Tara L. Lemméy ( ) is an American

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technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

expert and innovation strategist. She is

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and founder of 'LENS Ventures', an innovation and investment firm based in

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. In 2013, Lemméy was named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by

Fast Company (magazine) ''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webb ...

and one of the MCP 1000: The Most Creative People in Business. She holds over seventy U.S. and international utility and design

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. She has provided guidance to senior executives at nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, American Express and the Lumina Foundation on innovation, forward-looking strategies, emerging markets, and investment and acquisition opportunities.

Innovation and economic policy

Lemméy is a member of Rework America, the Markle Economic Future Initiative created by the

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to invent new strategies and scalable services for jobs, broad participation in economic prosperity, economic security and growth in America. Lemméy is a co-author of ''America’s Moment. Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age'' (2015), a book by Rework America. Lemméy has spoken on

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and

innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or service (economics), services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a n ...

— at DO USA, Techonomy, TED India, Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Future in Review, Digital Media and Learning Conference, and has been published in

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, and the

Harvard Business Review ''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. ''HBR'' is published six times a year ...

. Lemméy is the CEO and Founder of LENS, an innovation and investment firm that works with institutions to create next markets. Lemméy was CEO and founder of Net Power & Light, a developer of patented technology for high-fidelity video collaboration and live experiences in sports, entertainment, education, and healthcare. Lemméy was profiled in ''The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion'' ( John Hagel III,

John Seely Brown John Seely Brown (born 1940), also known as "JSB", is an American researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bend towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. Brown was director of Xerox P ...

and Lang Davison), in 2010 (

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). She is a regular participant at the

Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado, its original home. Its stated miss ...

, contributing to "Solving the Dilbert Paradox," a report from the Aspen Round Table on Talent Development''.''

National security, technology and privacy

Lemméy served as a co-chair of the Technology Working Group on the

's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and was the lead architect of the SHARE information environment recommendation which became the ISE, the new way of information sharing for the intelligence and national security community post 9/11. Lemméy was on the

U.S. Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior, home, or public security ministries in other countries. Its missions involv ...

Privacy Advisory Committee, which provides external advice to the Department's Secretary and the Chief Privacy Officer on matters relating to

privacy Privacy (, ) is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security, which can include the concepts of a ...

and

civil liberties Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties of ...

preservation in relation to

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improvements. Earlier, Lemméy was President of the

Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties. It provides funds for legal defense in court, ...

and was a member of the founding board of

TRUSTe TrustArc Inc. (formerly TRUSTe) is a privacy compliance technology company based in Walnut Creek, California. The company provides software and services to help corporations update their privacy management processes so they comply with government ...

Public diplomacy

Lemméy has collaborated with the

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on public diplomacy and outreach programs around the world with her speaking tours on entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth in Switzerland and Turkey. In 2009 she was part of the

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's Technology Delegation to Mexico, which explored ways for U.S. technology companies to support Mexican citizens’ resistance against the country's drug cartels. In 2010 she was a delegate to the White House Council on Women and Girls Women's Entrepreneurship Conference, which was formed to address critical challenges and opportunities, and to identify public policy initiatives needed to move the women's business agendas forward. Previously, Lemméy was a Commissioner on the Embassy of the Future Task Force at the

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as the "Ambassador from

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" contributing to the commission's report, that provided recommendations for making the diplomatic pursuit of U.S. interests abroad more effective in the 21st century.

Future of learning and higher education

Lemméy created DGREE.ORG, an initiative funded by the

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to explore innovative, student-centered learning models. In 2010 Lemméy hosted the DGREE Summit which brought together business leaders, venture capitalists, education foundations, and university leaders and accreditors to focus on student-centric learning in a sustainable educational ecosystem. L Lemméy has collaborated with

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

Professor

Michael Sandel Michael Joseph Sandel (; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course ''Justice'' was the university's first course to be made fre ...

to create a Global Classroom to pioneer the use of mobile technology and mobile video for global live debates about justice, rights, and democracy. The series of live experiences in the fall semester of 2012 brought together students of Sandel's Justice course with those in China, India, Japan and Brazil, featuring a guest appearance by philosopher

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...

joining the Harvard audience in

Sanders Theater Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard University alumni's sacrifices in defending the Union during the American Civil ...

live from New York. The video of the Global Classroom experiment was featured in Sandel's

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in 2013. The Global Classroom experiment was covered by the BBC,

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and was recognized by ComputerWorld's 2013 Honors award program.

Health and integrative medicine

Lemméy is part of the leadership team at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine of the

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, with her role at the Center focused on innovation. Lemméy has collaborated with

Andrew Weil Andrew Thomas Weil (, born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates for integrative medicine. Early life and education Weil was born in Philadelphia, on June 8, 1942,The editors of EB (2015). "Andrew Weil, American Physici ...

and Victoria Maizes on Public Forum on nutrition and health, part of the center's annual Nutrition and Health Conference. Lemméy moderated the Public Forum on “Food and Health: Public Policy and Personal Choice” with Weil,

Robert Lustig Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is professor emeritus of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he specialized in neuroendocrinology and ...

and

Michael Pollan Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American journalist who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the ...

, held in 2011 in San Francisco.

Awards and honors

* Fast Company MCP 1000: Most Creative People in Business * Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2013 * 2013 ComputerWorld Honors Laureates (Mobile Access)

References

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