Drew Calcagno
Google Research
Drew Calcagno is a principal at Google Research, focusing on product operations and strategic narratives for the company’s R&D efforts in various forms of artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and more. He’s a former government official and naval officer, having served non-politically at the White House, at the Pentagon, and on a forward-deployed warship. At those posts, he wrote artificial intelligence policy for the Chief Technology Officer of the United States and managed machine learning programs for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Calcagno graduated from the University of Oxford as a Rotary Scholar, the University of London - SOAS as a Fulbright Scholar, the US Naval Academy with distinction.