Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), serving from its inception in 2013 until late 2022, where he transformed it into a leading AI research institution with over 200 team members and key contributions like the Semantic Scholar search engine. A Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, Etzioni is a pioneer in AI, machine reading, and web search, with over 200 technical papers and multiple successful AI startups including Farecast and Decide, acquired by Microsoft and eBay respectively.