"The Next Big Thing" - Edward Jung (Former Chief Architect @ Microsoft)

​Join us to meet Edward Jung, a serial inventor, entrepreneur, and former Microsoft chief architect who’s spent his career reimagining what’s possible in tech and science.

Back in 2000, Edward co-founded Intellectual Ventures, a company that helps inventors bring big ideas to life. As CTO, he led the company’s vision, developing new models for invention and spinning out breakthrough technologies across industries. He later became CEO of Xinova, an innovation company born out of IV, where he helped build and scale a global network of inventors.

Before all that, Edward spent years at Microsoft, where he led teams working on everything from Windows NT and Microsoft Research to early efforts in AI, web platforms, and intelligent systems. He played a major role in shaping Microsoft’s long-term tech strategy and co-founded several key product groups. And even before his Microsoft days, he was deep in neural networks and parallel computing, working on early ideas that would help power today’s AI.

Edward’s also an inventor at heart. He holds over 900 patents across fields like biomedicine, computing, networking, energy, and materials science with hundreds more pending.

On the science side, he’s contributed to biomedical research in protein structure and has collaborated with institutions like Harvard Medical School, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and the Institute for Systems Biology. He’s also advised global organizations like the WHO, the National Academy of Sciences, and the China Academy of Sciences. Today, Edward continues to push the boundaries of innovation, connecting dots across disciplines, building invention ecosystems, and asking bold questions about where technology can take us next.