# Ryan Nadel

> Ryan Nadel is a Seattle-based technical advisor at Microsoft whose career spans Middle East journalism, digital media entrepreneurship, mixed reality and workplace AI. He founded 8 Leaf Digital Productions and Biba Ventures, cofounded 20 Year Media, helped produce the MetaMaus digital companion, and later worked on HoloLens and AI experiences in Teams. His public writing explores practical product design, AI agents and measurable outcomes.

- **Role:** Technical Advisor at Microsoft
- **Organizations:** Microsoft, 8 Leaf Digital Productions, Biba Ventures, 20 Year Media, Academy of International Extended Reality
- **Education:** Master of Digital Media, Centre for Digital Media
- **Known for:** Founded 8 Leaf Digital Productions in 2010., Founded Biba Ventures; described approximately 5,000 playground deployments worldwide in 2022., Helped produce the interactive MetaMaus DVD companion released in 2011.

## Career timeline

- **2006-2007** — Worked as a journalist at the Jerusalem Post.
- **2008** — Enrolled at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver.
- **2010** — Graduated from the Centre for Digital Media and founded 8 Leaf Digital Productions.
- **2011** — 8 Leaf produced the interactive DVD companion included with MetaMaus.
- **2015** — 20 Year Media, which he cofounded, acquired Emerging Pictures in January.
- **2022** — Described responsibility for the intelligence portfolio in Microsoft Teams, following HoloLens business applications work.
- **2023** — Appeared in the July 17 Inside Microsoft Teams episode about Copilot.
- **2024** — INNOVATEwest identified him as principal product manager leading AI experiences for Teams.
- **2025** — Published accounts of building Career Nexus and working with multiple AI agents; described his role as technical advisor.
- **2026** — Published an essay on outcome engineering on June 25.

## Achievements

- Founded 8 Leaf Digital Productions in 2010.
- Founded Biba Ventures; described approximately 5,000 playground deployments worldwide in 2022.
- Helped produce the interactive MetaMaus DVD companion released in 2011.
- Cofounded 20 Year Media, which acquired Emerging Pictures in 2015.
- Worked on HoloLens business applications through commercialization and launch.
- Led AI experiences for Microsoft Teams, as described in his 2024 conference biography.
- Listed among participants in Microsoft’s Appropriate Reliance Research Initiative.
- Built Career Nexus as a solo project and documented its development in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Published “Loop Engineering? I think you mean Outcome Engineering” on June 25.
- **2025-12** — Published “The New Shape of Building: Voice, Context, and Parallel Agents” on December 8, describing his technical-advisor workflow.
- **2025-11** — Published an essay connecting management theory with multi-agent design.
- **2025-03** — Described using o1 and Claude to build Career Nexus.

## Links

- Website: https://ryannadel.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryannadel
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ryannadel

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Last updated: 2026-10-21