human-centered systems that drive trust, inclusion, and performance at scale.A widely recognized voice in the global conversation on gender equity and the future of work, Dr. Fletcher has spoken on hundreds of stages across the world, from the White House (Obama administration) and Capital Hill to SXSW and the National Academy of Sciences focus on the future of innovation at NASA, inspiring audiences to lead with empathy, purpose, and vision in the age of intelligent technology.Dr. Fletcher is the author of the best-selling book Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold and host of the acclaimed podcast Listening for the Questions. Through her ventures—including her forthcoming docuseries anthology, keynote presentations, and advisory work—she continues to champion inclusive innovation and abundant leadership at the frontier of AI and human potential.
