Kristin Wood is the CEO and Co-Founder of August Interactive, a deep tech studio working at the intersection of national security and entertainment to enhance human performance at scale. She is a former senior CIA Executive with 20 years of experience leading intelligence analysis, operations, and open source innovation across five wars, and she previously served as a Presidential Daily Brief briefer. Her work has made her a recognized expert on information dynamics, influence operations, and strategic risk assessment.
Before founding August Interactive, Kristin held senior roles across the U.S. defense technology sector, from Fortune 500 companies to venture backed startups where she served as Founding CEO. She has published extensively on how changing information environments affect national security, statecraft, media, and society. She is also a recent fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and serves as an emeritus advisor to the International Spy Museum.
At BRIDGE Summit, Kristin Wood will discuss how technology is reshaping intelligence and security work, the future of human performance tools, and how governments and companies can strengthen decision making and trust in today’s fast changing information landscape.
During COVID-19, platforms struggled to balance curbing misinformation with protecting free expression, often failing at both and eroding public trust. A 2021 Pew Research study found that 60% of U.S. adults saw social media as a major source of false information, with 43% reporting encounters with significant misinformation. These failures reveal gaps in transparency and accountability. How can policy, technology, and platform leadership work together to protect truth and rights while ensuring transparency, inclusivity, and resilience?
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