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AFAAS™ LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE BRIEF

Bill Mapp, Founder & Executive Steward, America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ (AFAAS™)

Select Tech/AI, Media & Entertainment, and Telecom (TMT) Leadership & Innovation portfolio

PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

 The America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ (AFAAS™) is a standards-setting, academy-governed national recognition institution. 


The following portfolio overview reflects curated leadership initiatives spanning four decades across technology/AI, media & entertainment, telecommunications (TMT) — guiding complex programs and platforms from concept through realized institutional scale and enduring impact.

Within each of us is a symphony, a "Magnus Opus" masterpiece we're born to play; and Tech, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications (TMT) are my instruments...

Bill Mapp, Award Winning TMT Creator/Executive Producer

Creator/EP, NII Award Winner "Oscars of The Internet"

The Aquarius Project

Lifetime Member — Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

AAAI.ORG

IBM Lead Principal: Landed eBiz TMT Deal with AT&T, AOL, Et Al. & Expanded to $3.8B

IBM.COM

EDS Exec: Put Together Deal for the First Ever Online Streaming News and Entertainment Channel

Media & Entertainment

Exec/GM: Built #1 Consumer Rated $1B+ Ticketing, Shopping, Travel Channel From 0 to 60M+ Customers

Continental (United)

Co-Executive Producer | Fox Film: "Handsomely Produced" -NY Times

fox film trailer

Internet & New Media Marketing Director For Fortune #1 Ranked Company & #1 Ranked Website

(EDS/GM) Now HPE.com

Sr. Software Engineer: Classified DOD/NASA AI "Smart" Hypervelocity Rockets, Missiles, Space Systems

Declassified Video

Producer: Ziff-Davis "Best of Show!" 1st Ever Robotic AI/Video Expert System ($1B Program)

Creator/Exec Producer: New Class of AI / Video Products For Multi-Billion Dollar DOD Weapons

DoD Declassified Video

GM/Exec for Multi-Award‑winning #1‑Rated F-500 Airline Website in Customer Satisfaction & loyalty

Continental (United)

Founder, Chair. & CEO: Silicon Valley High-tech Start-up with Top Global Company Alliances

Top Global Company Alliances

select tech/ai, media & telecom (tmt) keynotes

New York, NY

Paris, France

Keynote, WSJ/AOL Online Media Conf


Paris, France

Paris, France

Principal, IBM Innovation Center


Dubai, UAE

Shanghai, China

Keynote, IDC.com, Burj Al Arab Ballroom


Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Keynote, IBM Tech Innovation Summit

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Futurist Keynote, AMEX Executive Offsite

San Francisco, CA

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Keynote, Facebook Innovation Conf

tmt without purpose is blind; and Purpose without tmt cannot scale.

—Bill Mapp, Applying Einstein's Quote on Science & Religion

afaas™ founder and executive steward — leadership & governance across generations.

Leadership & Governance Linkedin Profile

The America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ (AFAAS™) is an independent, academy-governed, non-partisan,  cultural institution.

All awards and recognitions are created, governed, and conferred by AFAAS™.


America First Network™ (AFN™) is the official media and technology production and distribution platform for America First Awards™ and National Intelligence Infrastructure Awards™ programming and related content, America First Network™ is operated by America First Network, LLC.

Production, distribution, broadcast, and media partners — including America First Network™ — have no role in honoree selection, award determinations, or academy governance.


America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™, AFAAS™, America First Awards™, America First Honors™, America First Prize™, America First Hall of Fame™, America First Network™, AFN™, America First Studios™, National Intelligence Infrastructure Awards™, NII Awards™, Honoring the Best of AI™, NII Hall of Fame™, For People Who Love America™, and related marks are trademarks of AFAAS, LLC.


Use of these marks in commerce constitutes common-law trademark rights under U.S. law.


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