David James Clarke IV

David has spent 30+ years in technology — as a former professor, a technologist at Walt Disney Studios during the Animation Renaissance, and an architect of enterprise learning platforms — where he learned that the highest purpose of technology is invisible: it creates the safe, magical space where transformation becomes possible. That insight has guided a career spanning the classroom, the animation studio, and the enterprise — producing a US patent for gamification methods, 34+ bestselling books on technology and innovation (500,000+ copies sold), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Business Awards in 2024.As CEO and co-founder of Praxis AI, he now architects AI-powered digital twins that preserve and scale human expertise — deployed wherever that expertise matters most: healthcare (Concussion & CTE Foundation), workforce development (Per Scholas), Indigenous education (37 Tribal Colleges via AIHEC), and higher education (University of Notre Dame, Champlain College Online) in 100+ languages. Selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator, his central thesis is unchanged from Disney to AI: the technology that changes the world is the technology you never notice — because you're too busy feeling safe enough to become something more.