
At 13, James Neufeld helped build a radio network in Bolivia. Today, the samdesk founder is working on a different information problem: getting a useful warning to someone who still has time to act.

Across software, clean technology and real-time risk intelligence, Lori Aizer Bryenton has built a career translating complicated systems into decisions people can act on. Her latest lesson is pointed: AI gets useful only after humans do the unglamorous work of supplying context.