Daniel Barcay
Senior Fellow
Daniel Barcay is a technologist who is passionate about the immense power and promise of technology. A builder at heart, Daniel’s career has focused on creating global-scale technologies while driving wise and responsible practices around the rollout of new tech.
As a Senior Fellow, Daniel develops intellectual frameworks to understand and respond to emerging AI issues, contributes as a public speaker, writer, and co-host of CHT's podcast: Your Undivided Attention.
Daniel served as CHT's Executive Director for two years, where he sharpened the organization's focus, helping guide the organization through the rapid emergence of generative AI and a pivotal period in the public understanding of its societal implications.
Previously, Daniel served as Vice President of Product at Planet Labs, where he led teams building a planetary-scale platform enabling users to extract actionable insights from a deep stack of global-daily satellite images.
Prior to that, the Chief Technology Officer of Thiel Macro, where he focused on building predictive models of global-scale market phenomena.
Daniel started his career as a software engineer at Google, helping build several prominent projects including Google Earth and Latitude, as well as conducting machine learning research.
He has studied leadership development, team dynamics, and adult-developmental psychology. In his leadership development practice, he teaches fellow leaders the cognitive tools to embrace complexity and thrive amidst uncertainty.
Daniel was recently a research fellow in the Antikythera Program at the Berggruen Institute - a think tank reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force.
In his spare time, he loves to fly various forms of powered and unpowered aircraft.
